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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
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William Dorich

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About the Author "A Brief History of Serbian Music"

William Dorich is a Los Angeles publisher specializing in self-publishing since 1985. He is also an American-Serb journalist. He is the author of 5 books on Balkan subject including: "Serbian Genocide 1941-45" (1991), "Kosovo" (1992), the first book published in the U.S. on this region of the world; "The Suppressed Serbian Voice and the Free Press in America" (1994), "A Brief History of Serbian Music" (1996, 1998), and "Hilandar's Octocentenary" (1999) which commemorates the 800th anniversary of the Hilandar Monastery founded on Mt. Athos, Greece.

Second Edition—A Brief History of Serbian Music covers the last 100 years in which the Serbian people miraculously developed and mastered musical composition after 412 years of Ottoman slavery in which the Turkish occupiers of the Balkans prevented Serbs from obtaining an education, forbid them to learn to read and write, and even denied them the use of musical instruments. In the 15th century the Serbs, in desperation for musical expression, create a silent kolo (dance) to the syncopation of their footsteps surviving this immoral oppression much like Jamaicans resorted to the use of steel drums.

During 400 years of Muslim oppression in the Balkans the Serbs maintained their history through folk poems and songs and preserved 5 centuries of their history orally.

The most powerful figure in the 19th century in making Serbian folk poetry known to Europe was Vuk Karadzic, whose efforts resulted in Goethe's translation of many Serbian works. Goethe was so found of the Serbian people he learned to speak their language and to read the Cyrillic alphabet, taught to the Serbs by SS. Cyril and Methodius in the 800s. It was Goethe's influence that convinced Brahms to compose his famous lullaby based on a Serbian folk poem. Other composers like Loewe and Joseph Maria Wolfram also composed works based on Serbian folk songs.


Vilijam Dorić Todorović je rođen 1939. u Zapadnoj Virdžiniji, u porodici Todorović iz Krajine. Školovao se za novinara i rano počeo da piše. Kolumnista je američkih glasila i od 1985. vlasnik izdavačke kuće “GM books”. Autor je šest knjiga, od kojih je posljednja foto-monografija o Srbiji na engleskom. Nosilac je Ordena Svetog Save.


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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.