Why does our Church View Marriage as a Great Sacrament? To answer this I have adapted and summarised a sermon on Marriage by a very holy man, Archimandrite Aimilianos, at the time Abbot of the Monastery of Simonopetra of Mount Athos. Many marry without knowledge, without a sense of responsibility, or simply because they think they must in order to be good members of society. A worldly marriage can only have one characteristic — the murder of a person's spiritual life. In order to have a successful marriage, one must have the appropriate upbringing from an early age. The child [...]