The Very Reverend Igumen Abbot Tryphon is the spiritual leader at All Merciful Saviour Orthodox Christian monastery located on Vashon Island in Puget Sound near Seattle, Washington State. The monastery is within the canonical jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.
Save Thy people, O Lord,
and bless Thine inheritance.
Grant victory to Thy Church over her enemies,
and protect Thy people by Thy Holy Cross!
I attended a small school in southern Missouri in the 50s and early 60s. The one and only time I ever heard a prayer in school was at the baccalaureate service.
Before advocating for prayer in public school, ask yourself, which denomination’s prayer? Catholic? Protestant? Muslim? Most likely it would be all of the above and more and remember, the atheists would demand their time too, all led by and “approved” by the teacher’s union.
No thanks.
All kids already can pray and in public school too, nothing stopping them, except parents who never bother to teach them to pray.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
President Ronald Reagan
~The same forces that are aggressively seeking to discredit the clergy, divide Russian society, and turn Russians away from their temples, is at work in the United States. The time has come for all Christians to stand firm, and resist the forces of aggressive secularism.~
I don’t know much about Tryphon or how things are going in Seattle but secularism is the least problem for his ROC colleagues back in Russia.