By Metropolitan Philaret
From "The Ladder of Divine Ascent," (Boston: Holy Transfiguration Monastery, 1978)

Mark 9:17-31
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Mark
by Blessed Theophylact

Truly, great is the Grace of St. Raphael and those with him, and he offers many blessings of God to people who call upon him.

Who were these two, martyred on Sunday, February 9, 2014 - the day of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia?

Archbishop Tikhon of South Sakhalin and the Kurils remembers her

“O Invincible and incomprehensible and divine power of the precious and life-giving Cross, forsake not us sinners.”
by Professor I. M. Andreyev

Homily on the Third Sunday of Great Lent by St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)

Mark 8:34 - 9:1
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Mark
by Blessed Theophylact

by Abba Dorotheos

An account of his deeds

The ecclesiastical art of prosphora baking

On the tragic events taking place in the Ukrainian land.
March 19, 2014

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church confirms the election of Priest Nicholas Olhovsky as Bishop of Manhattan by the Council of Bishops of the Russian Church Abroad

2nd Sunday of Lent
Homily by Saint Nikolaï Velimirović

Mark 2:1-12
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Mark
by Blessed Theophylact

by St. John of Kronstadt 

In Memory of Metropolitan Laurus of Blessed Memory (+March 16, 2008)
(Russian language video)

from "A SPIRITUAL PSALTER" BY St. Ephraim the Syrian

His Eminence Hilarion, Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York
First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.

The greatest benefit which God has granted our fallen nature is none other than repentance.

by Maria Kulmann
originally published 1969

A sermon by St. Luke the Surgeon, Archbishop of Crimea

John 1: 43-51
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. John
by Blessed Theophylact

An icon celebrating the veneration of icons is the festal icon for the first Sunday of Great Lent.

by ProtoPriest Alexander Elchaninov (+1934)

On the Saturday of the first week of Great Lent, we commemorate an event which occurred in the year 356—a miracle of Great Martyr Theodore the Tyro ("the Recruit").

If the soul of a Christian longs for purity and seeks spiritual health, it should strive with all its might to make use of this time so advantageous for the soul.

The tradition of ecphonetics and psalmodia is very ancient, arising in the first centuries of Christianity, and possibly even earlier, to the Old Testament Temple services

From the introductory material in the Lenten Triodion
Mother Mary and Bishop Kallistos Ware

by Archimandrite John (Krestiankin)
Given on February 28 (March 13), 1994

Matthew 6:14-21
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew
by Blessed Theophylact