All Suffer
If we are always complaining about how unfairly we are treated, we will have failed in our imitation of Christ, Who was abused by His enemies unto death. We should strive to reign with Our Lord by loving our enemies and never complaining. Christ looked towards His Heavenly Father in the midst of His suffering, and when we are tempted to complain, we should mentally gaze upon the Cross.
Complaining disturbs the heart and distracts us from the Path to God. Complaining weakens our resolve and interferes with the acquisition of peace and holiness. When we complain we are rejecting the role of suffering as a means towards the union with God. Complaining keeps our heart from soaring to the heavens and experiencing the joy that can be had when we surrender ourselves into the protective arms of Jesus. The difficulty of our current circumstances should not distract us from the eternal truth that God is in control, and nothing can separate us from His love in Christ Jesus.
With love in Christ,
Abbot Tryphon
Quote of the Day
“The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one battle to fight — the battle of the heart.”
-St. Anthony the Great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0XMO37kViE
Wednesday, August 08, 2024 (7532) / Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Wednesday of the 9th week after Pentecost; Tone VII
Fast: Wine and oil allowed
Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of the Lord
Saint Emilian the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus († c. 815-820)
Saint Myron the Wonderworker, Bishop of Crete († c. 350)
Venerable Gregory of Mt Sinai
Venerable Gregory, the Iconographer of the Kiev Caves (12th C)
Martyrs Eleutherius and Leonidus
First (1566) and Second (1992) Translation of the relics of the Venerable Zosima and Sabbatius of Solovki
Icon of the Mother of God “Tolgskaya”
New Martyr Nicodimus, archbishop of Kostroma († 1938)
Daily Scripture Readings
(Matins) (Zosima and Sabbatius)
Matthew 11:27-30
27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
(Liturgy) (Wednesday of the 9th week after Pentecost) (Zosima and Sabbatius)
Galatians 5:22-6:2
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Chapter 6
1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
2 Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Luke 6:17-23a
17 And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;
18 And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed.
19 And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.
21 Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.
23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
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