In the Last Days

St. Anatoly of Optina “My child, know that in the last days difficult times will come, as the Apostle says. And behold, due to the lack of piety, heresies and schisms will appear even in the churches, and as the…

These Ones Have the Large Churches…

Thoughts- Bishop Philaretos St. Gregory the Theologian writes, “These ones (the heretics, especially then the Arianists) have the houses, but we have the Dweller (the One who should be present in places dedicated to God).” Never forget that when the…

RTOC Baptism in Greece

Please welcome Ermioni to the family of God. Ermioni was baptized today, April 20/ May 3 in the Corinthian gulf

Mount Athos and the Calendar Change of 1924: Commemorators and Zealots

The Calendar Change in Greece, rooted in the 1920 Encyclical of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which suggested closer ties and even a kind of “league” among so-called “Christian” confessions (Orthodox, Protestant, Papist), the calendar change was one of the first…