| Tweet Нравится In The Damascus Cathedral, children greeted Christ on Palm Sunday Damascus, April 14, 2014 On the feast of the Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem, His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, presided at the Divine Liturgy in the Dormition Cathedral in Damascus. The Bishop of Maaloula concelebrated. The cathedral was filled with many parishioners, reports the site of the Antiochian Church. According to tradition, all came that day with their children in festive attire. In his sermon, His Holines Patriarch John called for the end of violence and the restoration of peace, especially in Syria and Libya. At the end of Liturgy their there was a Cross procession. Pravoslavie.ru 15 апреля 2014 г. Квитанция Реквизиты для юридических лиц Оплата с банковской карты Visa, MasterCard и Maestro Оплата наличными через кассы и терминалы Пожертвование через Сбербанк Онл@йн Яндекс.Деньги Альфа-клик MasterPass Интернет-банк Промсвязьбанка Квитанция Реквизиты для юридических лиц Оплата с банковской карты Visa, MasterCard и Maestro Оплата наличными через кассы и терминалы Пожертвование через Сбербанк Онл@йн Яндекс.Деньги Альфа-клик MasterPass Интернет-банк Промсвязьбанка скрыть способы оплаты Предыдущий Следующий Смотри также Homily on the Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday) St. Nikolai Velimirovich Homily on the Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday) St. Nikolai Velimirovich But this event has more than historical significance; it also has a spiritual meaning, and therefore also a moral meaning for every modern-day Christian. According to the spiritual meaning, Jerusalem signifies the human soul, and the entry of the Lord into Jerusalem signifies the entrance of God into the soul. Homily on Palm Sunday St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov) Homily on Palm Sunday St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov) Here is another meaning of the colt of an ass. It is an image of every person who is led by irrational desires, deprived of spiritual freedom, attached to the passions and habits of fleshly life. Christ’s teaching looses the ass from its attachment; that is, from fulfilling its sinful and fleshly will. Thousands participate in Palm Sunday pilgrimage in Bucharest Thousands participate in Palm Sunday pilgrimage in Bucharest Thousands of the faithful including over 500 priests participated in a Palm Sunday pilgrimage in Bucharest, which began at 4:15 in the afternoon in Radu Voda Monastery, and ended at the Patriarchal Cathedral. Комментарии Подпишитесь на рассылку Православие.Ru Рассылка выходит два раза в неделю: |
| Patriarch Kirill urges Europe to return to Christian values, warns against " rewriting history " November 14, 2014 Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, center, during a welcoming ceremony at Belgrade " s Nikola Tesla Airport. (RIA Novosti/Sergey Pyatakov) Europe has switched from being a Christian bastion to a locomotive destroying faith, said Patriarch Kirill, the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, after his arrival on Friday in the Serbian capital of Belgrade for a three-day visit. As he received an honorary degree at the University of Belgrade, Patriarch Kirill sounded the alarm over the rapid de-Christianization of European society, which " gave up on the fundamental Christian values in its life and activities.” He cited prominent Serbian 20th century cleric, Saint Nikolai Velimirovich of Ohrid and Zica, who said that “Christ is leaving Europe.” “Today, when the process of secularization, the denial of absolute truth, the elimination of the concept of sin from the public consciousness reaches unprecedented, apocalyptic dimensions, we regret to note that many European states have actually abandoned their Christian identity,” said the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, as cited by the Interfax news agency. The recognition of gay marriage, euthanasia at the legislative level and the growing number of abortions indicate that Europe, which used to be a stronghold of Christianity, " has become a locomotive of destructive processes, " said Patriarch Kirill. During his meeting with Serbian president, Tomislav Nikolic, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church warned against attempts to manipulate history. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, second right, during a welcoming ceremony at Belgrade " s Nikola Tesla Airport. (RIA Novosti/Sergey Pyatakov) “History can’t be rewritten, although some in Serbia, the former Yugoslavia and former Soviet Union are trying to do it. And sometimes they teach children according to those adjusted textbooks, hoping that there will be a new generation that will forget about the pages of history, which are unfavorable in terms of the current political challenges,” he said. |
| Thousands join pilgrimage procession in Montenegro to celebrate St. Basil of Ostrog Moscow, May 12, 2017 Photo: balkaninsight.com The annual procession to Ostrog Monastery, near the town of Niksic, Montenegro, began on Wednesday, culminating in the liturgical celebrations in honor of St. Basil of Ostrog today. Around 2,000 people began the 25-mile trek from the capital of Podgorica on Wednesday, being joined by thousands more throughout the night and on Thursday, reports Balkan Insight . The monastery, perched high up on a Montenegrin mountain, is the most popular Orthodox pilgrimage site in the region, attracting hundreds of thousands of people ever year. Many come to pray at the holy site and at the miraculous relics of St. Basil which are kept in the monastery, seeking healing. Even non-Orthodox and non-Christians are known to visit the monastery, trusting in the saint’s prayers. St. Basil and his monastery are the pride and joy of Serbian Orthodox Christians in Montenegro. In a statement on the site of the Serbian Church in Montenegro, Fr. Predrag Specanovic stated, “Other cities in Europe may have their pilgrimage sites but only St Basil can gather such a large number of believers from different regions.” The monastery was founded in the seventeenth century by St. Basil of Ostrog, who died there in 1671. Two cave churches remain after a fire in the 1920s, which are the main areas of the monastery today. The upper church, dedicated to the Presentation of the Lord, sits nearly 3,000 feet up the mountainside. The lower church, of the Holy Trinity, dates to 1824. St. Nikolai Velimirovich writes about St. Basil in his Prologue from Ochrid : Saint Basil was born in Popovo Polje, a village in Hercegovina, of simple and God-fearing parents. From his youth he was filled with love for the Church of God and when he reached maturity he entered the monastery of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos in Trebinje and there received the monastic tonsure. As a monk he quickly became renowned because of his genuine and infrequently-found ascetic life. |
| Serbian Orthodox Church condemns Catholic prelate’s offensive remarks on St. Nikolai (Velimirovich) Source: Sedmitza.ru Belgrade, November 8, 2016 The episcopate of the Serbian Orthodox Church has published on the official site of the Serbian Patriarchate a communique concerning statements of the Roman Catholic archbishop of Belgrade Stanislav Hoevar containing offensive comments on one of the most notable and revered Serbian saints of the twentieth century—St. Nikolai (Velimirovich): “Communique of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church regarding the statements of the Roman Catholic archbishop of Belgrade Stanislav Hoevar: Sharing together with all Serbian Orthodox people, as well as other Orthodox and even many non-Orthodox Christians throughout the whole world the deepest prayerful veneration for the person of the holy bishop of ia and Ohrid Nikolai (Velimirovich), the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church considers it its duty to express publicly its outrage at the inappropriate and ill-intentioned statements of the archbishop of Belgrade Stanislav Hoevar given to the Belgrade newspaper Politika on October 28 of this year, having the nerve, in accordance with criteria known to him alone, to question the sanctity of the New Chrysostom and even compare him with Cardinal Stepinac and deem him the Serbian equivalent to Stepinac. Unlike the archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who in the London cathedral of St. Paul, together with Serbian patriarch Irinej not long ago festively celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of St. Nikolai’s historical speech, the archbishop of Belgrade considers it necessary to know neither the pastoral and spiritual work of the hierarch in Ohrid, Bitola, and ia, nor of his multifaceted interchurch activities. He especially does not consider it necessary to take an interest in his theological and literary output, including A Century on Love, and his experience of perceiving his enemy as an “austere friend,” as opposed to Stepinac, who wrote that the “Byzantine Orthodox” are “the curse of Europe,” and that, therefore, Croats and Serbs are two incompatible worlds. He also considers it unnecessary to know that, as opposed to Stepinac, Archbishop Nikolai was interred throughout the entire Second World War in Ljubotina, Vojlovica, and, finally, in the notorious Dacha concentration camp. We do not deny his right to question the decision of the head of his own chuch, Pope Francis, to form a joint commission of the Croatian episcopal conference and the Serbian Orthodox Church to responsibly and truthfully consider the question of the role of Aloysius Stepinac, before, during, and after the Second World War. |
| The term “ecumenism” has become charged with such emotions both negative and positive, depending on which side of the ecumenist dialogue you stand. The connotations range from politically correct to heresy. Author Julija Vidovic investigates ecumenism from the point of view of two great theological luminaries of the Orthodox Church in recent times, St. Nikolai Velimirovic and St. Jutin Popovic. St. Nikolai Velimirovic and St Justin Popovic share the position of the entire Orthodox Church on ecumenism. Our dialogue with non-Orthodox is the evangelical responsibility that is specific to the very nature, to the very essence of the Orthodox Church, which is the same Church that the Lord founded on Himself as eternal stone (1 Corinthians 3:11). It is our duty to bear witness to the Risen Lord to the end of the world. This mission was entrusted to the Apostles, and the Orthodox Christians do not have the right today, after two thousand years, to withdraw from it. However, a profound interest and involvement in the ecumenical movement implies questioning and criticism of it? We should not stand silently by without pointing out the problems that arise within the ecumenical movement when, represented by certain organizations, it begins to meddle in political and national issues while the essential question—the unity of the Christian world—remains in the shadows. How can the Orthodox Church (and indeed other churches) participate in a movement which could ultimately destroy the very foundations of the Christian faith and morals? As we have concluded that on the one hand, we do not have the right to withdraw from efforts toward ecumenical dialogue, and that on the other, we have ever rising discontent with the development of the broader ecumenical movement, the question is whether it is time to design a new model, a new formula of ecumenism which would allow us to interact with each other and collaborate in a more positive way? This does not mean that we need to, or should, abandon and forget all the important work that has already been done: convergence, better knowledge and understanding of each other impregnated with love, but having in mind and heart to make a step forward. For this new model of dialogue and collaboration we have an inexhaustible source in the works of Nikolai Velimirovic and Justin Popovic, and especially by using their severe criticism of the consideration of ecumenism as an ideology. |
| 60th Anniversary of St. Nikolai’s repose remembered Source: OCA Natalya Mihailova 28 March 2016 Clergy, faculty, students and administrative team members at Saint Tikhon’s Seminary here recently marked the 60th Anniversary of the repose of Saint Nikolai [Velimirovic] with the celebration of an Akathistos Hymn outside the room in which he had fallen asleep in the Lord on March 18, 1956. Photo: http://oca.org/ “Saint Nikolai of Zhicha, known internationally for his numerous theological and spiritual writings, including the Prologue from Ohrid, The Life of Saint Sava, and A Treasury of Serbian Spirituality , spent the last five years of his life here at Saint Tikhon’s, where he taught classes, mentored seminarians, and served as the seminary’s Dean and Rector,” said Archpriest Dr. Steven Voytovich, STOTS Dean, who presided at the celebration. “A commemorative photo and short biography hang in the hallway outside his former room, serving as a daily reminder of his presence and protection.” According to the account of Saint Nikolai’s life , he also had served as a guest lecturer at Saint Vladimir’s Seminary, at that time located in New York, NY, and Holy Trinity Monastery and Seminary, Jordanville, NY. “The Akathistos Hymn, composed on Pascha 1923 by Saint Nikolai, who at the time was Bishop of Ohrid, is dedicated to Jesus, the Conqueror of Death,” Father Steven explained. “One of the prayers from his earlier composition, Prayers by the Lake, focusing on Jesus as King and God, was read at the conclusion before the singing of the Magnification and the veneration of his relics and icon.” Concelebrating with Father Steven and Archpriest Stephen Kopestonsky were Priest David Gresham and Deacon Basil Ferguson, both students at STOTS. “We take this opportunity today to prayerfully remember one of our saints who had walked on these grounds, and ask his intercession before Christ our Lord for our ongoing efforts toward pastoral formation, for the faculty, the seminarians, and all who continue to labor here,” Father Steven said at the conclusion of the celebration. “O Venerable Father Hierarch Nikolai, pray unto God for us!” |
| Tweet Нравится Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich: Serbia " s New Chrysostom A biography of Bishop Nikolai Velimirovic, published in Belgrade in 1986, bears the title, Novi Zlatoust, A New Chrysostom.... Nearly thirty years earlier, Saint John (Maximovitch), who had been a young instructor at a seminary in Bishop Nikolai's diocese of Zica, had called him " a great saint and Chrysostom of our day [whose] significance for Orthodoxy in our time can be compared only with that of Metropolitan Anthony [Khrapovitsky]. ... They were both universal teachers of the Orthodox Church. " In another encomium, Bishop Nikolai's worthy disciple and preeminent Serbian theologian, Archimandrite Justin Popovic, extolled his teacher as " the thirteenth Apostle, the fifth Evangelist. " Bishop Nikolai was born December 23, the feast of Saint Naum of Ochrid, 1880, the eldest of nine children. His parents, Dragomir and Katarina, were pious peasant farmers in the small village of Lelich in western Serbia. As a child, he often accompanied his mother on the three-mile walk to the Chelije Monastery for services, and it was her precepts and saintly example, as he himself later acknowledged, that laid the foundation for his spiritual development. Hieromonk Nicholai (Velimirovich) Sickly as a baby, Nikola never developed a robust constitution, and failed the physical requirements in his application to military academy. With his superior intellectual abilities, however, he gained ready acceptance to the Seminary of St Sava in Belgrade - even before having finished preparatory school. Upon graduating, in 1905, he was chosen to pursue further study abroad, where he earned doctorates from the University of Berne (1908) and from Oxford (1909). Returning home, he became gravely ill with dysentery. He vowed that if the Lord granted him recovery, he would devote the rest of his life to His service. And so it was that later that year he was tonsured at Rakovica Monastery. That same day he was ordained to the priesthood. He spent the following year, 1910, studying in Russia, in preparation for teaching at the seminary in Belgrade. In addition to teaching courses in philosophy, logic, history, and foreign languages (he became fluent in seven), he produced an anthology of homilies that manifest his gift for being able to express profound thoughts in a way that made them accessible to the common man. |
| Patriarch Kirill urges Europe to return to Christian values, warns against ‘rewriting history’ Source: RT Europe has switched from being a Christian bastion to a locomotive destroying faith, said Patriarch Kirill, the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, after his arrival on Friday in the Serbian capital of Belgrade for a three-day visit. Natalya Mihailova 15 November 2014 Photo: RIA Novosti / Sergey Pyatakov As he received an honorary degree at the University of Belgrade, Patriarch Kirill sounded the alarm over the rapid de-Christianization of European society, which “gave up on the fundamental Christian values in its life and activities.” He cited prominent Serbian 20th century cleric, Saint Nikolai Velimirovich of Ohrid and Zica, who said that “Christ is leaving Europe.” “Today, when the process of secularization, the denial of absolute truth, the elimination of the concept of sin from the public consciousness reaches unprecedented, apocalyptic dimensions, we regret to note that many European states have actually abandoned their Christian identity,” said the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, as cited by the Interfax news agency. The recognition of gay marriage, euthanasia at the legislative level and the growing number of abortions indicate that Europe, which used to be a stronghold of Christianity, “has become a locomotive of destructive processes,” said Patriarch Kirill. During his meeting with Serbian president, Tomislav Nikolic, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church warned against attempts to manipulate history. “History can’t be rewritten, although some in Serbia, the former Yugoslavia and former Soviet Union are trying to do it. And sometimes they teach children according to those adjusted textbooks, hoping that there will be a new generation that will forget about the pages of history, which are unfavorable in terms of the current political challenges,” he said. He called such a course of action “a grave mistake,” stressing that “historical facts can’t be erased from people’s memory, no matter how one rewrites them.” |
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| The Feast of the Protection of the Mother of God From The Prologue From Ochrid by Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich Icon of the Protection of the Mother of God. From the Protection Monastery in Suzdal. Late 15th century. Troparion Most holy Mother of God, today we Orthodox joyfully celebrate thy coming among us. As we gaze at thy icon we cry with compunction: Shelter us under thy protection, deliver us from evil, and pray thy Son Christ our God to save our souls. Kontakion Today the Virgin is standing before us in the Churchpraying for us with the choirs of Saints. Angels worship with Hierarchs, Apostles rejoice with Prophets, for the Mother of God intercedes with the Eternal God for us. The Church has always glorified the Most Holy Mother of God as the Protectress and Defender of the Christian people, entreating, by her intercession, God's loving-kindness towards us sinners. The Mother of God's aid has been clearly shown times without number, both to individuals and to peoples, both in peace and in war, both in monastic deserts and in crowded cities. The event that the Church commemorates and celebrates on October 1 [October 14, Civil Calendar] proves this constant protection of the Christian people by the Mother of God. On October 1st, 911, in the time of the Emperor Leo the Wise (or the Philosopher), there was an all-night vigil at the Blachemae church of the Mother of God in Constantinople. The church was crowded. St. Andrew the Fool for Christ was standing at the back of the church with his disciple Epiphanius. At four o'clock in the morning, the most holy Mother of God appeared above the people with a veil spread over her outstretched hands, as though to protect them with this covering. She was clad in gold-encrusted purple and shone with an unspeakable radiance, surrounded by apostles, saints, martyrs and virgins. Seeing this vision, St. Andrew gestured towards it and asked Epiphanius: 'Do you see how the Queen and Lady of all is praying for the whole world?' Epiphanius replied: 'Yes, Father; I see it and stand in dread.' As a result, this commemoration was instituted to remind us both of this event and of the Mother of God's constant protection whenever we prayerfully seek that protection, that shelter, in distress. From The Prologue From Ochrid by Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich 1985 Lazarica Press, Birmingham, UK 14 октября 2010 г. Подпишитесь на рассылку Православие.Ru Рассылка выходит два раза в неделю: Смотри также Комментарии Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
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