So, happiness is to love and be loved, to be in marriage (unity) with the beloved-desired! Therefore, to be Happy, that is, to be a Christian – is to be in Marriage-Unity with Christ-God – “the Most Beautiful of all the sons of men,” to be Christ’s (completely mutually belonging to Him, as He First entirely gave Himself to each of us!), to be faithful to Him in Marriage with Him! A married woman – she no longer has her own life, she is no longer by herself – she is her husband’s, married, belongs to her husband, freely-voluntarily in mutual love she gave herself to her husband, responded to his love confession in love-faithfulness: Yes! I give myself to you and accept you as my master… Likewise, a Christian accepts the confession of Christ (on the Cross) in Love-Eros to a person (“God showed His Love for us when He suffered for us, while we were His enemies!”, “So God loved the world (= us), that He gave His Only Begotten Son (Beloved)…”), and says: “Yes! I am the servant of the Lord…”. Marriage between a man and a woman begins from the time they both promise mutual faithfulness to each other (and testify to this (faithfulness) before witnesses). From then on, the woman is already her husband’s, bears the husband’s name… Similarly, a person becomes a Christian (accepts the “surname” of the Groom-Christ, forgetting the maiden name – pagan) after Marriage with Christ – a promise of faithfulness to Christ-God, and a joint Marital-Erotic Parish-Bodily-Eucharistic life after the act of registering Marriage with Christ in the act of registering Marriage – in the dual Sacrament of Baptism-Chrismation! After the registration of Marriage with Christ – the first eschatological Resurrection Day of the Eighth Day of marriage (an analogy: the first wedding night of a man and a woman) in the Sacrament of Intimacy-Eros of unity in one Flesh-Body of Christ and the bride (newly baptized hypostasis) – the Holy Eucharist (the actualization of the Body of Resurrection – Unity-LIFE of the Holy Trinity – in the mystery of communion of the faithful to Christ (Christians) in the Holy Spirit). And then, after the “honeymoon” of the Bright Week of Easter, the “ordinary” Christian life of acquiring the fullness of the Holy Spirit begins – following the Bridegroom, carrying one’s cross in marital faithfulness to Christ the Bridegroom!
Before entering into marriage, the young couple for a long time (during dates) look at each other and compare their strength: whether they can make the Other happy, keep faithfulness to the revelation-love, whether they can trust each other forever! That is, from the moment of the revelation of the beauty of the Other, from infatuation to marriage, a responsible period of dates-meetings lasts – knowing oneself and each other (as far as possible before marriage). Similarly, between the first grace-revelation of the Truth and Marriage (Baptism-Chrismation) there is a long period of dating-catechumenate, where the catechumen with the help of the Church compares his strength and readiness to be faithful to Christ (which is directly proportional to the knowledge of one’s own weakness) until death (Christ checked His strength to be faithful on Golgotha! Therefore, the name of Christ is Faithful!). In this world, Christ is crucified and Christ’s (Christians) await the same fate: they persecuted Me – they will persecute you too! Therefore, the Church prepares a person for a long time (sometimes years) for Marriage-Baptism-Chrismation!
Registering a marriage in the Civil Registry Office (or even with a priest-cleric in the act of wedding) – is entering into marital relations, it is an opportunity to become one with the beloved. The purpose of marriage (life in one flesh) is unity: that all may be one, as “You, Father, are in Me, and I in You…” – this is Happiness: Love-Unity, the purpose for which everything was created. Similarly, Baptism-Chrismation – is only the beginning of Marriage and the opportunity in the Parish-Eucharist (life in Christ: with Christ in Marriage-Parish-Eucharist) to become a god by grace, to become Christ in Christ! This is the same as entering a School (of Hypostatic life) – it is only an opportunity to get an education (to acquire the Holy Spirit – to be enlightened with the fullness of the grace of Divine Life of the Holy Trinity). If you do not work properly, build relationships (in marriage), study (in school), treat yourself (in the hospital), then there will be no benefit, even if the beginning (entering – even with proper preparation – into marriage, school, hospital…) was correct, but on the contrary: there will only be harm and loss (“He who does not gather with Christ (in Christ) scatters, loses, wastes, “goes into the negatives””). Baptism-Chrismation is the opportunity to become a Christian, it is the beginning of Christianity (Marital Parish Eucharistic life with Christ). Promising faithfulness to each other does not mean preserving it. To realize one’s promise of faithfulness, a feat of crucifying one’s own flesh (egoistic way of existence) with passions and desires (of the eyes, flesh, and pride), one must crucify in oneself “this world” and oneself for the world by the Cross of Christ! Otherwise, they register-married (= baptized) and already think that they have achieved the goal!? Spit on Satan (see the rite of Baptism) and already think that they have overcome him and broke all sinful ties that were before marriage-baptism, baptized in Holy Water and already think that they have achieved deification!? Do not deceive yourselves! It is difficult for a dark people not to be deceived when the heretic priests-clerics of the UOC-KP unanimously convince them of the following: anyone over whom the rite of the Sacrament of Baptism-Chrismation was performed, is already a Christian (regardless of even the motivation and purpose for which they buy the service-sacrament of baptism)!?