RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
“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,…
UPDATE SEP 20/OCT 3, 2022: Please note that the following affirmation is: A work of His Grace Bishop Philaretos of Pallini and Western Europe, and the decision to make use of such an affirmation in the Diocese, and to publish…
From the life of St. Sophia of Kiev Being a true offspring of the Optina Elders, with whom she was in constant contact, she soberly discerned the true nature of the Soviet Revolution and knew what to expect from it.…
By Reader Timothy St Gregory Palamas, whom the Church celebrates today, the second Sunday of Lent, was heavily persecuted in his lifetime. The persecution came, as it often does, as a result of an apparently very learned individual who had…
CANON III OF THE THIRD AND HOLY ECUMENICAL COUNCIL IF any of the city or country clergy have been inhibited by Nestorius or his followers from the exercise of the priesthood, on account of their orthodoxy, we have declared it…
To the True Christian, repentance is a central mystery, perhaps the central mystery when it comes to our attempts to follow the instructions of Our Lord. The Gospel of Matthew 4:17 informs us that the initial public preaching of Our…
Sermon on the Baptism of the Lord (Theophany) By His Eminence Archbishop Tikhon First Hierarch of the Russian True Orthodox Church (An unofficial translation) 2023, Omsk, Siberia At that time: Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to…
