Thursday October 24, 2024 / October 11, 2024 18th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Holy Apostle Philip of the Seventy, one of the seven deacons (1st c.). Venerable Theophanes the Confessor and Hymnographer, bishop of Nicaea (850). Venerable Leonid of Optina (1841). Synaxis of the Saints of Optina: St. Leonid (repose) (1841), St. Macarius (1860), St.
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
Wednesday October 23, 2024 / October 10, 2024 18th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Fast. Food with Oil Martyrs Eulampius and Eulampia at Nicomedia and 200 Martyrs with them (296). St. Innocent, bishop of Penza (1819). Venerable Ambrose of Optina (1891). New Hieromartyr Theodore (Pozdeev) archbishop of Volokolamsk (1937). Saint Amphylochius, Bishop of Vladimir-Volyn
Tuesday October 22, 2024 / October 9, 2024 18th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Holy Apostle James, son of Alphaeus (1st c.). Venerable Andronicus and his wife Venerable Athanasia of Egypt (500). New Hieromartyrs Constantine and Peter priests (1918). New Hieromartyr Constantine priest (1937). Uncovering of the relics of Venerable Sebastian Fomin (1997). Righteous Forefather Abraham (2000 B.C.)
Troparion — Tone 4 Like a radiant star, you shone from east to west, / for after leaving your homeland, you reached the region of Vyatka, and the God-protected city of Khlynov, / where you established a Monastery for the glory of the Most Holy Theotokos. / There you gathered
“When I see an orphan in the street, dirty, hungry and in tatters, I do not ask him who he is — Jewish, Russian, Chinese. Before me is an unfortunate, hungry child who needs to be fed, clothed and comforted. He is a person and a member of the human
Saturday October 19, 2024 / October 6, 2024 17th Week after Pentecost. Tone seven. Holy and Glorious Apostle Thomas (1st c.). New Hieromartyr John priest (1937). Virgin-martyr Eroteis of Cappadocia. New Martyr Macarius at Kion in Bithynia (Mt. Athos) (1590) (Greek). Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “O All-Hymned Mother”. Venerable Cindeus of Cyprus, monk
Friday October 18, 2024 / October 5, 2024 17th Week after Pentecost. Tone seven. Fast. Food with Oil Martyr Charitina of Amisus (304). Sts. Peter (1326), Theognostus (1353), Alexis (1378), Cyprian (1406), Photius (1431), Jonah (1461), Gerontius (1489), loasaph (1555), Macarius (1563), Philip (1569), Job (1607), Hermogenes (Germogen) (1612), Tikhon (1925), Peter (1937), Philaret
Thursday October 17, 2024 / October 4, 2024 17th Week after Pentecost. Tone seven. Hieromartyr Hierotheus, bishop of Athens (1st c.). Uncovering of the relics (1595) of St. Gurias, first archbishop of Kazan (1563) and St. Barsanuphius, bishop of Tver (1576). Synaxis of All Saints of Kazan. New Hieromartyr Demetrius priest (1918). New Hieromartyrs Demetrius
Wednesday October 16, 2024 / October 3, 2024 17th Week after Pentecost. Tone seven. Fast. Hieromartyr Dionysius (Dennys) the Areopagite, and with him Martyrs Rusticus and Eleutherius (96). New Hiero-confessor Agathangelus (Preobrazhensky), metropolitan of Yaroslavl (1928). Finding of the relics (1988) of Venerable Ambrose of Optina (1911). St. Jerome of Aegina (1966). Venerable Dionysius,
“You have to hold onto the spirit. The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life (II Cor. 3:6). If in monasticism one sees only the form, then it’s not just hard to live, but horrible. Hold fast to the spirit. Look at what unbelief, nihilism, and carrion there is in