Thank you Father. Our 39th Marriage anniversary is coming up and we can still and always use all the positive help and encouragement we can get along the way. We will be ordering the book.
Hello Father, I’ve been going to non-denominational churches my whole life and also just graduated from UCR, I’ve driven past your church thousands of times. As a recent born again Christian I’ve been in deep prayer about visiting Saint Andrew’s, and finding this RU-vid channel has been a confirmation for me that I need to check it out. I’ll be there next Sunday! God bless
Thanks for the video. Humbly, can you make some more videos for young people about how to date so that they even have a chance to ever marry? A lot of lost people out there that don’t know the first thing about how to get a date the Christian way. Thanks Fr. Josiah.
My beautiful wife and i will be celabrating our 26th anniversary this year. I met her and by the 3rd day i knew wanted her to be my wife by the end of the week i proposed, 2 weeks later we were married. We were poor so we got married by a judge, but one day i hope when we fully become orthodox i would like our Father to bless our anniversary.
Father, I was listening to your video and then looked up and read the title of the book in your hand and saw in print "enduring love" and the title communicated to me love is to be endured... after 52 years of marriage most of that being in the protestant denominations my husband and I along with our son were baptized into the Orthodox Church, praise the Lord.......so blessed by your teaching and ministry and on-line teaching....so wonderful to finally see the Church (or should I say begin to see the Church)
Please pray for me and my fiancé. We recently became Lutheran but I have a strong pull toward Orthodoxy. I’m a newer Christian and my fiancé comes from a Baptist/pentacostal background. He has a hard enough time with Lutheranism. I hope we can be Orthodox someday.
Join an adults group at your local Orthodox Church. Mine happens to be Greek. Truly engaging with others on the same journey is so essential. I am on the same journey. Currently a catechumen
Dear Father Josiah, I am enjoying reading Jonathan Edwards' Resollutions. I do not remember in which video you mentioned these. So far, I am particularly struck by No.17: "Resolved, that I will live so as I shall wish I had done when I come to die". Thank you from Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK ❤
I'm glad that you wrote another book, father! But I wish I could help somehow in the translation for at least my language (portuguese), since even the "Rock and Sand" is still in the process of translation ans we haven't much of your works translated in Brazil. That's unfortunate also because I have a cousing that is having trouble on her marriage and she has a son and it's not very happy with her marriage, since the husband doesn't seem to valuate her, since they are married for a long time... I really would gladly give this surely amazing book for many couples that I know, because the main help that we can rely on those times (and the main source of guiding) is for sure the teachings that we can find in the tradition of the Holy Church. God bless your works, and may He bless those who need them with it coming at hand (all over the world) soon!
Where to begin. I’ve recently been attending an Orthodox Church in my area the last 3 weeks. I’m very new to the orthodox faith, and I hope to meet with the priest soon to discuss the orthodox faith more in depth. I’m on the verge of getting a divorce. My wife and I have 3 kids together. We went to 4 different marriage counselors and she stopped going every one of them. She refuses to go back to the current counselor or find a new one. She’s narcissistic, and me, and our 3 kids suffer from narcissistic abuse. My feelings, emotions, etc get mocked and laughed at. I’m not innocent either. I’ve contributed to the damage of my marriage. Now, I don’t know what to do. Me, and my kids can’t, and should not have to live under that type of mental abuse. But, at the same time, God hates divorce. And I just feel alone, and confused. That’s probably why I am searching for any church. A church where I can belong, and not feel alone.
The Church for most of its existence has seen an ascetic life as superior to that of marriage. Marriage was always like an ok thing, necessary for the prolongation of humanity, but if you really want to serve Christ you should become a monk or an ascetic of some sort. All the Saints in the Calender are monks and martyrs. Even the married Saints lived like monks after having children as they abstained from sex and lived a penitent life.
Beautiful, I will definitely pick this up. Please pray for my partner and I; I'm aspiring to Orthodoxy and hope to soon be a catechumen, but I'm unsure how she feels yet about Orthodoxy. She has Protestant background and mine is mostly Roman Catholic(I looked to Protestantism to solve my problems with the RCC). I just hope she understands that this is the path that Christ wants His people on. Thank you who read this and pra, and God bless you Fr. Trenham.
I can't wait to read your book father Josiah, thank you; it will be interesting to compare it to St. John Chrysostom's book On Marriage and Family Life
Father, I live in Istanbul. I want to be baptized into the Orthodox Church. I come from non Christian background. However, I learned that the Patriarchy here is going the way of the Pope in Rome (first without equals etc.). What do you suggest that I do?
Sorry for jumping in... Even though Patriarchate in Istanbul is in delicate position as you mentioned, their Baptism is still valid as in Orthodox Church personal sins of the clergyman do not influence the Sacrament performed by him. God bless you.!
God is Love. (1 John 4) What you stated is very disturbing and may apply to the Western civilization. In the East, situation is not as bad. Perhaps that is why traditional men in the West seek to marry women from the East.
@@johnnyd2383 Yes that is what I am referring to, in the western world's culture (Americanism or what it has turned in to) but it is spreding out like a disease. The American dream has become the Orthodox Christian's worst nightmare.
🚨PLEASE HELP🚨-I am struggling really bad because if the church views marriage to be as holy as Jesus did, why do they seem to dissolve marriages and also remarry guilty parties, Jesus was very clear in Mat 19:9, right?
@@LivingWaterLiaison Alright. I do not have any formal theological education and thus my knowledge is limited. What I can do is pass to you the info I encountered while reading various Orthodox books. Earliest evidence of the marriage-divorce practice in the ancient Church I have found in the writings of the St. John Chrysostom, 347-407 AD. Perhaps some even earlier exist but I have not came across those. He was recording as to how Church celebrates the first marriage, performs second one and tolerates third one (note degradation). In his homily he explains the differences in the ceremonies performed in each of these cases. Writings like these are important to those who think that practice of the Orthodox Church in this matter is some novelty when in fact it has always been like that since the antiquity. Hope this helps. Cheers.!
@@johnnyd2383 I really appreciate your time man, and your info is noted. The real hangup for me is that seems to go against what Jesus, himself, said in Mt. 19:9, and he is supposed to be the head of the Orthodox Church, if Chrysostom reconciles the practice with Jesus’ teaching, I would be blessed to hear it. (In essence, how can the Orthodox Church be led by the Holy Spirit, with Jesus as it’s head, if it does things contrary to the explicit teaching of Jesus?)
