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

The book on Christian Heritage of Kosovo and Metohija was presented in Paris on Monday, June 29, 2015, at 19h at l'Auditorium Jean XXIII de la Mutuelle Saint-Christophe, 277 rue Saint-Jacques.

Bishop Maxim of the Western American Diocese spoke about the theological and historical significance of the book. Raphaëlle Ziadé, a specialist of the byzantine art, from Réunion des Musées nationaux, explained some of the most prominent aspects of the Serbia's medieval visual art in Kosovo and Metohija. She emphasized particulary the a new humanism which characterizes these works, and it was this style that served as a basis for what Gabriel Millet termed “the Byzantine Renaissance.” Jean-François Colosimo, director of Editions du Cerf offered a wider perspective on the position of Christians in the Middle East.

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Српска Православна Парохија Свете Параскеве Сан Маркос и Организациони одбор дана 18. септембра 2015. године организују Вече Републике Српске

ИКОНОПИШИМО НАШУ ЦРКВУ!

Циљ нашег окупљања јесте скупљање помоћи за иконописање Цркве Свете Петке у Сан Маркосу.

Програм:

- 17.30 Вечерње
- 18.00 Вечера и програм

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Please join Lifeline New York (Patron: HRH Crown Princess Katherine) for a special evening on Friday, July 24th at 6:30PM for a performance of Jazz Under The Stars with award winning Jazz vocalist and Vogue IT girl, Sofija Knezevic.

Also, Special Guest of Honor to-be-announced.

Thank you for your support and generosity.

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У петак 3. јула 2015. године у 80. години живота престало је да куца племенито срце Славољуба Славка Пановића, родом  из Ратине код Краљева у Србији, од оца Богдана и мајке Дивне Пановић.

Дугогодишњи председник Српске Народне Одбране у Америци, члан епархиског савета eпархије Новограчаничке и Средњeзападно Америчке, бивши председник и члан Српске Православне Цркве Св. Ђорђа у Источном Чикагу, члан Српске Православне Св. Симеона Мироточивог у Чикагу и бивши подпредседник Српске Православне Цркве Старог Васкрсења Христовог на Палмер Скверу у Чикагу.

Славко је пензионисан из Hektoen Institute at Cook County Hospital као микробиолог. Пре доласка у Америку радио је као контролор лета у Србији.

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The Serbian Diocese for Western Europe invites you to a presentation of the book The Christian Heritage of Kosovo and Metohija on Monday, June 29, 2015, at 19h at l'Auditorium Jean XXIII de la Mutuelle Saint-Christophe 277 rue Saint-Jacques Paris 75005 (métro: Port-Royal).

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Књига „Уметност и стварност српским очима” Светлане Ракић, која предаје историју уметности на Френклин колеџу у Френклину, Индијана, представљена је јуче у Библиотеци града. Рођена у Сарајеву, др Светлана Ракић је студије историје уметности завршила у Београду. Докторирала је на Универзитету Индијане у Блумингтону, САД. Објавила је две студије о српским иконама из БиХ, монографију о савременом америчком сликару српског порекла Александру Марковићу, и низ чланака у часописима САД.

Ауторка је рекла да није реч о антологији, и да је могло још уметника да се нађе у њој. Ипак, изабрала је 21 српског сликара, на чијим се делима, насталим после 1992, види одраз друштвено-политичке стварности, сликара који су, како је рекла, доживели прекрајање карте Балкана, били сведоци транзиције и нових геостратешких подела, који су прешли трновит пут од вере у свеопшти напредак, до сумње у сопствени идентитет. Реч је о Милану Блануши, Милутину Драгојловићу, Владимиру Дуњићу, Душану Оташевићу, Велизару Крстићу, Даници Масниковић, Тијани Фишић, и другима.

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The Holy Assembly of Hierarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church during its regular session on May 29th, 2015, added the names of Archimandrite Sebastian (Dabovich) and Bishop Mardarije (Uskokovic), the Clergymen and Preachers of the Gospel, God-pleasing servants of the holy life, and inspirers of many missionaries, to the Dyptich of Saints (Calendar of Saints) of the Orthodox Church.

The Holy Assembly has done this upon the recommendation of the Episcopal Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America.

The Holy Assembly has established that the permanent annual commemoration of the Holy Hierarch Mardarije be on December 12, and Father Sebastian on November 30, when the Divine Liturgy will be served and the service chanted (hymns, troparion, and kontakion) and having their icons piously venerated.

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On 11 May 2015 a delegation led by His Grace Bishop Maxim, of the Western American diocese, and His Excellency Dr Ognjen Pribicevic, Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to the United Kingdom, visited the British Library (The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB) and presented a copy of the monograph 'The Christian Heritage of Kosovo and Metohija: the Historical and Spiritual Heartland of the Serbian People' (an expanded edition of the book 'The Endowments of Kosovo – Monuments and Testimonies of the Serbian people', published in Serbian in 1987). The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and it houses the most valuable manuscripts, printed and digital books and materials in all formats in all languages. Many of the most valuable books and manuscripts, periodicals, patents, maps and drawings are kept here. For this reason the British Library is regarded as one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the world.

The high level delegation, with His Grace Bishop Maxim and His Excellency Ambassador Dr Pribicevic, included HRH Princess Katarina Karadjordjevic; Father Sava, Abbot of the Decani Monastery (in Kosovo and Metohija); Father Dimitrije, Hieromonk of Decani Monastery; Mr Sava Pejic, former curator in the British Library; Mr Petar Agbaba, President of the London Parish Church Council; Father Goran Spaic and Father Dragan Lazic, London parish priests. The delegation was met by Mr Milan Grba, Curator of the South Eastern European Studies, who with his colleagues arranged a tour of the Library and an exhibition of some of the most valuable Serbian books kept in the British Library.

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People Directory

Bishop Maxim (Vasiljević)

(2006–)

For the last eleven years the ruling bishop of the Western American Diocese is Maxim (Vasiljević,) well known in academic circles since he holds several academic titles and is professor of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology at the University of Belgrade. Maxim (secular name Milan Vasilje¬vić) was born on June 27, 1968 in Foča, Yugoslavia, into a family of a priest. His father Lazar is a priest and mother Radmila, nee Todorović.

After finishing elementary school in Sarajevo (1983), he studied Seminary school in Belgrade (finished in 1988), served the army, and enrolled into the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in the same city.

He was tonsured a monk in Tvrdos Monastery, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on August 18, 1996, by Bishop Atanasije of Herzegovia, who also ordained him a deacon (1996) and priest in 2001.

Bishop Maxim graduated from the Faculty of Orthodox Theology at the University of Belgrade in 1993. He completed his Masters of Theology at the University of Athens in 1996, and then three years later, in 1999, at the same University, he defended his doctorate in the field of Dogmatics and Patristics with the title, “Participation in God” in the Theological Anthropology of St. Gregory Nazianzen and St. Maximus the Confessor.

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Publishing

The Church at Prayer

by Archimandrite Aimilianos of Simonopetra

Publisher’s note

Many readers of the addresses of Elder Aimilianos, which have been published in the five-volume series, rchimandrite Aimilianos, Spiritual Instructions and Discourses (Ormylia, 1998-2003), have frequently expressed the wish for an abridged and more accessible form of his teaching. In response, we are happy to inaugurate a new series of publications incorporating key texts from the above-mentioned collection. Other considerations have also contributed o this new project, such as the selection of specific texts which address important, contemporary questions; the need for a smaller, more reader-friendly publication format; and the necessity for editing certain passages in need of clarification, without however altering their basic meaning.

Above all, the works collected in this volume reflect the importance which the Elder consistently attached to prayer, spirituality, community life, worship, and liturgy. Thus the experientially based works "On Prayer", and "The Prayer of the Holy Mountain", which deal primarily with the Prayer of the Heart, appear first, followed by the summary addresses on "The Divine Liturgy", and "Our Church Attendance". These are in turn followed by the more socially oriented discourses on "Our Relations with Our Neighbor", and "Marriage: The Great Sacrament". Finally, the present volume closes with the sermons on "Spiritual Reading" and "The Spiritual Life", which in a simple and yet compelling manner set forth the conditions for "ascending to heaven on the wings of the Spirit".

It is our hope that The Church at Prayer will meet the purpose for which it is issued and will serve as a ready aid and support for those who desire God and eternal life in Him.