If you wish to read my blog articles, please visit my “Abbot Tryphon” FaceBook page, or my blog, “The Morning Offering”. I have been writing these articles as my way of supporting Orthodox Christians on their spiritual journey, as well as introducing Orthodoxy to non-Orthodox. Thus, I have been rather surprised and disappointed at the number of negative responses I’ve had (including some that were rather insulting). Therefore I have decided I will no longer respond to personal attacks. It was too hurtful, and I’m still saddened that I’ve lost a number of friendships that meant a lot to me because individuals found fault in some of my postings. I’ve never understood people who can’t civility listen to differing views, and debate an opposing idea while still remaining friends. So, I am choosing to remain peaceful in my heart, and let others hold to their views without entering into debate. Please forgive me.
With love and blessings,
Abbot Tryphon
Why would anyone take offense at your writings? I’ve only been reading for a week, but I’ve been loving your posts! Also, I really appreciate that you include the daily readings. I have decided to skip reading the news in the morning in favor of your blog.
Thank you from a new reader!
Im so sorry š My prayers and support are with you.
I agree I don’t understand either way people choose to enter into negative destructive debates. When Morning Offering is such a ‘gift’ and we thank you Abbot Tryphon for your blog it is so uplifting and I also choose to ‘read’ it instead of the ‘news’ feed in the morning.
Dear Father Bless
We Love you!!!!
With every blog and writing you post it makes me and my family spiritually richer. I am saddened that people cannot agree to disagree and leave it at that. Just remember you have more friends and family than you know.
Keep up Gods work. You are making a difference in peopleās lives!!!!
Love in Christ
Vera
We love you!!!!!many many families and their kids read and re read your blogs !!!!!please keep writing. May God and His Mother keep you in good strength and good health!!!!
Dear Abbot Tryphon, it saddens me to read your post that some have been insulting, etc. It seems in these modern times that there are people that donāt want to hear or accept the ideas & opinions of others. I greatly benefit from your blogs & your book the Morning Offering. Please donāt allow some folks to get you down. You have many viewers who value your Wisdom. Respect In Christ, Jeanne Tsakalos
Father, I thank you always for your kind, honest, and enlightening words. There are thousands who are inspired by your daily essays who never comment. May God bless you and keep you!
I completely understand and honor your wishes. Thank you for your presentations, words and thought as we all need to hear from trusted sources and those that have taken the time to at least understand what it is we are working with in this life. I am sorry for my fellow humans ( maybe some are not ) and why they should feel the need to bring others down to their level when all we are doing is working on bringing up their vibrations for them to experience true understanding of the unseen. Thank you and please be strong in the loses as we must forgive and pray for those who are just not gettin it š
Brett
We love you abbot Tryphon and I hope you will keep writing your blog. I look forward to seeing it in my inbox every day and then reading your teachings. There is something about the COVID hysteria that has gotten into peopleās minds. The hysteria and fear-based media reports have been very effective at driving a wedge between people, even close friends and family members. God bless you and your Christ-centered ministry. -Leo Hohmann
Iām so sorry Fr Tryphon that you have been upset lately. I have been getting yours blogs for about 6 months and enjoyed them immensely.
I lost my husband 20 months ago to cancer. Fr Seraphimās thoughts were very much like yours. I guess thatās why I enjoy your words and pictures. He also worked in the prison system and was an indigenous priest. I love him very much.
Mat. Helen
Amen Father. I have never understood why people cannot disagree on issues and remain connected in the heart.
God bless you and all the the brothers at the monastery. Please know that there are many of us who cherish your guidance and encouragements.
In Christ’s love,
Subdeacon John
I enjoy reading your Morning Offering each day. And appreciate the words and philosophy that you share. Thank you and my God Bless You.
I look forward every time I open my email to see your devotions! You and the monks are in my prayers.
Pamela (Eleni) Hutchings
Dear Abbott Tryphon, I have found your posts uniformly gracious, perspicacious and helpful. My wife and I are blessed to read and discuss them almost every day. Many in our parish have told us they do likewise. Please continue to struggle in this effort for our continued blessing.
Abbot Tryphon!
I am so sorry to hear this! I had no idea you would be getting negative responses. I read you aloud every morning with my husband. We thoroughly enjoy your viewpoint and insight. Sometimes if there is something that I think will touch some of my Protestant friends (and there often is) I copy and paste myself and put it up on FB. I usually get many favorable responses ….
Please be encouraged!
And never stop!
Love in Christ,
Julia
PS I really wanted to go to the Holy Land with you (my husband did not…) so maybe someday in the future!
Dearest Abbot Tryphon,
Glory to God for all things.
It is impossible to describe the value that you have brought to our lives, through your writings and faithful morning offerings.
Nothing brings me more consolation, comfort and edification, on a daily basis, then to wake up to my morning prayers, starting the day with what you have to share.
I can honestly say, I would not have been able to keep the faith, be steadfast in my practice, and continue to strive on the royal path, without your pastoral guidance and leadership, offered ingeniously in a format that makes it accessible to us all.
Isolated as we are today, each in our own home church, we are completely dependent upon technology as our primary means of social interaction and community participation.
Please do continue your loving efforts to reach us all, we love you, and you bring us great joy and consolation in our daily struggles.
Where there is Grace, there is always darkness nearby…….
Yours in Christ,
Always
Olga Reighard
I am always wiser for have read your blog. Iām so sorry for the cyber bulling. Thank you for your ministry!
Dear Abbott Tryphon, Your blogs are greatly edifying to me. Please continue and know you are a blessing to so many . Your sister in Christ.
Glory to Christ…
I am so sad to read this, as it was (usually) the first email I looked at every morning.
Iām very sorry that in your effort to help us lost souls, It did not bring the joy it should have.
You are in my prayers, and hopefully I can figure out how to find your blog, as I cancelled Facebook
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May a God grant you health and many years.
Dear Abbot Tryphon,
Father Bless! I’ve always enjoyed reading your articles about the Orthodox faith. As a “newby” convert I’ve liked the information I can glean out of them as well as the “daily life skills” of learning to live our faith in a secular world. Please continue to keep these informative and enjoyable articles coming. You are truly a blessing!
Michael, I agree!
Father Tryphon is a true blessing and a True Christian, that is why he is being attacked.
I am not an Orthodox, yet, but there is no doubt in my mind that the Orthodox Faith has the fullness of the Faith. Like a seamless garment where all is kept safe.
Although, there appears to be some moths trying to do some damage and create holes, but they will not succeed.
The fact that Fr Tryphon is attacked is a proof of how effective his blog is, he certainly got me on the hook, I would love to be found in his net.
Most Beloved Abbot Tryphon, I am thankful for your posts. I was a an 11 yr old American protestant in a RC Convent school in Petropolis, Brazil, full of nazi girls in 1951. I found out right away what cruelty and systemic bullying by my peers was. I have always had to watch out for suffering, embarrassment and my own careful responsible behavior must be. You are much loved. Miss Mike
God bless you Abbott Tryphon. I have debated about joining a certain Orthodox church because they had such narrow views of accepting other Christian denominations, but your blog has shown me it isn’t Orthodoxy that is narrow minded, it is the specific people. Your kind, gentle, and loving heart shines through in your writings, and I believe you exemplify God’s love. Thank you for your work. I’m sorry others have chosen a less than loving attitude toward you. May God’s love comfort you.
Father Tryphon, I empathize as I know what it’s like to be misunderstood and marginalized by those whom I thought were “friends” .Oftentimes others sense a “disappointment ” when one doesn’t live up to a preconceived image they have of you. I like to remember we ” have a friend who sticks closer than a brother “. Keep your “eye on the prize” .
Blest evening ,Father
Fr. Bless!
I love your posts and need them!
Thank you so much!
I hope to visit you someday.
Much love to you and kindest regards!
John Peskey
Casper, WY.
Bless me Father,
People are under a lot of stress these days and sometimes react in ways that would horrify even themselves. I think your response to negative comments is the perfect way to react. I’m trying to keep my eyes down, my ears closed and my heart open.
Father Bless,
How I understand your anguish at what people say. I have been called all sorts of names in the last few days over current events because I asked for calm and to wait for information. I read and repost your work everyday (on Facebook) and look forward to each posting. Some of them challenge me, but then that what a good spiritual father does. Will I still get your posts as an email or need I go to Ancient Faith to read them?
Father bless,
I kindly thank you for your posts and share them daily in my daily scripture email blasts.
May God continue to bless you to bless us with your love and wisdom.
Your humbles prayers,
Subdeacon Daniel
Abbot Tryphon,
Father bless! (I would be so grateful if you would not publish my comment. This is for you alone…and I fear the person who is the subject of some of what I may write, may read my comment and respond to me–perhaps in person– with more unkindness.) I am so sorry you have experienced these insulting words. Isn’t it awful to feel that you are doing a good thing and helping others, only to be attacked especially by those in the same “camp”, so to speak? I too have heard similar words and dealt with similar experiences…sometimes the worst coming from not only Orthodox, but even clergy as well. People who are so prideful they can’t see the hurt they cause others and cannot see the arrogance and ill intent of their own words. I try so often to give others the benefit of the doubt, make excuses like, they must be having a bad day, or maybe it’s my fault, etc. But after a while, one has to realize the problem is within them, not with me.
In the past several months, I have come across some things within the church that have scandalized and shaken me to my very core. Please know that there have been MANY times that I’ve cried, lamented finding the Truth in Orthodoxy… but do not see it in our churches and in her clergy or long-standing members. And then I read your blog and some days, it’s the only light in my day. So please do NOT stop. You are doing GOOD to our souls!!!
It is during this time, during these trials, that I cling to the words of Elder Thaddeus: “When I understood that neither parents, nor family, nor friends, nor anyone in the world could offer me anything but pain, insults and wounds, I resolved to stop living for the world and to dedicate my few remaining days in this life to the Lord. I realized that I had no one in the world except God.”
While I am a medical provider now, my greatest desire once I become debt-free is to be a monastic. Already I have been granted the blessing of living in my home as a postulant, if you will, while under the direction of an abbot of a monastery in CA. Please pray that I might become debt-free soon so I may live as a monastic full-time. So I guess I’m trying to tell you that: 1. You are doing good. Please do not let nasty people tell you otherwise. With all this civil unrest and all these hot topics in today’s world: upcoming election, race wars, this virus, etc. is it any wonder that the spiritual attacks will exponentially increase? Keep your eyes on our Divine Spouse and do not let anyone move you from that Holy Goal. 2. Yes, please ignore those who wish to engage you in arguments. Their own misery, and mental health conditions exacerbated by the altered society we are now facing as our “new normal” is very taxing on one’s nerves, even for the most stable of people. Fear mongering, divisiveness and the like are just tools of the Evil One during this very troubling time. and 3. Please remember me in your holy prayers: that I heal from a recent ankle surgery and that I am successfully able to get rid of this awful student loans/debt so that I may dedicate MY remaining years in holy monasticism.
You are loved, Father Abbot. You are prayed for. You are His precious one and you do His good work.
Yours in Christ,
Denise
Dear Fr. Abbot, I look forward to your messages everyday. Please donāt let the insults hurt you, I love you and so does Jesus. You have a gift to a great insight to our faith. Thank you and God bless you always in good health and happiness. Maybe someday we will meet.
Love,
Susan
Blessed Abbot Tryphon, I am so sorry that you have had some negative and insulting responses to your Morning Offering ministry. The world has always been a troubling place, and is hurting even more today than in times past. In their hurt, people will forget themselves, forget who they truly are, and lash out angrily at any available target without engaging any discernment. It is altogether proper that you refuse to respond to such as many today have lost the fine art of civil engagement. They only want to be heard, and to hurt. There is no discussion with them. To try to do so would only result in an exercise in futility. may God in His infinite mercy bless both your ministry, and also those who would oppose you. I wish God’s peace on us all.
Father Tryphon,
Tha k you so much for your blog and your posts. I have shares so many of them with my family, and have reposted them to my Facebook page because I thought others could benefit from them. Please donāt change anything that you are doing! May our most gracious and loving Lord grant you strength, perseverance, and the peacd to continue to do His will!
Thank you!
Dear Abbott Tryphon,
Your sadness is mine as well; I believe you are taking a wise position and pray that you will not only continue to bear the weight of the personal attacks, but to pray for those who make them. May you be strengthened. There is a young, renowned (Orthodox) author/commentator/radio personality who continually comes across to me as pompous, sarcastic, (I could go on and on) you name it. But I pray for him and I pray for myself to learn to overlook those perceived human flaws (I have them too!!!) because I just love it when I find a pearl in his work. I believe he loves the Lord, I believe you love the Lord, and I beg the Lord to help my love grow. This priest seems to thrive on debate and, dare I say, being right. The Lord has allowed my personal dislike for his pompous ways to become a tool for me to learn about my own faults. God is so mysteriously wonderful. I, like you, am willing to offer my thoughts when I trust the person I’m engaging with to be kind and respectful. I have a friend who used to be quite abusive until I repeatedly refused to have discussions unless she was civil. She also learned that I would still LOVE her despite our opposite positions and our relationship has only strengthened because of it. We chose love. Our teenager has a hard time understanding how I can be friends with this woman and I tell her God has taught me to look for the good! He gives us all free will to have our own opinions, but calls us to love. Sadly, I still grieve the loss of numerous friends simply for having embraced Orthodoxy. I don’t think the heartbreak goes away. I can’t imagine the compounded weight of your burden. Thank you for your loving position and example. As you can tell from the rambling length of my response, it is not meant to be eloquent. Your love moved my heart tonight and continues to bolster my faith. I do not always agree with you, but I love you and thank you for loving all of us in return through your devoted service to our Lord.
Father thank you for your peace and loving kindness. I was lost in darkness, I cried to heaven.
I don’t know if I was sent to you or you were sent to me, just know that you have become a part of my life everyday.
Dear Abbot Tryphon,
I am not Orthodox, I am a Roman Catholic, but find your articles very edifying., and have shared many of them. I am a convert to Catholicism (from Lutheranism :-), but will forever remember the words of the priest who “instructed” me. He said, “Don’t ever get cocky about being Catholic. There are many roads to heaven, ours is just one of them. Thank you again and God bless +++
I don’t have very much to add to the loads of positive responses you posted….
sadly, it’s not just you that is being maligned, the whole country is going off of its axis…
God save us all…..
I find the Morning Offering regularly provides interesting subject matter to consider. I appreciate your postings and look forward to reading them. Please keep them coming and thank you.
Am deeply saddened to read your blog today father. I feel the hurt you must have and just want you to know that I appreciate all you do and that you are in my prayers.
We love you. Keep pressinā on in the Lord as you do. Blessings
I dont use Facebook, however am happy to receive your inspirationals with photos each and every morning. They are always a learning experience and when not, they are a reminder to keep me on the right path!
This is a time when people need to support one another in patience and endurance and not be putting others down. It takes self discipline and humility and I probably learned that from your very blog…..:)
God bless; look forward to your words tomorrow morning!!
Fr Tryphon
I know there are at least a couple of topics that we don’t agree on, but I hope our discussions about those have always been such as you described here, people disagreeing and yet remaining friends. When you and I were in college the world was a place where ideas could be inquired into, debated, contested, picked apart, and in the end, truth was left standing on the table. Sadly, increasingly, truth is decreed through philosophical bubble chambers as if from on high, not subject to examination. Increasingly there is no debate or shared inquiry. Speakers presenting alternative ideas deemed controversial are shut down, whereas in our day, any number of ideas could be presented. There is even talk of having no presidential debates this year, kind of a quintessential manifestation of the Zeitgeist, if it were to in fact happen.
I love you, you and the fathers on Vashon are always in our prayers.
Father bless! I cannot imagine the morning without your soothing words. You are my morning light .
May dear Lord bless you with good health and strength.
Your blog is the first thing I read when waking up to start my day, before I even rise from bed. Afterwards I turn to a Russian Orthodox app where the same saints of the day have live links so I can tead about them. How I would love to visit you on your island sometime. While I might not have understood one or two of your messages, the vast majority of them have been an encouragement and a blessing to me over the years since I found you. And the “not understanding” comes more from me than your message; since we “do not see the world as it is, but rather see it as we are.” Blessings to you, dear Abbot Tryphon!
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Dear Fr Tryphon,
Father bless.
Thank you for writing your Morning Offering blog . One of the first things I do each morning after my prayers is read your post for the day. It never disappoints me and provides the extra bit of nourishment for the soul to get started and take on the day.. The posts that I find to be particularly relevent to me get copied and filed in my “to reread file”. Thank you for sharing your spiritual advice each morning!
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Father, bless.
We are so thankful for your words every morning.
Good medicine for the soul!
Dear Father, i thank God for your holy prayers and example and encouragement. I pray He will continue to bless and strengthen us unworthy ones by preserving you in health and peace and every good thing!!!
I thank the good Lord for all He has allowed in His ineffable love.
Thank you Father!
Much love,
In Christ,
Nun Photini
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Dear Abbot Tryphon,
Father Bless! Thank you so much for your Morning Offering postings. You can’t begin to image how many lives you have blessed, and how many people have learned about Christ and Orthodoxy through your words. Please continue to do this most important work of outreach and ministry. We need it. I read your postings each morning and meditate on your words throughout the day. You help me understand my Orthodox faith better. May God bless you and keep you.
In Christ always,
Vas
I have been a long time subscriber of your blog and I am truly saddened by this post. For I love you and your articles. Please do not give up but continue to serve God and your friends which includes me. We all support and need you. May God be with, go with God.
Yours in Christ Jesus,
Victor
Dear Father Tryphon, I grieve over the hurt you have experienced recently. I always read your blog, but rarely read the comments, so I was unaware of these mean remarks. I am sure that you can tell by the numerous responses posted before mine that your daily blog is a lifeline and source of immense spiritual nourishment to many. Please continue to guide us! With love in Christ, Mat. Betsy
Father Bless!
May you continue to bless each and everyone of us with your writings each day. Be we Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican or Protestant, your words provide wisdom for us and the opportunity to learn…and discuss. We would all be much the poorer without your thoughts each morning.
Please continue…and Thank Your from our hearts!
I want to send you my heart felt thank you for your blog the Morning Offering. I look forward to reading it
every morning. I have saved most of them just to be read at another time. Your blog is a shinning light
for me in a dark place . Thank you for all that you continue to do for all of us. I want to assure you of my love
and support. You have definitely made a difference in so many of our lives
God Bless and hold you close to Himself
I read your blog daily and am blessed by it.
Dear Father Tryphon. I have loved your daily blog since the first time it came my way. I have followed you for more than a year I think, and I am happy that you did not stop because of some very bad and mean comments. I am sure you know , that if evil is coming closer and closer it is because you are moving closer to God and God closer to you. I hope you will have a blessed day . Your friend in Norway.
Thanks be to God for His Loving kindness!! Love conquers all! May the Lord grant the Brotherhood and Abbot Tryphon much strength during this time! A shining light in this world of darkness to o sooo many!! With so much love prayers and lots of good Greek hugs!!
I agree with all the beautiful comments written before this. How sad it is that you, of all people, should be the subject of attack. Your words of love and encouragement are truly a gift to all of us who read them. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised since Jesus warned us this would happen. After all, they put the Lord of Creation to death!
Amen to all the wonderful supportive comments you have received thus far and I am in prayerful agreement. There is nothing that is not known to our Blessed Savior, may all things bring glory to His Name. May those who oppose your godly wisdom be truly open to God’s leading and healing.
May God heal your heart and may your continue joyfully in your mission for Him.
In His Love,
Susie
My Dear Fr. Tryphon, I am so sorry to hear that you have been under attack. Honestly, I knew some of your recent posts were brave and encroached into contentious territory, given the sensitivity of some things these days, but Iāve always respected and valued your thoughts, and hoped that others did too. I love your blog. Please donāt ever stop. I also want to interview you for my podcast again. You are a light in this world!
I am sorry to read this post, as reading your blog is one of the first things I do when I start my day. I don’t participate in Facebook or social media, so will not be able to follow you there. I hope you can continue this inspirational and helpful blog somewhere for those of us not on social media. Perhaps you could have a web site or blog by invitation or with a password, so you have more control over the conversation. Please ignore those people’s comments, as they are missing the point and to be pitied. I have learned that the more just, moral, Christian, or loving the stance I have taken in life, the more opposition I experience when I am doing good. I have come to evaluate what I am doing by whether there is opposition in the picture, assuming I am doing something good in the Truth in the name of God and am not acting out of ego. I lost another blog by a monk, and it was an incalculable and irreplaceable loss. I will feel the same way about not being able to follow this blog. We need to know that there are some folks out there following the Way and keeping the light alive so that those of us out in the world can maintain hope and connection to the right Way. As it is said in many traditions, the prayers and presence of a few just persons in the world are saving to the rest of us. May you be surrounded by His angels and well supported in your ministry!
Dear Abbot Tryphon, I too am saddened by your message which I received in my email. Last December, I signed up to receive your Morning Offering (this was a blessing, for sure). I share your Morning Offering with my adult son who would love to visit your monastery some day. We are Roman Catholic, but nearly every reflection written has touched our hearts. I often print them out, and he has quite a collection. Even if your writing is strictly about Orthodoxy, it still has value to others since we are all on this spiritual journey while on earth. Sometimes we are experiencing exactly what you are writing about, such as forgiveness, anxiety, or striving for love,. That we are witnessing so much hatred and anguish in our country cannot be ignored and must be healed. Please keep on writing. p.s. I did not know that your Morning Offering is also on FB!.
Sorry to hear that. I have found your writings interesting, thoughtful, and useful. Have a blessed day.
You have my prayer and support. I have been enjoying your writing for years. May God comfort and bless you for your faithfulness. Please know you are loved and valued.
I’m with you 100%. My ancestors are slavs. I know communism when I see it.
God be with you Father.
Slava Isusu Christu!
Dear Fr. Abbot, dear friend,
Every morning we have coffee together and I start the day with your kindness and love. Take care and God bless.
Please know that many are touched by your daily steadfast encouragement from the Lord each morning. Though I am not Orthodox, but Baptist, I am one of those people. May the Lord bless you!
Dear Abbot Tryphon,
Your blog posts are the primary reason I visit daily the AF site. Your clarity has been of tremendous help in my further understanding of the Orthodox faith. I am deeply saddened to hear that youĀ“ve been subject of cyberbullying. Cannot understand why people “can’t agree to disagree” in a peaceful manner. Please continue your daily posts as the impact they have on so many of us is of tremendous value. Don’t worry about the tormented souls that disagree and take uncivilized actions, let them be. But do not punish the rest of us for the poor behaviour of a few rotten apples. As the scripture says “…many are called but few will enter…”
I cannot thank you enough for your daily Morning Offering!
Kindest regards,
Roxana Kawas (from Guatemala City, Guatemala)
Dear Father,
When someone is doing God’s work, Satan is extremely incensed and will hamper and slander you. This is what is happening- I truly believe that. Keep sending your daily homilies for the very reason you stated- edification the Orthodox and intro non-Orthodox to the original Faith!.
I read them every day for many years and look forward to them each morning- I begin my day with the Readings!
In Christ!
Serge Lopoukhine
(PS We met each other in Moscow at the Historic Unification of ROCOR and MP in May 2007 (Ascension Feast- have been in cyber contact ever since!!)
Father Bless, I am saddened by the hurtful words written to you and pray that you can find peace in the midst of this turmoil. I look forward to reading your post every morning. It helps start my day in a Christian mindset. Keep up the good work. I will continue to pray for you.
Iāve been aware of the divisive thoughts and comments circulating on FB with regard to you blog for a while now. Iāve not understood a single good reason WHY another might be feeling that angry about your words, except in recognition of the rife polarization which is occurring in America, owing to the purposely separatist words and policies of our current president. In my 65 years, Iāve never experienced a time in which politics played such a smearing role (civil rights struggles, Vietnam, Watrrgate, etc). Dear Abbot Tryphon, please keep your eye single on God, and do not be troubled or dismayed by the troubles sent your way. Please remember what our Lord has instructed us: āBlessed are you when men shall revile and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeded glad, for great is your reward in heaven.ā Mt: 5: 11ā12
Dear Abbott Tryphon:
Your writings and podcasts have been such a blessing to me over the years. I have some saved on my phone that especially touched my heart and helped me. Iāve printed others for the same reason. I am sorry that others have been so insulting and hurtful. I pray that God richly blesses you and grants you peace. I thank you so much for all the blessings and teachings you have shared with all of us.
Fr. Tryphon, I find that you articles regularly touch on exactly what I need to hear, and I have been very blessed by the insight. Thank you for sharing with us.
With love in Christ,
Irene
Dear Father,
Thank you for posting your blog. I read it every morning and would be lost without it.
It has become part of my daily prayer rule.
God bless you,
Monica Dellas
Bless Father Tryphon,
Your spiritual food fills us everyday.
May God Bless you and your fellow Monks and Monastery many years.
We should āallā continue to pray for another and the world.
Sasho & family
Dear Father Tryphon, just wanted to let you know that your blog is such a blessing to me every morning. I appreciate your honesty and your outspoken way dealing with certain topics. Do not allow anyone to muzzle you. Friends who cannot bear an opinion that differs from their own are no and have never been true friends. You are a great blessing to thousands of people and you have lifted so many of us out of indifference, depression and despair. We love you, father! I dare to say if Jesus our Lord himself would write a blog today, going by the way he addressed certain issues, he certainly would get a lot of hate mail, in fact, they would try to crucify him again…. Don’t take it to the heart, Father, speaking the truth today means increasingly persecution even from your own family and the ones most dear to us. Please keep up your good work, let no one discourage you. May God give you strength and bless you abundantly and keep you in good health.
I am Roman Catholic from British Columbia and your blog means a lot to me…
As a traditional Roman Catholic, I have read your “Morning Offerings” for years, and find them very insightful and deeply spiritual. Many times they are an answer to what is troubling me that day. We breath with both lungs! Civil discussions today are few most likely due to the demonic presence in the world. My wife says, “Always speak the truth, for that is true love”. God bless you and your work!