Epistle, (Rom. 5: 1-10), talks about God’s love and our reconciliation with our Father through the sacrifice of His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, by His death on the cross. “God demonstrates His own love towards us, in that we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Rom. 5:8). “For God so loved the world ...
I was driving the other day, and on the car in front of me I saw a sticker. I always like to see how people present themselves with those stickers. There are all sorts of things to see on them and often very foolish things I look a little closer and on the sticker I ...
One can often hear some people say they do not come to the church for a collective prayer because they pray at home, on their own. That’s also where they light the candles and the cressets. In their defence, or to their praise, they say that God is everywhere; therefore it doesn’t matter where one ...
The Gospel Book is a call for peace and reconciliation, an inspiration to forgiveness. God said it clearly and concisely: “For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.”(Matthew 6:14) That is enough said for the rational people. The problem is that with all the envy and hatred, anger and ...
The Holy Gospel is the living and life-giving word of God. One need only submerge himself in this flowing and clear water of holy wisdom in order to experience the evangelical truth There is an ever present danger of us listening to whatever the Church ahs to say to us with a certain arrogance and ...
Тhe holy Apostle Paul sometimes offers milk to beginners in the faith when he feels that solid food would be too strong for them. Thus he writes to the Christians in Corinth: “I fed you with milk and not with solid food, for until now you were not able to receive it” (1 Cor. 3:2). ...
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 ...
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 ...
Believe me, it is not easy for us, the priests of God Most High (Hebrews 7:1). We always have to sail against the current, against the wind and against the mainstream. For example: here in the Western World exists an insane pre-Christmas shopping frenzy. It has been already widely accepted that what surrounds Christmas has ...
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 ...