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St. John's Directory of Orthodox Media

Resources for Home Prayer for those who are ill or otherwise not able to make it to services.

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+ Document: From our Diocese: A Prayer in Time of Pestilence

+ Audio: Akathist (intercessory prayer) to the Mother of God
+ Audio: Canon of St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco

+ Audio: Chanting of Paraklesis (healing prayers) to St. Nikephoros the Leper, intercessor in time of Pandemic

+ Livestream: Weekday and Weekend Services at St. John's Cathedral in Mayfield

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And Other Edifying Home Resources Online...

While many are now at home or working from home or conducting home schooling, we thought we would recommend a few examples of creative work reflecting Orthodox Christian culture in film and literature. 
 

Film

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+ Film: Healing Fear, Saint Luke the Surgeon (English Subtitles)​

+ Documentary: Modern Monastic Elders from Mount Athos

+ Film: Ostrov - The Island (English Subtitles)
+ Film: Help me, I am terribly rich (English subtitles)

+ TV-Series: Sophia (English Subtitles)

+ Children's Movie: Seraphima's Extraordinary Adventures (English Subtitles)
+ Documentary: Way to Golgotha. Tobolsk diaries of Nicholas II (English Subtitles)

+ Documentary: Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer

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Literature

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+ Novel: Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

(a free online translation is linked here, but the translation by the Orthodox writers Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is recommended; that is available in Kindle/ebook form from Amazon and other distributors, as well as in paperback; it is published by Vintage and also by Modern Library)
 

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