Prioritize Paradise
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon” (Matthew 6:24).
Are you more concerned about money, food, housing, and your popularity, or do these things take back seat to Jesus Christ? What are you choosing when faced between worldly consolations and spiritual activity? You must live with a loose grasp on the perishing things of this world as you journey to the eternal bliss of paradise. Do not settle for the garbage of this world, but like the prodigal son, journey home to God while there is yet still time. Choose who you are going to be for eternity by the choices you make right now. None of us know which moment will be our last on this short stop before eternity, and how will God find you in that moment? Be watchful and keep your heart in Christ. The time is short for all of us.
Christ said, “Be not therefore like them: for your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask Him (Matthew 6:8).” If you serve God with a heart full of love for Him, grateful for everything good He’s already given you, then everything you need will always be provided.
With love in Christ,
Abbot Tryphon
Quote of the Day
“Be careful with your mouth, but primarily with your mind; do not let evil thoughts start talking to you. Do not let your mouth say words that could perhaps wound your brother. Let your mouth put forth words which are fragrant: words of consolation, courage and hope. It is a person’s mouth that reveals his interior inner man.”
Elder Ephraim of Arizona
Tuesday, August 21, 2024 (7532) / Tuesday, September 03, 2024
Tuesday of the 11th week after Pentecost; Tone I
No fast
Afterfeast of the Dormition
✺ Apostle of the Seventy Thaddeus († c. 44)
✺ Martyr Bassa of Edessa and her sons: Theognios, Agapios and Pistos († c. 305-311)
🕃 Venerable Abraham, Archimandrite and Wonderworker of Smolensk (13th C)
Venerable Abraham, the Lover-of-Labour of the Kiev Caves
Venerable Conrnilius and his disciple Abraham, of Old Island
Venerable Theoclita (829-842)
Venerable Ephraim of Smolensk (13th C)
Hieromartyr Raphael of Shishatova
Daily Scripture Readings
(Litrugy)(Tuesday of the 11th week after Pentecost)
15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
Chapter 3
1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
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