Note: the SVS Popular Patristics volume used for this reading omits St. John Chrysostom’s opening section. A translation of the complete homily is available on Voices of the Fathers, but provenance of this website’s translation could not be determined and may be AI-assisted. Therefore, Voices of the Father is used for the opening section only and the Popular Patristics translation is provided for the remainder.

St. John Chrysostom. How to Choose a Wife in On Marriage and Family Life (Popular Patristics vol. 7) (C. P. Roth & D. Anderson, trans.) SVS Press. 2003.