Elder Zosima (+ 2002)
Reposed August 16/29

Homily From “The One Thing Needful,” Sermons of Archbishop Andrei (Rymarenko)

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

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

by St. Luke of Simferopol

The sixth of the Twelve Minor Prophets, was descended from the Tribe of Judah.
To him belongs a prophecy about the birth of the Savior of the world.

By Fr. Valery Dukhanin

"The Church of Christ Shall Not Be Impoverished"
Sermon on the feast day of Apostle Matthias by St. John Maximovitch
9 August, 1940, Shanghai

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.

by Metropolitan Avgoustinos Kantiotes (+2010)

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

by St. Kosmas Aitolos

From the Letters of Archimandrite John (Krestiankin)

retold by Abbot Lazar from the story of Hieromonk Seraphim

by St Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica

by St. Leo the Great ca. 400-461

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

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

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 memory of Archimandrite German (Chesnokov; † August 8, 2020)

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

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

This short period was filled with many events in the political, social, and church life of the Ukraine.

An interview with Protopresbyter Leonid Kishkovsky (d. August 3, 2021)

A pilgrimage through Ireland organised by the Western European Diocese concludes successfully.

O Champion and Martyr of God,imitating the Merciful and bearing from Him the grace of healing, cure our spiritual ills by your prayers,and set free from the temptation of the eternal enemy

The Two Blind Men
by Metropolitan Merkury of Rostov and Novocherkassk

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

With respect to the new passports...
https://orthochristian.com/140978.html

About the Seal of Antichrist, and the Last Days
https://orthochristian.com/140939.html

From the Letters of Fr. John Krestiankin

A genius, a stunning actor, a Russian Orthodox man—Peter Mamonov has died.

Orthodox Christians are invited to submit translations into English of previously untranslated liturgical texts

From St. Seraphim Wonderworker of Sarov and His Spiritual Heritage by Helen Kontsevich (St. Xenia Skete)

An Ecumenical Council is the Church's supreme authority, and possesses the competence to resolve major questions of church life.

St. Macrina was born to a holy family: her parents were Ss. Basil the Elder and Emily; four of her nine brothers and sisters are commemorated as saints: Basil the Great, Peter of Sebaste, Gregory of Nyssa, and Theosebia the Deaconess; her grandmother, for whom she was named, is commemorated as St. Macrina the Elder.

The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
by Archbishop Andrei (Rymarenko, 1893-1978)

Thy Sins Be Forgiven Thee
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew by Blessed Theophylact

The first Christians had appeared in the south of England with the Romans and merchants in the first century A.D.