Homily of Saint Gregory Palamas

Archimdrite Kirill (Pavlov)

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

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

By Alexis Klimoff Emeritus Prof. of Russian Studies at Vassar College

Archbishop Mark (Arndt) interviewed by Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)

by Protopriest Andrei Sommer, Vice President of the Synodal Youth Department of ROCOR

by St. John of Kronstadt

by Bishop Benjamin of Saratov and Balashov (+1955)

Excerpt from a Homily by St. John Chrysostom

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

Reminiscences of Archpriest Maxim Kozlov and Professor Alexei Svetozarsky of the Celebration of Pascha in the Soviet Era

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Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia
Delivered on Bright Tuesday, April 21, 2009, at the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.

Archimandrite John Krestiankin (+2006)

Paschal Message of His Holiness KIRILL Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia

Paschal Epistle of Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

On Great and Holy Saturday the Orthodox Church commemorates the burial of Christ and His descent into Hades.

by Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow, in the St. Alexander Nevsky Lavra on Holy Friday, 1816

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

On this day, Holy and Great Friday, we celebrate the awesome, holy, and saving Passion of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ

By Bishop Jonah (Cherepanov) of Obukhiv, Vice-Rector of the Holy Trinity-St. Jonah Monastery in Kiev

When the glorious disciples at the supper were illumined by the washing of the feet,
then was the impious Judas darkened by the disease of avarice.

A sermon given by Fr. Seraphim (Rose) during Great Lent, 1982

Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you?

Homily 78 of St. John Chrysostom

Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins

We are entering into difficult days today: days when we recall the Passion of Christ

by St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)

Excerpt from St. Andrew of Crete's Homily on Palm Sunday

by Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky, +1985)
of Eastern America and New York

John 12:1-18
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. John
by Blessed Theophylact

by Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky, +1985)
of Eastern America and New York

Father Thomas Carroll is a 70-year-old priest in Dublin, Ireland.

Fr. Matthew Williams, of St. Tikhon Orthodox Church in Bristol, VA

This Life of Our Venerable Mother Mary of Egypt was written down in the seventh century by Saint Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem.

A homily by Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

by Bishop Mitrophan (Znosko-Borovsky +2002)

Mark 10:32-45
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Mark
by Blessed Theophylact

In Memory of Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov)

How fitting that fortieth day after the repose of Elder Kirill (Pavlov) should fall on the eve of the Saturday of the Laudation of the Mother of God.

Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco

Mother Maria Skobtsova died in Ravensbruck concentration camp on Good Friday, 1945. This essay was written in 1937