

RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe

RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe



FREEMASONRY, ECUMENISM AND THE 2020 AMERICAN REVOLUTION
By Dr. Vladimir Moss During the eighteenth century, in spite of the spread of Enlightenment ideas, the old despotic order still reigned in Europe; and with rulers such as Frederick the Great in Prussia and Catherine the Great in…

St. Columba of Iona
St. Columba of Iona Our venerable and God-bearing Father Columba of Iona, Enlightener of Scotland (December 7, 521 – June 9, 597) (also known as Columcille, meaning “Dove of the Church”) was an Irish missionary who helped re-introduce Christianity to Scotland and the north of…

Οἱ Οὐρανοὶ Διηγοῦνται Δόξαν Θεοῦ – Ἐκλογὴ ἀπὸ τὸν Πολυέλεον Selection from the Polyeleos The Heavens Declare the Glory of God
Monk Symeon chants the selection from the Polyeleos “The Heavens Declare the Glory of God”. Ψάλλει ὁ Μοναχὸς Συμεὼν Οἱ Οὐρανοὶ Διηγοῦνται Δόξαν Θεοῦ

“I Will Not Tell Thy Secret to Thine Enemies”
THE CATACOMB CHURCH IN THE SOVIET UNION by Ivan Andreyev The All-Russian Church Council in Moscow in 1917-1918 gave the Russian Orthodox Church a firm canonical basis for the life of the Christian Church in an anti-Christian state. Patriarch Tikhon…

CONCERNING FASTING
bySaint Ignatius Briantchaninov Reprinted from Orthodox Life -Vol.2 Number 2 – March/April 1951 The head or chief of the virtues is prayer; their foundation is fasting. Fasting is constant moderation in food with prudent discernment in its use. Proud man!…

SAINT PETROC, ABBOT OF PADSTOW And Those with Him – June 4
by Dr. Vladimir Moss Our holy Father Petroc (or Pedrog) was born in about 468, the third of ten children of King Glywys Cernvw of Glywysing (Dyfed, Wales). After the death of his father, the people wanted Petroc to take…

Find Out What the Holy Fathers Said About Sts. Martha and Maria, the Sisters of St. Lazarus – June 4
The righteous sisters Martha and Mary were believers in Christ before He raised their brother Saint Lazarus from the dead. After the martyrdom of the holy Archdeacon Stephen a persecution against the Jerusalem Church broke out, and Righteous Lazarus was…

SAINT ODA “THE GOOD”, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
by Dr. Vladimir Moss Our holy Father Oda was born in East Anglia, of Danish parents. His father had been a soldier in the pagan Great Army that killed the holy Martyr-King Edmund of East Anglia in 869 and was…