RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Many people welcome the truth when it comforts them, but resist it when it demands repentance. Yet Christ did not promise that truth would always make us comfortable. He promised that it would make us free. The Christian life requires us to love the truth more than our pride, our reputation, and our desire to remain unchanged.
Gavrielia Papagianni died on 28 March, 1992. On the 3rd of October, after a recommendation from “Patriarch” Bartholomew, the Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople declared Nun Gavrielia a saint. Since many serious state-church of Greece theologians had objected to…
Среди наиболее часто неверно употребляемых слов нашего Господа — слова, произнесённые Им в Его Первосвященнической молитве: «Да будутъ вси едино» (Ин. 17:21). Эти священные слова ныне нередко приводятся как оправдание всякого рода экуменических компромиссов, межрелигиозных молитвенных собраний и некоего неопределённого…
Among the most frequently misused words of our Lord are those spoken in His High Priestly Prayer: “That they all may be one” (John 17:21) These sacred words are often quoted today as a justification for every form of ecumenical…
Diversity exists in the body of Christ, Archbishop Elpidophoros says at ecumenical prayer service. On the evening of January 29, 2026, an ecumenical “prayer” service took place at the Greek Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, led by clergy from…
+ BP How strange it seems in our world today that some Orthodox are still fasting and some “Orthodox” (I use the terms loosely, in the first reference I find a minority and in the second reference I find none)…
On the 1,700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, many Christians around the world were moved to see representatives of different confessions gather in that ancient city. Some expressed great enthusiasm at the sight of a “common prayer,”…
On Thursday, September 12/25, 2025, one of our True Orthodox priests in Ukraine, Priest Oleksiy Lyuboshets, from the Cathedral of St. John of Kronstadt in Odessa, was kidnapped off the street. He was taken against his will and is being…
In the early Christian centuries, whoever confessed Christ was put to death by the idolatrous kings immediately, with torture. Now, however, the persecution of Christianity—meaning Orthodoxy—is more wicked and more deceitful, and it cloaks the Orthodox Christians with talk of…
