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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
Our Christian Vocation is to Acquire Holiness We are not compelled to love God, having been created with free will. God does not, nor can He, compel His creatures to love Him. Mutual love requires, by its very nature, freedom to either respond in love, or not. Yet when we
God can handle your questions and doubts. Speak up! #orthodoxy #question #doubt
Be Quick to Ask Forgiveness Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk said, “Do not think about the sins of your brother but about what in him is better than in yourself.” These words are powerful, and can be life changing if we take them as our own. Finding fault only in ourselves
The founder of Jews For Jesus and my old friend, Father James Bernstein, is nearing the end of his earthly sojourn. He has some final words for us before taking up his heaven abode. #JewsForJesus #jesuschrist #orthodoxy
The Church, Like a Forest, Needs Oxygen Growing up in Northern Idaho, I was surrounded by mountains and forests. I don’t remember a time when forests did not tug at my heart and fill my imagination with thoughts of adventure. As a small child my parents took my brother Dwayne,
You are not a brain on a stick, a body without a soul, or a soul trapped in a body. Every part of you has a purpose, and must find its proper place in God. #orthodoxy #God #unity
Putting Blame in the Right Place “A humble and spiritually active man, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, will refer everything to himself and not to another.” Saint Mark the Ascetic We all have a natural tendency to lay blame on others, when in truth we must blame only ourselves.
“They knew not whether they were in heaven, or on earth” The interior beauty of an Orthodox temple, even one as small and simple as ours, speaks of the beauty of our Faith. When Prince Vladimir sent emissaries to the known world, “shopping” for a religion that would unite his
Orthodox Christianity is unlike any other religion.