Welcome to St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox ChurchWe are a parish of the Russian Orthodox Church, a part of the worldwide Orthodox Church founded by our Lord Jesus Christ and spread throughout the world by His holy apostles and their successors. The church is located in Roswell, Georgia, and our parishioners come from all parts of the metropolitan Atlanta area and beyond. We welcome visitors from all over the world...more News Updates
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The Reader in the Orthodox Church - 03/22/25
By Reader Vitaly Efimenkov, a graduate of Holy Trinity Seminary, and ROCOR Choir Director. 00003 00004
Veneration of the Holy Cross - 03/22/25
Mark 8:34 - 9:1 00005
Elder Schema-Archimandrite Iliy (Nozdrin) of Optina - 03/22/25
On March 15, 2025, in his ninety-fourth year of life, Schema-Archimandrite Iliy departed unto the Lord. 00006 00007
On the Bulgarian Elder George Peichev - 03/22/25
Fr. George Peichev from the Bulgarian village of Zheglartsi reposed in 2015 at the age of ninety-two 00008
Nothing is Fearful for the Person Whose Hope is in God - 03/22/25
This beautiful talk from St John of Shanghai and San Francisco highlights the beauty of a life without fear as long as one has hope in our Lord. 00009 00010
Saint Felix of Dunwich - 03/21/25
He delivered the entire province from its age-old wickedness and brought it to the Christian faith and works of righteousness 00011
Silencing Our Thoughts in a Digital Age - 03/21/25
Igumen Gabriel (Hooten) 00012
Southern Lenten Clergy Retreat - 03/21/25
On Wednesday, March 19, the Great Lenten Retreat for clergy of the southern deaneries of the Eastern American Diocese concluded 00013
Southern Clergy Retreat and the Growth of Orthodoxy in the South - 03/21/25
An interview with His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas, First Hierarch of ROCOR 00014 00015 00016
"I cannot Manage My own self; Grant me the spirit of repentance" - 03/15/25
from "A Spiritual Psalter" BY St. Ephraim the Syrian
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"The Divine Shines in His Eyes" - 03/15/25
In Memory of Metropolitan Laurus of Blessed Memory (+March 16, 2008)
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Second Sunday of Lent - 03/15/25
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Mark
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Elder Joseph of Vatopedi on Repentance - 03/15/25
The greatest benefit which God has granted our fallen nature is none other than repentance. 00022
St. Chad of Lichfield - 03/15/25
Prevailing over all the passions of the flesh, the wondrous Chad scaled the heights of dispassion by his surpassing wisdom and Christian virtues. 00023
My Meetings with the Holy Women of the Russian Diaspora - 03/15/25
by Maria Kulmann 00024 00025
“The Reunification of the Russian Church Was a Miracle of the 21st Century” - 03/15/25
Interview with journalist Dmitry Zlodorev 00026
The Sunday of Orthodoxy - 03/08/25
Synaxarion of the Lenten Triodion and Pentecostarion 00027
Prayer, Feasts, and Fasts - 03/08/25
by the Ever-Memorable Metropolitan Philaret of New York 00028
An Explanation of the Prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian - 03/08/25
by St. Luke, Archbishop of Crimea 00029
Make a New Beginning - 03/08/25
Presentation of Father George Alexson 00030
The Untold Story of the Head of St. John the Baptist - 03/08/25
Holy Scripture tells us that after St. John the Baptist was beheaded, the impious Herodias forbade the prophet’s head to be buried together with his body. 00031
Sermon on the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy - 03/08/25
by Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky) 00032
Sunday of Orthodoxy - 03/08/25
John 1: 43-51 00033 00034
Saturday of the First Week - the Sweetness of Boiled Wheat - 03/08/25
On the Saturday of the first week of Great Lent, we commemorate an event which occurred in the year 356—a miracle of Great Martyr Theodore the Tyro ("the Recruit"). 00035
Holy Hieromartyr Polycarp - 03/08/25
“He was not merely an illustrious teacher, but also a preeminent martyr" 00036
Saint Polycarp, the Friend of the Apostles - 03/08/25
An account written by Eusebius in his Ecclesiastical History 00037
Conversation About Canons - 03/08/25
Archpriest Sergei Sveshnikov and Protodeacon Andrei Psarev 00038
The Banishment and Repentance of Adam and Every Christian - 03/01/25
by Saint Symeon the New Theologian 00039
Cheesefare Sunday. The Gospel on Fasting - 03/01/25
From the Collected Works of St. Nicholai (Velimirovich) 00040
Theodore the Tyro - 03/01/25
In Praise of Blessed Theodore, the Great Martyr 00041
Lent as a Divine Establishment and Spiritual Remedy - 03/01/25
Protopriest Nikolai Dombrowski (+1979) 00042
Resentment and Forgiveness - 03/01/25
A talk delivered by Hieromonk Damascene at the Annual Assembly of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Western America 00043
The True Nature of Fasting - 03/01/25
From the introductory material in the Lenten Triodion 00044
Forgiveness Sunday - 03/01/25
Matthew 6:14-21 00045
Practical Tips for Orthodox Living - 03/01/25
"If there is anything that you realize that you do not know; seek to find out. Lose no opportunity to learn." 00046
Ukrainian terrorist attack against Met. Tikhon (Shevkunov) - 03/01/25
The Russian Federal Security Service prevented a terrorist plot against His Eminence Metropolitan Tikhon of Simferopol and Crimea 00047 00048
The Resolutions of Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky) - 03/01/25
A Source for the History of the Russian Orthodox Church 00049
Southern Lenten Clergy Retreat - 03/01/25
March 17-19, 2025 00050
A regular session of the Synod of Bishops ROCOR - 03/01/25
On Tuesday, February 25, 2025, the Synod of Bishops met remotely under the chairmanship of His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas 00051 |
Lenten Almsgiving 
Monday, 11 / 24 March St. Sophronius of Jerusalem Silence day Tuesday, 12 / 25 March St. Theophanes of Sigriane Silence day Wednesday, 13 / 26 March St. Nicephorus of Constantinople 8:00AM- Midnight Office 9:00AM- Matins/ 1st Hour 5:00PM- Hours/ Typica 7:00PM- Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts 
Fasting discipline varies from one Orthodox jurisdiction to the next. Our church calendar should be consulted for the fasting discipline of our parish.
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