Orthodox Devotional for Pascha
“We waited and at last our expectations were fulfilled. When the Patriarch sang “Christ is risen”, a heavy burden fell from our souls. We felt as if we also...
Orthodox Devotional for Sunday, April 24
Palm Sunday/Entry into Jerusalem (John 12:1-18) ST. NIKOLAI VELIMIROVICH: “At the glorious Entry of the Lord Jesus into Jerusalem, and even in the Temple itself, the children cried out:...
Orthodox Devotion for Sunday, April 17
Gospel: Mark 10:32-45 Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt who left a life of lust and sex to repent in the desert for the rest of her life,,...
Sunday Devotion for April 10
Gospel: Mark 9:17-31 (casting out the demon from the possessed boy whose father lacked faith) Venerable Bede: For no man at once reaches to the highest point, but...
Sunday Devotion for April 3
St. John Chrysostom on Mark 8:34-9:1 “And this He says, because it may happen that a man may suffer and yet not follow Christ, that is, when he does...
Sunday Devotion for March 27
Reading Mark 2:1-12 – Healing of the Paralytic VENERABLE BEDE: We are also informed, that many sicknesses of body arise from sins, and therefore perhaps sins are first remitted,...
Sunday Devotion for March 20
From the 7th Ecumenical Council on the ‘Sunday of Orthodoxy’… “Since this is the case, following the royal path and the teaching divinely inspired by our holy Fathers and...
Elder Paisios on Lent
“You should think of the Passion, the sacrifice of Christ. We monks must continuously live the Passion of Christ, and we are helped in this daily through the various...
Great Canon
Ode 1 A Helper and a Protector has become salvation to me. This is my God, Whom I will glorify. God of my fathers I will exalt Him for...
Sunday Devotion for March 6
Sunday of the Last Judgement (‘Parable of the Sheep and Goats’) “Throughout the entire world live men whom Christ God created, and among them are those who believe in...