Be Not Discouraged https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BY-A3Mwuf7I “O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Saint Mary in all your necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she should help in every kind of necessity.” Saint Basil the Great #God #theotokos #virginmary
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
Tuesday December 23, 2025 / December 10, 2025 29th Week after Pentecost. Tone three. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Food with Oil Martyrs Menas the Melodius, Hermogenes, and Eugraphus of Alexandria (310). St. Ioasaph, bishop of Belgorod (1754). New Hieromartyr Jacob and Alexander priests, Hieromartyr Eugraphus and his son (1918). New Hieromartyrs Anatolius, Alexander, Eugene,
Only The Grateful Are Faithful The greatest gift is already yours, but only if you want it. #orthodox #gratitude #gift
Monday December 22, 2025 / December 9, 2025 29th Week after Pentecost. Tone three. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Oil Allowed The Conception by St. Anna of the Most Holy Theotokos. New Hieromartyr Vladimir priest (1919). New Hieromartyr Vladimir priest and Virgin-martyr Ephrosia (1920). New Hieromartyrs Basil and Alexander priests (1937). New Martyr Priest Sergius
Use Your Suffering “Blessed is the man who uses his sufferings, knowing that all suffering in this brief life is loosed on men by God in His love for mankind, for the benefit and assistance of men. In His mercy, God looses suffering on men because of their sins –
Sunday December 21, 2025 / December 8, 2025 28th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone three. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Fish Allowed Venerable Patapius of Thebes (7th c.). New Martyr John (Kochurov), priest (1918). New Hieromartyr Sergius (1937). Venerable Cyril, abbot of Chelma Hill (1367). Holy Apostles of the Seventy: Sosthenes, Apollos, Cephas, Tychicus, Epaphroditus, Caesar, and
Bind Up Thy Words “Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.” Saint Ambrose of Milan #talk #words
Saturday December 20, 2025 / December 7, 2025 28th Week after Pentecost. Tone two. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Fish Allowed St. Ambrose, bishop of Milan (397). Venerable Nilus, monk, of Stolben Island (1554). Venerable Anthony, abbot of Siya Monastery (Novgorod) (1556). New Hieromartyrs Sergius, Andronic (1917). New Hieromartyr Antonius priest (1918). St. Ambrosius
Seize Your Salvation “If you want to serve God, prepare your heart not for food, not for drink, not for rest, not for ease, but for suffering, so that you may endure all temptations, trouble and sorrow. Prepare for severities, fasts, spiritual struggles and many afflictions, for “by many afflictions
Friday December 19, 2025 / December 6, 2025 28th Week after Pentecost. Tone two. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Fish St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, archbishop of Myra in Lycia (345). Blessed Maximus, metropolitan of Kiev (1305). New Martyr Nicholas of Karamanos in Asia Minor (1657) (Greek). St. Nicholas, bishop of Patara. St. Theophilus, bishop of Antioch (181).