About Orthodoxy

• http://www.sv-luka.org/library/
  Writings of St. Nikolai Velimirovich and St. Justin Popovich on various topics.
• http://www.pelagia.org/htm/index.htm
  Selected writings of Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) from his books
• http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/St.Pachomius/
  The St. Pachomius Library — a very thorough index of readings by and about a number of Orthodox Fathers and Mothers. PLEASE NOTE: we cannot verify that everything here is Orthodox in origin.
• http://www.oca.org/pages/orth_chri/index.htm
  An introduction to the Orthodox Faith. This site is hosted by the Orthodox Church in America (OCA).
• http://www.frederica.com/
  Web site of Fredica Matthews-Green, popular Orthodox, American author, with some of her essays
• http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-history.html
  Guide to Early Christian Documents — Perhaps Catholic in origin, this site has many first millenium documents, focusing particularly on the Pre-Constantine Fathers.

Purchasing Icons, Books, Etc.

• http://www.eighthdaybooks.com
  Eighth Day Books is in Wichita, Kansas, and is owned by members of St. George Cathedral in our archdiocese and good friends of Bishop Basil. Just because you can’t find a book on their site doesn’t mean they don’t have it. If you don’t see it, call them.
• http://www.cybercom.net/~htm/
  Holy Transfiguration Monastery offers one of the most comprehensive mounted icon catalogs in the USA. Their icons are almost all originals that were first "written" at their monastery. We also use many of their prayer books at St. John, including the Great Horologion and the Psalter. PLEASE NOTE: this monastery is not in communion with our archdiocese, and you may encounter writings that are negative about some legitimate diocese.
• http://www.skete.com/
  St. Isaac of Syria Skete in Wisconsin offers a very large collection of mounted print icons, using photos that they have taken at various Orthodox communities around the world. Their monastery is in obedience ot the Orthodox Church in America.
• http://www.orthodoxbooksanditems.com/
• Dormition Skete in Colorado offers a wide variety of Orthodox books using categories that make browsing simple. PLEASE NOTE: this monastery is not in communion with our archdiocese.
• http://www.musicarussica.com/
  The place to go for Russian Orthodox Music CDs. They have music in English and Russian, but you can also get a limited selection of Byzantine Chant in both English and Greek. If you’re not sure what you want, call up Vlad and ask him about the music; he’s very knowledgable.
• http://www.oca.org/focuseducation///
  This portion of the OCA website seems seems to have a substantial curriculum that is very functional but still in progress. There are substantial materials that teachers might find useful.
• http://www.stherman.com/
  This website is run by the St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood and offers books for sale as well as information on thier ministry. They have generoulsy allowed us to use the articles from the booklet Door to Paradise on our website. The booklet may be obtained from: St. Herman Press, P.O. Box 70, Platina, CA 96076.

Spirituality/Prayer/Worship

• http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/english/Stylianos_On_Prayer.html
  Archbishop Stylianos of Australia, on prayer
• http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/english/symeon_threeways.html
  St. Simeon the New Theologian, on prayer
• http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/english/prayerbook/main.htm
  An entire prayerbook available in English on the web, courtesy of the Archdiocese of Athens.
• http://www.interlog.com/~abouna/liturgics/liturgics.htm
  Antiochian site offering many prayers for the day as well as all the prayers prescribed in preparation for communion, as used in our parish.
• http://pages.prodigy.net/frjohnwhiteford/services.htm
  Everything you need to know about how church services are put together and sung. Fr. John Whiteford comes at this from the Russian point of view, so not everything reflects the usage at St. John, where we mostly use the Antiochian rules for worship.
• http://www.bright.net/~palamas/sgpmwb/translat.htm
  Father, Give Us a Word — St. Gregory Palamas Monastery in Ohio offers many translations of spiritual documents not available elsewhere.

Holy Lives

• http://www.schmemann.org/
  A web site dedicated to Fr. Alexander Schmemann
• http://www.angelfire.com/pa3/straphaelcanonized/
  St. Raphael of Brooklyn, who founded what is now our archdiocese and is the first Arab-American saint.
• http://www.tserkovnost.org/stephrem/
  St. Ephraim of Syria — "O Lord and Master of my life…"
• http://www.saintjohnwonderworker.org/
  St. John Maximovitch of San Francisco
• http://www.geocities.com/saintnektarios/
  St. Nektarios of Pentapolis
• http://www.mobilixnet.dk/~mob55672/overview.htm
  The Holy Imperial Martyrs of Russia

Orthodox Music

• http://www.bright.net/~palamas/CyberPsaltiri/
  Byzantine Chant — both metered translations and music set in both Western and Byzantine notation, courtesy of Fr. Seraphim Hagiopavlitis, abbot of St. Gregory Palamas Monastery in Ohio.
• http://chant.theologian.org/
  Byzantine Chant — recordings and sheet music, all in English, all in Western Notation.
• http://www.sv-luka.org/
  St. Luke Serbian Orthodox Mission, with recordings of Serbian Chant

The Patriarchate of Antioch

• http://www.antiochian.org/
  Web site of our archdiocese.
• http://www.quartos.org.lb/
  The Archdiocese of Beirut
• http://www.ortmtlb.org.lb/
  Archdioces of Biblos and Mt. Lebanon
• http://www.balamandmonastery.org.lb/
  Balamand Monastery — one of the chief monasteries and site for our patriarchate’s St. John of Damascus theological school.

Diocese in America

• http://www.oca.org/
  The Orthodox Church in America
• http://www.goarch.org/
  The Greek Archdiocese of America

Self-governing Churches Outside America

• http://www.patriarchate.org/
  The Ecumenical Patriarch — Patriarch of Constantinople.
• http://www.greece.org/gopatalex/
  Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa.
• http://www.holylight.gr/patria/enpatria.html
  The Patriarchate of Jerusalem — has many pictures of the holy sites.
• http://www.orthodox-patriarchate-of-georgia.org.ge/
  Patriarchate of Georgia (the country)
• http://www.russian-orthodox-church.org.ru/en.htm
  The Patriarchate of Moscow and all Russia — English Page
• http://www.spc.org.yu/
  The Patriarchate of Serbia
• http://www.patriarhia.ro/bor_eng/index_eng.htm
  The Patriarchate of Romania
• http://www.aster.net:8080/ort.church.bg/
  The Patriarchate of Bulgaria (In Bulgarian only)
• http://www.orthodoxalbania.org/
  The Archdiocese of Albania
• http://www.orthodox.pl/
  The Archdiocese of Poland (In Polish only)
• http://www.pravoslav.gts.cz/
  The Archdiocese of the Czech Republics (In Czech only)
• http://www.ecclesia.gr/
  The Archdiocese of Greece
• http://www.ort.fi/
  The Autonomous Church of Finland
• http://www2.gol.com/users/ocj/TheOrthodoxChurchinJapan.htm
  The Autonomous Church of Japan
• http://www.orthodox.org.ua
  The Autonomous Church of Ukraine

Worthwhile Orthodox Charities

• http://www.iocc.org/
  International Orthodox Christian Charities
• http://www.ocmc.org/
  The Orthodox Christian Mission Center — This is the organization through which St. John sponsors a number of African, Orthodox priests.

Links

• http://www.theologic.com/links
  Home of the oldest and biggest set of categorized Orthodox links
• http://www.tserkovnost.org/
  An Orthodox-only search engine