Impressive Piety? What is the point of piety? #fast #tradition #orthodoxy Monday December 9, 2024 / November 26, 2024 25th Week after Pentecost. Tone seven. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Fast. Venerable Alypius the Stylite of Adrianopolis (640). Dedication of the Church of St. George at Kiev (1051). Repose of St. Innocent, first bishop of Irkutsk (1731).
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
Our traditions become idols. It is time to change. #tradition #orthodoxy #jesuschrist https://old.bitchute.com/video/ir9gKNAT89mk/
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Love Christ “It is easy to become good, if only you come to love Christ. To want to be pleasing to Him is enough. Christ will help you to live in His Grace.” St. Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia #love #jesuschrist #grace Friday December 6, 2024 / November 23, 2024 24th Week after
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Given to Give “To deprive is to take what belongs to another; for our money is the Lord’s, however we may have gathered it. That is why God has allowed you to have more…not for you to waste on drink, fancy food, expensive clothes, and other kinds of indolence…but for
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Only when we see our spiritual poverty, and the richness of God’s blessings, can we begin to build up eternal treasure. #wealth #sin #repentance https://old.bitchute.com/video/tysAqSE6HY12/