

RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe

RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
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Παρακλητικός Κανών Αγίου Σάββα του Ηγιασμένου
Ὁ Ἱερεύς: Εὐλογητός ὁ Θεός ἠμῶν πάντοτε, νῦν καί ἀεί καί εἰς τούς αἰώνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ὁ Ἀναγνώστης: Ἀμήν. Ψαλμός ρμβ΄ (142) Κύριε, εἰσάκουσον τῆς προσευχῆς μου, ἐνώτισαι τήν δέησίν μου ἐν τή ἀληθεία σου, εἰσάκουσόν μου ἐν τή δικαιοσύνη σού• καί…

The Convent of St. Mary Magdalene, Gethsemane, The Monastery of the Holy Cross, and the Handprint of Christ on the Via Dolorosa
The Stone with the Handprint of Christ raised from the pavement and placed on the wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, Via Dolorosa



Hypocrisy Begins the Moment There Appears the Intention Not to Do Good, but Only to Show Yourself as Doing Good
by St. Theophan the Recluse [I Thess. 5:1-8; Luke 11:47-12:1] Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. The distinguishing feature of hypocrisy is to do everything for show. To do things where others can see is…

“Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.” (Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi)
Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt (Hungarian: nagyrápolti Szent-Györgyi Albert Imre; September 16, 1893 – October 22, 1986) was a Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937

Then the person becomes noble in the eyes of God because of his heart’s disposition, although on the outside he may sometimes seem unprepossessing to other people.
St. Theophan the Recluse [I Thess. 4:1-12; Luke 11:42-46] The Lord reproaches His contemporaries by saying that they pass over the judgement and the love of God. The drying up of righteousness and love is the root of all disharmony…

Only Good and Truth Make Up a True Possession
by St. Theophan the Recluse [I Thess. 2:14-19; Luke 11:23-26] He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. It turns out that one can labour an entire age and think that…