RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
“It is a wonderful thing that, no matter how much we trouble about our health, however much care we take of ourselves, whatever wholesome and pleasant food we eat, whatever wholesome drinks we drink, however much we walk in the…
Source: catacombhistory.blogspot.com From the life of Vladyka Peter Ladygin: After many years of suffering for the Faith, the holy bishop along with 25 members of theconfessing Church set off for central Asia. This was in 1944. They prepared themselves to…
For the Light of the WorldWhen Thou wast transfigured on the mountain, O Christ our God, Thou didst show Thy glory to Thy disciples as far as they could bear it. Let Thy everlasting light shine also upon us sinners through the…
For our oil-less fast days like today- Fast of the Dormition of the Mother of God. Trying to make it easier for families to fast. from Hannah. The wine could be replaced with vinegar.
by St. Theophan the Recluse This kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.” [Matthew 17:14-23] If this kind goes out by the prayer and fasting of another person, then it is even less able to enter one who…
The Dormition of the Theotokos is the Pascha of the summer. And like the Great Pascha, it is preceded by a fast. This fast is also similar in its severity to that of Great Lent that precedes Pascha.
From the 1838 Encyclical “Against the Latin Innovations” of the Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople An often-heard argument in “Orthodox” circles concerning heresies such as ecumenism is “It’s not our concern what the patriarchs and hierarchs are doing. We…
HOLY HIEROMARTYR BENJAMIN OF PETROGRAD AND THOSE WITH HIM Commemorated July 31/August 14 source: orthochristian.com Today the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the memory of one of the early stars in the pleiades of new martyrs and confessors of the Communist…
Source: catacombhistory.blogspot.com In 1951 V.K. wrote: “In the inaccessible parts of the Caucasus ridge, in a huge basin protected on allsides by a wall of mountains, the tops of which were covered with snow for ten months of the year,…
