Saturday, March 8/21, 2026. 4th Week of Great Lent. Fourth Saturday of Great Lent. Commemoration of the Dead. Great Lent.
Wine and oil allowed.

Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомSt. Theophylactus, bishop of Nicomedia (842-845).

Apostle Hermas of the Seventy (1st c.). Hieromartyr Theodoretus, priest, of Antioch (361-363). Sts. Lazarus, founder (1391) and Athanasius, monk (15th c.), of Murmansk Monastery (Karelia). St. Andronicus (Lukash), schema-archimandrite of Tbilisi, Georgia, elder of Glinsk Monastery (1974).

“Kursk Root” Icon of the Sign of the Most Holy Theotokos (1898).

St. Senan of Scattery Island, monastic founder (ca. 544). St. Felix of Burgundy, bishop of Dunwich and enlightener of East Anglia (ca. 648). St. Julian, archbishop of Toledo (690). St. Paul the Confessor, bishop of Plousias in Bithynia (ca. 840). St. Tarasius the Wonderworker, of Lycaonia.

Repose of Blessed Basiliscus of Uglich (1863) and Archbishop Vitaly (Maximenko) of Eastern America (1960).

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Friday of the Fourth Week of Great Lent

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Friday of the Fourth Week of Great Lent

When you make the sign of the Cross, remember all the power of the Cross, all the work of our salvation, and you will quench your anger and all other passions.

Thursday of the Fourth Week of Great Lent

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Thursday of the Fourth Week of Great Lent

The Cross is the measure of the bounds of love—by the height of heaven, the depth of the earth, and the length and breadth of the universe.

Patriarch Ilia of Georgia: Video Documentary and His Last Word to His Flock

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Patriarch Ilia of Georgia: Video Documentary and His Last Word to His Flock

Patriarch Ilia II brought peace and faith back to Georgia, and was for many years considered the most trusted figure in the whole country.

Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Great Lent

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Great Lent

What does his cross mean? Why is his [our] cross, that is, the separate cross of each person, called also the Cross of Christ?

Man and the Cross

Metropolitan Serafim (Joanta) of Germany and Central Europe

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Man and the Cross

Metropolitan Serafim (Joanta) of Germany and Central Europe

In his struggle with sin, a believer is never alone for a single moment. On the contrary, he is constantly strengthened by the grace of God.

Are Disabled Children the Result of Their Parents’ Sins?

Elena Kucherenko

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Marriage and Family

Are Disabled Children the Result of Their Parents’ Sins?

Elena Kucherenko

During the eight years I’ve been a mother to a special needs child, I arrived at an amazing conclusion. It is the church-going people who take the birth of a disabled child most heavily.

Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Great Lent

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Great Lent

If there had been no Cross, Life would not have been nailed to the tree. And if Life had not been nailed to the tree, then from His side would not have flowed the streams of immortality—blood and water that cleanse the world.

Monday of the Fourth Week of Great Lent

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Monday of the Fourth Week of Great Lent

If you trace the sign of the Cross upon yourself with great faith, not one of the unclean spirits will dare approach you, seeing that sword from which it once received its mortal wound.

Celentano Came in Handy During Great Lent

“Casual” notes from the Northern Thebaid

Peter Davydov

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Churches and Monasteries

Celentano Came in Handy During Great Lent

“Casual” notes from the Northern Thebaid

Peter Davydov

God will conquer any sin. We simply shouldn’t quit working. And we should never get depressed if we don’t succeed right away.

On Our Journey to Pascha

Sermon on the Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross

Hieromonk Platon (Kudlasevich)

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

On Our Journey to Pascha

Sermon on the Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross

Hieromonk Platon (Kudlasevich)

We venerate the Passion of Christ, we run to Him, we receive strength, we pray, and at the same time we glorify the Radiant Resurrection of Christ.

Saturday of the Third Week of Great Lent

Prayers for the Departed. The Immortality of the Soul

Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov)

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Saturday of the Third Week of Great Lent

Prayers for the Departed. The Immortality of the Soul

Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov)

In praying for the reposed, we thereby witness our love for them, express our compassion and mercy.

Friday of the Third Week of Great Lent

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Friday of the Third Week of Great Lent

Sin is the transgression of the Law of God, the failure to fulfill the holy commandments of God.

Lent: the Path from Ancient Rites to Personal Spiritual Growth

Priest Anthony Rusakevich

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Churches and Monasteries

Lent: the Path from Ancient Rites to Personal Spiritual Growth

Priest Anthony Rusakevich

The modern perception of Lent is often reduced to a strict diet, but its original essence in early Christian practice was fundamentally different.

Thursday of the Third Week of Great Lent

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Thursday of the Third Week of Great Lent

What is a pure heart? A meek, humble, guileless, simple, trusting, truthful, unsuspecting, harmless, kind, unselfish, unenvious, and chaste heart.

From the Light of Tabor to the Present: the Hesychasm of St. Gregory Palamas

Nikolai Gerasimov

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

From the Light of Tabor to the Present: the Hesychasm of St. Gregory Palamas

Nikolai Gerasimov

According to St. Gregory, hesychia is not just an outward stillness, but an inward state of mind and heart in which a Christian renounces worldly vanity and passions.

Epstein Island and “Westworld”: The New Yet Ancient Ethics of Satanism

Priest Tarasiy Borozenets

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Epstein Island and “Westworld”: The New Yet Ancient Ethics of Satanism

Priest Tarasiy Borozenets

Epstein Island and the series “Westworld” are two faces of the same reality, two symptoms of a single spiritual illness, the name of which is self-deification.

Wednesday of the Third Week of Great Lent

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Wednesday of the Third Week of Great Lent

The joy of expectation stirs our feelings; yet at the same time sorrow seizes the soul when the conscience tells the heart that we have spent the time of the fast not as true Christians ought.

A Born Missionary. Hieroconfessor Sylvester (Olshevsky) of Omsk

Commemorated Febrary 25/March 10

Natalia Vashchina

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

A Born Missionary. Hieroconfessor Sylvester (Olshevsky) of Omsk

Commemorated Febrary 25/March 10

Natalia Vashchina

He was a leader for teachers and an example for students. He was loved.

Tuesday of the Third Week of Great Lent

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Tuesday of the Third Week of Great Lent

A man who has undertaken the path of inner watchfulness must first of all possess the fear of God, which is the beginning of wisdom.

Of Wormholes and Memorials

Fr. Lawrence Farley

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Theology

Of Wormholes and Memorials

Fr. Lawrence Farley

How do Orthodox understand the sacrificial nature of the Eucharist? How can the sacrifice on the cross that occurred in the first century be present on our altars today?

Monday of the Third Week of Great Lent

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Monday of the Third Week of Great Lent

The Church again calls unceasingly to repentance. The Savior calls us to faith. Let us believe, and we shall be healed.

Theology of the Prayer of the Heart

Sermon on the Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas

Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)

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Theology of the Prayer of the Heart

Sermon on the Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas

Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)

St. Gregory taught that everyone should perform the prayer of the heart and always repeat this prayer in the depths of their hearts: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.”

Saturday of the Second Week of Great Lent: Commemoration of the Departed

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Saturday of the Second Week of Great Lent: Commemoration of the Departed

Thus the foundation of the establishment of these Saturdays is love.

“It’s an Amazing, Wonderful, and Great Mystery”

The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts. Part 2

Hieromonk Athanasius (Deryugin)

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Orthodoxy Today

“It’s an Amazing, Wonderful, and Great Mystery”

The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts. Part 2

Hieromonk Athanasius (Deryugin)

All these hymns—“Now the Powers of Heaven”, the Cherubic Hymn, and “Let all mortal flesh keep silence”—remind us that the Heavenly Powers participate in worship with us.

The Early Christians of Colossae and the Lycus Valley: Philemon and His Companions

Matthew Hartley

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

The Early Christians of Colossae and the Lycus Valley: Philemon and His Companions

Matthew Hartley

The early Christian community of the Lycus Valley in Phrygian Asia Minor, centered on the cities of Colossae, Hierapolis, and Laodicea, was closely connected to the holy Apostle Paul’s missionary labors.

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