One of the most intriguing and increasingly popular places in Serbia, which almost hypnotically attracts visitors every day, is the Tumane monastery. Until recently, few people knew about this Orthodox monastery of the Eparchy of Braničevo Serbian Orthodox Church, but today everyone knows that it is a place where completely incredible and miraculous things happen. […]
Let us love Christ! Then the name of Christ will resound from us – accompanied by our longing, warm feeling, love. In fact, we will shout His name secretly, without words. May Christ free us from every presence of the old man in us! Let us turn to him in prayer to give us tears
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Someone will ask: how do you say that the risen Lord overcame death, but people are still dying? Whoever enters this life through the mother’s womb, they come out of this life through death and the grave. Only that death for us, who die in Christ, is no longer a dark abyss, but a birth
Good Friday for Orthodox Christians is the saddest and most tragic day of the whole year. There is no greater tragedy and shame in the entire human history than the event of the crucifixion of the Son of God. It is a day of our grief and spiritual sorrow, because of the great injustice that
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The entry of Christ into Jerusalem – Palm Sunday (Greek: Η Είσοδος του Χριστού στα Ιεροσόλυμα), a moving holiday that is celebrated the day after the resurrection of Lazarus, i.e. Lazarus’ Saturday, the sixth week of Lent and the week before Easter. This holiday was established in Jerusalem at the end of the 4th century
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It is very important to remember that the Lord humbled himself and became one of us, that he went to great suffering for us, being sinless, that he laid down his soul for us – he did all this precisely because neither our good deeds nor ours knowledge of God, nor anything else could or
The Lord gives us His Pure Body and Blood for free, which cleanses, heals, revives and resurrects us. Holy Communion is a Secret that helps people even in hopeless situations. This is the story of a woman whose Holy Communion saved a premature baby from imminent death. “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you
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The small village of Mutalask in the Cappadocia region became famous for this great light of the Orthodox Church. Sava was born there to father John and mother Sofia. At the age of eight, he left his parents’ home and became a monk in a nearby family called Flavian. After 10 years, he moved to
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For Orthodox believers, the six-week Christmas fast began on November 28, which precedes the happiest Christian holiday, the Nativity of Christ – Christmas.Preparation for Christmas, which is celebrated on January 7, is complete if the believer approaches the sacred mysteries of confession, repentance and communion at the end of the six-week fast. Fasting is the
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On August 27, 1930, the pious parents Zdravko and Milijana Gavrilović from the village of Vidova near Čačak – and with them the entire Serbian family – were blessed by the Lord with the birth of a male child who was named Miroslav at his baptism. He finished elementary school in his native village, and
