RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Metropolitan Chrysostom on the website of his diocese posted an article that he wrote entitled March 10/23 1924…. 96 years (10/23 Μαρτίου 1924… 96 χρόνια). Reading this article one can clearly see what he is teaching his flock. The red…
Tahini or Sesame Paste in Oil-less Food Orthodoxy is THE Faith of asceticism. Having said that, our fasts are strict! Especially hard are the no oil days. And they are actually in the majority. Most of our…
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…
SAINT ARISTOBULUS An Apostle of the Seventy brought the Orthodox Faith to the shores of Britain. Aristobulus of Britannia was an Apostle, Martyr, and First Bishop of Britain. While some Orthodox traditions say he “died in peace”, others say he was…
Supplicatory Canon / Paraclesis to our Lord Jesus Christ A poem by Theoctistus, a Monk of Stoudion Second Tone ODE ONE Heirmos In the deep of old, the Power supreme to all weaponry overwhelmed Pharaoh’s whole army. And when the…
St. Ypomoni the Righteous (Feast Day – March 13/26) St. Ypomoni (Patience), in the world named Helen Dragaš, and later as the wife of Manuel II Palaiologos was called: “Helen, in Christ God Augusta and Empress of the Romans, Palaiologos”.…
In the midst of a crisis (like this coronavirus crisis we are working through!) is a great time to show that we are thankful to God for all things. “Those things that are and those things that are not” (Divine…
Commemorated on March 14 Saint Benedict, the founder of Western monasticism, was born in the Italian city of Nursia in the year 480. When he was fourteen years of age, the saint’s parents sent him to Rome to study. Unsettled by…
