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

Mogli su da rade bilo gde na svetu, ali oni su se vratili u Srbiju

Dok se sve više priča o odlasku mladih i obrazovanih iz Srbije u svet (700 diplomaca godišnje), o tome da “neće imati ko da ugasi svetlo” jer je Srbija druga u svetu po odlivu mozgova, ipak nije sve tako crno.

Najmanje hiljadu fakultetski obrazovanih ljudi vratilo se u Srbiju iz svih krajeva sveta (od SAD preko Evrope do Australije).

Svako od njih vredno radi, pokreće projekte, primenjuje znanje stečeno napolju, ne kuka i ne čeka da dobije posao.Okupljeni su u neformalno udurženje “Repats” (povratnici), koje je osnovala Jovana Ružičić (34). Ona se 2010. godine vratila iz SAD.

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- Na Floridi sam završila psihogiju i žurnalistiku, a na državnom univerzitetu Mičigen magistrirala odnose sa javnošću. Vratila sam se posle otcepljenja Kosova, iz patriotskih razloga - priča Jovana.

Živela je u najpoželjnijoj državi na svetu gotovo 11 godina.

- Svi misle da sam luda, a ja se ne trudim da bilo koga razuverim. Istina je da postoje države i sistemi koji vas više podržavaju da napredujete, a drugi vas čak i sputavaju, ali ne postoji idealna država, niti je Srbija najgora na svetu. Kod nas je, na primer, zdravstvena zaštita, kakva god bila, dostupna ljudima. Ne bi vam se desilo da umrete u čekaonici od izliva krvi u mozak u svojoj trideset petoj godini dok proveravaju imate li osiguranje kao što se desilo mojoj rođaki u SAD - priča Jovana.

Ona u Srbiji pristojno živi od svog osnovnog posla (odnosi sa javnošću), a slobodno vreme daruje unapređenju prava mama u Srbiji.

Vanja Ković (36), docent psihologije poreklom iz Nikšića, mogla je da bira da li će da nastavi postdoktorske studije na Oksfordu ili će da se vrati da predaje u zemlji.

- Bila sam stipendista Fonda Karađorđevića, koji mi je otvorio vrata za napredovanje u karijeri. Vratila sam se iz osećanja duga prema svojoj zemlji i zbog porodice, koja se ovde lakše i lepše podiže - priča Vanja, majka dva sina.

Vanja je imala poziv još jednog univerziteta u Velsu, ali se ipak vratila i predaje na Filozofskom fakultetu u Beogradu.

Vuk Đukić (30) završio je međunarodne odnose i diplomatiju u Atini. Kad je jednog leta, pre devet godina, bio na odmoru u Srbiji, predao je CV za posao u jednoj poznatoj multinacionalnoj kompaniji i odmah bio primljen.

- Od tada sam promenio više poslova i stalno planiram nove projekte. Sada sam direktor u Investicionom fondu SEAF i radim na tome da i u Srbiji zaživi ono što je već poznato na zapadu, neformalno okupljanje poslovnih ljudi, takozvani silikon drinkabaut - priča Vuk, koji je živeo u dalekoj Australiji, pa čak i u Zimbabveu.
Vuk je iz mešovite, grčko-srpske porodice. Od oca je nasledio preduzetnički duh i čini se, gde god da živi, on bi se dobro snašao.

„Repats” se okupljaju jednom mesečno u kafiću čije ime sve govori - “Klub svetskih putnika”.

Srbija moderna zahvaljujući  povratnicima iz belog sveta

Povratnike u Srbiju prate zlobni komentari poput onih “da si nešto vredeo, ne bi se vratio”.
Istina je, međutim, da su upravo ovi ljudi ono najvrednije što danas imamo. Uostalom, Srbija je od seljačke zemlje postala moderna država zahvaljujući povratnicima kao što su: Dositej Obradović, Slobodan Jovanović, Jovan Skerlić, Milutin Milanković, Jovan Cvijić, Mihailo Petrović Alas… i mnogi drugi umovi 19. veka.

BLIC, Svetlana Palić, 3. 5. 2015.


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Metropolitan Christopher (Kovačević)

(1963–1978)

Bishop Christopher came at the helm of the Eastern American and Canadian Diocese when the Diocese was well organized by his two predecessors. He focused on the Church schools and religious education of adults. There was already an Education Department with developed plans and programs. In addition to the Church Educational work during the period of Bishop Christopher’s administration, new Church School Congregations and parishes were organized; new Churches and other facilities were built.

In 1910, Petar Kovacevich left his town of Grahovo and after a lengthy and arduous journey he arrived in the southern part of America, on the shore of the Gulf Coast in the city of Galveston where the oldest organized Serbian parish in America originated in 1862–1864. After four years, in 1914 on St. Vitus Day (Vidovdan), his bride Rista nee Vujačić, a native of Grahovo, arrived and together through hard physical labor they gave birth and raised twelve children, eight sons and four daughters. The ninth born child, Velimir, was born on 25 December 1928, according to the new calendar, which he, despite his baptized name Velimir, was nicknamed Chris by his American friends, by which he was known to his circle of friends and acquaintances.

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Man and the God-Man

by Archimandrite Justin Popovich

"Father Justin Popovich, pan-orthodox witness to the God-revealed and Christ-given Eternal Truth, whose testimony can be even seen within this collection of his articles - that "the mystery of Truth is not in material things, not in ideas, not in symbols, but in Personhood, namely the Theanthropic Person of the Lord Christ, Who said: I am the Truth (John 14:6), Truth perfect, never diminished, always one and the same in its complete fullness - yesterday, today, and forever (Heb.13:8)."

The treasure to be found in this anthology of neopatristic syntheses consists of: "Perfect God and perfect man" - Nativity Epistle, where Fr Justin boldly exclaim that "man is only a true man when he is completely united with God, only and solely in God is man a man, true man, perfect man, a man in whom all the fullness of Godhead lives."; "The God-man" - The foundation of the Truth of Orthodoxy - Ava Justinian language of love in Christ-centered reflections of Truth; "The Supreme Value and Infallible Criterion"- contemporary philosophical reflections on visible and invisible realities; "Sentenced to Immortality" - a homily on the Resurrection or Our Lord Jesus Christ; "Humanistic and Theanthropic Culture"-criticism of European anti-Christian culture; "Humanistic and Theanthropic Education" - indicative pondering of consequences of education without God.. ; "The Theory of Knowledge of Saint Isaac the Syrian" - Faith, prayer, love, humility, grace and freedom, the purification of the intellect, mystery of knowledge; "A Deer in a Lost Paradise" - Ava's renowned poetic essay, a confession, and deepest longing for all-sweetest Jesus...