RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Ε.Φ. At the heart of Orthodox Christian life stands not self-acceptance, but transfiguration. We are not called merely to recognize who we are, but to become what God created us to be. The Feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord…
In the Gospel of Luke, a woman in the crowd lifts her voice and cries out in praise of the Theotokos: “Blessed is the womb that bore Thee, and the breasts that fed Thee!” (Luke 11:27) Our Lord’s response is…
by Presbyter Marco Mannino-Giorgi Whoever has ever attended an Orthodox service knows that at the Divine Liturgy, as also at Vespers and Matins, in the Great Opening Litany called “of peace,” at the third petition, we hear these words: “For…
A Testimony for Our Times Introduction In 1924 the Romanian Orthodox Church adopted the new (Gregorian) calendar, causing widespread confusion and scandal among clergy and faithful who wished to remain faithful to the Julian calendar—the calendar of the Holy Fathers,…
By Priest Aleksandar “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Behold, today we speak of the one who did not die, of the one for whom death became sleep,…
Today marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most extraordinary events in modern Church history — the third appearance of the Holy Cross in the sky above Athens. On the night of September 13-14/26-27, 1925, thousands of faithful had…
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the…
On Thursday, the 29th of August/11th of September, 2025, on the feast of the Beheading of the Holy Foreunner and Baptist John, the Protopresbyter Victor Melehov and the Presbytera Lucia were tonsured as monastics in Dmitrov, Moscow Oblast, Russia. The…
On August 16, the Church celebrates the feast of the Orthodox calendar: the Holy Image of our Lord Jesus Christ “Not Made by Hands”—often called the Holy Napkin or Mandylion. According to the ancient tradition, King Abgar of Edessa, suffering…
