January 19, 2024
What’s New This Week
New year, new content! We have a few exciting things to share with you this month…the first being our newest small group guide: Investing in Your Marriage!
This series is intended for small-group marriage ministry. It consists of six short clips taken from our webinar “Investing in Your Marriage,”featuring Dr. Ary Christofidis, a licensed clinical psychologist and director of the Orthodox Christian Counseling Institute in Chicago.
Each clip is accompanied by follow-up questions for couples to discuss. The clips focus on common challenges in marriage and offer wisdom from the life of the Church to restore and strengthen the marital bond.
William Gall joins Pres. Melanie and shares about the inspiration for Arms Open Wide, a weekly blog and virtual storehouse of Orthodox Christian disability resources. Listen as he enumerates the resources and links accessible on Arms Open Wide and the various needs they address. LISTEN HERE.
Consider the possibility of becoming one spirit and one flesh with your spouse and what that would look like. How do you invoke the grace of God in your marriage to realize the “possibility” of becoming “one spirit and one flesh”? What more will you begin to do?
St. Paraskevi exemplified Christ’s limitless mercy when she healed her torturer. When hot tar splashed into the eyes of the person harming her, she was “filled with great compassion” for him. Forgiving when we or someone we love has been persecuted is not a task we can accomplish…read more.
This past weekend Fr. Alex Goussetis led a parenting retreat at Holy Cross parish in Huntsville, Alabama titled “Cultivating the Home Church.”
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Retreat participants had many positive things to say:
“Perfect balance of presentation, discussion, reflection. Abundance of ‘food for thought’.”
“Looking forward to following up at home with my family on things offered today!”
“Great use of technology and audience participation! It was much better than I thought it would be: not preachy or dogmatic.”
To schedule a parenting or marriage retreat for your parish contact us today at familycare@goarch.org.