Saturday August 23, 2025 / August 10, 2025 11th Week after Pentecost. Tone one. Dormition (Theotokos) Fast. Food with Oil Holy Martyrs Archdeacon Laurence and Pope Sixtus, Felicissimus and Agapitus, deacons, and others with them (258). Blessed Laurence, fool-for-Christ at Kaluga (1515). New Hieromartyr Viacheslav priest (1918). New Hieromartyr Athanasius priest (1937). Synaxis of the Saints of Solovki
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
Suffering For Sympathy “God expressly leaves the sufferings and sorrows that everyone is afraid of in our lives so that they can humanize us, shape us, and make us better, more honest, more tolerant, and maybe understanding of other people’s suffering. The one who does not suffer does not believe
Friday August 22, 2025 / August 9, 2025 11th Week after Pentecost. Tone one. Dormition (Theotokos) Fast. Wine & Oil Allowed Apostle Matthias (63). Synaxis of All Saints of Solovki. St. Philaret, archbishop of Chernigov (1866). New Martyr Margaret (1918). Martyr Anthony of Alexandria. Venerable Psoes of Egypt (4th c.). Martyrs Julian, Marcian, John, James, Alexius, Demetrius, Photius (Phocas), Peter, Leontius, and Mary, of Constantinople (726). Venerable Macarius, abbot
Easily Cured “The sick one who is acquainted with his sickness is easily to be cured; and he who confesses his pain is near to health. Many are the pains of the hard heart; and when the sick one resists the physician, his torments will be augmented.” Saint Isaac The
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Fruitful Through Fasting “By fasting it is possible both to be delivered from future evils and to enjoy the good things to come. We fell into disease through sin; let us receive healing through repentance, which is not fruitful without fasting.” Saint Basil the Great #Jesus #fasting #orthodox
Wednesday August 20, 2025 / August 7, 2025 11th Week after Pentecost. Tone one. Dormition (Theotokos) Fast. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Martyr Dometius of Persia (363) and two disciples. Translation of the relics (1832) of St. Metrophanes, first bishop of Voronezh (1703). Venerable Anthony of Optina (1865). New Hieromartyrs Alexander,
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Proceed With Faith “Proceed with faith – not by means of rational knowledge. Do all your works with faith, trusting in God. What is important is not what rational knowledge dictates, but what faith dictates.” Saint Joseph the Hesychast