Center for Family Care
March 14, 2018
When we are joined in matrimony, the Church places us side by side so that we may carry the cross of life together. But what does this journey look like as we face the day-to-day struggles of marital life? Read More
Center for Family Care
February 1, 2018
Becoming One is an ongoing offering for marriage enrichment. Each Becoming One presents a brief quotation or teaching on marriage along with an exercise or challenge for the couple. Read More
Center for Family Care
January 11, 2017
The ability to communicate is foundational within any given relationship—and how much more so for husbands and wives! Since marriage holds to the ideal of a loving, self-denying, Christ-centered relationship oriented toward the Kingdom of Heaven, consistent, effective communication between spouses becomes imperative. “Say What?!” is a webinar from Fr. Jim and Presvytera Donna Pappas that reminds us that there are consequences to the way we deliver—and respond—to communication. The prevailing message of the webinar conveys that with deliberate, mutual effort spouses can intimately communicate with each other—even when it seems we’re speaking different languages! Read More
Center for Family Care
November 4, 2016
Take a moment today to sit down with your partner and listen to this short audio clip. When you are finished, discuss the questions below together! Read More
Center for Family Care
November 4, 2016
Take a moment today to sit down with your partner and listen to this short audio clip. When you are finished, discuss the questions below together! Read More
Center for Family Care
June 1, 2016
IT’S SUMMER! A wonderful time for family, friends, relaxing, and playing. A time for vacations—vacations from work and vacations from school. But there is one type of vacation we shouldn’t be taking this summer—and that is from Church. Church should be the center of our lives throughout the year and summer is no exception. Join us this summer as we #soakuptheSON. Read More
Center for Family Care
May 17, 2016
Take a moment today to sit down with your partner and listen to this short audio clip. When you are finished, discuss the questions below together! Read More
Center for Family Care
May 17, 2016
Take a moment today to sit down with your partner and listen to this short audio clip. When you are finished, discuss the questions below together! Read More
Video
May 10, 2016
What is your general personal mindset in regard to marriage? In what areas of marriage do you have more of a fixed mindset? In what areas of marriage do you have more of a growth mindset? Read More
Video
April 6, 2016
Take a moment today to sit down with your partner and listen to this short audio clip. When you are finished, discuss the questions below together! Read More
Center for Family Care
March 24, 2016
Watch this webinar from the Center for Family Care titled "Say What?! How Words Matter in Our Relationships." Read More
Center for Family Care
March 1, 2016
The Center for Family Care would like to introduce our latest feature, The Marriage Minute. The program provides a short audio clip from an Orthodox marriage and family specialist along with discussion questions for you and your spouse to use to strengthen your marriage. Check it out online at www.family.goarch.org. Read More
Video
February 14, 2016
Take a moment today to sit down with your partner and listen to this short audio clip. When you are finished, discuss the questions below together! Read More
Center for Family Care
December 18, 2015
A prayer for married couples from the wedding service. Read More
Service Text
September 3, 2015
The Service of the Crowning - The Service of Marriage Read More
Center for Family Care
September 1, 2015
All marriages need to be nurtured from the first day to the last of our lives. In all relationships we seek to know and understand the other—just as the other mutually comes to know and understand us. This takes time, attention, and a vested interest. When we experience someone taking the time to know us by asking questions, listening, and sharing their own thoughts and feelings, we feel connected. Read More
Center for Family Care
May 27, 2015
This webinar featuring Ary Christofidis, PhD, LCP, is for all couples, in all stages of life, and discusses how including Christ and the teachings of our Holy Church helps couples overcome both the day-to-day obstacles as well as evil influences that may negatively affect their union. Read More
Center for Family Care
May 1, 2015
Does the Church hold up any paradigms for marriage to provide the framework for a Christ-centered marriage? Indeed it does. The Church offers three icons from which we can learn how to live the married life: Christ the Bridegroom, Sts. Joachim and Anna, and the Wedding at Cana. These icons represent the three dimensions of marriage, the personal, the intimate, and the communal, respectively. Collectively they give us an Orthodox model for marriage. Read More
Center for Family Care
April 7, 2015
Watch this webinar from the Center for Family care about challenges faced when couples experience infertility. Read More
Center for Family Care
March 3, 2015
This webinar provides an overview of domestic violence including its prevalence, forms of abuse, its basis in power and control, its impact on children cultural barriers to accessing mainstream services, why victims remain in abusive relationships, concepts of prayer and forgiveness, and the spiritual aloneness a victim feels who believes God has abandoned her. Read More