Wednesday October 8, 2025 / September 25, 2025 18th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Fast. Food with Oil 1Venerable Euphrosyne, nun, of Alexandria (445). 4Repose of Venerable Sergius, abbot, of Radonezh (1392). oSt. Nicholas confessor, priest (1941). oUncovering of the relics of New Hieromartyrs Alexander Smirnov and Theodore Lebedev priests (1985). 0Venerable Euphrosyne, nun,
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
Win Easily “Nothing else can help pacify anger and all the passions as much as love for God and for every fellow man. It is with love, rather than with other struggles, that you win easily.” Saint Joseph the Hesychast #God #love #anger
Tuesday October 7, 2025 / September 24, 2025 18th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Holy Protomartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles Thecla of Iconium (1st c.). St. Gabriel, of Pskov-Eleazar Monastery and Kazan (1915). New Hieromartyr Basil deacon (1918). New Hieromartyrs Andrew and Paul priests, Hieromartyr Vitaly and Martyrs Basil, Sergius and Spiridon (1937). New Hieromartyr
Let The Light Into Your Soul “We must be attentive to our thoughts, our mouth, our ears, our five senses. When we are not careful of these, then we think others are at fault. When divine grace comes, repentance and tears follow. Then a person desires to lie down so
Monday October 6, 2025 / September 23, 2025 18th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. The Conception of the Honorable, Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John. Canonization (1977) of St. Innocent Metropolitan of Moscow. New Hieromartyr John priest (1937). New Hieromartyr Arsenius archbishop (1937). Venerables Xanthippa and Polyxena (109), disciples of the Apostles, who died in Spain. Virgin-martyr Irais (Rhais) of
Sunday October 5, 2025 / September 22, 2025 17th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone eight. Prophet Jonah (9th c. B.C.). Hieromartyr Phocas, bishop of Sinope (117). Venerable Jonah the Presbyter (9th c.), father of St. Theophanes the Hymnographer and St. Theodore Graptus. Blessed Parasceve od Diveyevo (1915). New Martyr Benjamin bishop of Romanovsk (1930). Venerable Jonah, abbot of
We Are All Suffering “I say this to everyone who is suffering and having a hard time today. We are all suffering. And I will tell you the one you envy also has his own pain. Everyone thinks that his problem is the biggest. But God tells you: “I come
Saturday October 4, 2025 / September 21, 2025 17th Week after Pentecost. Tone seven. Saturday after the Universal Elevation of the Precious and Life-Creating Cross of the Lord Apodosis of the Exaltation of the Cross. Apostle Quadratus of the Seventy (130). Uncovering of the relics (1752) of St. Demetrius, metropolitan of Rostov (1709). New Hieromartyrs
Careful Watching “For anything that is quickly obtained is also easily lost, whereas everything found with toil is also kept with careful watching.” Saint Isaac the Syrian #God #orthodox #watching
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