RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Source: Wikipedia Saint Guthlac of Crowland (Old English: Gūðlāc; Latin: Guthlacus; AD 674 – 715) was a saint from Lincolnshire in England. He is particularly venerated in the Fens of eastern England. Guthlac was the son of Penwalh or Penwald, a noble of the English kingdom of Mercia, and his…
PASCHAL ENCYCLICALOf the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia,CHRIST IS RISEN! “The Angels in Heaven, O Christ our Saviour, sing of Thy Resurrection; enable also us on earth with pure hearts to glorify Thee.” This hymn of the…
HIEROCONFESSOR THEODORE (RAFANOVICH) OF KHYMY Archimandrite Theodore, in the world Theodore Andreyevich Rafanovich, was born in Belorussia in the village of Khanichi in Mogilev region. Once as a child he wandered into the rye and came across a wolf. Thinking…
On Great and Holy Friday this year, the Nun Afanasiya of Gomel fell asleep in the Lord at 98 years of age. Mother Afanasiya (according to the world Anfisa) was married in her younger days to a devout man named…
The holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, speaking in his Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ’s last farewell talk with His disciples, cites the Saviour’s words: “Ye now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart shall…
Let us purify our senses and we shall behold Christ, radiant with inaccessible light of the Resurrection, and shall hear Him saying clearly, “Rejoice!” As we sing the triumphant hymns!
It is the Day of Resurrection! Let us be radiant, O people! Pascha! The Lord’s Pascha! For Christ our God has brought us from death to life, and from earth unto heaven, as we sing triumphant hymns!
If anyone is devout and a lover of God, let him enjoy this beautiful and radiant festival. If anyone is a wise servant, let him, rejoicing, enter into the joy of his Lord. If anyone has wearied himself in fasting,…
“He says: I was dead, and behold, I am alive for, evermore, amen; and you also will be alive forever. This is the meaning of the words of Him Who arose: I am the first and the last; I am…
