Marriage is a beautiful and a continuous adventure that helps us discover who we truly are, but also the spiritual world of our partner, and know God in humbleness through the small family Church. We should accept our husband as he is, with his shortcomings and caprices, and not as we want him to be. Family is a floor, a gym of the souls and an antechamber of Heaven for those who fear God.

1. Don’t act as a teacher in front of your life companion. The most suitable way to teach him something is to love him as yourself, respect him and live in faith.

2. Marriage is a beautiful and a continuous adventure that helps us discover who we truly are, but also the spiritual world of our partner, and know God in humbleness through the small family Church.

3. We should accept our husband as he is, with his shortcomings and caprices, and not as we want him to be. Family is a floor, a gym of the souls and an antechamber of Heaven for those who fear God.

4. Try to understand your husband. Don’t forget that the man is the one who thinks rationally and the woman rules the family with her heart.

5. Don’t try to impose your own opinion and to correct your partner. It’s better to take care to attract him towards you. “Love endures through forgiveness and understanding!” Don’t get mad, angry or fight!

6. With faith, patience and love, all difficulties of this ephemeral live can be overcome in a victorious way.

7. The biggest enemies of family life are sin and selfishness.

8. The best example for children is that their father loves their mother and vice versa, and that they see them praying and going to church.

9. The secret of peace in a family lays in the ability of its members to forgive, to love and respect each other and to confess to a spiritual father.

10. Wedding is a “Great Mystery” that starts in Church, continues through the Mystery of Confession, the Divine Liturgy and all the other Mysteries of our orthodox ancestral and living Mysteries.

“Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 3:2).

Exhortations of a monk from the Holy Mountain,

L.A