RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Ὑπὸ Ἱερομονάχου Τύχωνος «Καὶ τότε σκανδαλισθήσονται πολλοί, καὶ παραδώσουσιν ἀλλήλους, καὶ μισήσουσιν ἀλλήλους… Καὶ διὰ τὸ πληθυνθῆναι τὴν ἀνομίαν, ψυγήσεται ἡ ἀγάπη τῶν πολλῶν. Ὁ δὲ ὑπομείνας εἰς τέλος, οὗτος σωθήσεται… Ὅταν οὖν ἴδητε τὸ βδέλυγμα τῆς ἐρημώσεως τὸ ῥηθὲν…
by Hieromonk Tikhon “And then many shall be made to stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another… And because lawlessness shall have been multiplied, the love of the multitude shall grow cold. But the one…
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,…
