RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
If You Haven’t Studied Holy Orthodoxy, Then You Probably Won’t Notice When It’s Not Really Present Isn’t it true? Most so-called “Orthodox” have deep darkness about matters of the Faith. They haven’t studied it, they haven’t lived it. They haven’t…
Beginning of the Ecclesiastical Year In today’s Gospel passage we hear: Luke 4:16-22 (Gospel, New Year)16So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day,…
The Placing of the Venerable Belt of the Most Holy Theotokos in a church of Constantinople’s Chalcoprateia district took place during the reign of the emperor Theodosius the Younger. Before this, the holy relic entrusted to the Apostle Thomas by…
Today, our Holy Church celebrates the Beheading of the Holy Baptist and Forerunner John. A big splash was going on … a great party. It was Herod’s birthday. Everyone was enjoying themselves Salome was dancing up a storm. Sounds fun…
Homily by St. Peter Chrysologus on the Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, Prophet, and Forerunner A good shepherd spends sleepless nights and anxious days so that no crafty thief nor cunning and ferocious wolves may post…
by Jesse Dominck THE HUMILITY OF ST. MOSES THE ETHIOPIAN Jesse Dominick Icon from St. Innocent Orthodox Church in Redford, Michigan by Archpriest Theodore Jurewicz Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto…
The New Hieromartyr Cosmas, Equal of the Apostles was a native of the Aitolia area of Greece. At the Philotheou Monastery of Mount Athos he was tonsured a monk wand later was ordained hieromonk. The desire to benefit his fellow…
I admit it, change takes a lot of courage. And repentance, the most significant mode of life for an Orthodox Christian has to do with changing. Repentance in Greek is metanoia μετάνοια. Metanoia literally means to make a change of…
Born in the year 1926 in the village Desfina, Fokis as Athanasios Pappas, the son of Eustathius and Lemonias, Metropolitan Akakios (called the younger Akakios) was the nephew according to the flesh and later disciple of Archbishop Akakios of the…
We know that one of the people who first believed in the preaching of St. Paul the Apostle in Greece was St. Dionysius the Areopagite or judge. He was there when the Apostle Paul preached at the Areopagus in Athens…
