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

Проф. др Владимир Владо М. Вукчевић (Аризона 1939. - Лос Анђелес 2018.) сахрањен је 15. августа 2018. године у малој Цркви Светог Саве у Лос Анђелесу. Опело новопрестављеном слуги Божјем служено је у цркви Светог Саве у Сан Габријелу.

Познати амерички офтамолог проф. др Владимир Вукчевић, велики добротвор Митрополије црногорско-приморске, рођен је 1939. године у Аризони. Школовао се у САД, где је завршио Медицински факултет и специјализацију. Својим прегнућем и вишегодишњим радом постао је један од најбољих окулиста у Америци. Био је власник и директор Клинике за очне болести у Лос Анђелесу у Калифорнији.

Иако рођен у Америци, овај угледни лекар никада није заборавио своје корене, народ и Цркву. Проф. др Владимир Владо Вукчевић, Црмничанин из Глухог Дола, био је велики добротвор Српске Православне Цркве у Америци, а остаће упамћен и његов спомен уграђен и на овим нашим просторима.

Митрополија црногорско-приморска изражава велику благодарност овом великом приложнику који је био први дародавац за обнову Цетињске богословије. Помагао је обнову и изградњу многих храмова и манастира Митрополије црногорско-приморске. Име приложника проф. др Владимира Влада Вукчевића уписано је и у храму Христовог Васкрсења у Подгорици.

Његовим доброчинством у храму Светог Јована Владимира у Бару израђен је прелепи мермерни иконостас за душе његових родитеља Михаила и Софије и њихових кумова протопрезвитера-ставрофора Мила и попадије Зорке Копитовић.

Проф. др Владимира Влада Вукчевића памтиће народ и Црква Божја у његовој родној груди. Царство небеско достоблаженом слуги Божјем Владу!

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Djordje Popovich

Djordje Rativoj Popovich was born May 5, 1942 in Belgrade, Serbia and passed away on September 8th, 2012 in Portland, Oregon, after a car accident.

Djordje R. Popovich immigrated to the United States in June 19th 1969 from Pula, Croatia. He lived in various places in the USA: Chicago, Santa Ana, and retired to Vancouver, WA. Mr. Popovic was a computer engineer and received high reviews from his employers.

He loved photography and computers. Djordje was very independent, he lived alone, yet took the best care he could of himself and his property, especially his yard. He had big blue eyes and could be very charming. The clerks at his bank were very fond of him.

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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