11/25/2014
Anna Saprykina
So, that’s how God has arranged life: It has the hierarchy of power with different ranks, and three ranks were assigned to the family.
There is not a shadow of humiliation or “tyranny” in the Christian teaching of the husband’s command over his wife, but instead, there is—and should be!—much love, gentleness, and respect:
Fantastic! This is a real prophecy about Instagram. Or maybe there is nothing new under the sun?
With most of us at home due to the coronavirus epidemic, these notes on reading Holy Saturday liturgical texts at home with our children could prove very useful to families.
Society at the time of St. John Chrysostom was in many ways similar to our modern world. Fornication and divorce, domestic violence and irresponsible parents, for whom entertainment and money were more valuable than children and families—these were the kinds of parents the saint was talking to.
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That’s the task. To arrange your family life so that it is just like the life of heaven, to make your apartment be like the paradise.
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What can we do to ensure that the whole family can live a Church life as one? Living in megalopolises out of touch with the tradition, we find this task very difficult.
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To read something pious at the table is a normal thing for a monastery. But to do something like that in the family would be completely impossible—at least in such a large family as mine, with small children...
