An Orthodox Catechism is an instruction in the orthodox Christian faith, to be taught to every Christian, to enable him to please God and save his own soul.

Its Historical Past and Present
by Hieromonk Seraphim Rose
A Talk Delivered December 12/25, 1979

On Conceit and Humble Mindedness
by St. Ignatius Brianchaninov

The Fathers on Secular Learning
A talk by Priest Kevin Kalish given for the St. Herman’s Youth Conference 2010 at Holy Trinity Monastery

Elder Cleopa on Spiritual Blindness and
a Homily By St Nikolai Velimirovic from the Prolog

“The whole secret to salvation is humility, but very few understand it”.

From the Explanation of the Gospel of St. John
by Blessed Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid and Bulgaria

An essential text by Ivan M. Andreyev

On December 30, 1976, reposed an outstanding churchman and statesman, doctor of psychiatry, pedagogue, lecturer, publicist and author.

Schema-Archimandrite Iliy (Nozdrin) (+2025)

A Russian historian of the Church life in the Twentieth Century explains survival mechanisms during the Soviet persecutions

His Life, Work, and Thought
by Fr. George Florovsky

by Archbishop Averky of Syracuse and Holy Trinity Monastery
Alas! How few people there are in our times...who understand correctly what Orthodoxy is and wherein its essence lies.

Princes Boris and Gleb

On Holy Queen Tamar

The Holy Mystery of Repentance
by Archimandrite John (Townsend)

Hieromonk Ambrose (Young)

by Metropolitan Laurus (Škurla) (+2008)

An Orthodox Christian Understanding of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)
by Father Seraphim Rose

At the Head of the Russian Community in Ireland in the 20th century

“Give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.” (John 4:15).

On May 10, 1999, the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church glorified Archbishop Hilarion in the choir of the hieromartyrs in the assembly of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.

John 4: 5-42
From The Explanation of The Gospel of St. John by Blessed Theophylact

Archbishop Seraphim (Sobolev) OF Bogucharsk (+1950)
From the Notes of Archbishop Seraphim’s Spiritual Children

Elder Philotheos was a wonderworker and a marvel of spiritual strength in our spiritually enfeebled times

Thou didst sow the seed in a hardened people grown old in unbelief and give birth to them in the Gospel

The great Fathers of the Church are her great theologians. They are the God-bearers... those who rightly administer the word of truth...

In what way do we, the Orthodox Christians, believe in God?
by Archbishop Nathanael of Vienna and Austria (+1986)

From thine early youth, O Mark, the truth enlightened thee, and thou didst love the labor of Christ the Saviour... In recording the Gospel, thou hast enlightened the world.

Elder Nectarios (Vitalis) (+2018)

The news that ROCOR had voted to canonize Hieromonk Seraphim Rose has been made official by the Council's epistle released today.

St. John Chrysostom

by Dr. Jeannie Constantinou

We learn from St. John of Kronstadt to transform irritation into love

by St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)

Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee (Jn. 5:14)

As Bishop of Ohrid and Žiča, he led a major spiritual revival, was imprisoned in Dachau during WWII, and spent his final years in the U.S. as a professor

John 5:1-15
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. John
by Blessed Theophylact

by Priest Tarasiy Borozenets

"The evil lies not in consumption itself, but in its immoderation and perversion..."

Blessed Matrona (Matrona Dmitrievna Nikonova) was born in 1881 in the village of Sebino in the province of Tula

Elder Nikolai Guryanov

For 2000 years in the Orthodox Church, the tradition has been for women and girls to veil their heads during worship

by St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco

"The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia is that part of the Russian Church which is outside the boundaries of the Russian State"

by St. John Of Kronstadt
And so, the Feast of Feasts has passed by us...

by St. Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain

...every Christian ought always to labor in prayer

St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)

St. Tamara is commemorated on the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women in addition to her regular commemoration on May 1.

Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov)

Saint Joseph traveled around the world, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ.

A sermon by Metropolitan Philaret of Eastern America and New York (+1985)

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

St. Ambrose offered to those who came to him a brief prayer rule that is possible for any Christian to read in times of temptation

by St. Theophan the Recluse
The greatest practitioners of prayer kept a prayer rule.

The Church was characterized by a monastic-centered structure, missional zeal, and unique traditions distinct from Rome.

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

Freedom of religion is now little more than a line in the Constitution — one the authorities have long since ceased to notice.

A Historical Survey
by Fr George Lardas

The history of the schism demonstrates that a church structure loses its meaning if it rests solely on registration papers.

by Archbishop Dmitri (Royster) +2011

by New-martyr Metropolitan Seraphim Chichagov

The 120 Martyrs were Christians who were put to death by Shapur II of Persia (r. 309–379) for refusing to renounce their faith.

Excerpt from a Homily by St. John Chrysostom

Saint Methodios (c. 815–885) was a 9th-century Byzantine missionary, archbishop of Moravia, and "Apostle to the Slavs" who, alongside his brother Cyril, evangelized Slavic peoples

Archbishop Averky on the Incredulity of Thomas

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

Sirin Ensemble at the Church of Saint Nicholas in Kotelniki- full concert recording