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Saturday, February 14 / February 1 (Church Calendar)

Saints of the Day

February 1 / 14. Martyr Tryphon of Campsada (Lampsakon) near Apamea in Syria. Martyrs Perpetua, a woman of Carthage, and the catechumens Saturus, Revocatus, Saturninus, Secundulus, and Felicitas. St. Peter the Galatian, hermit near Antioch in Syria.St. Vendemianus (Bendemianus), hermit of Bithynia. St. Basil, Archbishop of Thessalonica. New-Martyr Anastasius at Anaplus.St. Tryphon of Pechenga and Kola. St. Bridget (Brigit) of Ireland. New-Martyr priest Peter Skipetrov (1918). (Greek Calendar: St. Timothy the Confessor. Martyrs Theonas, two children, and Karion.)
An Appeal for Prayer:
On behalf of the holy brotherhood of All-Merciful Saviour Monastery, I am asking for your prayers. Like most of you, we are struggling like never before, with the present downswing in the economy. Our donations are way down, as are our coffee sales. We still own $278,000.00 on the mortgage balance. Our monthly mortgage payment is $2,211.72. This amount, together with the rising food prices, and heating and power costs, has placed a great burden on the monastic community. At the very time we are receiving increased interest from prospective brothers, we are struggling just to keep to the status quo. Thus, we would like to appeal to all our friends, including the readers of this blog, to join us in praying that the Lord will provide, if it please Him, a benefactor who could pay off our mortgage. Thank you, in advance, for your prayerful support.
With love in Christ,
Abbot Tryphon

Scripture Readings for the Day

2 Timothy 3:1-9

¹This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

²For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

³Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

⁴Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

⁵Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

⁶For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

⁷Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

⁸Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

⁹But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their’s also was.

Luke 20:45-21:4

⁴⁵Then in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples,

⁴⁶Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;

⁴⁷Which devour widows’ houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.

¹And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.

²And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.

³And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:

⁴For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.

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