By Metropolitan Philaret
From "The Ladder of Divine Ascent," (Boston: Holy Transfiguration Monastery, 1978)

By Priest Athanasios Papagiannis

Mark 9:17-31
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Mark
by Blessed Theophylact

By Reader Vitaly Efimenkov, a graduate of Holy Trinity Seminary, the Slavonic Language Choir Director at the Holy Virgin Mary Cathedral in Los Angeles, CA.

by Father Seraphim Rose of Platina

by Dr. Presbytera Eugenia (Jeannie) Constantinou

Homily on the Third Sunday of Great Lent by St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)

“O Invincible and incomprehensible and divine power of the precious and life-giving Cross, forsake not us sinners.”
by Professor I. M. Andreyev

Mark 8:34 - 9:1
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Mark
by Blessed Theophylact

by Dr. Presbytera Eugenia (Jeannie) Constantinou

Church Mutual, which insures ROCOR’s Eastern American Diocese, is currently accepting applications for religious scholarships.

A Viable Alternative or a Forgotten Ideal?
by Mother Ephrosynia of the Convent of Lesna

On the 100th Anniversary of the February Revolution
by Protopriest Alexander Lebedeff

by Archimandrite Ephraim of Vatopedi

by Archbishop Chrysostomos of Etna

From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Mark
by Blessed Theophylact

By Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi (+2009)

On the 100th Anniversary of the Tragic Revolution in Russia and Beginning of the Godless Persecutions

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.

The Last Days of St Alexander of Munich
by Elena Perekrestov

by Archimandrite John Krestiankin (+2006)

A Homily of Holy New Hieromartyr Tikhon, Metropolitan of Moscow
Given in 1903 when he was Bishop of the Aleutian Islands and North America

by St. John of Kronstadt

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

Andrei Muzolph of the Kiev Theological Seminary, speaks on Orthodox sacred objects.

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").

Protopriest Nikolai Dombrowski (+1979)

Let us strive to abstain from everything that is unprofitable for our souls
Archpriest Andrei Efanov