RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Category Spirituality
Don’t Stay Where You Know the Truth is Not.
He who walks with wise men will be wise,But the companion of fools will be destroyed. Proverbs 13:20 “Thus come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you”…
Sunday Inspiration from our Reader Timothy
Source: For all the photos, please open link! As it is a Sunday, I have decided to attempt to reflect less on the horrors of the world and more on the beauty of Holy Orthodoxy. Church of the Holy…
The Virtue of Tears
Great is the virtue of tears!
If Someone Slanders You
A brother asked the Abba Barsanuphius, “Elder if I learn that someone says evil about me, what should I do?” The Elder answered, “Get up immediately and say a prayer firstly for him and then for yourself saying, “Lord Jesus…
Τὸ πιὸ εὔκολο πρᾶγμα, εἶναι νὰ εἶσαι ὁ Ἰούδας…
τοῦ Δημητρίου Παπαγιαννοπούλου Τὸ πιὸ εὔκολο πρᾶγμα, εἶναι νὰ εἶσαι ὁ Ἰούδας. Λὲς πὼς εἶσαι φίλος, μὰ ὅταν βρεῖς τὴν εὐκαιρία, δὲ διστάζεις γιὰ τριάκοντα ἀργύρια, μὲ ἕνα φιλὶ νὰ προδώσεις τοὺς ἀνθρώπους σου. Τὸ πιὸ εὔκολο πρᾶγμα, εἶναι νὰ…
Kindling a Confession of Faith
St. Theodore the Studite “Your courageous seeking out of the word of truth is a firm-making of the Church under the heavens and your zeal kindles in the fervid confession of our Faith forever all of the world .” (Letter…
The Church is a Dye Shop – St. John Chrysostom
The Church is a dye shop. If you leave without being dyed at all, what is the benefit of having gone? I beg of you, be careful then, that you enter with consciousness and the fear of God and depart…
Reveal Your Shame for it to be Washed
The Lord scorneth the scorners: but He giveth grace unto the lowly (Prov. 3:34). Particularly remember these words when you go to confession. Nothing like pride binds your tongue to keep it from saying, “I am a sinner.” Humble yourself…
Saint Macarius the Great, St Seraphim of Sarov and the Aim of Our Christian Life
by Reader Timothy Wakefield In the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Saint Seraphim of Sarov, in his now-famous interview with N.A. Motovilov, revealed a ‘lost’ teaching of the Orthodox Church. In…