The calendar
Every day of the year on both the New and Julian reckonings — the Great Feasts, the fasting rule, and everyone commemorated that day, with the appointed readings.
All of it is built to be checked: the calendar computed from the Church's own reckoning rather than copied from another site, the saints' lives honest about the parts that are hard to read, and every article ending in the sources behind it.
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What is here
A hundred lives
The saints who actually shaped the Church, written honestly — including the parts of their lives that are difficult, and the places where the record is thin.
Articles
Plain, sourced answers on worship, prayer, fasting, icons, the saints and Scripture — including the parts that are harder to explain than to admire.
Orthodox resources
The sites worth your time — catechism, podcasts, the Fathers, chant and charities. Each one opened and checked, and honest about whose voice it is.
Fifteen free weeks
Five complete weeks from each volume of the devotional, exactly as printed: the passage in full, the Greek, the Fathers, and the practice for the seven days.
How it is put together
The calendar is computed, not copied. Pascha is worked out from the Church's own reckoning, and the fixed feasts are keyed to the Menaion, so the New Calendar and Julian views are both correct rather than one being an approximation of the other.
Where a life is well attested, it is told in full. Where the record is thin — and for most of the saints commemorated on any given day the commemoration itself is nearly the whole of it — the page says what is attested and then stops.
Where a source has a particular perspective, or an owner you should know about, that is stated underneath it rather than left for you to discover later.
Words for the Narrow Way
One saying of Christ. One week with it.
The site grew out of a three-year devotional in three volumes — a hundred and fifty-six Gospel passages, one a week. Every passage in full, what the Greek is doing that the English cannot show, how the Fathers read it, and one practice to carry through the seven days.
Book One · Encounter
Come and See
The invitation. It opens with a stranger saying come and see, and closes with the same man asking who you say that He is.
Book Two · Discipleship
Follow Me
What happens after you say yes. Prayer nobody sees, money He will not stop talking about, forgiveness with no ceiling.
Book Three · Communion
Abide in Me
The part that is not done by effort. A vine and a pruning knife, and then, in His own words, who He is.
Why a week and not a morning
A page for the morning is read and forgotten by lunch. A week is long enough for a saying to become inconvenient — long enough to run into the person you are supposed to forgive, or the money you are supposed to be less careful about, or the silence you said you would keep and did not.
They ask Him for an address and He does not give them one. He gives them an afternoon.
There are no calendar dates in any of the three volumes. You can begin in any week of any year.
Every royalty builds a church
St Porphyrios Orthodox Mission in Clayton, Ontario has no building of its own. It borrows other people's. Every royalty from all three volumes goes toward changing that — and that line is printed on the back of each book, not just on this page.