RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Any silence that exists will be pierced! Our ears hear the blaring voice of the Fathers of the 5th, 6th, and 7th Ecumenical Councils. Their deafening enunciation leaves no room for doubt. We keep the laws of the Church. We…
by Dr. Vladimir Moss. From A century of English sanctity Our holy Mother Pega was the sister of the great hermit St. Guthlac and lived as a hermitess in Peakirk, Northamptonshire, not far from Guthlac’s hermitage at Crowland. On Holy…
The mother of Gudula, Saint Amalberga, embraced the religious life in the abbey of Maubeuge. She received the veil from the hands of St. Aubert, Bishop of Cambrai (d. about 668). Gudula had two sisters, St. Pharaildis and St. Reineldis, and one brother, Saint Emebertus.[1] Gudula was educated…
Our first man is buried: buried not in Earth, but in water; not death destroyed, but buried by death’s destroyer (Christ), not by the law of nature but by the governing command that is stronger than nature. St. John Chrysostom…
Priest John Trepatschko of Holy Assumption Church In Stafford, VA, after having followed former Bishop Stefan of Trenton and after his death, Bishop Andronik now returns to ROCOR/MP which he left in 2007 to avoid union with the “Patriarchate” of…
St. Philaret of New York On the day of the feast of the Theophany – the Baptism of the Lord, it is not superfluous for every Orthodox Christian to remember yet another baptism, that baptism which was performed over each…
Archbishop Andrew (Rymarenko) Have you noticed, brothers and sisters, how the Holy Church continually connects our lifewith events from the life of Christ? During the days of Christmas, while worshipping at themanger of Christ, we received the “spirit of adoption”…
In celebrating Theophany let us be transferred in thought to the very location of the event and let us attend mentally to what happened there. There is Bethabara. You see St. John on the shore in garments made of camel…
