St. Nikolai Velimirovic’s Study Group Meets
Thursdays-BiWeekly
Begins 5th of November
7:00 pm at the SYNOD
Our Lady of the Sign Cathedral:
75 E 93rd Street, NY
1st Book We Will Be Reading:

“Mystery and Meaning of the Battle of Kosovo”
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Dear Brethren and Sisters:

A study group will commence to read the writings of St. Nikolai Velimirovic, one of the great Serbian Saints of the 20th century. During WWII, St. Nikolai Velimirovic suffered internment in Dachau, a Nazi Concentration camp. 750,000 Orthodox Serbs were imprisoned and killed by Nazi and Nazi sympathizers during WWII.

In St. Velimirovic’s series of books we will read of how Serbian culture became grounded in Orthodox Christianity and will be exposed to the idea of suffering as a podvig that a nation undertakes. In undertaking to study this great saint‘s writings, we learn to acquire an Orthodox perspective about war and political suffering in these turbulent yet hopeful times. Books can be purchased online at Bishop Nikolai Bookstore: http://bishopnikolaibookstore.com.


Email savekosvo_metohijanow@msn.com for more information. This Group is Blessed By the Very Reverend Bishop Jerome Shaw of The Russian Church Outside of Russia-Manhattan.




For Immediate Release

Contact:
Americans for Serbia 347 665 7164;
xenspirit7@msn.com

ROCOR Front Desk 1 212 534 1601

Kosovo in Context: Past, Present and Future
Bi-Weekly Thursday Class on Kosovo Begins 5 November 2009 at Synod in New York City

With the blessing of The Very Reverend Bishop Jerome Shaw of The Russian Church Outside of Russia-Manhattan, a bi-weekly study group will start in order to read the writings of St. Nikolai Velimirovic, one of the great Serbian Saints of the 20th century. During WWII, St. Nikolai Velimirovic suffered internment in Dachau, a Nazi Concentration camp. 750,000 Orthodox Serbs were imprisoned and killed by Nazi and Nazi sympathizers during this time. After his repose in the United States, St. Nikolai was canonized by the Serbian Orthodox Church on the 19th of May, 2003.

We will begin with the book “The Mystery and Meaning of the Battle of Kosovo” because it introduces, uncompromisingly, the fact that God continues to intervene in historical events and thus, victory for Orthodox Christians is not driven by worldly criteria of exploitation, domination or thoughts of superiority but by the need of man’s salvation through the work of grace and our participation in it. Through study of the events of 1389, we will be able to place historical events within the eschatological and anthropological aspects of Orthodox Christianity, and thus provide a reference point for understanding what is occurring in the province of Kosovo today. This can be applied wherever Orthodox Christians are being persecuted by political forces within and outside of international law considerations.

Books can be purchased online at Bishop Nikolai Bookstore; http://bishopnikolaibookstore.com.

In addition, in St. Velimirovic’s series of books, we will read of how Serbian culture became grounded in Orthodox Christianity and will be exposed to the idea of suffering as a podvig that a nation undertakes. In undertaking to study this great saint‘s writings, we learn to acquire an Orthodox perspective about war and how to respond to political suffering in these turbulent yet hopeful times and our role as Christians towards our brethren and toward those we are commanded to Love. This will be a year long effort, and will take place at the Cathedral Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia located at 75 E 93rd Street. It will begin Thursday, the 5th of November 2009.