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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 ...

There is nobody like us

Dec

5

2017

During all these years that God gave to me, I have been to many parts of the world; I have seen all sorts of things, among which many different anomalies Last summer, blessed with a new status of a retired man, I had an opportunity to tour the land of Serbs for a much longer ...

God, a child – through our family nest comes to us

Nov

18

2017

∗I delivered this sermon far back as 1995. I find that it is current today as it was 23 years ago, however, I must elaborate on my claim at the time that there is no greater evil than television. Television is still evil, but the internet, with all of its challenges, can be more evil ...

The inheritance of the saints in the light

Nov

3

2017

(Col. 1: 12–18) In his epistle to the Colossians St. Paul tells his fellow Christians that he prays to God for them unceasingly and that he asks that they may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding (Col. 1:9). Then, continuing with his thoughts he says, “giving thanks ...

Do not weep

Oct

20

2017

Through the eyes of St. Luke the evangelist 7:11-16) we witness the miracle of the resurrection and we watch the most moving scene that our imagination could conjure Christ was on His way to a town by the name of Nain. “And when He came near the gates of the city, behold, a dead man ...

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 ...

Wicked men walk in the dark

Sep

24

2017

I have already discussed how “the creators of the new world”, the world without God and against God, are quick to follow the word of Bible but they follow it in the wrong direction. And everything that God ordained they exert every effort to flip it upside-down. God ordered to be fruitful and to multiply ...

Wealth and poverty – their coinciding and the consequences

Sep

10

2017

Luke 12:16-21 It is very interesting how wealth and poverty, and the attitude of the wealthy towards the poor is a common topic in the Holy Script and a very common subject of the Christ’s evangelic stories and messages. When contemplating about it a little more one comes to realize that it just leads to ...

Let all that you do be done with love

Aug

22

2017

(1 Cor. 16: 1–24) The words that the holy Apostle Paul addressed to the Christians in Corinth are very constructive for us too. The Apostle exhorts his brethren, since they knew about Stephanas and his household that he was one of the best among them, to acknowledge him as such and to submit to him. ...

The bread of life

Jul

30

2017

Matthew 14:14-22 We often believe that the Church focuses very little or not at all on this earthly life and that it only teaches us and directs us towards the life after death. This is simply not true. The Church is against any exclusiveness and condemns all extremes. We can glean from Gospel reading that ...