Our Prayer Life Should Not Be Like A Child’s Visit To Santa Back in the days when I was teaching, I knew my students had a prayer life, for I could see their collective lips moving when I was handing out an exam. My youngest former students are now in
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
Due to the expectation of another record breaking heat wave coming this summer, and the extreme danger of possible forest fires, we have decided to hire a company that would bring 120 goats to clear the underbrush around the monastery. The cost of this endeavor would be $7,140.00. I am
The Wellspring of Life It is unfathomable for me to think what my life might have been like had I never become Orthodox, never entered the monastic life. The joy I feel at having tasted from the ocean of grace that is Orthodoxy! She has filled me, completed me, made
Gerontissa Markella I just arrived at Theotokos of the Life Giving Spring Women’s Monastery in Dunlap, CA, to spend time with my beloved sister, Gerontissa Markella. A much needed reprieve from the stress I’ve been suffering of late. Thanks to my sister’s holy prayers, my heart is doing much better.
Racism Has No Place In The Life Of A Christian It is important to understand that genetically, all humans are of but one race. Indians, Arabs, Jews, Caucasians, Africans, and Asians, are not different races, but rather, different ethnicities of the human race. God created all humans with the same
Due to the expectation of another record breaking heat wave coming this summer, and the extreme danger of possible forest fires, we have decided to hire a company that would bring 120 goats to clear the underbrush around the monastery. The cost of this endeavor would be $7,140.00. I am
When Prayer Becomes Dry When we find ourselves struggling with prayer, and feel that it has become dry and lifeless, we are sometimes tempted to stop praying. When our prayer has become a struggle, it is good to remember that God knows our needs, and even knows what we want
The Saints are Alive in Christ Jesus Vigil lights are placed before the icons of the saints, according to Saint Symeon the New Theologian, as a way of showing that without the Light, Who is Christ, the saints are nothing. It is only as the light of Christ shines on