Great Lent is not a season of religious self-improvement, it is a season of restored vision. It is not about becoming morally impressive, but about undergoing metanoia, a profound change of perspective. We fast not to punish the body, but to loosen the grip of compulsions that keep us living outwardly. We pray not to inform God, but to gather the scattered mind into the heart where the Kingdom already dwells. We forgive not because it is demanded, but because without inward reconciliation we cannot see clearly.
Lent is the Church’s annual invitation to stop living from fear and begin seeing from communion. When the lens changes, everything changes. The same world, the same circumstances, yet a different centre of gravity. Less control, more trust. Less self-defence, more mercy. In that inward return, morality ceases to be performance and becomes fruit. The true work of Lent is not behaviour management, it is the healing of sight.
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Клањамо се Богу и чествујемо свете Твоје мошти, преподобна мајко Параскево, казујући са славом и песмама сва Твоја чудеса, која смо даром Божјим и ради нашег спасења задобили; нека наша молитва буде добро примљена, светитељко, и хитај увек да нам помажеш
Сутра не Крстовдан света Литургија у 10ч. Строги пост.
Tomorrow on Krstovdan - the Feast of the elevation of the Holy Cross, Liturgy will be at 10am. It is a strict fast day.
☦️ Patrijarh srpski Porfirije služio je na praznik Preobraženje Gospodnje svetu arhijerejsku Liturgiju u svetoarhangelskom manastiru Krka, duhovnom centru Srba u Dalmaciji.
U zadužbini Jelene Šubić, sestre cara Dušana iz 1350. nalazi se i najstarija bogoslovija SPC osnovana 1615. godine.
In the creed we don’t confess in “one, holy, catholic and BIBLICAL church…” but “Apostolic”. More than the written word they established a community of living faith in the life of the Church. A blessed feast of the Foremost of the Apostles Peter and Paul!
Today we commemorate St Jovan Vladimir, the first royal martyr of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Данас се молитвено сећамо Св Јована Владимира, првог царског мученика нашег народа и цркве.
Feast of newly canonized Serbian hieromartyr celebrated for first time
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The saint suffered martyrdom, being beaten to death by Austro-Hungarian soldiers on July 28, 1916.