RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
St. Columba of Iona Our venerable and God-bearing Father Columba of Iona, Enlightener of Scotland (December 7, 521 – June 9, 597) (also known as Columcille, meaning “Dove of the Church”) was an Irish missionary who helped re-introduce Christianity to Scotland and the north of…
Monk Symeon chants the selection from the Polyeleos “The Heavens Declare the Glory of God”. Ψάλλει ὁ Μοναχὸς Συμεὼν Οἱ Οὐρανοὶ Διηγοῦνται Δόξαν Θεοῦ
THE CATACOMB CHURCH IN THE SOVIET UNION by Ivan Andreyev The All-Russian Church Council in Moscow in 1917-1918 gave the Russian Orthodox Church a firm canonical basis for the life of the Christian Church in an anti-Christian state. Patriarch Tikhon…
bySaint Ignatius Briantchaninov Reprinted from Orthodox Life -Vol.2 Number 2 – March/April 1951 The head or chief of the virtues is prayer; their foundation is fasting. Fasting is constant moderation in food with prudent discernment in its use. Proud man!…
by Dr. Vladimir Moss Our holy Father Petroc (or Pedrog) was born in about 468, the third of ten children of King Glywys Cernvw of Glywysing (Dyfed, Wales). After the death of his father, the people wanted Petroc to take…
The righteous sisters Martha and Mary were believers in Christ before He raised their brother Saint Lazarus from the dead. After the martyrdom of the holy Archdeacon Stephen a persecution against the Jerusalem Church broke out, and Righteous Lazarus was…
by Dr. Vladimir Moss Our holy Father Oda was born in East Anglia, of Danish parents. His father had been a soldier in the pagan Great Army that killed the holy Martyr-King Edmund of East Anglia in 869 and was…
Thank you to Brother Michael Excerpt from an address from Archimandrite Constantine (Zaitzev) of Jordanville Monastery, NY. “…we come to comprehend the spiritual state of the world. Do we remain successively tied to our holy past to such an extent,…
Even though honey is sweet, the sick one perceives it as bitter, but the crime is not the honey’s, but rather the illness must be to blame St. John Chrysostom “ΕΙΣ ΤΟΝ ΑΓΙΟΝ ΙΕΡΟΜΑΡΤΥΡΑ ΦΩΚΑΝ, ΚΑΙ ΚΑΤΑ ΑΙΡΕΤΙΚΩΝ” (N. 703) St.…
