

RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe

RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Year 2020


A New “Church Conglomeration” is Announced! “You speak an infinite deal of nothing.” ― William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”.
We know that the STOC was begging for eucharistic communion with the GOC Kallinikos-Cyprianite medley. When that shipwrecked, it started opening other doors. Precisely with bishops who Kallinikos GOC could never accept. Read on!

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” -George Orwell Concerning the falsification of the life of St. Valentine Sventitsky.
Fr. Seraphim Rose refers to St. Valentine as "a modern apostle of unadulterated Orthodoxy in a time of rising apostasy."

Do You Think St. Agapitus Pope of Rome’s Statement was Extreme?
"Let no one for favors or from fear lean away from the Ecclesiastical Canons"

THE HOLY GOD-SEER MOSES AND THE THEOLOGY OF ICONS
By Dr. Vladimir Moss The life of the holy Prophet and God-Seer Moses, whose feast we celebrate today, is so full of extraordinarily significant words and actions that it is difficult to know where to begin. St. Gregory of Nyssa…

The Shocking Revelation about Receiving a False Blessing
From the life of New Hieromartyr Michael Kostiuk of Kiev from catacombhistory.blogspot.com On not receiving false blessings (from the life of Saint Michael Kostiuk):During the German occupation of Kiev, during the Second World War, two bishops came to see the…

What You Didn’t Know that Chrysostom Papadopoulos Wrote About the Change of the Church Calendar 6 Years Before He Changed it!
“The Synod abjured the Gregorian (New) Calendar as an innovation that is in contradiction to the CANONS and ORDINANCES of the CHURCH.” (Chrysostomos Papadopoulos, Church Herald (Ἐκκλησιαστικὸς Κήρυξ), 1918, Issue 189)

Wishes for the Beginning of the Church Year – September 1
Those who follow OTHER CALENDARS sin many times against that which is our own and fit, the canon of the fathers being healthy and truly fatherly. from the Epistle of Patriarch Meletius II of Alexandria to Lord Basil of Ostrov

Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost- Parable of the Wedding Feast
Sermon by Archbishop Andrew Rymarenko “So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests. And when the king came in to…

What You Didn’t Know About the Attachment “Pilgrim” to Orthodox Names.
In older times, it was truly a great feat for someone to go to the Holy Lands from far away places like Russia and Greece. These pilgrimages were by foot and ship. It was considered a greater blessing to complete the entire pilgrimage by foot and not by ship.