RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Commemorated on May 11 Hieromartyr Joseph, First Metropolitan of Astrakhan, was born at Astrakhan in 1579. Having taken monastic vows, Saint Joseph at 52 years of age was raised to the dignity of archimandrite of the Astrakhan Trinity monastery. In…
Commemorated on 4th Sunday of Pascha by the Epistle Reading The Righteous Saint Tabitha (I), a virtuous and kindly woman, belonged to the Christian community in Joppa. Being grievously ill, she happened to be dying. At the time not far…
BY HIS EMINENCE ARCHBISHOP TIKHON FIRST HIERARCH OF THE RUSSIAN TRUE ORTHODOX CHURCH 10/23 May, 2021 Omsk, Siberia After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by the…
Our venerable father Joseph (Litovkin) of Optina was starets and hieroschemamonk among the group of monastics of Optina Monastery in the nineteenth century who were known as the Optina Elders. Elder Joseph is venerated on May 9 and with the Synaxis of the Optina…
Today’s Gospel reading confirms us more and more strongly in the divinity of our Risen Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The Gospels for the last two Sundays told us about the appearances of the Risen One. They were…
The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningBY ROBERT FROST Our present life is certainly lovely, dark,…
by Dr. Vladimir Moss
May 7, 2021 Third Week of Pascha. Tone two. Commemoration of the Apparition of the Sign of the Precious Cross over Jerusalem in 351 A.D.Martyr Acacius the Centurion at Byzantium (303).Repose of Venerable Nilus, abbot of Sora (1508).Venerable John of…
Saint Eadberht, was Bishop of Lindisfarne, England, from 688 until his death on 6 May 698. He is notable as having founded the holy shrine to his predecessor Saint Cuthbert on the island of Lindisfarne, a place that was to become a centre of great pilgrimage in…
Commemorated on May 6, October 28, August 28 Saint Job, Hegumen of Pochaev and Wonderworker (in the world named Ivan Zhelezo), was born in the mid-XV Century in Pokut’a in Galicia. At age 10 he came to the Transfiguration Ugornitsk…
