The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine of Attica

+November 15/28 1927 Originally published by the Ta Patria Periodical THE HOLY NEW MARTYR Catherine Routis was born in 1900 in a small Greek village called Mandra in Attica Greece to poor but pious parents. Like her parents — John and Maria Peppas — Catherine was a...

Sermon on the Sunday of Orthodoxy 1972

Sermon of Metropolitan Philaret on the Sunday of Orthodoxy 14/27 February, 1972 In the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. During the services last night we spoke of the difficulties with which the Orthodox Church met in ancient times when She was the object of...

On Female Modesty

An Encyclical by Saint Philaret the Confessor of New York Our Lord Jesus Christ, instructing His disciples and apostles, imbued in them the necessity of observing purity of heart and thought. From the thought, and from the heart proceed our sinful impulses: But those...

A Final Appeal to the American Metropolia

[From the article in “Orthodox Word” 1970]  A FINAL APPEAL  OF METROPOLITAN PHILARET To the Sobor of Bishops, Clergy and Laymen of the American Metropolia, meeting at St. Tikhon’s Monastery, South Canaan, Pennsylvania, October 19-22, 1970   A year ago the news...