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The apostle commands that a widow counted among the number of widows, that is, provided for by the church, be left without care if she encroaches on her husband. But for a widowed husband there is no law: the penance of bigamous people is sufficient for him. A sixty-year-old widow, even if she still desires to live with her husband, may not be worthy of communion with the holy thing until she becomes tired of passionate impurity. If, before the age of sixty, we count her among the widows, then it is our fault, not the woman’s. (IV Universe. 3; Trul. 40; Carth. 38; Theophilus Alex. 11; Basil Vel. 4, 41). That widows who are not dependent on anyone can marry is known from the Holy Scriptures of the New Testament (Rom. 7:3; 1 Cor. 7:39); Basil the Great also speaks about this in his 41 rules. However, there were also a special kind of widows whom the church supported and who formed a kind of order and were called church widows (αί χήραι τής εκκλησίας) 59 . And the Holy Scripture mentions such people, moreover, with approval (1 Tim. 5:3,5,16), but does not allow them to be taken into the care of the church while still young (1 Tim. 5:11), and when they are 60 years old (1 Tim. 5:9). Basil speaks about these widows in his present rule, and prescribes that if they are accepted into the care of the church before the age of 60, they can freely get married, subjecting them only to the penance of second-weds, like a widower who wants to enter into a second marriage; if any of the church widows who came into church care at the appropriate age, i.e. upon reaching the age of 60, wishes to get married, then such an extravagant woman should be deprived of Holy Communion until she stops being extravagant and is cured of unclean passion, for uncleanness (άκαθαρσι'α) can only be called when any old, 60-year-old woman decides to have communication with a man. You might be interested in: