Memory Eternal!

imageThe monastery requests the prayers of our supporters and friends for the soul of Elizabeth Dolores Parsons, mother of Hieromonk Tryphon.  Mrs. Parsons reposed in the Lord on Sunday morning, 20 January.

She and Father Tryphon’s father, Zachariah Albert Parsons (who reposed in 2000) both converted to the Holy Orthodox Faith while in their mid seventies, and were members of St. John the Baptist Antiochian Orthodox Church in Post Falls, Idaho.  Following a Pannikhida service in the monastery’s temple on the 23rd of January, a full funeral service was celebrated for her in her home parish on Saturday, 26 January.  Internment was in the St. John’s Parish Cemetery, where Mrs. Parsons was laid to rest next to her husband.

Memory Eternal, O Lord, grant unto Thy servant Elizabeth.


01/31 at 11:02 AM

Hieromonk Tryphon Attends Chaplains Conference

imageHieromonk Tryphon once again attended the International Conference of Police Chaplains training at the Christian Conference Center in Canon Beach,Oregon. The week long conference is part of an ongoing training program sponsored by the ICPC that prepares police and fire chaplains to better serve their departments and their communities. This was the sixth ICPC conference for Father Tryphon, who began his service as a fire chaplain following eight years as a volunteer prison chaplain with the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe, Washington. Father Tryphon is a graduate of the Police and Fire Chaplains Academy at the Washington State Criminal Justice Center in Burien, Washington. Some eighty chaplains from the states of Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Northern California and Hawaii were in attendance.


01/11 at 04:12 PM

St Herman’s Youth Conference West

imageAbout 50 young people, along with seven priests and three deacons converged on Vashon Island for the 1st Annual St. Herman’s West Youth Conference.  image

The main part of the conference was held at Camp Burton on Vashon Island about 8 miles from the monastery.  The entire group boarded a bus and took a ferry ride to Seattle for services at St. Nicholas Cathedral on Sunday followed by a meal. 

imageEveryone gathered at the monastery for the Vigil service and the celebration of the Divine Liturgy for the Feast of St Herman of Alaska.  The conference was a grand success, and will take place again this next year.



12/27 at 01:55 PM
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