Sunday of The Myrrhbearing Women - 04/30/17

Homily of Saint Gregory Palamas

The Myrrh-Bearing Women : Sacrificial Love - 04/30/17

Archimdrite Kirill (Pavlov)

The Myrrh-bearing Women - 04/30/17

Mark 15:43-16:6
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Mark by Blessed Theophylact

A brief History of the Irish Orthodox Church - 04/27/17

At its March 9, 2017 session, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church officially adopted St. Patrick and more than fifteen other pre-schism Western saints into its calendar

On the Sophiological Controversy of the 1930s - 04/27/17

By Alexis Klimoff Emeritus Prof. of Russian Studies at Vassar College

“Only by remembering our Martyrs can we build the Future of the Church” - 04/27/17

Archbishop Mark (Arndt) interviewed by Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)

“The Tragedy of a Hundred Years Ago Cannot Be Repeated” - 04/27/17

by Protopriest Andrei Sommer, Vice President of the Synodal Youth Department of ROCOR

Homily on Saint Thomas Sunday - 04/23/17

by St. John of Kronstadt

On Thomas Sunday - 04/23/17

by Bishop Benjamin of Saratov and Balashov (+1955)

St. Thomas Sunday - 04/23/17

Excerpt from a Homily by St. John Chrysostom

The Second Sunday of Pascha - 04/23/17

John 20:19-31
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. John by Blessed Theophylact

It was Heaven on Earth - 04/22/17

Reminiscences of Archpriest Maxim Kozlov and Professor Alexei Svetozarsky of the Celebration of Pascha in the Soviet Era

St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Church now taking On-line Donations - 04/22/17

St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Church is now able to take secure on-line donations through PayPal. Donation buttons are located on both the Home and Links pages.

Bright Week: On Belief and Unbelief - 04/20/17

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia
Delivered on Bright Tuesday, April 21, 2009, at the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.

On Bright Week - 04/20/17

Archimandrite John Krestiankin (+2006)

Paschal Message - 04/16/17

Paschal Message of His Holiness KIRILL Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia

Paschal Epistle - 04/16/17

Paschal Epistle of Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

Great and Holy Saturday - 04/15/17

On Great and Holy Saturday the Orthodox Church commemorates the burial of Christ and His descent into Hades.

Homily on Great Friday - 04/14/17

by Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow, in the St. Alexander Nevsky Lavra on Holy Friday, 1816

Holy and Great Friday - 04/14/17

by Metropolitan Philaret of Eastern American and New York (+1985)

Great and Holy Friday - 04/14/17

On this day, Holy and Great Friday, we celebrate the awesome, holy, and saving Passion of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ

Great Thursday: Why One Should Wait For This Day For The Whole Year - 04/13/17

By Bishop Jonah (Cherepanov) of Obukhiv, Vice-Rector of the Holy Trinity-St. Jonah Monastery in Kiev

Great and Holy Thursday - 04/13/17

When the glorious disciples at the supper were illumined by the washing of the feet,
then was the impious Judas darkened by the disease of avarice.

Each One of Us is Potentially a Judas - 04/12/17

A sermon given by Fr. Seraphim (Rose) during Great Lent, 1982

Great and Holy Wednesday - 04/12/17

Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you?

On the Parable of the Ten Virgins - 04/11/17

Homily 78 of St. John Chrysostom

Great and Holy Tuesday - 04/11/17

Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins

Great and Holy Monday - 04/10/17

We are entering into difficult days today: days when we recall the Passion of Christ

On Palm Sunday - 04/09/17

by St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)

Homily on Palm Sunday - 04/09/17

Excerpt from St. Andrew of Crete's Homily on Palm Sunday

Sermon on Palm Sunday - 04/09/17

by Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky, +1985)
of Eastern America and New York

Entrance into Jerusalem - 04/09/17

John 12:1-18
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. John
by Blessed Theophylact

Sermon on Lazarus Saturday - 04/08/17

by Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky, +1985)
of Eastern America and New York

The Irish Soldier Who Became an Orthodox Priest - 04/08/17

Father Thomas Carroll is a 70-year-old priest in Dublin, Ireland.

An American Parish - 04/08/17

Fr. Matthew Williams, of St. Tikhon Orthodox Church in Bristol, VA

New Items in Parish News - 04/02/17

Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt - 04/02/17

This Life of Our Venerable Mother Mary of Egypt was written down in the seventh century by Saint Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem.

Saint Mary of Egypt - 04/02/17

A homily by Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

Sermon on the Fifth Sunday of Great Lent - 04/02/17

by Bishop Mitrophan (Znosko-Borovsky +2002)

Fifth Sunday of Lent - 04/02/17

Mark 10:32-45
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Mark
by Blessed Theophylact

An Elder has Reposed - 04/02/17

In Memory of Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov)

In Praise of the Mother of God - 04/01/17

How fitting that fortieth day after the repose of Elder Kirill (Pavlov) should fall on the eve of the Saturday of the Laudation of the Mother of God.

To Fulfill the Will of God Is Very Easy - 04/01/17

Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco

Types of Religious Lives - 04/01/17

Mother Maria Skobtsova died in Ravensbruck concentration camp on Good Friday, 1945. This essay was written in 1937