RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Having found a silent place and being alone, sit down and meditate on your life, recall to mind all sins that you have committed from your youth on, those you have confessed, and those left unconfessed. Having brought back to…
from The Pilgrim Continues His Way Turning my eyes carefully upon myself and watching the course of my inward state, I have verified by experience that I do not love God, that I have no love for my neighbors, that…
BY HIS EMINENCE ARCHBISHOP TIKHON, FIRST HIERARCH OF THE RUSSIAN TRUE ORTHODOX CHURCH 2021, Omsk, Siberia In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Today, on the day of the feast of the…
My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: for whom the Lord loves, he rebukes, and scourges every son whom he receives. Blessed is the man who has found wisdom, and…
“With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street.” Dr. Seuss A “priest” of the under-construction Church of the Panagia Stratigissa, Alexandroupoli, Greece tries to commune people straight…
Shakespeare — TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, ACT 5 SCENE 4, LINE 125; VALENTINE TO THURIO The Synod of GOC Kallinikos defrocked Bishop Akakije as a priest. The text reads The First-degree Synodal Court for priests placed the punishment of defrocking…
“The Cross of the Lord is unpleasant and sorrowful to the ear, but it consists of joy and gladness. It is the originator, not so much of suffering as much as of passionlessness. For Jews the Cross is temptation, for…
