Humility Hurts
The acquisition of humility requires struggle. Our natural inclination is to flee pain, and cling to our comfortable pride. When difficulties and humiliations come our way, we must embrace them as from God. The Lord knows what we need, and if we are to acquire true humility like our Lord Jesus Christ demonstrated during His Incarnation, we must trust that the Lord gives us that which we need for salvation. Just as a loving father does not spoil his child, so does the Lord allow periods of struggle, that we might be purified, and made whole. Let us thank Him for everything, and draw near to Him for comfort amidst the pains of life. We can make it through this humbling veil of tears to paradise if we persevere in faith, hope, and love.
Love in Christ,
Abbot Tryphon
Quote of the Day
“Prayer offered to God in truth is imperishable. Now and then we may forget what we have prayed about, but God preserves our prayer forever. On the Day of Judgment, all the good that we have done during our lives will stand at our side, to our glory. And vice versa: the bad, if unrepented, will condemn and cast us into outer darkness. Repentance can obliterate the effects of sin. By Divine power life may be restored in all its plenitude – not, however, by unilateral intervention on God’s part, but always and only in accord with us. God does nothing with man without man’s cooperation.”
Saint Sophrony of Essex
Friday, August 17, 2024 (7532) / Friday, August 30, 2024
Friday of the 10th week after Pentecost; Tone VIII
Xerophagy
Afterfeast of the Dormition
Martyr Myron the Presbyter of Cyzicus († 250)
Venerable Alypy, the Iconographer of the Kiev Caves, near caves († c. 1114)
Martyrs Straton, Philip, Eutychian and Cyprian, of Nicomedia († c. 303)
Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucius, Coronatus and their companions at Cæsarea in Bithynia († c. 249-251)
Martyr Paul and his sister Juliana († c.273) and with them: Quadratus, Akakius and Stratonicus
Martyr Patrocles of Troyes († c. 270-275)
St Thomas, Bishop of Germanicia
Venerable Elijah of Calabria
Venerable Pimen of Ugresh
Venerable Philipp of Yankov
Daily Scripture Readings
(Friday of the 10th week after Pentecost)
13 For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;
14 As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are our’s in the day of the Lord Jesus.
15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;
16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.
17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
24 Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
25 Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:
26 Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.
27 And last of all the woman died also.
28 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.
29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
33 And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.
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