Metaphysical Therapy
Recovering from illness and injury often requires outside help if we wish to return to wholeness. I know this firsthand as I am many weeks into physical therapy from my own injuries and surgery. The road back to health takes effort, but I cannot do it alone. The same is true for the healing of our souls.
“The man who is his own spiritual director, becomes the disciple of a fool.” When we embark on spiritual healing, we need the direction and foresight of someone who is experienced, for there are all sorts of traps ahead, especially pride. In choosing a spiritual father or mother as our guide, we are directed on the path to Christ by someone who knows us, and is able to point out those traps that would snare us. This guide sees us from a perspective that is otherwise hidden from us, and can give us the helping hand we need to get up out of our bed of sickness to gain our strength. He knows the exercises and food we need for healing, even if it’s not always pleasant. The path to wholeness requires humility, honesty, hard work, and heavenly help.
With love in Christ,
Abbot Tryphon
Quote of the Day
“A priest is a spiritual physician. Show your wounds to him without shame, sincerely, openly, trusting and confiding in him as his son; for the confessor is your spiritual father, who should love you more than your own father and mother; for Christ’s love is higher than any natural love. He must give an answer to God for you.”
– Saint John of Kronstadt, ‘My Life in Christ’
Monday, August 13, 2024 (7532) / Monday, August 26, 2024
Monday of the 10th week after Pentecost; Tone VIII
Fast: Wine and oil allowed
Apodosis of the Transfiguration of the Lord
Translation of the relics of St. Maximos the Confessor (662)
Repose (1783) and Second Finding of the Relics (1991) of Saint Tikhon, bishop of Voronezh, Wonderworder of Zadonsk
Finding of the relics of the Venerable Maxim of Moscow, Fool-for-Christ (c. 1547)
Martyrs Hyppolytus, Concordius, Irenæus, and Abundius of Rome († 258)
Venerable Seridus the Abbot
Venerable Empress Irene, in monasticism Xenia
Blessed Empress Eudoxia
Icons of the Mother of God: “Seven Arrows” and “Strastnaya”
New Martyr Seraphim, bishop of Dmitrov († 1918)
Daily Scripture Readings
(Liturgy)(Monday of the 10th week after Pentecost)
13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:
14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
19 And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.
20 And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away!
21 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.
22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
(Saint Tikhon)
27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
Chapter 81 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. (End of Hierarchs)
**(318) Hierarchs: “Brethren, such…”
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
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