Lenten Readings

Holy Week

• Passion Week: An Explanation
• The Hymn of St. Kassiane
• The Services of the Bridegroom
• Great Lent and Holy Week (Part 1)
• Great Lent and Holy Week (Part 2)

Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday

• Palm Sunday + The Entrance of Our Lord Jesus Christ Into Jerusalem
• The Raising of Lazarus
• Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday
• Fr. Thomas Hopko on Lazarus Saturday

St. Mary of Egypt

• Fifth Sunday in Lent: St. Mary of Egypt
• St. Theodore the Studite on the Week of the Palms
• Fr. Thomas Hopko on the Fifth Week of Lent
• The Great Canon

St. John of the Ladder

• Fourth Sunday of Lent: St. John of the Ladder
• St. John Climacus - The Rungs of His Ladder of Divine Ascent
• A Brief Life of St. John Climacus
• Ascending the Ladder: An online study class from Orthodox Christian Network
• Fr. Thomas Hopko on St. John of the Ladder

Adoration of the Holy Cross

• Third Sunday in Lent: Adoration of the Holy Cross
• The Cross in Our Life
• Mid-Lent: The Holy Cross
• Psychological Barriers to the Way of the Cross
• The Real Scandal: That Only God Can Forgive Sin
• Synaxarion for the Third Sunday of Great Lent
• Fr. Thomas Hopko on Sunday of the Holy Cross (audio)

St. Gregory Palamas

• Second Sunday in Lent: St. Gregory Palamas
• Light for the World: the Life of St. Gregory Palamas (1296–1359)
• St. Gregory Palamas On Holy Icons
• Homily on St. Gregory Palamas
• Fr. Thomas Hopko on St. Gregory Palamas (audio)

Sunday of Orthodoxy

• Sunday of Orthodoxy
• Metropolitan PHILIP's Historic 1984 Sunday of Orthodoxy Sermon
• Kevin Allen Speaks with Charles Ajalat about Orthodox Unity
• Metropolitan PHILIP's keynote address at Antiochian Convention in Montreal (2007)
• Fr. Thomas Hopko on the Triumph of Orthodoxy (audio)