Liturgical petitions and prayers for Sanctity of Life Sunday are available on the Prayers for Orthodox Christians page and in PDF format.
- Service for Abortion Victims
- A Service of Supplication for an End to Abortion (2021)
- March for Life Liturgical Music
Orthodox Christians for Life
– Facebook Page
Synodal Affirmations on Marriage, Family, Sexuality, and the Sanctity of Life
Articles on Abortion and the general Sanctity of Life
June 27, 2022: Statement on the overturning of Roe v. Wade
By His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon
2021 Address at the annual Prayer Service for the Unborn
By His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon
2021 Address at the Virtual March for Life
By His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon
A Special Kind Of Witness: What About Abortion?
By His Eminence Archbishop Nathaniel
Choose Life
By Father Vladimir Berzonsky
The Pursuit of Happiness
By Father Vladimir Berzonsky
Human Rights and the Barbaric Partial-Birth Abortion Technique
By Father John Breck
The Status of the Unborn - Again
By Father John Breck
The Larger Question
By Father John Breck
Whose body is it, anyway?
By Father John Breck
Abortion Pain
By Father John Breck
Torture in the Womb
By Father John Breck
Sanctity of Life: Covering the Massacre
By Father Lawrence Farley
Listening to Lessons from the Unborn
By Father Lawrence Farley
Orthodox Christians and Abortion
By Father John Garvey
Two Statements on the “Sanctity of Life”
By Father Steven Kostoff
Roe v. Women
By Father Steven Kostoff
Medical Bioethics: An Orthodox Christian Perspective for Orthodox Christians
By Protodeacon Basil Andruchow
Zoe for Life!
By Kathy Kovalak
Common Pro-Abortion Cliches and the Pro-Life Response
By Valerie Protopapas
Celebrating the Sanctity of Life
By Dorothy Sysak
Articles on Capital Punishment
Meaningful Questions
By Father Vladimir Berzonsky
Repentance
By Father Vladimir Berzonsky
On Capital Punishment
By Father Theodore Bobosh
Capital Punishment and the Gospel
By Father Thomas Mueller
Articles on Euthanasia / Suicide
A Suicide’s Burial
By Father Vladimir Berzonsky
Advance Directives (Part 1 of 3)
As Loved Ones Die (Part 2 of 3)
As Loved Ones Die (Part 2 of 3)
By Father John Breck
Cultural Wars and Orthodox Christianity
By Father John Breck
Paschal Musing
By Father John Breck
Suicide Tourism
By Father John Breck
Maggie, Terri, and the Problem of Life-Support
By Father John Breck
What’s Wrong with Suicide?
By Father Lawrence Farley
Learning from Brittany
By Father Lawrence Farley
Health Decisions: The Value Of Advance Directives
By Father Steven Voytovich
Euthanasia, Physician-Assisted Suicide, and the Pursuit of Death with Dignity
By Father Joseph Woodill
Issues in Mental Health: Dealing with Depressive Disorders
Albert S. Rossi, Ph.D.
Study Guides
Media
2021 Virtual “March for Life”
Beneath Thy Compassion: Sanctity of Life Special on Compassionate Ministry and the Mother of God
Archived Archpastoral Messages for
“Sanctity of Life” Sunday
January 21, 2024
His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon
January 22, 2023
His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon
January 16, 2022
His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon
January 24, 2021
His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon
January 19, 2020
His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon
January 20, 2019
His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon
January 21, 2018
His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon
January 22, 2017
His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon
January 22, 2015
His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon
January 19, 2014
His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon
January 27, 2013
His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon
January 23, 2011
His Eminence Metropolitan Jonah
January 24, 2010
His Eminence Metropolitan Jonah
January 18, 2009
His Eminence Metropolitan Jonah
January 21, 2007
His Beatitude Metropolitan Herman
January 22, 2006
His Beatitude Metropolitan Herman
January 23, 2005
His Beatitude Metropolitan Herman
January 19, 2003
His Beatitude Metropolitan Herman
January 17, 1999
His Beatitude Metropolitan Theodosius
January 21, 1996
His Beatitude Metropolitan Theodosius