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

Chicago Premiere of “Ravna Gora”

Ravna Gora

The Chicago Premiere of the new and critically-acclaimed television series “Ravna Gora,” the first Serbian mass media production to accurately portray the Chetnik movement and its leadership since the end of World War II, will be held on Saturday, December 14th, at Holy Resurrection Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in Chicago, the Cathedral clergy announced today.

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The series premiere will be officially opened in the Cathedral Main Hall after the Vespers Service beginning at 5PM.

The Chicago premiere will be opened in the presence of series producer and director Rados Bajic, His Grace Bishop Longin of New Gracanica and Midwestern America, as well as senior church and state representatives from Serbia, Montenegro and the Republic of Srpska.

This premiere screening of “Ravna Gora” in Chicago will be dubbed in the Serbian language with full English-language subtitles, allowing speakers as well as non-speakers of Serbian to understand the plot. Following the series premiere, director Rados Bajic will speak about the “Ravna Gora” project and be available to answer any questions from the audience. Throughout the event, light lenten refreshments and cash bar will be available.

The schedule for the event is as follows:

4:00 PM Press availability - media interviews
5:00 PM Vespers
6:00 PM Reception
6:45 PM Opening remarks/welcome
7:00 PM Chicago Premiere - Ravna Gora
8:00 PM Q&A with movie director Rados Bajic

The clergy and community of faithful at Holy Resurrection Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in Chicago warmly invite all to attend this historic event.

For more information about the “Ravna Gora” premiere in Chicago, please contact our church office at (773) 693 – 3366.

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Bishop Maxim (Vasiljević)

His Grace Bishop Maxim

(2006–)

For the last eleven years the ruling bishop of the Western American Diocese is Maxim (Vasiljević,) well known in academic circles since he holds several academic titles and is professor of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology at the University of Belgrade. Maxim (secular name Milan Vasilje¬vić) was born on June 27, 1968 in Foča, Yugoslavia, into a family of a priest. His father Lazar is a priest and mother Radmila, nee Todorović.

After finishing elementary school in Sarajevo (1983), he studied Seminary school in Belgrade (finished in 1988), served the army, and enrolled into the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in the same city.

He was tonsured a monk in Tvrdos Monastery, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on August 18, 1996, by Bishop Atanasije of Herzegovia, who also ordained him a deacon (1996) and priest in 2001.

Bishop Maxim graduated from the Faculty of Orthodox Theology at the University of Belgrade in 1993. He completed his Masters of Theology at the University of Athens in 1996, and then three years later, in 1999, at the same University, he defended his doctorate in the field of Dogmatics and Patristics with the title, “Participation in God” in the Theological Anthropology of St. Gregory Nazianzen and St. Maximus the Confessor.

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Serbian Americans: History—Culture—Press

SERBIAN AMERICANS: History—Culture—Press

by Krinka Vidaković-Petrov, translated from Serbian by Milina Jovanović

Learned, lucid, and deeply perceptive, SERBIAN AMERICANS is an immensely rewarding and readable book, which will give historians invaluable new insights, and general readers exciting new ways to approach the history of Serbian printed media. Serbian immigration to the U.S. started dates from the first few decades of 19th c. The first papers were published in San Francisco starting in 1893. During the years of the most intense politicization of the Serbian American community, the Serbian printed media developed quickly with a growing number of daily, weekly, monthly and yearly publications. Newspapers were published in Serbian print shops, while the development of printing presses was a precondition for the growth of publishing in general. Among them were various kinds of books: classical Serbian literature, folksong collections, political pamphlets, works of the earliest Serbian American writers in America (poetry, prose and plays), first translations from English to Serbian, books about Serb immigrants, dictionaries, textbooks, primers, etc.