RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
St. Theophan the Recluse [I Thess. 4:1-12; Luke 11:42-46] The Lord reproaches His contemporaries by saying that they pass over the judgement and the love of God. The drying up of righteousness and love is the root of all disharmony…
JEBEL MUSA, Egypt — An initiative to mobilize faith leaders worldwide to push governments to do more about climate change kicked off Sunday morning with an Israeli environmental activist smashing mock tablets of stone atop an Egyptian peak believed…
by St. Theophan the Recluse [II Cor. 8:1-5; Luke 8:16-21] Nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither anything hid, that shall not be known and come abroad. Therefore, no matter how much we hide our bad deeds,…
by St. Theophan the Recluse [I Thess. 2:14-19; Luke 11:23-26] He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. It turns out that one can labour an entire age and think that…
The Martyr Anastasia the Roman was born in Rome to well-born parents and left an orphan at the age of three. As an orphan, she was taken into a women’s monastery near Rome, where the abbess was a Nun named Sophia, a nun of…
By St. Theophan the Recluse [I Thess. 2:9-14; Luke 11:14-23] When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him…
St. Theophan the Recluse [I Thess. 2:1-8; Luke 11:9-13] The Lord convinces us to pray with the promise of His hearing, explaining this promise as the soft-heartedness of a natural father, favourably disposed to the petitions of his children. But…
St. Theophan the Recluse [II Cor. 5:1-10; Luke 7:2-10] What a bright person the centurion is! How did he reach such faith that he surpassed with it all Israelites, raised with revelation, prophesies, and miracles? The Gospels do not indicate…
The Seven Holy Sleepers of Ephesus: A Witness to the Resurrection There are places in the Holy Land and throughout the ancient Christian world where history and the living faith of the Church seem to meet in a particularly powerful…
“Keep an eye on your bishops as far as their Orthodoxy is concerned lest they go so far as to teach doctrines against the true faith or celebrate with heretics and schismatics. As far as other things, they act out…
