Be The Miracle In The Moment God made you for more than the mundane. This is the moment where you can enter His miraculous work of salvation and become the miracle! #miracle #God #love Saturday June 14, 2025 / June 1, 2025 Apodosis of Pentecost. Tone seven. Fast-free Week. Fast-free
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
Humility, Obedience, and Love Towards All “Compel yourself, my child, for the sake of your soul. Compel yourself to comfort the brethren, and the Lord will comfort you—He will give you His grace. Have patience, have patience. Let everyone treat you like dirt, and He will give you His grace.
End Well “It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God’s sight.” Saint Basil the Great #God #end #perfect Thursday June 12, 2025 / May 30, 2025 Afterfeast of Pentecost. Tone seven. Fast-free Week. Fast-free Icon of the
Tempted by Virtues “The devil does not tempt us only with sins. He tempts us with virtues even more than with sins. We can see sins and avoid them, but we strive and struggle to acquire virtues. A holy man once said: ‘Do you want to fast? The devil will
No Rich and No Poor “If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.” Saint Basil the Great #poor #rich #christian Tuesday June 10, 2025 / May 28, 2025 Third Day of the
Sate Your Soul “A satiated soul mocks honeycombs, but to a hungry soul, even bitter things appear sweet.” Proverbs 27:7 #soul #sweet #proverbs Monday June 9, 2025 / May 27, 2025 Day Of the Holy Spirit. Tone seven. Fast-free Week. Fast-free “Tupichevsk” and “Cyprus” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (movable holiday
Become One Together We are united as one in God. Embrace Him. Embrace each other. Our family is forever. It just doesn’t get any better than this! #God #unity #love
(Pictured: The Brotherhood of the All-Merciful Saviour Monastery) Sunday June 8, 2025 / May 26, 2025 Pentecost – Trinity Sunday “Lesna” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1696) (movable holiday on the Trinity Sunday). Holy Fathers and Mothers of Atchara (18th c.) (movable holiday on the Trinity Sunday) (Georgia). Apostles Carpus of the Seventy and Alphaeus (1st c.). Translation
God Before Us Every relationship must be grounded in God. #relationships #God #love Saturday June 7, 2025 / May 25, 2025 Commemoration of the Dead. Tone six. Virgin-Martyr Helen (1938). New Hieromartyr Tavrion (1939). St. Innocent archbishop of Cherson (1857). Hieromartyr Therapon, bishop of Cyprus (4th c.). St. Dodo, prince of
Perfect Spiritual Love “To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity, to avoid rendering evil for evil. But to render, spontaneously, good for evil – such belongs to a perfect spiritual love.” Saint