RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Now being exiled in our own homes let us draw from the words of St. John Abbot of Sinai. Translation: Fr. Lazarus Moore Step 3 On exile Exile means that we leave forever everything in our own country that prevents…
SAINT ARISTOBULUS An Apostle of the Seventy brought the Orthodox Faith to the shores of Britain. Aristobulus of Britannia was an Apostle, Martyr, and First Bishop of Britain. While some Orthodox traditions say he “died in peace”, others say he was…
Supplicatory Canon / Paraclesis to our Lord Jesus Christ A poem by Theoctistus, a Monk of Stoudion Second Tone ODE ONE Heirmos In the deep of old, the Power supreme to all weaponry overwhelmed Pharaoh’s whole army. And when the…
St. Ypomoni the Righteous (Feast Day – March 13/26) St. Ypomoni (Patience), in the world named Helen Dragaš, and later as the wife of Manuel II Palaiologos was called: “Helen, in Christ God Augusta and Empress of the Romans, Palaiologos”.…
In the midst of a crisis (like this coronavirus crisis we are working through!) is a great time to show that we are thankful to God for all things. “Those things that are and those things that are not” (Divine…
Commemorated on March 14 Saint Benedict, the founder of Western monasticism, was born in the Italian city of Nursia in the year 480. When he was fourteen years of age, the saint’s parents sent him to Rome to study. Unsettled by…
Commemorated on March 12 The Lydda Not-Wrought-by-Hand Icon of the Mother of God (in Lydda on a Pillar): When the holy Apostles Peter and John the Theologian ( preached about the Lord Jesus Christ in the city of Lydda (Diopolis),…
IT IS NOT JOY OF THE SPIRIT ALONE THAT MANIFESTS OUR LOVE OF GOD; UNFLINCHING COURAGE, STAUNCHLY MAINTAINED THROUGH LONG PERIODS OF DARKNESS AND ANGUISH, PROVES THIS LOVE EVEN MORE DEFINITELY. ST. MACARIUS OF OPTINA
St. John of Kronstadt: . . . Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth . . . ‘God came upon earth in order to raise us up to heaven.’…
