RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Homily by St. Peter Chrysologus on the Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, Prophet, and Forerunner A good shepherd spends sleepless nights and anxious days so that no crafty thief nor cunning and ferocious wolves may post…
by Jesse Dominck THE HUMILITY OF ST. MOSES THE ETHIOPIAN Jesse Dominick Icon from St. Innocent Orthodox Church in Redford, Michigan by Archpriest Theodore Jurewicz Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto…
The New Hieromartyr Cosmas, Equal of the Apostles was a native of the Aitolia area of Greece. At the Philotheou Monastery of Mount Athos he was tonsured a monk wand later was ordained hieromonk. The desire to benefit his fellow…
I admit it, change takes a lot of courage. And repentance, the most significant mode of life for an Orthodox Christian has to do with changing. Repentance in Greek is metanoia μετάνοια. Metanoia literally means to make a change of…
Born in the year 1926 in the village Desfina, Fokis as Athanasios Pappas, the son of Eustathius and Lemonias, Metropolitan Akakios (called the younger Akakios) was the nephew according to the flesh and later disciple of Archbishop Akakios of the…
We know that one of the people who first believed in the preaching of St. Paul the Apostle in Greece was St. Dionysius the Areopagite or judge. He was there when the Apostle Paul preached at the Areopagus in Athens…
Hieromartyr Hierotheos, First Bishop of Athens When was such a wonder of wonders ever seen by men? How does the Queen of all lie breathless? How has the Mother of Jesus reposed? Thou, O Virgin, wast the preaching of the…
“Neither the tomb nor death could confine the Theotokos, the unshakable hope, ever vigilant in intercession and protection. As Mother of life, He who dwelt in the ever-virginal womb transposed Ηer to life.”
Matthew 23: 13-22 “13But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 14Woe unto you, scribes and…
former Patriarch of Jerusalem Eirinaios had asked all 'World Orthodox"
