RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Source: VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) – The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue is encouraging Christians to join in the Islamic iftar ‘ritual’ meal on the occasion of the Muslim festival of Ramadan. In a Ramadan greeting to “Muslim brothers and sisters” Friday, the…
Thanks to one of our readers and a friend! Sermon on the third Sunday of Pascha: Myrrhbearing Women.By Archbishop Andrew Rymarenko, spiritual father of St Philaret the confessor of ROCOR. “And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary…
Let us remember what it means to be faithful and devoted and what it means to have a clean conscience. The holy women myrrh-bearers did everything to be attentive to their Teacher. Not fearing any dangers, they go to Golgotha…
Today, July 16/29, is the anniversary of the notorious declaration of Metropolitan Sergius of Nizhni-Novogord in 1927, which created the largest schism in Church history since the Roman Catholic schism of 1054 and under whose shadow the whole life of…
Having served the True Orthodox of the Island of Aegina for six months, Saint Athanasia of Aegina remains in my heart. St. Athanasia who is celebrated today (April 18) by the Orthodox Church was born on the island of Aegina…
– As we know, the Church Abroad consecrated bishops for several Old Calendar jurisdictions. What are the current relations with these jurisdictions after the reestablishment of unity of the Russian Orthodox Church? – The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia…
From the archives of our monastery.
Left to right; Russian priest, Metropolitan Akakios of Diavleia, Archbishop Laurus of ROCOR, in behind in black Archimandrite (later Metropolitan of Knossos) Merkourios, Archbishop Auxentios of the Church of Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece, Metropolitan Petros of Astoria, in behind in black Archimandrite (later Metropolitan of Attiki and Megara) Antonios, Metropolitan Gerontios of Piraeus, Archimandrite Niphon (Astyfidis, brother according to the flesh of Metropolitan Petros)
Protodeacon Procopius was the choir director in the village of Kamyshinka, Bystro-Istoksky uyezd, Altai district, Siberia, and also served as a deacon in the Alexandrovskaya church in Biisk. At the end of 1928 or the beginning of 1929, he was…
St. Barsanuphius of Optina: You need not be despondent. You need not be despondent. Let those be despondent who do not believe in God. For them, sorrow is burdensome, of course, because besides earthly enjoyment they have nothing. But believers…
Commemorated on April 16 The Ilyin-Chernigov Icon of the Mother of God was painted in the year 1658 by the iconographer Gregory Dubensky (Gennadius in monasticism). Tears flowed from the icon for eight days in 1662, from April 16-24. In this…
