How can I catechize my spouse correctly ?

 

Elder Nikon. Mount Athos, Greece 

 

There’s a woman asking : “How can I my husband acquire faith ? “  She can help her husband acquire faith by not talking to him about faith. She must live her faith and through the struggle to become a true Christian herself, unintentionally she will have an effect on her husband. St. Paul says himself, if a woman has a husband who is not a believer, she shouldn’t divorce him because, maybe by watching the beautiful life of hers he may also want to become a Christian. We all must do likewise. When our other half is indifferent we will not pressure them, we will not catechize them, we will not teach them. Instead of telling them, we should show them what it is to be a believer, how they have patience, the way they don’t get angry, how they are always happy, how they listen to other people carefully and how they show their love. And the spouse seeing what it is to be a Christian will want to resemble them. Only in this way can we affect others. Not with words. By our attitude, with our everyday life.  

By : St. Panteleimon monastery