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The Orthodox Church teaches that a second union can never "is tolerated only by condescension to human weakness (1 Corinthians 7:9). It may also be the same recognized as the a second chance, given to a man or a woman, to enter into a real marriage in Christ when a firstunion was a mistake (for even Church blessing cannot always magically repair a human mistake!)."<ref>Meyendorff, Marriage: An Orthodox Perspective, pp. 48-49. </ref> In the service for a second marriage, some of the joyful ceremonies are omitted and replaced by penitential prayers.