RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Now being exiled in our own homes let us draw from the words of St. John Abbot of Sinai. Translation: Fr. Lazarus Moore Step 3 On exile Exile means that we leave forever everything in our own country that prevents…
IT IS NOT JOY OF THE SPIRIT ALONE THAT MANIFESTS OUR LOVE OF GOD; UNFLINCHING COURAGE, STAUNCHLY MAINTAINED THROUGH LONG PERIODS OF DARKNESS AND ANGUISH, PROVES THIS LOVE EVEN MORE DEFINITELY. ST. MACARIUS OF OPTINA
St. John of Kronstadt: . . . Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth . . . ‘God came upon earth in order to raise us up to heaven.’…
“Can you place your hope in the world? Whom has it not deceived? To whom has it not lied? It promises much but gives very little. Only those who hope in the Lord, according to the words of the Prophet…
At today’s vespers, I was impressed by a part of a passage that is often read at celebrated saints’ vespers and happened to fall in today’s regular reading of Proverbs. It says that Wisdom “has slaughtered her beasts; she has…
“You should be afraid not of cholera, but of serious sins, for the scythe of death mows a person down like grass even without cholera. Therefore, place all your hope in the Lord God, without Whose will even the birds…
The second Sunday in Great Lent comes as an extension of the Sunday of Orthodoxy.
Man’s primary responsibility in relation to God is love for Him. This love was commanded in the Old Testament where it was said: “Love the Lord, thy God, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all…
The true Christian, moving his tongue to praise God, leans on his knees and raises his hands and mind to plead with God, pours out tears of repentance and pity before God. The true Christian never swears, always speaks the…
Homily by St. Peter Chrysologus on the Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, Prophet, and Forerunner A good shepherd spends sleepless nights and anxious days so that no crafty thief nor cunning and ferocious wolves may post…
