A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Српски филмски фестивал у Чикагу

Српски филмски фестивал одржан је од 6. до 8. децембра 2013. године у Чикагу. Одбор Српског филмског фестивала, под покровитељством Владе Србије – Канцеларије Владе за сарадњу са дијаспором и Србима у региону, у сарадњи са листом „Српско огледало“, Генералним конзулатом Републике Србије и Српско-америчким музејом „Свети Сава“, а на иницијативу директорке фестивала Славице Петровић, одлучио је да српска заједница у Чикагу постане домаћин ове културне манифестације, која ће се одржавати сваке године.

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Током три дана трајања фестивала у биоскопу „Мувико театар“ у Розмонту, који је својим амбијентом дао посебан гламур догађају, приказана су пажљиво бирана нова филмска остварења српске кинематографије, уз бројне еминентне госте из Србије. У званичном делу програма приказани су филмови: “Кругови” Срђана Голубовића, “Фалсификатор” Горана Марковића, “Кад сване дан” Горана Паскаљевића, “Мамарош“ Момчила Моме Мрдаковића и “Држава” и “Пут ружама посут” Оливере Шарановић. Посетиоци су имали прилику да виде и неколико документарних филмова. Сви су титловани и преведени на енглески језик, тако да су и посетиоци са енглеског говорног подручја могли да уживају у њима.

Након пројекција фимова, уприличене су сесије „Питања и одговори“, у оквиру које су протагонисти филмова, главни, глумци, редитељи, продуценти разговарали са публиком. Глумица Весна Стојановић је за ову прилику стигла из Лондона и Тихомир Станић из Београда, главни глумац филма Фалсификатор.

Извор: Владa Републике Србије - Канцеларија за сарадњу с дијаспором и Србима у региону


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Bishop Maxim (Vasiljević)

(2006–)

For the last eleven years the ruling bishop of the Western American Diocese is Maxim (Vasiljević,) well known in academic circles since he holds several academic titles and is professor of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology at the University of Belgrade. Maxim (secular name Milan Vasilje¬vić) was born on June 27, 1968 in Foča, Yugoslavia, into a family of a priest. His father Lazar is a priest and mother Radmila, nee Todorović.

After finishing elementary school in Sarajevo (1983), he studied Seminary school in Belgrade (finished in 1988), served the army, and enrolled into the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in the same city.

He was tonsured a monk in Tvrdos Monastery, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on August 18, 1996, by Bishop Atanasije of Herzegovia, who also ordained him a deacon (1996) and priest in 2001.

Bishop Maxim graduated from the Faculty of Orthodox Theology at the University of Belgrade in 1993. He completed his Masters of Theology at the University of Athens in 1996, and then three years later, in 1999, at the same University, he defended his doctorate in the field of Dogmatics and Patristics with the title, “Participation in God” in the Theological Anthropology of St. Gregory Nazianzen and St. Maximus the Confessor.

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The Meaning of Reality

Essays on Existence and Communion, Eros and History

by Christos Yannaras

The collection of articles traces the thought of Christos Yanaras through his long journey in discovering the meaning of existence, communion, eros, and history. It is a cause of immense joy that no fewer than twenty articles of passionate significance and substance have at present been gathered together in this volume under the title The Meaning of Reality.

Yannaras is undoubtedly one of the most significant thinkers of our time. Kallistos Ware once described him as "the most creative and prophetic religious thinker at work in Greece today," while Rowan Williams characterizes him as "one of the most significant Christian philosophers in Europe." His very wide and no less deep education helps him to develop an inimitable blend of philosophy, theology, and social criticism, and to speak in an original way about the traditional and contemporary issues of human existence, as well as the latest challenges of modern empirical science and political engagement. A detailed knowledge of the writings of the Holy Fathers has always been his foundation amidst the labyrinth of modern thought - which is inimately bound up with psychoanalysis, environmental issues, human rights, postmodernism, and pluralism , to mention just a few. Insistence on the primacy, uniqueness, and eternal value of human personality prevails in almost all his works and inspires his own vigorous theological and ecumenical engagement, based on the Orthodox eucharistic and ascetic tradition.