RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
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…
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
by St. Isidore of Pelusium The Lord did not simply curse the fig tree ( a known symbol of the Jewish people) but to show to the ungrateful Judeans that He has the strength necessary to punish.
The novelty of the Pope having a clean-shaven face, along with the rest of his clergy, was introduced in the papist church before Leo IX. Gregory Vii even went so far as to use force to make the clergy shave…
