RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
This parable has as its purpose to explain how it could be that the last could become the first. This will come about as a result of God’s mercy and goodness. The kingdom of God is here imagined as a…
ST. AMBROSE OF OPTINA
+ B.P. Three of the nuns were from the same village. Karvali (today Güzelyurt, formerly Gelveri of the district of Aksaray Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey). Their village was comprised of “Karamanlides” Turkish Speaking Greeks who wrote using the…
BY SAINT DEMETRIUS OF ROSTOV Saint John Chrysostom, beacon of the whole world, pillar and confirmation of the Church, and preacher of repentance, was born in the city of Antioch in Syria. His parents were unbelievers and held to the…
Having found a silent place and being alone, sit down and meditate on your life, recall to mind all sins that you have committed from your youth on, those you have confessed, and those left unconfessed. Having brought back to…
from The Pilgrim Continues His Way Turning my eyes carefully upon myself and watching the course of my inward state, I have verified by experience that I do not love God, that I have no love for my neighbors, that…
By Dr. Vladimir Moss Faith is a gift of God. As the Apostle Paul says, “By grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing – it is the gift of God.” (Ephesians 2.9). And…
While struggling resolutely against the most minute manifestations of evil and sin in our own souls, let us not fear to uncover and point out evil everywhere where it is to be found in modern life-not from pride and self-love,…
