Picture Paradise “Every man, while in the flesh, is like a painter who paints an image in a secret place. When, having finished his picture, the painter brings it out and exhibits it. He is praised by the spectators if he has chosen a good subject and painted it well,
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
Good For Nothing? “I am nothing more than a matchstick with which a candle is lit. Afterwards, the match goes out and is thrown on the ground as good for nothing.” Saint Nicholas of Japan #God #orthodoxy #japan
Thursday August 14, 2025 / August 1, 2025 10th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Dormition (Theotokos) Fast. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil Beginning of the Dormition Fast. Procession of the Precious Wood of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord (1164) (First of the three “Feasts of the Saviour” in August). The Feast
Hate Sin “Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin
Wednesday August 13, 2025 / July 31, 2025 10th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Fast. Food with Oil Forefeast of the Procession of the Precious and Life-giving Cross of the Lord. Righteous Eudocimus of Cappadocia (9th c.). New Martyrs Benjamin, metropolitan of Petrograd, and those with him: Archimandrite Sergius and George and John of Petrograd
A Terrible Accident “A terrible accident has a power to awaken us to the realization of the existence of various calamities and dangers surrounding us, from which the Providence of God preserves us. At the same time it convincingly persuades us to acknowledge our own infirmity and weakness and to
Tuesday August 12, 2025 / July 30, 2025 10th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Eve of the Dormition Fast. Apostles Silas and Silvanus of the Seventy and those with them: Crescens, Epenetus, and Andronicus (1st c.). Martyr John the Soldier at Constantinople (4th c.). New Hiero-confessor Anatole II (Potapov, the “Younger”) of Optina (1922). New Hieromartyr John deacon (1918). Uncovering of
FULL HOMILY: https://youtu.be/huKqsw6n5kM
Monday August 11, 2025 / July 29, 2025 10th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Martyr Callinicus of Gangra in Asia Minor (250). New Hieromartyrs Venerables Seraphim (Bogoslovsky) and Theognost (1921). New Hieromartyr Anatole (1930-1935). New Hieromartyr Alexis priest, and Martyr Pachomius (1938). Venerables Constantine and Cosmas, abbots of Kosinsk (Pskov) (13th c.). Martyr Daniel of Cherkassk
Alone To Gather Spend time with God on the mountain top so you can sail through the storms of life in the ship of salvation! #God #faith #family