RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
-St. Isidore of Pelusium (Letter to Timothy the Reader, PG, 78:252) Just as the fishermen hide the hook with bait and covertly hook the fish, similarly, the crafty allies of the heresies cover their evil teachings and corrupt understanding with…
-St. Gregory Palamas “Let us flee from those who reject patristic interpretations and attempt by themselves to deduce the complete opposite. While pretending to concern themselves with the literal sense of the passage, they reject its godly meaning. We should…
~ William Shakespeare
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…
“Lord, where are you going?” “I am going to Rome to be crucified again.” -Thoughts +BP In the apocryphal “Acts of St. Peter”, it is reported that Peter started to flee Rome at the time of Emperor Nero’s persecution. Saint Peter realizes…
[Acts 4:13–22; John 5:17–24]. Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard (Acts 4:19–20). Thus spoke…
“Such a schism, ( a long-lasting one)” says Saint Basil, is “already in all things like unto heresy, and one must treat such schismatics as one would heretics, not permitting any communion with them.” St. John Chrysostom says, “Thou sayest,…
“Do not fear sorrows, but fear the stubbornness of heretics who try to separate a man from Christ, which is why Christ commanded us to consider them as pagans and Pharisees.”
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…
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…
