How to Create Harmony
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| Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach, Oregon |
How to create harmony out of chaos
The
briefness of life has become ever more evident as we've been forced to
witness the senseless killings of innocent people in schools and theaters across
this nation. Death comes to all
of us, but when it comes in such vile and evil form, it is hard to comprehend. The inevitability of death is particularly difficult to face
for most Americans, as we've become a people that eschew traditional
funerals, preferring to "celebrate the life of our loved one, while
disposing of the body, and banning any sign of death from the memorial
service should we even decide to have a service. Yet the awareness of
our own eventual death is the very thing we should be thinking about,
if we want to be prepared for Eternity.
When we live our life focused on enjoyment, pleasure, and the acquisition of material goods, we enslave ourselves, and can only find freedom in God's love.
This love creates perfection and faultlessness, and when we think on your
own death we become free to perform every task for God.
Our fallen and imprisoned heart is liberated, and becomes
inflamed with the love of God when we enter into a relationship with Him. This love of God engenders a love that
permeates our very essence, allowing us to love every person and
every creature. Our heart burns with love. This love turns chaos into
harmony and it is Divine energy and Divine strength that transforms us
into the being God intended us to be. We are His child, deified and
made whole, and the chaos of our lives is turned into harmony.
With love in the Saviour,
Abbot Tryphon
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| View from Conference Center, Cannon Beach, Oregon (click to enlarge) |
Friday January 11, 2013 / December 29, 2012
32nd Week after Pentecost. Tone six.
Sviatki. Fast-free
Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christ.
The 14,000 Infants (Holy Innocents) slain by Herod at Bethlehem (1st c.).
Venerable Marcellus, abbot of the monastery of the Unsleeping Ones (485).
St.Basiliscus the Hesychast of Siberia (1824).
New Hieromartyr Theodosius priests (1938)
Virgin-martyrs Natalia, Natalia, Eudokia, Anna, Matrona, Barbara, Anna, Eudokia, Ephrosia, Agrippina and Natalia (1942).
Venerable Mark the Grave-digger of the Kiev Caves (11th c.).
Sts. Theophilus and John of the Kiev Caves (11th-12th c.).
Venerable Theophilus of Luga and Omutch (1412).
Venerable Laurence of Chernigov (1950).
Venerable Thaddeus, confessor, of the Studion (818).
Venerable Benjamin, monk, of Nitria in Egypt (392).
Venerable Athenodorus, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great (4th c.).
St. George, bishop of Nicomedia (9th c.).
St. Trophimus, first bishop of Aries (3rd c.).
Commemoration of all Orthodox Christians who died from hunger, thirst, the sword, and freezing.
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
Donations can be made directly to the monastery through PayPal, or you may send donations to:
All-Merciful Saviour Monastery
PO Box 2420
Vashon Island, WA 98070-2420 USA
Abbot Tryphon
Donations can be made directly to the monastery through PayPal, or you may send donations to:
All-Merciful Saviour Monastery
PO Box 2420
Vashon Island, WA 98070-2420 USA
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