RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Ε.Φ. At the heart of Orthodox Christian life stands not self-acceptance, but transfiguration. We are not called merely to recognize who we are, but to become what God created us to be. The Feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord…
By Hieromonk Tikhon Sometimes God invites us to a spiritual banquet to bestow upon us abundant spiritual riches. Not because we deserve it, but because He is good, loves us, and wills for us to enjoy His own goodness. We…
Kutsal, Hayat Veren ve Bölünmez Teslis’in, Baba, Oğul ve Kutsal Ruh’un, tek Tanrı’nın adıyla. Âmin! Biz, görünen ve görünmeyen her şeyin Yaratıcısı olan, Baba, Oğul ve Kutsal Ruh’ta bilinen, özde bir ve bölünmez Teslis olan tek Tanrı’ya inanıyoruz. Kutsal İznik-İstanbul…
In the early Christian centuries, whoever confessed Christ was put to death by the idolatrous kings immediately, with torture. Now, however, the persecution of Christianity—meaning Orthodoxy—is more wicked and more deceitful, and it cloaks the Orthodox Christians with talk of…
“There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.” — William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2 Even in the twilight of a tragedy, Shakespeare places on the lips of Hamlet a startling truth — that…
Those who are involved in metalworks are not deterred by the dust and ash nor by the clouting of the hammer, the toil, or the heat of the fire, but rather, after taking a lump of copper or iron diligently…
Today, according to the Church’s traditional calendar, we mark a sorrowful and deeply significant day in the history of the Orthodox world: the fall of Constantinople on May 29, 1453. This moment marked not only the political collapse of the…
The Church received from the Holy Apostles to perform memorial services on the third, ninth, and fortieth day and so on for those who have fallen asleep in the Lord. Since many have throughout the ages died in foreign lands,…
Question:What does the staff of Moses and the struck rock that water came forth from symbolize?Answer:The staff symbolizes the Cross, the rock the Church, the water symbolizes the Holy Baptism that comes from the Church. “orthodoxos omologia” ορθοδοξος ομολογια orthodox…
by St. Isidore of Pelusium The Lord did not simply curse the fig tree ( a known symbol of the Jewish people) but to show to the ungrateful Judeans that He has the strength necessary to punish.
