Glory to God
No Wedding Vows
Fr. Stephen notes that in an Orthodox wedding, there are no wedding vows. This stands in stark contrast to the central place vows hold in Western tradition. He suggests that the West has come to think of marriage as a "contract" between two people while the Orthodox Church thinks of it as a "union." The difference is important.
Sunday, April 5, 2015
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Fr. Stephen Freeman is a retired Archpriest of the Orthodox Church in America and resides in Upstate South Carolina. He is the author of Everywhere Present: Christianity in a One-Storey Universe, and Face to Face: Knowing God Beyond Our Shame, as well as the popular Glory to God for All Things blog. His blog has quickly become one of the most read Orthodox blogs, being translated frequently in Romanian, French, and Serbian, by enthusiastic readers
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