Friday March 28, 2025 / March 15, 2025 Fourth Week of the Great Lent: Adoration of Cross. Tone six. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Martyrs Agapius, Publius (Pauplios), Timolaus, Romulus, two named Dionysius, and two named Alexander, at Caesarea in Palestine (303). New Hieromartyr Alexis priest (1938). New Hieromartyr Michael priest (1940).
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
Fear God, Not The Demons “Fear God, not the demons. Fear God and His judgments, for when He decides to punish us with some kind of penance for our pride, who is able to stop Him? Therefore, when the evil is still small, let us take care to remedy it.
Fight Harder “Holy and Great Lent is a time of compunction, for repentance, for tears, for a change in ourselves, for a new stage in the spiritual life. Like an affectionate mother caring for her children, us Christians, the Church has designated this time of Lent as dedicated to the
Lent: Love It or Hate It? Self-denial and confessing our sins may not be fun, but we cannot be transformed to rise with Christ on Pascha without them. https://youtu.be/ze-OINRjup0
(Shawn and his family, and Mike Saba and family joined us for the Diving Liturgy last week) Sunday March 16, 2025 / March 3, 2025 Second Sunday of the Great Lent. Tone five. Great Lent. Food with Oil St. Gregory Palamas the Archbishop of Thessalonica (movable holiday on the 2nd Sunday of
Call on Christ “In all your works, either at home or at the place of your service, do not forget that all your strength, your light and your success are in Christ and His Cross; therefore, do not fail to call upon the Lord before beginning any work, saying: Jesus,
Look Deeper “A person often runs away from themselves because they are afraid of what they will find in their depths. But if we look deeper, we will find God there, patiently waiting for us to surrender our wounds and pain to Him. Do not be afraid of the inner
Rise Up Again “…should we fall, we should not despair and so estrange ourselves from the Lord’s love. For if He so chooses, He can deal mercifully with our weakness. Only we should not cut ourselves off from Him or feel oppressed when constrained by His commandments, nor should we
The Bitterest of All Evils “You are angry with your neighbor, you despise him, do not like to speak peaceably and lovingly to him, because there is something harsh, abrupt, careless, unpleasant to you in his character, in his speech, in his manners—because he is more conscious of his dignity
What is Repentance? “To repent is not to look downwards at my own shortcomings, but upwards at God’s love. It is not to look backwards with self-reproach, but forward with trustfulness. It is to see not what I have failed to be, but what by the grace of Christ I