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

Наставак живописања старе цркве Светог Саве у Лос Анђелесу

Александар Живадиновић, водећи српски иконописац из Београда, осликава олтарску апсиду најстарије православне цркве у јужној Калифорнији.

У овим данима, када у црквеном богослужбеном циклусу започиње период припреме за Велики и Часни Пост, који нас припрема за прослављање Празника Христовог Васкрсења, и када нас Црква нарочито позива на учествовање у есхатолошкој реалности и пресаздању и обнављању пале природе човекове, са радошћу сведочимо још једно својеврсно обнављање и облачење у ново рухо.

Наиме, наш најстарији и први храм лосанђелески, који је изродио две монументалне цркве и парохије, ових дана пролази кроз другу фазу живописања. Овај подухват нема за сврху само да улепша богослужбени простор, него и да сведочи “нову реалност“  коју нам доноси Христово Васкрсење са поруком да “Христос Васкрсе, земљу потресе, тугу однесе, радост донесе” (Св. Владика Николај).

Има ли  бољег места у Лос Анђелесу за радосни поклич “Христос Васкрсе” од нашег старог храма, окруженог гробовима наших милих и драгих, који тамо почивају чекајући “васкрсење из мртвих и живот будућег века”? 

Управо ову радост, својим раскошним  богоданим талентом, помоћу четкице и боје, на зиду олтарске апсиде нашег старог храма, исписује Александар Живадиновић, иконописац из Београда, који од недавно, са благословом нашег Владике Максима, а уз подршку локалне Православне Српске Заједнице, ради на изради монументалне композиције Христовог Васкрсења, која ће доминирати  источним храмовним простором. Истовремено верујемо да ће она бити на утеху и оснажење свима који у храму и у његовој близини тугују због привременог растанка са својим вољеним.

Православна икона је наш прозор у вечност! Кроз њу добијамо могућост да завиримо и предокусимо Будући живот и да се сусретнемо са свима који по завршетку овог привременог живота очекују “живот нестариви”, сведочећи победу Христову над смрћу!














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Bishop Sava (Vuković)

(1967–1977)

Bishop Sava was born on April 13, 1930 in Senta. After graduating from secondary school he completed the St. Sava Seminary in Belgrade in 1950 and the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the University of Belgrade in 1954. He did his postgraduate studies at the Old Catholic University in Bern, Switzerland. He obtained a Doctor of Divinity degree at the Faculty of Theology in Belgrade. His dissertation topic was “Typicon of the Archbishop Nikodim.”

He was professor at St. Sava Seminary in Belgrade prior to his election as a bishop. He received monastic vows at the Monastery “Vavedenje” (Entry of the Theotokos) in Belgrade on December 3, 1959. The monastic name he received was Sava. He was ordained hierodeacon on December 4, 1959. On June 3, 1961 he was ordained hieromonk. The Holy Bishops’ Assembly of the Serbian Orthodox Church elected him bishop on May 20, 1961 with title “vicar bishop of Moravica.” He was consecrated bishop on July 23, 1961 in the Patriarchal Cathedral in Belgrade by Patriarch German. Bishop Sava held the following positions: Professor of liturgies at the Theological College, member of the Orthodox Commission for Pan Orthodox Council, and representative of the Serbian Church for inter-confessional dialogues. The Bishops’ Assembly elected Bishop Dr. Sava on June 1, 1967 for a Bishop of the Eastern American and Canadian Diocese. He occupied this position until May 1977 when he was elected as Bishop of the diocese of Šumadija.

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The One and the Many

Studies of God, Man, the Church, and the World today

by Metropolitan John D. Zizioulas

This volume offers a collection of Zizioulas articles which have appeared mostly in English, and which present his trinianatarian doctrine of God, as well as his theological account of the Church as the place in which freedom and communion are actualized. The title, The One and the Many, suggests the idea of a profound relationship that exists between the Persons in the Holy Trinity, between Christ and the Church, between one Catholic Church and many catholic Churches. On each of these levels of communion, each one is called to receive from one another and indeed to receive one another. And while this is understandable at the Triadological and Christological levels, it raises all sorts of fundamental ecclesiological questions, since the highest point of unity in this context is both the mutual ecclesial-eucharistic recognition and agreement on doctrine and canonical-eccelesiological organization.

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