An Overview of the Divine Liturgy
by Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky

Despite the fact that the kingdom was enjoying a period of prosperity and material affluence, its religious life was in crisis due to the introduction of alien gods.

A homily by Metropolitan Panteleimon of Antinoes

Excerpts from the diary of St. John of Kronstadt

The Archbishop of Semipalatinsk, who is revered in the host of the holy land of Nizhny Novgorod. He was shot in 1937.

St. Makary (Nevsky), Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna

in the Records of the Polish Foreign Services (1928–1938)

An Appeal to Those Who Benefited from Translations Posted on ROCOR Studies

A Letter to Orthodox Parents
from Archimandrite (now Bishop) Irenei (Steenburg)

This feast commemorates the Elders of Optina Hermitage a focus for the powerful renewal movement that spread through the Church in Russia beginning early in the nineteenth century, and continuing up to (and even into) the atheist persecutions of the twentieth century.

The Seventh Ecumenical Council, convoked by the Empress Irene and met at Nicaea in 787. The council ended almost fifty years of iconoclast persecution and established the veneration of the holy icons as basic to the belief and spirituality of Christ's Church.

Spiritual Disciples of St. Paisius (Velichkovsky)

Let us bless James, praising him as the messenger of God,
for he filled the souls of the pious with wise dogmas.

St. John of Kronstadt

the Teaching of St. Silouan

From the Archives of the German Diocese of the ROCOR

St. Joseph wrote, “I have faith that every person who comes to Optina Hermitage in extreme need will find satisfaction by God’s Mercy… by the prayers of our great fathers.”

Today the Virgin stands in the midst of the Church
and with choirs of saints she invisibly prays to God for us.

St. Roman is said to have composed more than 8000 hymns.
He is commemorated on the same day as the feast of Protection and commonly appears in the festal icon.

by Archbishop Averky (Taushev)

by Metropolitan Panteleimon of Antinoes

He was a humble fisherman who earned a living by casting his nets daily into mighty Lake Gennesareth.

St. Sergius was born to an aristocratic family, during a very violent period of Russian history.

St. John of Kronstadt from My Life in Christ

by St. Luke Archbishop of Simferopol the Surgeon (1877-1961)
Let us not bother with what we hear against religion, losing our bearings. Let us hold on to our faith which is the eternal indisputable truth.

Official History of the Defrocking and Anathematization of Philaret Denisenko

Archpriest Victor Potapov

By Father George Calciu

An Interview with Bishop Irenei of London and Western Europe on the Election of the New First Hierarch of ROCOR