A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Теслина вечна будност и вечни покој

Сваки народ би требало да зна не само шта никако не би смео да учини него и шта би све морао да учини. Кад је реч о великом, генијалном научнику Николи Тесли и о обавезама нас Срба према њему, онда би требало знати бар две ствари. Прво, да кључну обавезу бриге о имену и делу Николе Тесле не смемо никако препустити некоме другоме него да то мора бити у превасходној надлежности српског народа, његове науке и културе. Друго, Теслина генијалност, његови изуми и стваралачке идеје несумњиво припадају целом свету, свим људима и целокупном универзуму, али бисмо ми, припадници српског народа морали што чвршће и дубље да вежемо сопствену науку и културу за овог генијалног ствараоца како би се тиме непрестано подстицао интелектуални, стваралачки развој свакога од нас.

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Неопходно је, дакле, на све начине утврдити оно што наш народ веже за Теслу, за његово научно и духовно наслеђе. То истовремено значи да бисмо морали знати да је право место за починак праха великог Николе Тесле управо Београд, и то Врачар, на којем се уздиже Храм Светог Саве. Зато на том месту и треба, уз споменике Карађорђу и Светом Сави, да се нађе и споменик Николи Тесли. Врачарски плато би, осим тога, могао постати место на којем би се формирао најстрожи Пантеон оних који су за духовно-историјску судбину српског народа најзаслужнији.

Ваља изразити најдубљу захвалност Српској православној цркви на, пре више година исказаној иницијативи да Никола Тесла нађе свој покој баш уз Храм Светог Саве. Исто тако треба захвалити Влади Републике Србије и Граду Београду што су се, најзад, договорили око онога што бисмо, мање због Тесле а више због нас самих, морали да учинимо. Овим договором као да стичемо додатне разлоге за оптимизам у погледу будућности српског народа. Та будућност у великој мери почива на стваралачком уму Николе Тесле, па ћемо са учвршћењем веза са тим умом свакако имати више права и на саму будућност.

Проф. др Драган Станић,
Председник Матице српске

Извор: Матица српска


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Bishop Grigorije (Udicki)

(1963–1985)

As the son of Stevan Udicki, notary, and Anica Udicki Pavlovich, he was born on January 14, 1911, in Velika Kikinda, Banat. He finished the public and secondary school at Velika Kikinda and Timisoara (Romania), the Seminary in Sremski Karlovci (Yugoslavia) in 1930, when he entered the University of Belgrade and finished the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in June 1934.

After the military service in the Red Cross company in Bitola (Yugoslavia) in 1934/35, he became a teacher of the Seminary and gymnasium in Bitola on March 15, 1935. On November 14, he was ordained a priest, on special duty at the monastery church of St. John the Baptist in Bitola till 1938, when passed the examination of a Master degree.

He took monastic vows in the Monastery of Hilandar in 1936.

In September 1938 he went to the U.S.A., to Libertyville, Illinois, taking up there the job of a secretary of the Orthodox Diocese and later on duty of a priest at the Holy Trinity Church at Butte, Montana. In order to complete the studies necessary for getting the PhD degree, he went in 1939 to Athens (Greece), but soon returned to Yugoslavia because of the war between Greece and Italy. Having transferred studies to the University of Belgrade he passed the examination on June 11, 1940. Working on preparation of the dissertation he went to Petrovgrad, Banat (Yugoslavia), where he remained till 1945. During the wartime between Yugoslavia and Germany, he was just a manual worker, and later in 1943 he became again a teacher in Gymnasium and helped at the Church in Petrovgrad. In June 1945 he was forced by communists to leave because of his faith.

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On Divine Philanthropy

From Plato to John Chrysostom

by Bishop Danilo Krstic

This book describes the use of the notion of divine philanthropy from its first appearance in Aeschylos and Plato to the highly polyvalent use of it by John Chrysostom. Each page is marked by meticulous scholarship and great insight, lucidity of thought and expression. Bishop Danilo’s principal methodology in examining Chrysostom is a philological analysis of his works in order to grasp all the semantic shades of the concept of philanthropia throughout his vast literary output. The author overviews the observable development of the concept of philanthropia in a research that encompasses nearly seven centuries of literary sources. Peculiar theological connotations are studied in the uses of divine philanthropia both in the classical development from Aeschylos via Plutarch down to Libanius, Themistius of Byzantium and the Emperor Julian, as well as in the biblical development, especially from Philo and the New Testament through Origen and the Cappadocians to Chrysostom.

With this book, the author invites us to re-read Chrysostom’s golden pages on the ineffable philanthropy of God. "There is a modern ring in Chrysostom’s attempt to prove that we are loved—no matter who and where we are—and even infinitely loved, since our Friend and Lover is the infinite Triune God."

The victory of Chrysostom’s use of philanthropia meant the affirmation of ecclesial culture even at the level of Graeco-Roman culture. May we witness the same reality today in the modern techno-scientific world in which we live.