The Morning Offering

Missionary Monk

PLU Norwegian students, Martin and Ove

Taking Orthodoxy to the Campus

Anyone who knows me is aware of my passion for missionary work. My blog, The Morning Offering, was began as a both a pastoral and missionary tool. As well, I have used facebook, with over 5,000 "friends" on my Abbot Tryphon page, and an additional 5,360 on the monastery's facebook fan page (All-Merciful Saviour Orthodox Christian Monastery), as a way to reach out with Orthodox teachings in this age of the internet.

That said, I am perhaps most grateful for the opportunity God has given me to share Orthodoxy on college and university campuses. Today's photos were taken during this month, when I was blessed to teach two classes (two hours each) on the Tacoma Community College campus, deliver a talk before 73 people, including faculty, on the campus of Trinity Lutheran College in Everett, WA., and teach, just yesterday, two classes, as well as deliver the homily during the chapel service, at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA.

I ask my readers to please remember me in your prayers, that God will continue to bless this missionary ministry, and keep the blood pumping in the veins of this old monk.

With love in Christ,
Abbot Tryphon

Next Saturday: The Planting of a Monastery (chapter 16) The Miracle

My friend, Dr. Ihssen, on the right, with students at PLU

Trinity Lutheran College (click on photos to enlarge)

 


Thursday November 15, 2012 / November 2, 2012
24^th Week after Pentecost. Tone six.

Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus, and Anempodistus of Persia (341).
New Hieromartyrs Constantine and Anania priests (1918).
New Hieromartyrs Bishop Victorin and Priest Basil Luzgin of Glazomicha (1918).
Venerable Marcian of Cyrrhus (388).
"Shuiu-Smolensk" Wonderworking Icon of the Mother of God (1654-1655).
Blessed Cyprian of Storozhev, former outlaw (Olonets) (16th c.).
St. Erc, bishop of Slane, Ireland (512) (Celtic & British).
St. Anthony the Confessor, archbishop of Thessalonica (844).
Women-Martyrs Cyriaca, Domnina and Domna (Greek).
Martyrs of senatorial rank beheaded under Marcus Aurelius (Greek).

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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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1 Thessalonians 5:1-8

The Day of the Lord

5 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. ² For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. ³ For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. ⁴ But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. ⁵ You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. ⁶ Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. ⁷ For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. ⁸ But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.

Luke 11:47-12:1

⁴⁷ Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. ⁴⁸ In fact, you bear witness that you approve the deeds of your fathers; for they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs. ⁴⁹ Therefore the wisdom of God also said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’ ⁵⁰ that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation, ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the temple. Yes, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.
⁵² “Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered.”
⁵³ And as He said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to assail Him vehemently, and to cross-examine Him about many things, ⁵⁴ lying in wait for Him, and seeking to catch Him in something He might say, that they might accuse Him.

Beware of Hypocrisy

12 In the meantime, when an innumerable multitude of people had gathered together, so that they trampled one another, He began to say to His disciples first of all, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

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