RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
We know that the STOC was begging for eucharistic communion with the GOC Kallinikos-Cyprianite medley. When that shipwrecked, it started opening other doors. Precisely with bishops who Kallinikos GOC could never accept. Read on!
Fr. Seraphim Rose refers to St. Valentine as "a modern apostle of unadulterated Orthodoxy in a time of rising apostasy."
"Let no one for favors or from fear lean away from the Ecclesiastical Canons"
By Dr. Vladimir Moss The life of the holy Prophet and God-Seer Moses, whose feast we celebrate today, is so full of extraordinarily significant words and actions that it is difficult to know where to begin. St. Gregory of Nyssa…
From the life of New Hieromartyr Michael Kostiuk of Kiev from catacombhistory.blogspot.com On not receiving false blessings (from the life of Saint Michael Kostiuk):During the German occupation of Kiev, during the Second World War, two bishops came to see the…
“The Synod abjured the Gregorian (New) Calendar as an innovation that is in contradiction to the CANONS and ORDINANCES of the CHURCH.” (Chrysostomos Papadopoulos, Church Herald (Ἐκκλησιαστικὸς Κήρυξ), 1918, Issue 189)
Those who follow OTHER CALENDARS sin many times against that which is our own and fit, the canon of the fathers being healthy and truly fatherly. from the Epistle of Patriarch Meletius II of Alexandria to Lord Basil of Ostrov
Sermon by Archbishop Andrew Rymarenko “So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests. And when the king came in to…
In older times, it was truly a great feat for someone to go to the Holy Lands from far away places like Russia and Greece. These pilgrimages were by foot and ship. It was considered a greater blessing to complete the entire pilgrimage by foot and not by ship.
If we expect to withstand the world, it is first necessary to understand it and keep sensitively in mind that in this present age all that which carries the most holy and dear name of Orthodoxy is not in fact Orthodox. Rather, it is often "A fraudulent and usurped Orthodoxy" which we must fear and eschew as if it were fire. Unlike this spurious faith, true Orthodoxy was given and must be received without novelty
