If any man be devout and loveth God, let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast!

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

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. Luke, Archbishop of Crimea
(April 18, 1954)

Bishop Benjamin (Milov) of Saratov and Balashov (+1955)

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

For the twenty-sixth anniversary of the martyrdom of Hieromonk Vasily, Riassaphore-Monks Trophim and Ferapont of Optina Monastery

An Exhortation to Newly-Tonsured Monks

Under apartheid, ROCOR was dissuaded by the state officials to accept African converts

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

from "The One Thing Needful," Sermons of Archbishop Andrei (Rymarenko, 1893-1978)

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

The Laudation of the Most Holy Theotokos

Western American Diocese: April 11, 2019

By St. Gregory of Neo-Caesarea

by St. John Chrysostom

by Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow

By St. Nikolai Velimirovich

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

By Archpriest George Grabbe
Paris, 1949

On Despondency

On Monday evening, April 1, the annual Lenten Retreat for clergy of the Eastern American Diocese convened