Molitva posredovanje sveta je važno

I am always praying, regardless of any given situation every night. When i live alone or with my family, i may pray every morning even a simple prayer facing my own alter i made with the icons of Isus Hristos, the Bogorodice, Sveta Familija and Sveti Knez Lazar. I will also light my incensce and would ask to God for forgiveness, thanksgiving, enlightenment and the power to give my very potential for my family.

An old friend of mine would tell me often to pray for St. Xenia's intercession for my job hunting and everyday work, which i did. I may have prayed that when i was a Catholic during my younger yeas but i never realized those prayers to the saints because it is not yet clear to me what i am praying for and what is my role as a true Christian. 

Ever since i found out about Orthodoxy, my prayers may have a meaning now, even in my future baptismal, now i know why i am praying the Isusa Molitva or the Oče Naš or the Bogorodice Djevo or even the Molitva za Sveti Knez Lazar. And my prayers are right now for my future and my future family. I am continually grasping my future since i know, these prayers came from my heart and what my spiritual fathers told me.

That is why, a prayer to a saint's intercession is like the saint is helping us to pray for God's miracles and forgiveness and not praying to the saints themselves.

The importance of relics

                  (Sveti Knez Lazar)

  (Sveti Jovan Zlatousti/John Chrysostom)

        (Sveti Dimitrije/Saint Demetrius)

     (Sveti Jovan Maksimović/Saint John Maximovitch)

As i start this entry, i was thinking more about what are relics? I known them in a while but this is my true chance to share my thoughts about it.

This ia from the Wikipedia article to summarize about relics:

A strong element in favor of glorification can be the perceived "miraculous" condition of physical remains (relics), although that alone is not considered sufficient. In some Orthodox countries it is the custom to re-use graves after three to five years due to limited space. Bones are respectfully washed and placed in an ossuary, often with the person's name written on the skull. Occasionally when a body is exhumed something believed to be miraculous occurs to reveal the person's sainthood. There have been numerous occurrences where the exhumed bones are said to suddenly give off a wonderful fragrance, like flowers; or sometimes the body is said to be found incorrupt despite having not been embalmed (traditionally the Orthodox do not embalm the dead) and having been buried for three years.

For the Orthodox, body and soul both comprise the person, and in the end, body and soul will be reunited; therefore, the body of a saint shares in the holiness of the soul of the saint.

Orthodox venerate saints and ask for their prayers, and consider them brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus. Saints are venerated and loved and asked to intercede for salvation, but they are not given the worship accorded to God, because their holiness is believed to come from God. In fact, anyone who worships a saint, relics, or icons is to be excommunicated. As a general rule onlyclergy will touch relics in order to move them or carry them in procession; however, inveneration the faithful will kiss the relic to show love and respect toward the saint. Every altar in every Orthodox church contains relics, usually of a martyr. The Church building interiors are covered with the icons of saints.

In one part of the stanzas, there is no EMBALMING to be performed. Strictly. And it should not be worshiped. They are asked for their intercession for our salvation. I wish one day that, i may go to Ravanica, where the relics of my future patron saint, Saint Prince Lazar's headless incorruptible remains are continually reposing and a source of miracles by God for the people to know what we should do while we have life.

Everytime that, something bad happens, some of the relics will make some miracle, like glowing of Saint Prince Lazar before the Balkan flooding of 2014 and others. It means we should return to God's way and not of anti-religious way. It is clear for us who believe in God that, miracles will happen anytime as long as we believe.