RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Source: Augsburg and Constantinople, by Fr. George Mastrantonis (Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Press, 1982). The First (of 3) Answer of Patriarch Jeremiah II of Constantinople Sent to Tübingen on May 15, 1576, Concerning the Augsburg Confession We received the letters…
The Lord wrote something unexpected and startling for the elders, the accusers of the sinful woman. With His finger He disclosed their secret iniquities. For these pointers-out of the sins of others were experts in concealing their own sins. But it is pointless to try to hide anything from the eyes of One Who sees all.
This holy and beloved Western Saint, the patron of France, was born in Pannonia (modern-day Hungary) in 316, to a pagan military family stationed there. Soon the family returned home to Italy, where Martin grew up. He began to go…
source: Wikipedia Saint Tysilio (+640 AD) was a Welsh bishop, prince and scholar, son of the reigning King of Powys, Brochwel Ysgithrog, maternal nephew of the great Abbot Dunod of Bangor Iscoed, and an ecclesiastic who took a prominent part in the affairs of Wales during the distressful period at the opening…
source: wikipedia Saint Cybi (in Welsh) or Saint Cuby (in Cornish) was a 6th-century Cornish bishop, saint and, briefly, king, who worked largely in North Wales: his biography is recorded in two slightly variant medieval ‘lives’. According to the ‘Life of Saint Cybi’, this saint was the son of Salomon, a ‘warrior prince’, generally…
We have not yet felt the huge after-shock of the coming of television which in a short while has managed to secure a niche for itself in almost every home. Its powers of persuasion and attraction have proved to be…
St. Willibrord, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia was born in Northumbria in England around 638. At the age of seven, he was sent to the monastery at Ripon for education under St Wilfrid (April 24) Bishop of York. Between…
Calling a synod meeting to discuss the change of the Church calendar, “Archbishop” Chrysostom (Papadopoulos) (Archbishop of Athens from February 23, 1923, to October 22, 1938) answered the hierarchs objecting to the change of the calendar by stating, “The anathema…
First Epistle of Patriarch Tikhon to the Fold Humble Tikhon, by the Grace of God Patriarch of Moscow and all Russias, to the beloved in the Lord bishops, priests, and all faithful children of the Orthodox Church of Russia. “That…
