Showing posts with label sveta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sveta. Show all posts

Friday, October 3, 2014

Jednostavnost Patrijarh Pavle +++


If you saw photos comparing the Pope's automobile to Patrijarh Pavle's simplicity, please see it. You will know a true religious leader who would rather be simple in a few yet many ways than someone who tells everyone that he is just a religious man but he is also commanding politics countries.

Many Serbs though if Patrijarh Pavle could be a saint in the future, may God guide us all.

Pavle has been referred to by some as the "walking saint" based on his simple lifestyle and personal humility. All of the bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church have cars, which they use to travel through their dioceses, except Pavle. When asked why he'd never owned a car, he replied: "I will not purchase one until every Albanian and Serbian household in Kosovo and Metohija has an automobile." Asked by foreign journalists about alleged Church support to the Greater Serbian project, Pavle answer:

So I say: if a Great Serbia should be held by committing crime, I would never accept it; may Great Serbia disappear, but to hold it by crime - no. If it were necessary to hold only a small Serbia by crime, I would not accept it. May small Serbia disappear, but to hold it by crime - no. And if there is only one Serb, and if I am that last Serb, to hold on by crime - I do not accept. May we disappear, but disappear as humans, because then we will not disappear, we will be alive in the hands of the living God.

Monday, July 14, 2014

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.