3/4/2022
Archimandrite Damjan (Cvetkovic)
As St. Gregory of Nyssa said, there are thousands of roads of death, but there are many more paths of love.
Owing to Russian priests, theologians, monastics, and ordinary believers who came to Serbia after the revolution, the Serbian Church witnessed a spiritual revival.
Under such pressure everyone is inevitably faced with a choice—to decide who he really is—a Christian, or just a “common man”.
To put it simply, stop running after monks, submissive as they are! And it is harmful for such a runner himself. This is the usual vanity: “I go for confession to no one but schemamonk so-and-so himself!”
It seems to me that nothing can be compared to Kosovo because this is the most important part, the soul of the Serbian people and Church.
We very quickly simply forgot that we were talking to a patriarch, a person with great authority. There was a feeling that we were sitting and talking with our older brother.
