RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco. Thank you, Brother Michael! Stand fast on spiritual watch, because you don’t know when the Lord will call you to Himself. In your earthly life be ready at any moment to give Him…
Thanks to one of our readers and a friend! Sermon on the third Sunday of Pascha: Myrrhbearing Women.By Archbishop Andrew Rymarenko, spiritual father of St Philaret the confessor of ROCOR. “And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary…
Let us remember what it means to be faithful and devoted and what it means to have a clean conscience. The holy women myrrh-bearers did everything to be attentive to their Teacher. Not fearing any dangers, they go to Golgotha…
Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. He was the only disciple absent; on his return, he heard what had happened but refused to believe it. The Lord came a second time;…
“But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said, Except I shall see in His hands —I will not…
The holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, speaking in his Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ’s last farewell talk with His disciples, cites the Saviour’s words: “Ye now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart shall…
If anyone is devout and a lover of God, let him enjoy this beautiful and radiant festival. If anyone is a wise servant, let him, rejoicing, enter into the joy of his Lord. If anyone has wearied himself in fasting,…
“He says: I was dead, and behold, I am alive for, evermore, amen; and you also will be alive forever. This is the meaning of the words of Him Who arose: I am the first and the last; I am…
HOLY AND GREAT FRIDAY Saint Philaret of New York Last night, in the reading of the Ninth Gospel concerning the suffering of our Saviour, and this morning, when the Gospel of St. John was read during the Ninth Hour, we…
Sermon on Lazarus Saturday by Saint Philaret (Voznesensky, +1985)of Eastern America and New York It often happens that a child does a bad thing, and his father properly punishes him. But when he sees the child crying in sorrow, parental…
