Monday December 15, 2025 / December 2, 2025 28th Week after Pentecost. Tone two. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Prophet Habakkuk (Abbacum) (7th c. B.C.). New Hieromartyr John priest (1919). New Hieromartyr Mathew priest (1921). New Hieromartyr Demetrius priest and Venerable Vera confessor (1932). New Hieromartyrs Alexis, Constantine, Nicholas, Sergius, Vladimir, John, Theodore, Nicholas,
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
Hampered When Pampered “When luxury overwhelms the soul, its reasonings within are disturbed… Do not look at the cheerful and merry countenance, but examine the interior, and you will see it full of deep dejection… For the more the body grows sleek and gross, the more lean and weakly is
Sunday December 14, 2025 / December 1, 2025 27th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone two. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Fish Allowed Prophet Nahum (7th c. B.C.). Righteous Philaret the Merciful of Amnia in Asia Minor (792). Martyr Ananias of Persia. St. Eligius, bishop of Noyon (660) (Neth.). St. Onesimus, archbishop of Ephesus (Greek). Sts. Ananias and
Love Is Not A Lecture “All the lectures in the world cannot teach humility, tears of repentance or sanctification; these come from a personal relationship with God in prayer.” Father Roman Braga #God #relationship #teaching
Saturday December 13, 2025 / November 30, 2025 27th Week after Pentecost. Tone one. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Fish Holy and All-praised Apostle Andrew the First-called (62). St. Elias, schemamonk of Valaam and Verkhoturye (1900). New Hieromartyr John priest (1937). St. Frumentius, archbishop of Abyssinia (380). St. Tudwal, bishop in Wales and Brittany
Why You Live https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xPvIAwC72GI “Why did the Lord give me life? So that I would turn with my whole heart to God, for my purification and correction. Remember this and correct yourself.” Saint John of Kronstadt #God #life #heart Featuring the song: “The Spheres” by Ola Gjeilo as performed
Friday December 12, 2025 / November 29, 2025 27th Week after Pentecost. Tone one. Nativity/St. Philip’s Fast Martyr Paramon and 370 Martyrs in Bithynia (250). Martyr Philumenus of Ancyra, and with him Martyrs Valerian and Phaedrus (274). Venerable Acacius of Mt. Latros, who is mentioned in The Ladder (6th c.). New Hieromartyr Sergius priest (1941). Venerable Nectarius the Obedient
No Tomorrow “God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.” Saint Augustine of Hippo #God #procrastination #repentance
Thursday December 11, 2025 / November 28, 2025 27th Week after Pentecost. Tone one. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Wine Martyr Stephen the New of Mt. St. Auxentius (767). Martyr Hirenarchus and Seven Women-martyrs at Sebaste (303). New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Chichagov), metropolitan of St. Petersburg (1937). New Hieromartyrs Alexis Veselovsky, Alexis Smirnov priests, Hieromartyrs Raphael Tiupin,
What God Wants “God wants us to be luminous, glad, filled with joy, at peace with everyone around us, working with good intentions, and with love for life and for work in the place where we gain our daily bread, and where we also need to save our souls.” Saint