On Wednesday, March 30, the Lenten Retreat for clergy concluded with the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts

by Fr Seraphim Rose - A homily given on St Patrick’s feast day in 1977

On Monday evening, March 28, the annual Lenten Retreat convened at the Diocesan Center

2nd Sunday of Lent
Homily by Saint Nikolaï Velimirović

The Life of St. Gregory Palamas

Mark 2:1-12
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Mark
by Blessed Theophylact

from the Lenten Synaxarion

by Mother Nectaria McLees
from the Road to Emmaus Vol. XI, No. 4 (#43)

Interview with Protopriest Nikita Chemodakov - brother of Archbishop Gabriel

Goritsky Dormition Monastery, situated on a bluff overlooking the azure waters of Lake Pleshcheev

Synaxarion of the Lenten Triodion and Pentecostarion
Sunday of Orthodoxy - Saint John of Shanghai & San Francisco
What is Orthodoxy? - Archbishop Averky
Sunday of Orthodoxy - Tikhon, Metropolitan of Moscow 1903
Sunday of Orthodoxy - Archbishop Averky 1971

Johann von Gardner (+1984)

John 1: 43-51
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. John
by Blessed Theophylact

The Sweetness of Boiled Wheat

by Saint Gregory of Nyssa

"O merciful Lord, who art the source and fountain of purity, preserve us in the Fast"

A Homily on Clean Friday
by Igumen Nikon (Vorobiev) (+1963)

Interview with Vladimir Krassovsky,
Director of the Cathedral Choir in San Francisco

by St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov) and Archimandrite Lazar (Abashidze)

From the Letters of Bishop Theophan the Recluse

"Lifted upon Thy Cross, O Christ, Thou hast raised us up who were fallen into evil"

On Fasting and Dispassion
by Saint Theodore the Studite

On the Danger of Hypocrisy
St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)

"Most blessed is the grace of the holy Fast"

On Clean Tuesday
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia

“Let us observe a fast acceptable and pleasing to the Lord"

From the introductory material in the Lenten Triodion
Mother Mary and Bishop Kallistos Ware

St. Dorotheos of Gaza

A Sermon on Forgiveness Sunday
ARCHBISHOP SERAPHIM (SOBOLEV) OF BOGUCHARSK (+1950)
Given March 3, 1946

Matthew 6:14-21
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew
by Blessed Theophylact

Appeal of Russian Pan-Diaspora Council of 1921 for Restoration of Monarchy

Interview with Archbishop Mark (Arndt)

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.

Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky

By St. John of Shanghai

Matthew 25:31-46
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew
by Blessed Theophylact

Rare footage of St. John serving, as well as Metropolitan Anastassy, Bishop Mitrophan, Metropolitan Laurus, and Archbishop Averky