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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Aleksandar Petrov

Aleksandar Petrov, born in Nis (Yugoslavia) 1938, received his Ph.D. at the University of Zagreb. For many years he was Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Literature and Art in Belgrade and Director of the History of Literature Department.

As an outstanding poet and novelist, Aleksandar Petrol is featured in the Dictionary of Literary Biography (v. 181, 242-250 p.p., Washington D.C. and London 1997) as one of the most important Serbian writers of the post World War II period. He has served as President of the Writers’ Association of Serbia and Acting President of the Writers’ Association of the former Yugoslavia. Petrov is a member of the International P.E.N. and several other literary and academic associations.

He has taught at over ten universities in the U.S.A. and has lectured extensively in many countries of the world. Since 1993, he is affiliated with The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.  Petrov has published 8 books of poems in Serbia and translations of his books were published – in Britain, France, Spain, Sweden, Romania, Poland, Israel, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and the U.S.A. His poems were translated into 29 languages and included in anthologies of World, European, Yugoslav and Serbian poetry.

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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.