Constant Confession? Can you confess too frequently? #orthodoxy #confession #truth “So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer
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
Saturday August 9, 2025 / July 27, 2025 9th Week after Pentecost. Tone seven. Holy Great-martyr and Healer Panteleimon (305). Commemoration of the canonization of Venerable Herman of Alaska (1970). New Hieromartyrs Ambrose, bishop of Sarapul, priests Plato and Panteleimon (1918). New Hieromartyr John priest (1941). St. Ioasaph, metropolitan of Moscow (1555). Blessed Nicholas Kochanov, fool-for-Christ at
Manfully Endure The Suffering “It is harmful to remember previous sins in detail. For if they bring you sorrow, they will estrange you from hope, but if they are remembered without sorrow, they will introduce the previous defilement. If you want to bring to God an uncondemned confession, then don’t
Friday August 8, 2025 / July 26, 2025 9th Week after Pentecost. Tone seven. Fast. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Hieromartyrs Hermolaus (305), Hermippus, and Hermocrates at Nicomedia. New Hieromartyr Sergius priest (1937). Venerable Moses the Hungarian, of the Kiev Caves (1043). Martyr Parasceve of Rome (138). St. Jacob (Netsvetov) of Atka-Island and Ikogmute, mission priest
Let Thy Will Be Done! “Give your intentions in prayer to God, Who knows everyone, even before our birth. And do not ask that everything will be according to your will, because a man does not know what is profitable for him. But say to God, “Let Thy will be
Thursday August 7, 2025 / July 25, 2025 9th Week after Pentecost. Tone seven. The Dormition of the Righteous Anna, mother of the Most Holy Theotokos. Holy Women Olympias (Olympiada) the Deaconess of Constantinople (409), and the Virgin Eupraxia of Tabenna (413). Venerable Macarius, abbot of Zheltovod and Unzha (1444). New Hieromartyr Nicholas priest (1918). New Hieromartyr
Repentance NOW! “One can be late for the train or the plane. He may not be able to sail the ship. He may not be able to write a will, or to finish the verses he started… In fact, not being able to tackle a task on time—that’s trifling. But
Wednesday August 6, 2025 / July 24, 2025 9th Week after Pentecost. Tone seven. Fast. Food with Oil Martyr Christina of Tyre (300). Holy Martyrs and Passion-bearers Boris and Gleb of Russia, in holy baptism Romanus and David (1015). New Hieromartyr Alpheus deacon (1937). Sts. Nicholas (1942) and John (1951) confessors, priests. Uncovering of the relics of
Fellowship of the Suffering “It is a fearful thing to hate whom God has loved. To look upon another – his weaknesses, his sins, his faults, his defects – is to look upon one who is suffering. He is suffering from negative passions, from the same sinful human corruption from
Tuesday August 5, 2025 / July 23, 2025 9th Week after Pentecost. Tone seven. “Pochaev” (1675) Icon of the Mother of God. Martyrs Trophimus, Theophilus, and 13 others in Lycia (305). St. Theodore of Sanaskar (Glorification 2001). New Hieromartyr Michael priest and Martyr Andrew (1938). Hieromartyr Apollinaris, bishop of Ravenna (75). Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos “The