Wednesday August 27, 2025 / August 14, 2025 12th Week after Pentecost. Tone two. Dormition (Theotokos) Fast. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Forefeast of the Dormition. Prophet Micah (8th c. B.C.). Translation of the relics of Venerable Theodosius of the Kiev Caves (1091). New Hieromartyr Basil bishop of Chernigov and with him
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
Bother To Know Him “What is the deeper, underlying cause that keeps us from repenting? Now we have the answer: it is the simple fact that we have not yet come to know God; that we have not yet felt His holiness. And the reason we don’t know God is
Tuesday August 26, 2025 / August 13, 2025 12th Week after Pentecost. Tone two. Dormition (Theotokos) Fast. Wine & Oil Allowed Apodosis of the Transfiguration. Venerable Maximus the Confessor (662). Uncovering of the relics of St. Maximus of Moscow, fool-for-Christ (1547). St. Tikhon (Tychon), bishop of Voronezh, wonderworker of Zadonsk and All Russia (1783). New Hieromartyrs John,
Jesus’ Attitude “If you listen for a while to the silence in His eyes in the icon, you will hear that He knows your pain, which He feels together with you in His own body. Only, His attitude toward it is not the same as yours. He has compassion on
Monday August 25, 2025 / August 12, 2025 12th Week after Pentecost. Tone two. Dormition (Theotokos) Fast. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Martyrs Anicetus and Photius (Photinus) of Nicomedia (305). New Hieromartyrs Barlaam (Konoplev), archimandrite, Anthony (Arapov), abbot, Sergius (Vershinin), Elijah (Popov), Vyacheslav (Kosozhilin), Ioasaph (Sabintsev), and John (Novoselov), hieromonks, and Micah
FOR GIVING You are not entitled to forgiveness! It must be given to all in order to receive it at all from God. #forgiveness #jesus #orthodox
Sunday August 24, 2025 / August 11, 2025 11th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone two. Dormition (Theotokos) Fast. Food with Oil Synaxis of saints of Valaam Monastery (movable holiday on the Sunday after August 6th). Synaxis of saints of Kemerovo (movable holiday on the Sunday before August 18th). Holy Martyr and Archdeacon Euplus of
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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
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