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RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
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Orthodox Chestnuts – The Official English Language Podcast Channel of the Western European Diocese of the RTOC
We’re excited to announce the launch of our new exclusively-English-language YouTube channel, Orthodox Chestnuts – the official podcast channel for the Western European Diocese of the RTOC, published with the blessing of the Right Reverend Bishop Philaretos of Pallini and…

DE WERELD IS GEK
door aartsbisschop Averky “Er komt een tijd dat mensen zich als gekken gaan gedragen, en tegen hem die dat niet doet, zullen ze zeggen: je gedraagt je als een gek omdat je niet bent zoals wij.”Dat zegt een van de…

THE PARABLE OF THE WORKERS IN THE VINEYARD WHO RECEIVED EQUAL PAY (MATT 20:1–16) by Archbishop Averky
This parable has as its purpose to explain how it could be that the last could become the first. This will come about as a result of God’s mercy and goodness. The kingdom of God is here imagined as a…



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…

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…

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…