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

Diocese of New Gracanica and Midwestern America

Diocesan Hierarch:
His Grace Bishop LONGIN

Residence:
Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos Monastery
35240 N. Grant St.
Third Lake, IL 60046

Mailing address:
PO Box 371
Grayslake, IL 60030-0371

Office/Residence - 847-223-4300
Fax - 847-223-4312

Website: www.newgracanica.com
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Episcopal Deputy:
V. Rev. Stavrophor Marko Todorovic
Office: 414-747-9246
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Diocesan Secretary:
V. Rev. Stavrophor Milorad Loncar
Office: 847-223-4300
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DIOCESAN COUNCIL:
HIS GRACE BISHOP LONGIN, President
V. Rev. Stavrophor Marko Todorovic
V. Rev. Stavrophor Milorad Loncar
V. Rev. Stavrophor Nedeljko Lunich
V. Rev. Stavrophor Dragan Veleusic
V. Rev. Stavrophor Dr. Milos Vesin
Rev. Aleksandar Novakovic
Mr. Milos S. Saravolatz
Mr. Branislav Brankov
Mr. Jovo Balac
Mr. Nick Malinkovic
Mr. Ray Vukas
Mr. Dennis Svilar
Mr. Ostoja Grabovac

Alternates:
Rev. Marko Matic
Andrew Nygren
Dawn Pilja
Zoran Djordjevic
Svetko Balac

Auditors:
Paul Bajic
Ryan Dorsey
Petar Samardzija

DIOCESAN ECCLESIASTICAL COURT

Honored Members:
V. Rev. Marko Pantic, M. Th.
V. Rev. Stavrophor Dr. Milos Vesin

Alternates:
V. Rev. Stavrophor Dragan Veleusic
V. Rev. Radomir Obsenica

Secretary:
V. Rev. Sava Bosanac

Ecclesiastical Court Prosecutor:
V. Rev. Stavrophor Petar Milosevic

EPISCOPAL DEANS:
Chicago Deanery: V. Rev. Stavrophor Nedeljko Lunich
Milwaukee Deanery: V. Rev. Stavrophor Djuro Krosnjar
St. Louis Deanery: V. Rev. Stavrophor Petar Milosevich
Duluth Deanery: V. Rev. Stavrophor Bogdan Zjalic
Detroit Deanery: V. Rev. Stavrophor Zivan Urosev

BOOKSTORE AND CEMETERY ADMINISTRATOR:
V. Rev. Stavrophor Milorad Loncar
Office: 847-223-4300
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"JOE BULEY" MEMORIAL LIBRARY:
Deacon Nikolaj Kostur
Office: 847-223-5971
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DEPARTMENT OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION:
Archimandrite Thomas (Kazich), Director
P.O. Box 371, Graylake IL 60030
Office: 847-223-4300
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YOUTH DEPARTMENT:
Rev. Dragan Petrovic, Director
Office: 317-471-8006
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Hieromonk Serafim (Baltic), Cooridinator
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Tomislav Z. Longinović

Professor of Slavic, Comparative Literature and Visual Culture
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1452 Van Hise
1220 Linden Dr
Madison, WI 53706
608-262-4311
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Born and raised in Belgrade, Longinovic holds degrees in creative writing, psychology and has his Ph.D in comparative literature.

His books include Borderline Culture (1993), Vampires Like Us (2005), the co-edited and co-translated volume, with Daniel Weissbort: Red Knight: Serbian Women Songs (1992), and the edited volume: David Albahari, Words are Something Else (1996). He is also the author of several works of fiction, both in Serbian (Sama Amerika, 1995) and English (Moment of Silence, 1990).

His most recent book, Vampire Nation: Violence as Cultural Imaginary, was published by Duke University Press in 2011. His research interests include South Slavic literatures and cultures; the Serbian language; literary theory; Central and East European literary history; comparative Slavic studies, translation studies, and cultural studies.

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Publishing

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.