Ancient Faith Today Live - Does Orthodoxy Allow Three Marriages?

Is the Orthodox Church too permissive when it comes to divorce and remarriage?
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Ancient Faith Today Live - Does Orthodoxy Allow Three Marriages?
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[@vy7737]

Thank you so much for this video

[@AncientFaithMinistries]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching

[@sallylafaille7688]

I was recently Chrismated in the Antiochian church. My husband and I had a civil marriage before that. Then we had our crowning in the Church. Our priest encourages married converts to have the crowning.

[@andreialexiev7858]

My question is, did your husband also convert? Or was he Orthodox already? The late Archbishop Peter of Chicago was of the opinion that baptism (or chrismation) doesn't "unmarry" a person. I'm a priest in his diocese, though I serve two parishes :one OCA and one Serbian.

[@producersimon]

@@andreialexiev7858 Hi Fr. Andrei. Me and my wife also had our marriage blessed when I entered the Church in an Antiochian parish. What our priest said to us is because I was a convert but my wife was already Orthodox, and we had a civil marriage outside of the Church, this is why we did the marriage blessing. He would not have done the marriage blessing if we were both converts.

[@andreialexiev7858]

My name is actually Hieromonk Alexei but I've only been a monastic for nearly two years. I was a married priest, my wife reposed on the day of my saint,St. Alexis of Wilkes-Barre. The saint baptized her father in Wilkes-Barre. Your priest acted correctly in my op​@producersimon

[@andreialexiev7858]

My opinion

[@sallylafaille7688]

@@andreialexiev7858 We both were Chrismated after the civil wedding.

[@AntikytheraConsulting]

Watching the replay. Not sure how my notification didn’t come through

[@Dragoncurve]

When did annulments even start? I don’t understand how that started or in what century

[@chrisi4584]

Hi Fr.
Wrt trinatirian heterodox (Uniting Church) marrying an Orthodox
Christian in an Orthodox Church, as you mentioned, this is normally ok, however, we have had the experience , where the heterodox person was baptised by a woman priestess, so in Orthodoxy, this baptism is not considered to be valid, thus marriage as is, can not occur in our Orthodox Church😢

[@ANg-1298]

Hi,
1. are the remarriage laws the same for Ortho married priests?
2. Aremarried Ortho priests supposed to abstain from conjugal intimacy before Mass, and if so, how long?

[@cassidyanderson3722]

All Orthodox Christians, including priests, are supposed to abstain from sex prior to receiving the Eucharist. I believe the standard is to abstain from 6:00pm the evening before until after receiving the Eucharist.

[@acekoala457]

Priests who become widowers cannot remarry and remain as Priests.

[@mahalakatanga]

@@cassidyanderson3722it is not simply abstaining from intercourse, you must fast from vespers until divine liturgy next morning, there is no distinct rule for intercourse or intimacy. traditionally you spend the time after vespers with prayer and meditation, sleep than wake up and pray the matins than go to temple for liturgy. even speaking or reading something can distract you. but i am not sure other than monastics and hermits anybody can do this in our age. but at least we can fast...

[@virginiaday2934]

“The Law of God” explains why 3 consecutive marriages are permitted. A friend of mine told me that the multiple marriages in Africa is not the same, they are polygamist converts. And Preistmonk Kosmos on TH-cam “Orthodox Talks” gives better explanations on what women are doing to provoke adultery and divorce, how to view being married to an evil spouse and why marriage protects you from adultery and fornication.