Author: Abbot Tryphon

Thank God for all the new priests! This old one could use the backup in these difficult days!  Prayers all around.  

Those Occasions When We Mature into Spiritual Adulthood There are those times in our lives when God seems distant, even absent from us. These are usually times when our faith seems weak and we struggle to believe God really cares for us, or perhaps we begin to question whether God

Healing takes time. How do we endure it?  

The Need to Reunite a Society Divided by Age There are two major populations within our society that are seeing a statistical rise in the number of suicides. At a time when a growing body of research shows that people with the most social power pay scant attention to those

Christians are under attack all over the world, but the Truth cannot be silenced! #persecution #martyrdom #jesuschrist

God Cannot Be Absent From Anywhere According to Saint Gregory of Nyssa, heaven and hell are not about location, but about relationship. God is everywhere, and He did not create a heaven for some, and a hell for others. If we love God, His fire will be a comforting warmth,

It’s time to escape the abyss!

Within the Fold but Without Love? That our Orthodox Church possesses the Truth is a given, yet in our weakness as believers, the obviousness of that Truth is often invisible to others. In our weakness as a people, clergy as well as laity, we fail to demonstrate a love and

World War? Civilizations on the verge of collapse? Let’s get to work!

We Must Tend the Garden of the Heart Both my Norwegian grandfather, and my mother, were avid gardeners, so I grew up surrounded by the beauty of plants and flowers. The cottage garden is a distinct style of garden that is certainly my favorite. The use of traditional materials, in