RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
“Jesus therefore, being wearied with His journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink” (Jn. 4:6-7). The Samaritan…
St. Pachomius was born to pagan parents in Thebaid (Upper Egypt). There he received an excellent secular education. From his youth, he had a good character, and he was prudent and sensible. At the age of either 20 or 21,…
Georgian monks began to settle on Mt. Athos in the middle of the 10th century, and a Georgian monastery, Iveron, was founded there not long after. At that time foreign armies were constantly invading Mt. Athos. In the 13th century…
On Wednesday of the fourth week we celebrate the Mid-Feast of Pentecost, i.e. half of the period from Pascha to Pentecost. This day we commemorate that event from the life of the Savior, when He on the Mid-feast of the…
Hieromartyr Ermogen, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’, was glorified into the rank of the saints on 12 May 1913. During the course of three centuries from generation to generation the memory of Patriarch Ermogen as a sainted bishop-martyr was passed…
May 10/23, 2021 How to treat the question of the time of the coming of the Antichrist, in what form the answers to it should be given and what information should serve as the basis for solving it – we…
Commemorated May 11 The Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles First-Teachers and Enlighteners of the Slavic Peoples, the Brothers Cyril and Methodius came from an illustrious and pious family living in the Greek city of Thessalonika. Saint Methodius was the oldest of seven brothers,…
Commemorated on May 11 Hieromartyr Joseph, First Metropolitan of Astrakhan, was born at Astrakhan in 1579. Having taken monastic vows, Saint Joseph at 52 years of age was raised to the dignity of archimandrite of the Astrakhan Trinity monastery. In…
Commemorated on 4th Sunday of Pascha by the Epistle Reading The Righteous Saint Tabitha (I), a virtuous and kindly woman, belonged to the Christian community in Joppa. Being grievously ill, she happened to be dying. At the time not far…
BY HIS EMINENCE ARCHBISHOP TIKHON FIRST HIERARCH OF THE RUSSIAN TRUE ORTHODOX CHURCH 10/23 May, 2021 Omsk, Siberia After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by the…
