RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Lover of mankind, You have given Your Church a reason to glorify in your honorable Apostles, for they are most brilliant lights of Your Church like logical stars, enlightening the world and through whom You brought light to the Western…
Why did the Baptist (St. John the Forerunner) call the Judaeans offspring of the echidnae? Because this beast eats the stomach of its mother and thus comes out of the womb. In the same way, the Jews ate their teaches…
We know that during the first years of Christianity, the Christians received the body of Christ in their hands. Why did the Church decide to introduce the use of a spoon for the distribution of Holy Communion? The answer to…
(Canon 18 of Carthage or according to the Greek- Canon xix.) It seemed good that before bishops, or clerics were ordained, the provisions of the canons should be brought to their notice, lest they might afterward repent of having acted contrary to law through ignorance.
Great is the virtue of tears!
Some Fasting and Some Feasting Due to the Betrayal of the Church’s Calendar. Here’s a Food Idea – Stuffed Squid from our Monastery’s Kitchen
Dear brother Bishops, Clergy and God-loving flock in the Lord our Church! Let us remind you that after the sad events of 2016, when some clerics from the Omsk- Siberian diocese and the parishioners who followed them, the now former…
Some Things to Ask Yourself… After more than 100 years of the so-called “ecumenical movement” (See the Encyclical of 1920 or this youtube video), what have the fruits been of the ecumenical movement? Supposedly, the ecumenical movement attempts to bring…
I came to this site looking for an authority on translation of the Greek New Testament. Judging by my experience with French, there isn’t much hope in me becoming profiicient in Greek. So if someone there would reply to my…
