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
Obren 1882 - 1940, Soke 1890 - 1981
OBREN ANGELICH SOKE ANGELICH
BORN 1882 BILECHA BORN MAY 6, 1890
JUGOSLAVIA SELO MOKRINE
DIED 1940 CALIF. YUGOSLAVIA
MEMBER OF LODGE 28 DIED JULY 16. 1891
SERB AMERICAN SOCIETY MEMBER K. S. S.
S. N. F.
The present book consists of Elder Vaileios' talks, discussions and dialogues in various venues mostly in the United States during his visit in 2011, along with excerpts from his writings selected to complement the themes of his talks. The themes dealt with by Fr. Vasileios so eloquently in this book are extraordinarily wide-ranging; he handles complex and difficult issues in theology, spirituality, liturgics, parish life and monasticism with amazing clarity and insight. He quotes with equal facility from figures as diverse as Heraclitus, Dostoevsky, St. Isacc the Syrian, St. Maximus the Confessor, Stefan Zweig, Andrei Tarkovsky, Vladimir Lossy, Georges Florovsky and St. Nicholas Cabasilas. Above all, there is an exhilarating sense of freedom and innocence in his thought. It is the freedom and innocence of profound faith and spiritual knowledge and childlike simplicity. HIs wisnow is expressed via the "hyperlogic" of a hesychastic spriti, which makes for surprising connections and illuminating insights.
The appearance of this new book by Archimandrite Vaileios is truly a cuase for celebration.
143 pages
ISBN: 978-1-936773-16-9
