Author: Abbot Tryphon
Monday November 10, 2025 / October 28, 2025 23rd Week after Pentecost. Tone five. Great-martyr Parasceva of Iconium (3rd c.). Martyrs Terence and Neonilla of Syria, and their children Sarbelus, Photus, Theodulus, Hierax, Nitus, Bele, and Eunice (249). Venerable Stephen of St. Sabbas monastery, hymnographer (807). St. Arsenius I of Srem, archbishop of Serbia (1266). Repose of Venerable Job of Pochaev (1651). St. Demetrius,
Today was Abbot Tryphon’s 80th birthday!
The True Christian “A true Christian behaves in this life so that it may be a preparation for the future one and not only a life here below. In his actions, he does not think what will be said of him here but of what will be said there in
Sunday November 9, 2025 / October 27, 2025 22nd Sunday after Pentecost. Tone five. Martyr Nestor of Thessalonica (306). Righteous Mother Olga of Kwethluk–Tanqilria Arrsamquq–Wonderworker, Matushka of All Alaska (1979) New Hieromartyr Sergius (1942). Venerable Nestor the Chronicler of the Kiev Caves (1114). Venerable Nestor (not the Chronicler) of the Kiev Caves (14th c.). Uncovering of the
Freed By Fasting “Let thy mind fast from vain thoughts; let thy memory fast from remembering evil; let thy will fast from evil desire; let thine eyes fast from bad sights: turn away thine eyes that thou mayest not see vanity; let thine ears fast from vile songs and slanderous
Saturday November 8, 2025 / October 26, 2025 22nd Week after Pentecost. Tone four. Holy and Glorious Great-martyr Demetrius the Myrrh-gusher of Thessalonica (306). Commemoration of the Great Earthquake at Constantinople in 740 A.D. Venerable Theophilus of the Kiev Caves, bishop of Novgorod (1482). Martyr Luppos (306). Venerable Athanasius of Medikion Monastery (814). Venerable Demetrius of Basarbov in Bulgaria (1685). Venerable
Call Him & Hold Him “Forgetting God is the most severe illness of the human soul. Returning to God is remembering God – not in the sense that I remember Him as something in my memory, but in the sense that I call Him and hold Him in my mind.”
Friday November 7, 2025 / October 25, 2025 22nd Week after Pentecost. Tone four. Fast. Martyrs Marcian and Martyrius the Notaries of Constantinople (355). St. Matrona the Confessor of Diveyevo (1963). Venerable Martyrius the Deacon (13th c.) and Venerable Martyrius the Recluse of the Kiev Caves. Martyr Anastasius the Fuller at Salona in Dalmatia (3rd c.). St. Tabitha,
“A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.” C.S. Lewis #desire #danger #moral