The spiritual situation for an Eastern Orthodox Christian immigrating from the West to Orthodox Georgia is one of the best within the Post-Soviet countries

Saint John Maximovitch
On the Exaltation of the Cross
Shanghai 1947

The Exaltation of the Cross is one of the twelve great feasts of the Church. It commemorates two historical events: first, the finding of the Life-giving Cross in the year 326, and second, its recovery from Persia in 628.

The Dedication of the Temple of the Resurrection of Christ at Jerusalem celebrates the founding of the Church built by St Constantine and his mother, the empress Helen.

Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose)

A Homily on St. Matt. 22:1-14
by Father James Thornton

The Parable of the Wedding Feast
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew by Blessed Theophylact

By Bishop Alexander and Natalia Bufius

Translated by Anatoly Shmelev

He who loves the Lord is ever mindful of Him, and the thought of God begets prayer.

Council of Bishops of The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad October 6/19, 1956

It is Very Important That We Sense Ourselves in the Bosom of the One Russian Church

by Saint Andrew, Archbishop of Crete

Sermon by St. John Damascene (John of Damascus)

The Most Holy Virgin Mary was born at a time when people had reached such a degree of moral decay that it seemed altogether impossible to restore them.

When we are in pain we must pray for understanding, patience to bear it, and deliverance from it, if such be God's holy will.

Michael, the great and chief commander of God's bodiless hosts, showed compassion and solicitude toward the race of man

Homilies of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill

From Ivan M. Andreev's book, A Brief Overview of the History of the Church of Russia from the Revolution to Our Days (Jordanville, 1952).

The Stone Which the Builders Rejected
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew by Blessed Theophylact

The Holy Prophet Zachariah and the Righteous Elizabeth were the parents of the holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord, John.

A biography of a hierarch, who belonged to the same generation of young Russian refugees in Belgrade as St. John of Shanghai

Saint Alexander was a beacon of monasticism in the deep forests of the Russian North

The holy and right-believing Alexander Nevsky was the Grand Prince of Vladimir and Novgorod during the period of the thirteenth century when the Russian lands were under assault from both the East and West.

If Thou Wilt Be Perfect
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew by Blessed Theophylact

by St. Theodore the Studite

by Protopriest Viktor Ilienko (+1989)

He was executed for the Faith and love of Christ, without having seen earthly freedom, but having been vouchsafed that holy Freedom that is granted by the Divine Comforter to the children of God, in Christ and in His Church.

“From studying the holy Gospel, I discovered many teachings which are pearls, diamonds, treasures, riches, joy – eternal life"

In Memoriam: Hieromonk Joachim (Saltykov)

by Archbishop Andrei (Rymarenko, 1893-1978)

The holy and glorious, right-victorious Hieromartyr Irenaeus of Lyons (c. 130-202) was bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, which is now Lyons

Her martyrdom took place during a pitched battle between her family and a band of marauding Picts during the fifth century

The Man Who Owed Ten Thousand Talents
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew by Blessed Theophylact

On May 12, the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church blessed the local veneration of the Holy Hierarch Eumenius (Khorolsky)

JUBILEE EPISTLE
of His Eminence HILARION,
Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York,
First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad

Archimandrite Kiprian (Kern)