Old Abbot Tryphon is still unable to negotiate the steps of our monastery’s temple, so I needed our Hieromonk Nicodemus to bring the Holy Mysteries to my monastic cell. Just as we all need the Eucharist to sustain us, when one is struggling with health issues the need is often even stronger.
The spiritual strength one receives from receiving Christ’s Body and Blood is necessary for our soul, whether we be in good health or not, but when one is struggling with physical illness it becomes all the more imperative that we benefit from the food for the soul that God provides through Holy Communion.
I am praying that the Lord, out of His abundant love and mercy, restore my physical body to the state that would allow me to once again celebrate the Divine Liturgy. But I am grateful that I find myself within a monastic community where I can rely on the love and support of my brother monks to provide the needed nourishment I depend on as an Orthodox Christian.
With love in Christ,
Abbot Tryphon
Tuesday September 24, 2024 / September 11, 2024
Week after Pentecost. Tone four.
Translation of the relics of Venerables Sergius and Herman of Valaam.
Venerable Theodora of Alexandria (490).
Hieromartyrs Nicholas and Victor priests (1918).
Hieromartyr Carp priest (1937).
Venerable Silouan, elder of Mt. Athos (1938).
Hieromartyr Nicholas diacon (1942).
Martyrs Demetrius, his wife Euanthia, and their son Demetrian at Skepsis on the Hellespont (1st c.).
Martyrs Diodorus, Didymus, and Diomedes of Laodicea (4th c.).
Martyr Ia of Persia and 9,000 Martyrs with her (363).
Venerable Euphrosynus the Cook of Alexandria (9th c.).
Weeping Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, of “Kaplunovka” (1689).
Martyrs Serapion, Cronides (Hieronides), and Leontius of Alexandria (237).
Venerable Paphnutius the Confessor, bishop in the Egyptian Thebaid (4th c.).
Holy Martyr Theodora of Vasta in the Peloponnesus.
Venerable Elias the Cave-dweller, of Calabria (960).
Canonization (1978) of St. Xenia of St. Petersburg (18th c.).
Venerable Deiniol, abbot of Bangor, bishop in Wales (584) (Celtic & British).
The Scripture Readings
Matthew 11:27-30 Matins Gospel
27
All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
28
Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
30
For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.
20
For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you do not wish; lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults;
21
lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned before and have not repented of the uncleanness, fornication, and lewdness which they have practiced.
1
This will be the third time I am coming to you. “By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established.”
2
I have told you before, and foretell as if I were present the second time, and now being absent I write to those who have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare-
24
Then He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given.
25
For whoever has, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
26
And He said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground,
27
and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how.
28
For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head.
29
But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.
30
Then He said, “To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall we picture it?
31
It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth;
32
but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs, and shoots out large branches, so that the birds of the air may nest under its shade.
33
And with many such parables He spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it.
34
But without a parable He did not speak to them. And when they were alone, He explained all things to His disciples.
Galatians 5:22-6:2 St. Silouan
22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23
gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
24
And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
26
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
1
Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.
2
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Luke 6:17-23 St. Silouan
17
And He came down with them and stood on a level place with a crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear Him and be healed of their diseases,
18
as well as those who were tormented with unclean spirits. And they were healed.
19
And the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all.
20
Then He lifted up His eyes toward His disciples, and said: Blessed are you poor, For yours is the kingdom of God.
21
Blessed are you who hunger now, For you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, For you shall laugh.
22
Blessed are you when men hate you, And when they exclude you, And revile you, and cast out your name as evil, For the Son of Man’s sake.
23
Rejoice in that day and leap for joy! For indeed your reward is great in heaven, For in like manner their fathers did to the prophets.
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