RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
There is a question confronting Orthodox Christians with increasing urgency: Can the Church change her Tradition in order to accommodate the modern world? We hear the language everywhere: “The Church must adapt.” “We must reinterpret Tradition.” “We cannot remain trapped…
In the Gospel of Mark, Christ’s presence with wild beasts during His forty days in the wilderness highlights His role as the New Adam. Unlike the first Adam who fell in Paradise, Christ resists temptation in a hostile environment, signaling…
Certain virtues disappear so gradually that we hardly notice they are gone. One of these is reverence. We live in an age that prizes familiarity above all else. Formality has given way to informality. Respect has yielded to casualness. We…
Modern culture teaches self-esteem as the answer to life’s problems, but the Orthodox Church offers a very different path. Drawing on the wisdom of St. Isaac the Syrian, this article explores the difference between the modern cult of self-esteem and the liberating truth of Christian humility.
The Feast After the Feast: Where Shall We Find the Holy Spirit? Today, on the day following the great Feast of Pentecost, the Holy Church gathers us together for the Synaxis of the Holy Spirit. It is a feast that…
“I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh.” (Joel 2:28) Today the Holy Orthodox Church celebrates the radiant and life-giving Feast of Holy Pentecost. Fifty days after the Resurrection of Christ and ten days after His glorious Ascension, the…
Праздник Вознесения Господня является одним из самых прекрасных и глубочайших праздников Православной Церкви. Через сорок дней после Своего Воскресения Господь наш Иисус Христос телесно вознёсся на Небеса перед глазами Своих учеников. Но Вознесение — это не просто «уход» Христа от…
There are feasts in the Church year that overwhelm the soul with joy, and there are feasts that reveal mysteries so profound that the mind itself stands in silence before them. The glorious Feast of the Ascension of our Lord…
“Before all things, let us first place in the register of our prayer a sincere and unfeigned thanksgiving to God. In the second place, let us confess our sins and offer the brokenness of our soul with true compunction. Then,…
· In recent years, a troubling trend has spread throughout so-called “Orthodox” circles—a trend so widespread that many now accept it without question, as though novelty were tradition and convenience were theology. The holy Mystery of Baptism, once guarded with…
