These Marian Homilies by the master-preacher, St. Philaret of Moscow, provide a veritable treasure chest of theology and devotional reflection on the Most Pure Theotokos. St. Philaret unfolds the unspeakable beauty and faith of the Holy Virgin Mary, and is not shy to posit difficult questions that non-Orthodox persons ask about our devotion to Our Lady. He provides penetrating answers from the text of Holy Scripture, and does so always with a single eye on the edification of the soul. The listener will feast royally on these homilies.

This is a two (2) CD package or online download
Total Listening Time: 1 hour, 36 mins
      
Inspired and practical advice on Christian parenting. St. John Chrysostom sets the daily tasks of the upbringing of children in a grand vision of serving God and training spiritual athletes for Christ’s sake. This treatise has long been out of print in the English language.

This is a two (2) part, single CD package or online download
Total Listening Time: 49 mins
      
Part 1/2: Marriage: The Great Sacrament
By Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra
Description:
The great Athonite elder, Aimilianos of Simonopetra, delivered this lecture as a young abbot. Here, from the heart and pen of one of the most influential monks of modern times, we have, perhaps, the most beautiful description of the married life ever written. Listeners will find their hearts enthralled and their vision for married life greatly expanded by this lecture.
      
Part 2/2: On Holy Virginity
By St. Philaret of Moscow
Description:
St. Philaret is certainly one of the greatest Orthodox preachers of the last several centuries. In this homily we have a classic patristic presentation on the supremacy and glory of the state of consecrated celibacy, presented with the stature and cogency of the great and holy Fathers. This work is a mighty antidote to the anti-monastic and pleasure-loving disease in which contemporary man swims. This offering is included in the Ten Marian Homilies of St. Philaret and is reproduced here.

The master preacher, St. Philaret of Moscow, here unpacks the deep meaning of the Glorious Ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ, one of the mighty and saving acts of the Lord which is so neglected in contemporary theology and preaching. How has the Ascension of the Lord changed our life and world? Listen and you will discover the answer.

Total Listening Time: 41 mins
      
This precious and intimate letter of the great hierarch to a young woman, just 20 years old, on the occasion of her husband's untimely death establishes a beautiful vision for widowed life. Here is a majestic vision of the Kingdom of God and the value of marital love.

The great battles of the spiritual war are noetic, that is, battles of the mind and heart. In this brief but penetrating text, which opens the majestic patristic literary collection the Church known as the Philokalia, St. Isaiah the Solitary guides the believer in the effort to purify the mind and heart, sanctify and adhere to the conscience, and learn to pray with watchfulness and without distraction born of passions.

This offering, On the Eight Vices, is the third installment in the Philokalia Project, and is a classic spiritual text on the nature of sin and how to overcome it. In this text St. Cassian begins with the most carnal of sins, gluttony, and proceeds to the most spiritual and hideous of all sins, pride. Along the way he unmasks the spirit of fornication, avarice, anger, sadness, acedia, and vainglory. He not only exposes these sins, but provides the believer inspired guidance on how to beat these sins and overcome them in this life. This text in the Philokalia has been cherished by believers for over a millennium, and is narrated for Patristic Nectar Publications by Mr. Jason Covarrubias.