June 22, 2011 2nd Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Apostles’ (Peter & Paul) Fast. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) St. Cyril, archbishop of Alexandria (444). Venerable Cyril, abbot of White Lake (Byelozersk) (1427). St. Alexius Mechev, priest of Moscow (1923). Venerable Alexander, abbot of Kushta (Vologda) (1439).
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
June 21, 2011 2nd Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Apostles’ (Peter & Paul) Fast. Fish Allowed Translation of the relics of Great-martyr Theodore Stratelates (319). St. Theodore, bishop of Rostov and Suzdal (1023). Finding of the relics (1501) of Sts. Basil (1249) and Constantine (1257), princes of Yaroslavl. Venerable Ephraim,
June 20, 2011 2nd Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Beginning of Apostles’ (Peter & Paul) Fast Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra (303). New Hieromartyr Archbishop Andronicus of Perm, Alexander, Alexis, Alexander, Valentine, Benjamin, Viktor, Alexander, Paul, Vladimir, Ignatius, Michael, Nicholas, Paul, Alexander, Nicholas priests, Gregory deacon and Martyrs Athanasius and Alexsander
June 19, 2011 1st Sunday after Pentecost. All Saints. Tone eight.Eve of Apostles’ (Peter & Paul) Fast. Icons of the Mother of God “the Consoler of angry hearts” and “the Unbreakable Wall” (movable holiday on the Sunday of All Saints). Venerable Bessarion the Wonderworker of Egypt (466). Venerable Hilarion the
June 18, 2011 Adoposis of Pentecost. Tone seven. Fast-free Week. Fast-free Hieromartyr Dorotheos, bishop of Tyre (361). New Hieromartyr Michael priest (1931). New Hieromartyr Nicholas priest (1943). Translation of the relics of the Blessed Igor-George, tonsured Gabriel, great prince of Chernigov and Kiev (1150) to Chernigov. Blessed Constantine, metropolitan of
June 17, 2011 Afterfeast of Pentecost. Tone seven. Fast-free Week. Fast-free St. Metrophanes, first patriarch of Constantinople (325). New Hieromartyr Peter priest (1918). New Martyrs: Archbishop Andronicus of Perm (1918) and Archbishop Basil of Chernigov (1918). Venerable Methodius, abbot of Peshnosha (1392), disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh. Martyrs Frontasius,
June 16, 2011 Afterfeast of Pentecost. Tone seven. Fast-free Week. Fast-free Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Surety of Sinners” in Korets (1622) (movable holiday on Thursday of the 1-st week of the Pentecost). Martyr Lucillian and those with him at Byzantium: four youths — Claudius, Hypatius, Paul, and Dionysius;
June 15, 2011 Afterfeast of Pentecost. Tone seven. Fast-free Week. Fast-free St. Nicephorus the Confessor, patriarch of Constantinople (829). Great-martyr John the New of Suceava, at Belgorod (Cetatea Alba) (1332). Finding of the relics (1815) of St. Juliana, princess of Vyasma (1406). “Kiev-Bratsk” Icon of the Mother of God (1654). New
June 14, 2011 Third Day of the Holy Trinity.Tone seven. Fast-free Week. Fast-free Martyr Justin the Philosopher, and those with him at Rome: Martyrs Justin, Chariton and his wife Charita, Euelpistus, Hierax, Peon, Valerian and Justus (166). Venerable Dionysius, abbot of Glushitsa (Vologda) (1437). New Hieromartyr Basil priest, Virgin-martyr Vera
June 13, 2011 Day Of the Holy Spirit. Tone seven. Fast-free Week. Fast-free “Tupichevsk” and “Cyprus” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (movable holiday on the Day Of the Holy Spirit). Apostle Hermes of the Seventy (1st c.). Martyr Hermias at Comana (160). New Hieromartyr Archpriest Philosoph Ornatsky with his