Thursday September 11, 2025 / August 29, 2025 14th Week after Pentecost. Tone four. Fast. Food with Oil The Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John. Fast Day. Commemoration of orthodox soldiers killed on a battle fields. Venerable Alexander, abbot of Voche, of Galich (16th c.). New Martyr Anastasius of Bulgaria (1794).
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
The Scriptures Apply To Me “A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, will relate all things to himself and not to others.” Saint Mark the Ascetic #scripture #bible #spiritual
Wednesday September 10, 2025 / August 28, 2025 14th Week after Pentecost. Tone four. Fast. Food with Oil Venerable Moses the Black of Scete (400). Uncovering of the relics of Venerable Job of Pochaev (1651). New Hieromartyr Alexis (1918). New Martyrs Archimandrite Sergius (Zaytsev) and monks of Zilantov Monastery of Kazan (1918) hieromonks Laurecnce (Nikitin),
Extinguish Evil “If a man has on one side of him fire, and on the other side a vessel with water, then if he starts burning from the fire, he takes water from the vessel and extinguishes the fire. Like to this are the evil thoughts, suggested by the enemy
Rivers of Living Water: On The Holy Elders of Kolitsou, Mount Athos by Hieromonk Nicodemus Jones. Soon to be released by https://stgeorgepress.com/ and featuring a focus on the newly glorified Venerable Dionysios of Kolitsou (Romanian: Dionisie Ignat of Colciu), who Father Nicodemus lived with and interviewed, along with other members
Boundless Soul “No matter how much we may study, it is not possible to come to know God unless we live according to His commandments, for God is not known by science, but by the Holy Spirit. Many philosophers and learned men came to the belief that God exists, but
Monday September 8, 2025 / August 26, 2025 14th Week after Pentecost. Tone four. Commemoration of the Meeting of the “Vladimir” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos and the deliverance of Moscow from the Invasion of Tamerlane in 1395. Martyrs Adrian and Natalia and 23 companions of Nicomedia (4th c.). New Hieromartyr Peter priest and St. Gregory
The Church Changes It’s not about lifestyle. It’s about our hearts. Come home and be made whole! #god #orthodox #jesus
Sunday September 7, 2025 / August 25, 2025 13th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone four. Synaxis of all saints of Moscow (movable holiday on the Sunday before August 26th, Russian Orthodox Church – the Moscow Patriarchate). Return of the relics of the Apostle Bartholomew from Anastasiopolis to Lipari (6th c.). Holy Apostle Titus of the Seventy
Cut Evil In Half “If everybody in the world would agree to stop insulting each other with their words, fifty percent of the evil in the world would vanish, and fifty percent of the power of fallen spirits in the world would also vanish.” Saint Nikolai Velimirovič, from Poem LXXXII in