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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Bishop Grigorije (Udicki)

(1963–1985)

As the son of Stevan Udicki, notary, and Anica Udicki Pavlovich, he was born on January 14, 1911, in Velika Kikinda, Banat. He finished the public and secondary school at Velika Kikinda and Timisoara (Romania), the Seminary in Sremski Karlovci (Yugoslavia) in 1930, when he entered the University of Belgrade and finished the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in June 1934.

After the military service in the Red Cross company in Bitola (Yugoslavia) in 1934/35, he became a teacher of the Seminary and gymnasium in Bitola on March 15, 1935. On November 14, he was ordained a priest, on special duty at the monastery church of St. John the Baptist in Bitola till 1938, when passed the examination of a Master degree.

He took monastic vows in the Monastery of Hilandar in 1936.

In September 1938 he went to the U.S.A., to Libertyville, Illinois, taking up there the job of a secretary of the Orthodox Diocese and later on duty of a priest at the Holy Trinity Church at Butte, Montana. In order to complete the studies necessary for getting the PhD degree, he went in 1939 to Athens (Greece), but soon returned to Yugoslavia because of the war between Greece and Italy. Having transferred studies to the University of Belgrade he passed the examination on June 11, 1940. Working on preparation of the dissertation he went to Petrovgrad, Banat (Yugoslavia), where he remained till 1945. During the wartime between Yugoslavia and Germany, he was just a manual worker, and later in 1943 he became again a teacher in Gymnasium and helped at the Church in Petrovgrad. In June 1945 he was forced by communists to leave because of his faith.

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Theological Disambiguations

An Unconventional Handbook of Orthodox Theology

by Rev. Vladan Perisic

Foreword
by Fr John Behr

It is a great pleasure to see this work published, making available some of the most important writings of Fr Vladan Perisic over the last couple of decades available, together in one volume, to an English speaking audience. Fr Vladan’s work is well known in Serbia, and in broader academic and ecumenical circles. But it can now receive the much wider readership that it deserves, and, as a collected volume, its scope, coherence, and significance is sure to receive the recognition it deserves.

The eighteen essays collected here treat diverse topics, from academic theology (and its place in the Church) to questions of life and death, from historically oriented studies, on Sts Ignatius and Gregory Palamas, to contemporary issues, such as human rights and ecology. Each of them is characterized by meticulous scholarship and great insight, clarity of thought and expression.

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