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 Kitić

A star of the Belgrade, Yugoslavia Opera, Milena Kitic made her operatic debut in 1989, as Olga in Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin." She performed at the National Theater in Belgrade for 8 years in a wide range of roles: from Rosina in Rossini's "Il Baribiere di Siviglia", Cherubino in Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro", Preziosilla in Verdi's "La Forza del destino", Fenena in "Nabucco'', to the title role of Carmen and Principessa de Buillon in Cilea's "Adiana Lecouvreur."

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Publishing

History, Truth, Holiness

by Bishop Maxim Vasiljevic

Bishop Maxim’s first book, described by Fr. John Breck as an “exceptionally important collection of essays” contributing to both the theology of being and also contemporary theological questions, is now available! Christos Yannaras describes Bishop Maxim as “a theologian who illumines” and Fr. John McGuckin identifies his work as “deeply biblical and patristic, academically learned yet spiritually rich.” The first half of the book collects papers emphasizing theological ontology and epistemology, reminding us how both the mystery of the Holy Trinity and that of the Incarnation demand that we rethink every philosophical supposition; it includes chapters on holiness as otherness, truth and history, and the biochemistry of freedom. The second half of the book features lectures dedicated to the theological questions posed by modern theology, including studies of Orthodox and Roman Catholic ecclesiology, liturgics, and the theology of icons.