Aleksandar M. Prascevic
Despite the lack of understanding by the school administration for the religious needs of students, the students organized pilgrimages to the churches and monasteries, and there were examples of group baptisms. According to the students of this school, religious education has taught them to do as many good deeds as possible. The basic idea of these medical school students is to “make the world less the valley of tears, and more the valley of joy”.
Djindjic was very clear in his statements and he pointed out the following: “It would be important to understand that by introducing the religious education we enriched the possibilities and choices for our people. And choosing nothing – that option exists when there is no state, no civilization, it exists only in the jungle”.
Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), Hieromonk Job (Gumerov), Priest Alexy Darashevich
Rating: 10|Votes: 3
It is the last week before the beginning of Great Lent—the week the Russians call "maslenitsa." In the West it is called "carnival," which had a similar meaning originally, but is now understood quite differently.
St. John of Shanghai
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 7
Our grief for our loved ones who have died should be inconsolable and boundless, had the Lord not given us eternal life. Our life would be senseless if it ended in death. What benefit would there be from virtue, or from good deeds? Then they would be right who say, “Let us eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die!”
The saint was known throughout the region as a great healer of both physical and spiritual ailments, particularly for those possessed by demons. One of his early biographers says, "So great was his mercy, so great the people's love for him, that none in that region even knew what a physician was."
