

RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe

RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe


Struggling Against Evil by Archbishop Averky
While struggling resolutely against the most minute manifestations of evil and sin in our own souls, let us not fear to uncover and point out evil everywhere where it is to be found in modern life-not from pride and self-love,…


THE FIRST CATHOLIC EPISTLE OF THE HOLY APOSTLE PETER Archbishop Averky of Syracuse
Place and Time of Writing. The place from which St. Peter wrote his first epistle is indicated as Babylon (5.13). The Roman Catholics, in affirming that the holy Apostle Peter was for 25 years bishop in Rome, wish to see…

История общины Русской Истинно-Православной Церкви города Зея Амурской области
History of the community of the Russian True Orthodox Church in the city of Zeya, Amur region

Peace! Peace! Peace! by Archbishop Averky
“Peace!.. peace!.. peace!.. is heard now from every side: “mutual disarmament!..peaceful coexistence!.. we shall struggle for peace!.. everyone in defense of peace!..” How wonderful it would be, what a bright and joyful future it would promise for mankind if only…
A Sermon by Saint Philaret, Metropolitan of New York On The Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee
In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit Last night during the Vigil service and for the first time in the present cycle of Church services, we heard that penitent prayer which the Church addresses to God in…

Using the Guise of Virtues: There Exist Fake Ones
Archbishop Averky wrote: “Zeal for God, zeal for the Truth is not “phariseeism,” just as “humility” before the enemies of God, the enemies of the Church, before diabolical Evil, is not the true and saving humility of the Publican, but…

The Holy Martyr Agatha of Catania
St. Agatha of Sicily (c. 231 – c. 251 AD) was an early Christian martyr. Her feast is on February 5th. An ancient life of St. Agatha exists both in Latin and in Greek St. Agatha is cited in the martyrology of St.…

Is there Something Surprising in that an Innumerable Multitude and Even Chief Hierarchs Remain Indifferent to the Truth? St. Victor (Ostrovidov) (+1934) Bishop of Glazov answers us.
St. Victor writes, “My friends, if we truly believe that outside the Orthodox Church a man has no salvation, then when her truth is perverted we cannot remain her indifferent worshippers in the dark, but we must confess before everyone…