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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Srđa Trifković

Srđa Trifković (also Srdja Trifković; Serbian Cyrillic: Срђа Трифковић and as author Serge Trifkovic) (born July 19, 1954, in Belgrade, FPR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian-American writer on international affairs and foreign affairs editor for the paleoconservative magazine Chronicles.

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Sailors of the Sky

A conversation with Fr. Stamatis Skliris and Fr. Marko Rupnik on contemporary Christian art

In these timely conversations led by Fr. Radovan Bigovic, many issues are introduced that enable the contemporary reader to deepen and expand his or her understanding of the role of art in the life of the Church. Here we find answers to questions on the crisis of contemporary ecclesiastical art in West and East; the impact of Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract painting on contemporary ecclesiastical painting; and a consideration of the main distrinction between iconography and secular painting. The dialogue, while resolving some doubts about the difference between iconography, religious painting, and painting in general, reconciles the requirement to obey inconographic canons with the freedom essential to artistic creativity, demonstrating that obedience to the canons is not a threat to the vitatlity of iconography. Both artists illumine the role of prayer and ascetisicm in the art of iconography. They also mention curcial differences between iconography in the Orthodox Church and in Roman Catholicism. How important thse distinctions are when exploring the relationship between contemporary theology and art! In a time when postmodern "metaphysics' revitalizes every concept, these masters still believe that, to some extent, Post-Modernism adds to the revitatiztion of Christian art, stimulating questions about "artistic inspiration" and the essential asethetic categories of Christian painting. Their exceptionally wide, yet nonetheless deep, expertise assists their not-so-everday connections between theology, ar, and modern issues concerning society: "society" taken in its broader meaning as "civilization." Finally, the entire artistic project of Stamatis and Rupnik has important ecumenical implications that aswer a genuine longing for unity in the Christian word.

The text of this 94-page soft-bound book has been translated from the Serbian by Ivana Jakovljevic, Fr. Gregory Edwards, and Andrijana Krstic. Published by Sebastian Press, Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Contemporary Christian Thought Series, number 7, First Edition, ISBN: 978-0-9719505-8-0