The Morning Offering

Banishing Anger

Hieromonk Paul serving at the Feast of the Dormition

Anger and Road Rage Banished 
with the Jesus Prayer

The very best tool to banish anger and road rage is the recitation of the Jesus Prayer. Calling upon the Holy Name of Jesus, when under spiritual attack, is a quick way to dispel the demon of anger. When confronted with a driver who has cut you off on the freeway, uttering the name of Jesus by praying the Jesus Prayer, is a sure way to bring peace to your soul and quench the fire of anger.

When feeling rage overtaking your peace, saying the Jesus Prayer for that person changes your heart and opens you to the person who has enraged you. He becomes a child of God, even a brother, and is worthy of your prayers and love.

The Prayer removes the memory of the perceived wrong done towards you and restores your peace. All malice is dispelled and replaced by the peace that passes all understanding. It is the peace that comes from the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ, our Lord, God and Saviour.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on that person in the red truck.

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us all.

With love in Christ,
Abbot Tryphon

Friday September 7, 2012 / August 25, 2012

14^th Week after Pentecost. Tone four.
Fast. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits)

Return of the relics of the Apostle Bartholomew from Anastasiopolis to Lipari (6th c.).
Holy Apostle Titus of the Seventy (1st c.).
Hieromartyr Moses (1931).
New Hieromartyr priest Vladimir Moschansky (1938).
Sts. Barses and Eulogius (386), bishops of Edessa, and St. Protogenes, bishop of Carrhae (4th c.), confessors.
St. Menas, patriarch of Constantinople (6th c.).
St. John the Cappadocian (520) and St. Epiphanius (535), patriarchs of Constantinople.
Synaxis of Hierarchs of Crete: Andrew the Wonderworker; Cyril, bishop of Gortyna; and Eumenius, bishop of Rome. (Greek).
St. Aredius of Limousin (591) (Gaul).
St. Gregory of Utrecht (775) (Neth.).
Translation of the relics of St. Hilda of Whitby (680) (Celtic & British).
St. Ebba the Elder, abbess of Coldingham, Northumbria, England (683) (Celtic & British).

You can read the life of the saint in green, by click on the name.

THANK YOU, to all of you who have been able to contribute towards the support of the monastery. These difficult times of economic hardship have impacted the monastery, and those of you who have been able to donate, have been our lifeline. May God bless you for your generosity, and kindness.

With love in Christ,  
Abbot Tryphon

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Galatians 2:6-10

⁶ But from those who seemed to be something—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God shows personal favoritism to no man—for those who seemed to be something added nothing to me. ⁷ But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised had been committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Peter ⁸ (for He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised also worked effectively in me toward the Gentiles), ⁹ and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that had been given to me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. ¹⁰ They desired only that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do.

Mark 5:22-24

²² And behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue came, Jairus by name. And when he saw Him, he fell at His feet ²³ and begged Him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter lies at the point of death. Come and lay Your hands on her, that she may be healed, and she will live.” ²⁴ So Jesus went with him, and a great multitude followed Him and thronged Him.

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