RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Sermon by Archbishop Andrew (Rymarenko) Sunday’s Gospel reading told us of a great miracle: the feeding of an enormous crowd of many thousands with five loaves and two fish. The disciples of Christ themselves, through whose hands this miracle was…
From the “Epistle of St. Gregory the Theologian to the One-Hundred and Fifty Bishops”. Would you prefer all the Canaanites or one Abraham? Would you prefer all the inhabitants of Sodom or one Righteous Lot? Would you prefer the Midianites…
by Archbishop Andrey (Rymarenko) “Give ye them to eat!” said Christ to His disciples. And He said this to them as if answering their advice: “This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away,…
Krueger, Derek. Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius’s Life and the Late Antique City. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996 1996. [121] The Life and Conduct[1] of Abba Symeon Called the Fool for the Sake of Christ Written by Leontius, Most Pious Bishop of…
Sermon by Protopriest Leonid Kolchev (+1944) Today we prayerfully mark the honor of one of the greatest prophets of the Old Testament, Prophet Elias (the “Tishbite”). We are accustomed to thinking the prophets are people who predict the future. That…
The Life of the Great-Martyr Marina Marina was born in Southern Anatolia, specifically from Pisidia in Antioch, at the end of the third century during the reign of Claudius II (268-270). She was the only daughter of noble pagan parents.…
Marcellina was born in Trier, Gaul around the year 330 into a Roman Christian family. Her father served as Praetorian prefect of Gaul. The sister of Ambrose of Milan, she was older than her two brothers. About the year 354 Ambrosius, their father…
After the Second World War, there circulated in Russian émigré circles a brochure entitled, “Why I also believe in God”. In it, the author, originally an atheist pilot, describes how he was commissioned to track down a group of monks…
