by Protodeacon Victor Lochmatow
cell keeper, secretary, driver, deacon and close assistant of this most wonderful bishop for nearly 50 years.

An Ecumenical Council is the Church's supreme authority, and possesses the competence to resolve major questions of church life.

What Have We to Do with Thee?
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew
by Blessed Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid and Bulgaria

An Orthodox examination of Protestant teaching
by Fr. John Whiteford

by  Archbishop Mark of Berlin, Germany and Great Britain

Friday, July 12, 2013, marked the 35th anniversary of the repose of the ever-memorable Archbishop Andrei of Rockland, vicar of the Eastern American Diocese.

A Sermon by Protopriest Leonid Kolchev (+1944)

The Healing of the Centurion's Servant
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew
by Blessed Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid and Bulgaria

Just as the eyebrows approach each other, so are the temptations close to men. - St. Isaac the Syrian

A Sermon by Metropolitan Anastassy (+1965)
from July 4/17, 1925, in the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in the Holy City of Jerusalem.

The Romanov children—the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and the heir, Grand Duke Alexis—were extraordinary in their ordinariness.

by St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco
(delivered before the fall of the Soviet regime)

This site features biographies:
St. Herman, St. Innocent of Alaska,
St. Juvenaly, St. Peter the Aleut, St. Tikhon, and
St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco

The Eye is the Lamp of the Body
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew
by Blessed Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid and Bulgaria

The Church honors each of the Twelve Apostles on separate dates during the year, and has established a general commemoration for all of them on the day after the commemoration of the Glorious and First-Ranked among the Apostles, Peter and Paul.

Sermon 82
Saint Leo the Great

Homily Twenty-Eight
by St. Gregory Palamas

Father Seraphim Rose
a transcription of a talk given at the St. Herman Monastery, Platina, California, in 1977.

Elder Ambrose of Optina

From Journey to Heaven by Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk

by St. Luke the Surgeon - Archbishop of Simferopol

St. Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain

Today we celebrate the memory of St. Alban, Protomartyr of Britain

The Saint Who Conquered the Passion of Smoking

The Holy Apostle Jude, one of the twelve apostles of Christ, is descended from King David and Solomon, and was the son of Righteous Joseph the Betrothed 

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

The fast of the holy Apostles is very ancient, dating back to the first centuries of Christianity.