The Dormition of Our Supremely Pure Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary

by St. Luke of Simferopol

A Homily by Metropolitan Vladimir (Ikim) of Omsk and Tarsk

The Healing of the Lunatic
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew by Blessed Theophylact

Founded in the 15th century, Solovki Monastery was one of Russia's most famous and holy monasteries, and a major pilgrimage destination. In the 20th century it was used as a brutal Soviet prison camp at which over a million prisoners died.

The lives of the founders of the island monastery, Sts. Herman, Zosima, and Sabbatius

by Metropolitan Avgoustinos Kantiotes (+2010)

Jesus Walking on the Water
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew
by Blessed Theophylact

Selected sayings of St. Anthony of Optina

The Pastoral School of the Diocese of Chicago and Mid-America announces registration, scholarships, catechism program and credit courses

by St. Leo the Great ca. 400-461

by St Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica

Homily of St. Luke of Simferopol (delivered in 1956)

The Dormition fast was established as preceding the great feasts of the Transfiguration of the Lord and of the Dormition of the Mother of God

In the Russian Orthodox Church, this feast also celebrates the Baptism of Rus.

The Miracle of the Five Loaves and Two Fishes
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew
by Blessed Theophylact

Originally published in Congressional Record: Proceeding and Debates of the 91st Congress August 4, 1970

Elder Ephraim of Arizona 

The Skete of St. Anna is the oldest and the largest Skete of Mount Athos, remaining in the spiritual care of the Great Lavra

A Homily by His Eminence Metropolitan Hierotheos

O Godly-minded Anna, thou didst give birth unto God's pure Mother who conceived Him Who is our Life. Wherefore, thou hast now passed with joy to thy heavenly rest, wherein is the abode of them that rejoice in glory

A talk with Archpriest Andrei Goryachev, minister to Moscow's Blind, Deaf, and Mute.

Healing of the Two Blind Men
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew by Blessed Theophylact

by Archpriest Lawrence Farley

by St. Makarios of Egypt

His zeal for the true faith led him to resist against the evil queen Jezabel, who abandoned the true God and ordered the Israelites to worship the false god Baal.

The Holy Prophet Elijah is one of the greatest of the prophets. He was born in Tishba of Gilead into the Levite tribe 900 years before the Incarnation of the Word of God.

From Georges Florovsky, The Byzantine Fathers of the Fifth Century