RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
source: akathists.com Kontakion 1 Blessed Mother Xenia, Holy Fool for the sake of Christ, you elected to undergo the struggle of patience and the suffering of affliction. We therefore honor your sacred memory with hymns of praise. Help us against…
By Dr. Vladimir Moss The last ten years of the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius’ reign, until his death in 641, were miserable and tragic: disgraced by personal scandal and his embracing of the heresy of Monothelitism, he saw all his conquests…
by Dr. Vladimir Moss St. Maximus the Greek was an Athonite monk who was sent, according to Sir Steven Runciman, “by the Patriarch Theoleptus I to Russia in response to [Great Prince] Vassily III’s request for a skilled librarian.…
Based on a comment from a different post As Christians, Christ calls us through the blaring voice of the Apostle of the Nations Paul saying, “That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the…
By Dr. Vladimir Moss On this day 103 years ago, January 19 / February 1, 1918, Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow anathematized the Bolshevik government, an act that was confirmed a few days later by the Local Council of the Russian…
source: catacombhistory.blogspot.com From the life of St. Sergius Mechev (†1941): Fr. Sergius Mechev firmly adhered to his previous convictions and sought communion with some like-minded true Orthodox bishop. There were many of them, but all of them were either in…
Novosibirsk, Siberia And it came to pass, that as He was come nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the wayside begging: And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant. And they told him, that…
Saint Honoratus (French: Saint Honorat or Saint Honoré; c. 350 – 6 January 429) was the founder of Lérins Abbey who later became an early Archbishop of Arles. Honoratus was born in the north of Gaul to a consular Roman family.[4] He received an outstanding education. He converted…
Saint Sigeberht of East Anglia (also known as Saint Sigebert), (Old English: Sigebryht) was a saint and a king of East Anglia, the Anglo-Saxon kingdom which today includes the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. He was the first English king to receive a Christian baptism and education before…
Again today, with a very deep sigh and a mood that was like the gray sky outside of my window, I sat down and reread a quote by my beloved Archbishop Averky. The below quote may seem depressing to some,…
