RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
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.
Epistle of a Patriarch of old to the Fathers of Sinai The grandeur and Sanctity of places, without virtue though, do not benefit a soul just as Paradise did not benefit Adam when he was disobedient Nor was Lucifer benefited…
St. Ephraim the Syrian The one who lies is wretched and miserable since the devil was a liar from the very beginning. The one who persists in the lie doesn’t have valour as God and man hate him.
From the Lausaic History by Palladius Bishop of Helenopolis of Bithynia and later Bishop of Aspuna of Galatia There was an Elder who ate only one liter of bread (Roman liter = 327 grams) a day. He broke dried bread…
