Today in our country is celebrated the Family Day, which coincides with the feast day of Saints Peter and Fevronia - patrons of family life. Especially for today's holiday, we have selected for you the 10 best sayings of the holy fathers about the family. We hope that their wise words will help all of us to support love and warmth in their family hearth!
1. Apostle Paul: Husband, give your wife due favor; Like a wife to her husband. A wife does not have power over her body, but her husband; Equally, the husband does not control his body, but his wife (1 Corinthians 7: 3-4).
2. Apostle Paul: Wives, obey your husbands as the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church ... But how the Church obeys Christ, so also the wife is to her husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself up for her ... So husbands must love their wives as their own bodies: loving their own wife, loving himself ... (Ephesians 5: 22-25, 28)
3. Holy. John Chrysostom: Where the husband, wife and children are united by the bonds of virtue, harmony and love, there among them Christ
4. Holy. John Chrysostom: A husband should think about putting deeds and words in the house piety; And let the wife observe the house, but apart from this occupation, she must have another, more urgent concern for the whole family to work for the Kingdom of Heaven.
5. Holy. John Chrysostom: True wealth and great happiness, when the husband and wife live in harmony and are united with each other as one flesh ... Such spouses, even if they lived poorly and were not familiar, can be all happier, because they enjoy true happiness and always Live in peace ... Living in such a conjugal alliance can not be too sad, break their peaceful happiness. If there is unanimity between the husband and wife, peace and the union of love, all good things flow to them. And evil calumnies are not dangerous to spouses, shielded as a great wall, by unanimity in God ... This multiplies their wealth and all the abundance; This elevates them to the highest stage of good glory; It attracts to them the great God's favor.
6. Holy. Gregory the Theologian: Bound marriage, we replace each other and hands, and feet, and hearing. Marriage and the weak do twice as much ... The common cares of the spouses make it easier for them to grieve, and the common pleasures delight both. For unanimous spouses, wealth is made more pleasing, and in poverty unanimity is more pleasing than wealth. For them, conjugal bonds serve as a key to chastity and desires, a seal of necessary attachment.
7. Holy. Tikhon Zadonsky: Parents need to take care of themselves from temptations and give an example of virtuous life to their children if they want to be instructed in virtues. Otherwise, nothing will succeed. For children look more at the life of their parents and reflect it in their young souls than listen to their words.
8. Holy. Theophan Recluse: Take care of your wife and your love. This is the source of a happy family life. But you must guard it, so as not to get littered.
9. Holy. Filaret (Drozdov): When parents, kinsmen, mentors, superiors demand from you something that is contrary to your wisdom, your inclination, your taste, but what is needed, or useful, or at least harmless, sacrifice your wisdom, your inclination , Your taste of duty of obedience; Remember Jesus, the Wisdom of God, who would obey Joseph the duchess (Luke 2: 51).
10. Holy. Luka Krymsky: Parents and, above all, mothers have a sacred duty to raise a child and give him upbringing. All great, eternal, holy must always be placed at the center of the corner. Therefore, it is necessary that in this life of the woman this most important task should take the first place ... Unfortunately, as a result of the establishment of full equality of women and men in all areas of physical and mental labor, the upbringing of children in the family is in a deplorable state ... Who educates children in such families, Where both father and mother occupy important public positions, from morning to night at work and have neither the time, nor the strength, nor the opportunity to deal with children? In the vast majority of cases - no one ... And such a family, in which there is no one to deal with the upbringing of children, does not constitute a single inseparable spiritual whole, why there can be no prosperity either in society or in the state.
