Synaxarion of the Lenten Triodion and Pentecostarion Sunday of Orthodoxy - Saint John of Shanghai & San Francisco What is Orthodoxy? - Archbishop Averky Sunday of Orthodoxy - Tikhon, Metropolitan...
https://www.pravoslavieto.com/calendar/sunday_of_orthodoxy.htm
An icon celebrating the veneration of icons is the festal icon for the first Sunday of Great Lent.
A Liturgist and Defender of the Faith by by Archpriest Vladimir Dolgikh
Johann von Gardner (+1984)
https://www.pravmir.com/recollections-of-the-triumph-of-orthodoxy-in-moscow-1914/
John 1: 43-51 From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. John by Blessed Theophylact
https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2013/03/can-any-good-thing-come-out-of-nazareth.html
"God sent us the soviet government as punishment, to bring us to our senses; but to some, as a future reward for suffering"
Confession through martyrdom by Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi
As the result of the Russo-Japanese War, thousands of Russians fled south from Siberia and Manchuria and found temporary refuge in Australia
https://www.rocorstudies.org/2024/03/21/eastern-orthodoxy-in-australasia-ii-the-russians/
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").
"O merciful Lord, who art the source and fountain of purity, preserve us in the Fast"
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.
From the introductory material in the Lenten Triodion Mother Mary and Bishop Kallistos Ware
By Fr. Tryphon, Abbot of All-Merciful Savior Monastery
by Archimandrite John (Krestiankin) Given on February 28 (March 13), 1994
Thou didst make the wilderness of Jordan radiantly shine with beams of sacred celestial light
https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2011/03/life-of-saint-gerasimos-of-jordan.html
A Sermon on Forgiveness Sunday Archbishop Seraphim (Soboklev) of Bogucharsk (+1950) Given March 3, 1946
https://www.pravmir.com/god-will-not-accept-repentance-without-love-sermon-on-forgiveness-sunday/
Matthew 6:14-21 From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew by Blessed Theophylact
https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2013/03/if-ye-forgive-men-their-trespasses.html
+NICHOLAS Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia
https://www.synod.com/synod/eng2024/20240315_enmngreatlentepistle.html
Two very different reflections on the novel by ROCOR authors: Archimandrite Constantine (Zaitseff), born in Saint Petersburg 1887 and Bishop Nathanael (L’vov), who was born there in 1906
After a long struggle his Eminence has has joined eternal life. Please pray for the salvation of his soul.
How We Should Conduct Ourselves in Church By Fr. John Whiteford & Matushka Olympia Sibley
By St. Ephraim the Syrian
St John of Shanghai and San Francisco
A sermon of Archimandrite Markell (Pavuk), the spiritual father of the Kiev Theological Seminary and Academy.
https://www.pravmir.com/what-is-the-most-important-thing-in-life/
Matthew 25:31-46 From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew by Blessed Theophylact
https://orthognosia.blogspot.com/2015/02/commentary-on-meatfare-sunday-last.html
"I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the age to come." St. John of Shanghai
By Dr. Gernot Seide, translated by Jacqueline Xenia Endres-Nenchin, edited by Hierodeacon Samuel Nedelsky and Reader Isaac Lambertsen.
Abba Dorotheos
https://pemptousia.com/2017/02/on-travelling-the-way-of-god-with-vigilance-and-sobriety-1/
Holy Scripture tells us that after St. John the Baptist was beheaded, the impious Herodias forbade the prophet’s head to be buried together with his body.
by St. John of Kronstadt
https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2018/02/sermon-for-sunday-of-prodigal-son-st.html
by St. Ephraim the Syrian
A Sermon of Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco
by St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)
"If there is anything that you realize that you do not know; seek to find out. Lose no opportunity to learn."
Luke 15:11-32 From the Explanation of the Gospel of St. Luke by Blessed Theophylact
https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2013/03/a-certain-man-had-two-sons.html
He was faced with a heavy task. The Empire, threatened by barbarians, was undermined by moral corruption and torn apart by heresies.
https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2015/02/saint-leo-i-pope-of-rome.html
by ProtoPriest Alexander Elchaninov (+1934)
Being very interested in the youth of the church, he established the Organization of Russian Orthodox Pathfinders and was appointed by the Holy Synod to oversee the youth programs for all of ROCO...
https://www.rocorstudies.org/2009/12/10/archbishop-seraphim-ivanov-of-chicago/
Interview conducted by Deacon Andrei Psarev June 18, 2012
https://www.rocorstudies.org/2013/10/14/fr-alexey-ohotin-i-am-going-to-jordanville/