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

2014 Pascha Greeting from His Grace, Bishop Maxim

By the Grace of God Orthodox Bishop of Western America
Grace, Peace and Mercy of the Resurrected Savior Christ!

The Most Dear Ones in the Lord,
We celebrate the death of death,
the destruction of hell,
the beginning of other, eternal life.
And leaping for joy, we celebrate the Cause,
the only blessed and most glorious God of our fathers.
(The Paschal Canon, Ode 7)

We pray that God may bless your efforts and good works, granting you the tranquility that comes from the certainty that only the victory over death establishes life, transforms the common yeast of corruption into the heavenly Bread, and makes our homeland a loving prefiguring of the coming City.

May the the light of the Resurrection of Christ who gives us the power not to die (Jn 11:26) and abundant gratitude toward our God Who is worshipped in Trinity, be with you and with all of yours.

Христос Васкрсе! Christ is Risen! Χριστός Ανέστη!
Indeed He is Risen!

At the Holy Pascha of our Lord, 2014

Bishop Maxim
Your Intercessor before the Resurrected Christ

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Благодаћу Божијом, Православни Епископ западноамерички
Благодат, мир и милост од Васкрслога Спаса Христа

Најдражи у Господу,
Празнујемо умртвљење смрти,
Адово разрушење,
Почетак другога, вечног, живота
И играјући певамо Узрочника,
Jединога благословенога Бога отаца и препрослављенога.
(Пасхални канон, седма песма)

Молитвено желимо да Господ благослови дела ваша, дарујући вам спокој услед извесности да једино победа над смрћу васпоставља живот, преображава општи квасац пропадљивости у небески Хлеб и чини да наша отаџбина буде љубавни праобраз Града који долази.

Да Светлост Васкрсења Христовог, Који нам даје моћ да не умремо (Јн 11, 26) и непрестана благодарност Богу у Тројици слављеноме, буде са Вама и са свима Вашима!

ХРИСТОС ВАСКРСЕ! ВАИСТИНУ ВАСКРСЕ!

О Светој Пасхи Господњој, 2014. године

Епископ Максим
Ваш молитвеник пред Васкрслим Христом


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Milena Krasich

Electrical engineer

Life Member, 81; March 21, 2018

Krasich was senior principal systems engineer at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, in Tewksbury, Mass.

She began her career as an engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. While in California, she was a part-time professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills, where she taught graduate courses in systems reliability, advanced reliability and maintainability, and statistical process control. She was also a part-time professor at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, teaching undergraduate courses in engineering statistics, reliability, and environmental testing.

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The Thunderbolt of Ever-Living Fire

by archimandrite Vasileios of Iveron

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