This Life of Our Venerable Mother Mary of Egypt was written down in the seventh century by Saint Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem.
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Mark 10:32-45
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Mark
by Blessed Theophylact
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By the decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, Blessed Ekaterina was numbered among the locally-venerated saints on March 7, 2018
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Fr. George Peichev from the Bulgarian village of Zheglartsi reposed in 2015 at the age of ninety-two
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By Metropolitan Philaret
From "The Ladder of Divine Ascent," (Boston: Holy Transfiguration Monastery, 1978)
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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 “of the Ladder.”
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Mark 9:17-31
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Mark
by Blessed Theophylact
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He lived at the Archangel Michael’s Monastery for over forty-five years, twenty of which he spent there alone.
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On the 10th Anniversary of His Blessed Repose
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An article by St. Tikhon (Bellavin) written when he was still an archimandrite at the Kholm theological seminary
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“O Invincible and incomprehensible and divine power of the precious and life-giving Cross, forsake not us sinners.”
by Professor I. M. Andreyev
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Mark 8:34 - 9:1
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Mark
by Blessed Theophylact
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The story of the Malyshevs’ church house and people who lived there
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Sermon by Newly-Canonized Serbian Bishop Mardarije (Uskokovic), Delivered at the Church of Saint Olga Orphanage in Kishinev.
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Second Sunday of Lent
Homily by Saint Nikolaï Velimirović
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From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Mark
by Blessed Theophylact
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This year marks 20 years from the repose of the blessed Elder, a great figure of Athonite Monasticism and spiritual descendant of Elder Joseph the Hesychast
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On February 22nd, 2018, Prince Vladimir Kirillovich Galitzine reposed in the Lord
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An important account of the relations of the ROCOR with the Orthodox on the territories controlled by the Axis Powers