Saints Archives - Vasilije Prota Tomic

Saint Sava led us and directed us into the Kingdom of Heaven

Jan

26

2018

The Serbian Church is a church of Saint Sava; it lays on his foundations. In the light of the Sava’s will, we all need to re-examine our own views and views in relation to it, so that we can see how much we fit into the values of the Church and not how much it ...

Faith above all – Saint Sava

Jan

12

2018

When we celebrate the Saint Sava, we need to be receptive to the messages he is sending to us. Sava’s messages are as important to us, today, as they were vital to our distant ancestors, whom he was tirelessly trying to reach into their souls. Saint Sava sacrificed whole his earthly life, every blink of ...

Let’s get St. Nicholas back – Let’s return to St. Nicholas

Dec

16

2017

St. Nicholas, the most celebrated saint among us, Serbs, was put through many transformations and with each of these unnatural and forced changes of his holy image he got distanced from himself and we got distanced from apprehending and celebrating this saint the way he deserves St. Nicholas is the “ideal of faith and an ...

St. Paul, personally

Oct

7

2017

“I make known to you”. These words are taken from the first chapter of St. Paul’s epistle to the Galatians As it happens, this epistle is one of the most personal that St. Paul wrote. “See with what large letters I have written to you with my own hand” (Gal. 6:11) he says at the ...

Saint Sava

Jan

27

2016

Everything that I would tell you about Saint Sava, has already been told and it has been told in a better way. If only it had been carved in stone, memorized and done. However, I will tell you about Saint Sava in a way that is unusual and that describes him to be like we ...

St. Prophet Elijah

Oct

18

2013

Preach, reprove, correct, and encourage (2 Tim 4:2) Many object-and sometimes I suspect they might be right- that I am very strict and negative; that I always object and criticize and give negative examples and that I never come before my people with praise. Once, one of my parishioners- now my former parishioner-told me what ...

Holy Maccabees 14/1 of August

Aug

22

2013

In mid August, in the mid of scorching summer, we celebrate Maccabees. However, when we walk through this city in freezing winter days, sometime around Gregorian Christmas, in the window frames of the Jewish houses or even more noticeable in their synagogues and other buildings, we can see candleholders with eight lighted candles and we ...

Saint Mary Magdalene – Blessed Mary

Aug

16

2013

It is Sunday today, dear brothers and sisters, the day of Resurrection of Jesus Christ and this day in itself is big enough holiday. Today, however, besides the Sunday, we also celebrate the feast day in memory of St Mary Magdalene – Blessed Mary, as our Serbian people call her. I think you know that ...

Holy Bishop Varnava Nastic

Apr

19

2013

I have to admit the awareness that I had known, seen, and for a brief period of time, felt the same warmth of God’s sunlight and breathed the same air with a saint of Serbian origin fills me with joy and pride. I kissed his right hand and took away a gentle look of his ...

Protection of our Most Holy Theotokos

Mar

25

2013

On the day of the Protection of our Most Holy Lady Theotokos, it is already cold around us. Dark rainy clouds are hanging above us and are coming down on our heads. Icy cold winds started blowing and are threatening to penetrate to our bones. We truly need warm, woolen clothes to protect us and ...