Marriage and Family

This volume contains several beautiful prayers written by His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios when he was a Deacon in the 1960s.

Whether you are a couple preparing to marry, are newly married, or are past the newlywed stage, you will find this resource to be very useful in your efforts to reclaim the love you have lost or to protect the love you still enjoy.

This book combines down-to-earth examples, cutting edge research and the author's Orthodox Christian perspective to assist you and your partner to attend to your marriage and its needs. The author calls up his extensive experience as a pastor, therapist and educator in writing this valuable resource.

Prayer joins us with God and is the first and most essential step in connecting our families to the Church. This guide provides a collection of Orthodox prayers and meditations for daily use. It can be used for both personal and family prayer time. Stand it on your kitchen table or another place where your family regularly gathers.

Worship should not just occur in Church on Sunday but each and everyday in our homes. This folio gives detailed information on how to create and use a place of worship in your home. Connect your family to the Church by using this tool to make worship a part of your daily family life.

This resource has been written for clergy and lay professionals who work with intermarried couples. It was also written to be used with my first book entitled - When You Intermarry.

Both books provide information from hundreds of intermarried couples, Archdiocese wide, who participated in the Interfaith Research Project.

Ministering to Intermarried Couples features a hands-on pastoral approach that can be used with the intermarried population across the marital and family life cycle. It also deals with issues related to conversion, premarital preparation, marital challenges, parenting, extended family challenges, as well as the topic of effective outreach. Since our faithful are intermarrying at increasingly high numbers, clergy and lay professionals who read this book will find it helpful in their work with all couples, especially intermarried couples.