Epistle of the Council of Bishops (ROCOR)
June 3/16, 2017

The Orthodox Church celebrates its New Martyrs, known and unknown, who refused to submit to Islam under penalty of death on the Third Sunday after Pentecost

The Eye is the Lamp of the Body
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew
by Blessed Theophylact

British and Irish Saints – a Synaxarion

by Father Seraphim Rose of Platina

Commemorated: June 9/22
Venerable Columba is perhaps the greatest of all Celtic saints.

by St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco

As a beautiful fruit of the sowing of Thy salvation, the lands of America doth offer to Thee, O Lord, all the Saints that have shone in her.

Come Follow Me
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew
by Blessed Theophylact

The Holy Mountain during its history of more than a thousand years has always been a busy workshop of wisdom and virtue which has produced monks distinguished for their learning and sanctity.

The head or chief of the virtues is prayer; their foundation is fasting.
by St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)

A Patristic Testimony Concerning the Fast

"God's saints are near to believing hearts and, like the truest and kindest of friends, are ready in a moment to help the faithful and pious who call upon them with faith and love."

On the Signs of God’s Chosen
By St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)

Whosoever Shall Confess Me Before Men
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew
by Blessed Theophylact

On the Day of Orthodox Youth, Celebrated On the Sunday of All Saints

Bede the Venerable was born in the year 673 on the lands of the monastery of St. Paul at Jarrow in Northumbria.

A Look at His Admirers’ Revisionist History
by D.P. Anashkin

Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco
God is a holy Trinity. A Trinity consubstantial and indivisible. Consubstantial, that is, one essence, one nature. A Trinity indivisible: the Son has never been divided from the Father, nor the Holy Spirit from the Father or the Son, and never will be divided.

by Metropolitan Panteleimon of Antinoes

Pentecost: The Gospel of the Descent of the Holy Spirit
From the collected works of St. Nicholai (Velimirovich)

Sermon by Archbishop Feofan (Bystrov, +1940) of Poltava

The life of the beloved Eldress Theosemni is a Synaxarion account of perfection in self-emptying and martyric asceticism in silence and humility.

by St. John of Shanghai