Friday January 23, 2026 / January 10, 2026 33rd Week after Pentecost. Tone seven. Fast. Oil & Wine Allowed St. Gregory of Nyssa (395). Venerable Dometian, bishop of Melitene (601). St. Theophan the Recluse, bishop of Tambov (1894). Venerable Marcian, presbyter of Constantinople (471). Venerable Paul, abbot of Obnora (Vologda) (1429), and his disciple St. Macarius, abbot
Author: Abbot Tryphon
I am abbot of All-Merciful Saviour Orthodox Monastery (ROCOR) on Vashon Island, WA. The island is a twenty minute ferry ride from West Seattle, and a fifteen minute crossing from Tacoma.
Surrounded by the Salish Sea, the island is some 87% undeveloped forest, with a rural population of around eleven thousand citizens. If you wish to contact me personally, you can email me at: abbottryphon@vashonmonks.com
Unpolluted “The spiritual life is made up of daily, hourly, minute-by-minute thoughts, feelings, desires; all this, like small drops, merging, forms a stream, a river, and a sea – these constitute integral lives. And just as a river or a lake is clear or murky because the drops in it
Thursday January 22, 2026 / January 9, 2026 33rd Week after Pentecost. Tone seven. Martyr Polyeuctus of Melitene in Armenia (259). Hieromartyr Philip, metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia (1569). St. Jonah (Peter in schema), founder of Holy Trinity Monastery in Kiev (1902). New Hieromartyr Paul priest (1943). Prophet Shemaiah (Samaia, Semeias) (10th c. B.C.). St.
Has God Left You? “Pain isn’t a sign that God has left you, but that He is working on you. Sometimes He is silent, not because He isn’t listening, but because He is teaching you to sit with yourself, hear your heart, and see how much you need Him; in
Wednesday January 21, 2026 / January 8, 2026 33rd Week after Pentecost. Tone seven. Fast St. George the Chozebite, abbot (7th c.) and St. Emilian Bishop of Cyzicus (9th c.). Venerable Domnica of Constantinople (395). Venerable Gregory, wonderworker of the Kiev Caves (1093). Venerable Gregory, hermit of the Kiev Caves (14th c.). Hieromartyr Isidore and 72 companions at Yuriev (Dorpats)
Undeserved Loved Do you deserve to be loved and forgiven? #love #forgiveness #baptism
Tuesday January 20, 2026 / January 7, 2026 33rd Week after Pentecost. Tone seven. Synaxis of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist, John. Martyr Paphnutius (1938). New Hieromartyr Basil, priest (1939). Martyr John (1940). Martyr John (1942). New Martyr Athanasius of Attalia and Smyrna (1700) (Greek). St. Cedd, bishop of Lastingham (664) (Celtic
Humbled Soul “Grass does not sprout in trampled ground; likewise, passions and wickedness do not sprout in a humble soul. As long as we lack humility, God will not stop humbling us through trials until we learn this important and most salvific lesson.” Elder Ephraim of Arizona #God #soul #passion
Monday January 19, 2026 / January 6, 2026 33rd Week after Pentecost. Tone seven. The Holy Theophany of Our Lord, God, and Saviour Jesus Christ (Baptism of the Lord). Repose of St. Theophan the Recluse, bishop of Tambov (1894). Hieromartyr Romanus, monk of Lacedemonia, beheaded by the Turks (1695) (Greek). New Hieromartyr Archpriest
Become A Child of God “He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to