RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
For the Light of the WorldWhen Thou wast transfigured on the mountain, O Christ our God, Thou didst show Thy glory to Thy disciples as far as they could bear it. Let Thy everlasting light shine also upon us sinners through the…
Sermon by Protopriest Leonid Kolchev (+1944) Today we prayerfully mark the honor of one of the greatest prophets of the Old Testament, Prophet Elias (the “Tishbite”). We are accustomed to thinking the prophets are people who predict the future. That…
Thank you, Brother Michael! The Gospel reading of last Sunday told us how the Gadarenes went out to meet Jesus and how they asked Him to “depart out of their coasts.” And this happened because all of them were infected…
Thank you to Brother Michael Christ the Savior, our true God, when He wished to entrust the world to His chief disciples and Apostles Peter and Paul, so that they might preach in it His Gospel and by their preaching…
Feast Day on June 29 Apostles Peter and PaulFrom the Sermons of Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco The feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul indicates the lot of the Holy Apostles here on earth and reveals the…
On the Third Sunday according to the Gospel readings of St. Matthew, we celebrate the Synaxis of all the Martyrs after the Fall of Constantinople (1453).
A Sermon of St. Philaret the Confessor of New York during the Week of Mid-Pentecost We all know that beginning Wednesday of this past week, the Church began to sing the meaningful and touching troparion of the feast of Mid-Pentecost,…
Commemorated on April 16 The Ilyin-Chernigov Icon of the Mother of God was painted in the year 1658 by the iconographer Gregory Dubensky (Gennadius in monasticism). Tears flowed from the icon for eight days in 1662, from April 16-24. In this…
