This Life of Our Venerable Mother Mary of Egypt was written down in the seventh century by Saint Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem.
from "The One Thing Needful," Sermons of Archbishop Andrei (Rymarenko, 1893-1978)
http://www.holytrinitymission.org/books/english/sermons_archbishop_andrei.htm#_Toc45953439
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Mark by Blessed Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid and Bulgaria
https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2013/04/behold-we-go-up-to-jerusalem.html
Elder Iosif of the Monastery of Vatopedi
Elder Sophrony of Essex From the book His Life is mine
Many scholars agree the Akathist was composed by St. Romanos the Melodist, who reposed in the year 556.
https://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/m_akathist_e.htm
from The Truth of Our Faith, by Elder Cleopa
https://pemptousia.com/2016/12/on-the-presuppositions-of-our-personal-salvation/
Archbishop Averky of Syracuse and Holy Trinity Monastery (+1976) on The Ladder of Divine Ascent
Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent by St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)
By Metropolitan Philaret From "The Ladder of Divine Ascent," (Boston: Holy Transfiguration Monastery, 1978)
https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2011/04/saint-john-climacus-and-ladder-of.html
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Mark by Blessed Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid and Bulgaria
https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2013/04/only-by-prayer-and-fasting.html
St. John Climacus is honored by the Church as a great ascetic and as the author of a remarkable work entitled, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, and therefore he has been named “Climacus,” or “o...
Under apartheid, ROCOR was dissuaded by the state officials to accept African converts
By Reader Vitaly Efimenkov, a graduate of Holy Trinity Seminary, the Slavonic Language Choir Director at the Holy Virgin Mary Cathedral in Los Angeles, CA.
http://orthodoxlife.org/pastoral-ministry/reader-orthodox-church/
By Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos
https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2010/03/annunciation-of-virgin-mary.html
“O Invincible and incomprehensible and divine power of the precious and life-giving Cross, forsake not us sinners.” by Professor I. M. Andreyev
By St. Gregory of Neo-Caesarea
Homily on the Third Sunday of Great Lent by St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)
by St. John Chrysostom
https://full-of-grace-and-truth.blogspot.com/2013/03/excerpt-from-homily-on-annunciation-by.html
Mark 8:34 - 9:1 From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Mark by Blessed Theophylact
https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2013/04/let-him-deny-himself-take-up-his-cross.html
Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco
St. Anthony said, "Man's great labor consists in taking all his transgressions upon himself before the face of God, and expecting temptation to his last breath."
Reasons Why Our Intentions to Lead a Better and Holy Life Do Not Produce Results From the Conversations of Metropolitan Gregory of Novgorod
On Wednesday, April 3, the Lenten Retreat for clergy of the southern deaneries of the Eastern American Diocese concluded with the celebration of the Divine Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts
The Life of St. Gregory Palamas
St. Cyril (315-386) was a distinguished theologian and archbishop of Jerusalem in the early Church.
by Archbishop Chrysostomos of Etna
Near Caves Far Caves
by Archimandrite Ephraim of Vatopedi
https://www.pravmir.com/repentance-according-to-saint-gregory-palamas/
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Mark by Blessed Theophylact
https://www.russianorthodox-stl.org/gospel_explanation_sunday_gregory_palamas
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").