Homilies on the Christian Life · Lecture 038
On the Family (Part 3)
A lecture by Dimitrios Panagopoulos · Δείτε στα Ελληνικά
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Summary
Dimitrios Panagopoulos argues that parental responsibility begins before marriage and before conception, using Genesis 1:28, Hebrews 13:4, Jeremiah 1:5, Galatians 1:15, Jude 1:6, and Luke 16:19-31. Marriage is presented as Orthodox and procreative, a form of cooperation with God in which pleasure accompanies but does not define the purpose of the union. Mixed marriages are condemned as spiritually harmful to children, and abortion at any stage is called murder, with Saint John of the Ladder cited for the soul’s creation at conception. The spiritual state of the mother during pregnancy, fidelity of the spouses, Orthodox upbringing, and accountability before the Last Judgment form the lecture’s main pastoral framework.
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