RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
FATHER AND FRIEND! I should have answered you long about the growing winter of faith and prayer and the means of struggle against this. But the same vanity which, as you acknowledge, disperses reverent feelings, has also deprived me of…
source: St. Clether (also known as Clederus or Cleder) was a son of King Brychan Brycheiniog, ruler of what was later Brecknockshire, in south Wales. After his father’s death, Clether ruled an area of northern Dyfed, based around Nevern. He…
St. Hubertus of Liège or Maastricht', called the "Apostle of the Ardennes", was the first Bishop of Liège. His feast day on November 3.
Saint Winefride (in Welsh, Gwenfrewi) was a maiden of noble birth who lived in North Wales in the seventh century.
As I go along my journey
I'm reaping better than I've sowed
I'm drinking from the saucer
'Cause my cup has overflowed
Bishop Maxim of Serpukhov FIRST CATACOMB BISHOP OF RUSSIA Commemorated July 6 (†1930) FROMLIVES OF THE NEW MARTYRS by Ivan Andreyev “Even if all the world shall enter into communion with the (heretical) Patriarch, I will not.” ST. MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR…
Ἄρχοντες καὶ μεγιστᾶνες καὶ λοιποὶ πτωχολογιά,
θάνατος μᾶς περιμένει, νέους, γέρoυς καὶ παιδιά.
Our soul is in union with the body by creation; it is in dependence on it on account of the fall. It is infected with sinful diseases, passions, on account of bodily actions; passions are destroyed in it, good habits, virtues are implanted in it by means of bodily actions.
So another week went by. I was again on night duty. This time on his evening round, as he left the ward, the doctor said to me in an undertone that Ivan would not pull through till morning. As usual in such cases, the wounded men guessed it and a strained silence fell upon the ward.
