RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Our venerable father Joseph (Litovkin) of Optina was starets and hieroschemamonk among the group of monastics of Optina Monastery in the nineteenth century who were known as the Optina Elders. Elder Joseph is venerated on May 9 and with the Synaxis of the Optina…
Today’s Gospel reading confirms us more and more strongly in the divinity of our Risen Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The Gospels for the last two Sundays told us about the appearances of the Risen One. They were…
The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningBY ROBERT FROST Our present life is certainly lovely, dark,…
by Dr. Vladimir Moss
May 7, 2021 Third Week of Pascha. Tone two. Commemoration of the Apparition of the Sign of the Precious Cross over Jerusalem in 351 A.D.Martyr Acacius the Centurion at Byzantium (303).Repose of Venerable Nilus, abbot of Sora (1508).Venerable John of…
Saint Eadberht, was Bishop of Lindisfarne, England, from 688 until his death on 6 May 698. He is notable as having founded the holy shrine to his predecessor Saint Cuthbert on the island of Lindisfarne, a place that was to become a centre of great pilgrimage in…
Commemorated on May 6, October 28, August 28 Saint Job, Hegumen of Pochaev and Wonderworker (in the world named Ivan Zhelezo), was born in the mid-XV Century in Pokut’a in Galicia. At age 10 he came to the Transfiguration Ugornitsk…
Saint Job the Righteous Commemorated on May 6 Saint Job the Righteous lived about 2000-1500 years before the Birth of Christ, in Northern Arabia, in the country of Austidia in the land of Uz. His life and sufferings are recorded…
Sts. Mary and Martha, sisters of St. Lazarus (1st c.) Commemorated on the Sunday of Myrrh-Bearing Women and June 4 and Mary and Martha, with their brother Lazarus, were especially devoted disciples of our Lord; their story up to the…
Sunday May 16, 2021 / May 3, 2021 Third Sunday of Pascha: The Myrrh-bearing Women. Tone two. Sts. Myrrh-Bearing Women, righteous Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus (celebration on the 3rd Sunday of Pascha).Right-believing Tamara, Queen of Georgia (movable holiday on…
