Status Updates From Marriage: An Orthodox Persp...

The church, therefore, neither “recognized” divorce, nor “gave” it. Divorce was considered as a grave sin; but the church never failed, in giving to sinners a “new chance”, and was ready to readmit them if they repented

“here lies the ultimate True meaning of marriage as a sacrament: whatever the difficulties tragedies, and divisiveness of human life on earth, crowns placed on the heads of two human beings are preserved in the kingdom of God. it is up to them to decide whether this assumption of their common life by Christ will really be a decisive factor in their mutual relations, and their overall personal and social life…”