Renewed Continuation of Illegal Construction work on Decani-Plav Highway within Visoki Dečani Monastery's Special Protective Zone
14. August 2020 - 16:44Renewed Continuation of Illegal Construction work on Decani-Plav Highway within Visoki Dečani Monastery's Special Protective Zone
Despite Kosovo’s Law on Special Protective Zones explicitly forbidding building highways and transit roads through Special Protective Zones, the unambiguous stance of the Law’s Implementation Council, and the position of international representatives in Kosovo that the construction of a Dečani-Plav highway through the Monastery’s Protective Zone constitutes an illegal act, the local Kosovar authorities in Dečani, together with the support of the authorities in Priština, have once again begun intensive construction work on the road WITHIN the Monastery’s Protective Zone.
Meeting of Patriarch Irinej and President Vucic
14. August 2020 - 14:07
His Holiness Irinej, Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, had a meeting with the President of Republic of Serbia, Mr. Aleksandar Vucic, on August 12, 2020.
According to the official news release on the site of the President of Serbia, important national topics, such as fight for Kosovo and Metohija, difficult position of the Serbs in the region, as well as completion of works in the church of St. Sava at Vracar, Belgrade, were discussed during the meeting.
Serbian Patriarch Irinej visited Sremski Karlovci
14. August 2020 - 14:06
At the invitation of His Grace Vasilije, Bishop of Srem, Vasilije, His Holiness Patriarch Irinej visited Sremski Karlovci on August 11, 2020.
The renovation of the facades of the Cathedral and the Patriarchal Palace has been underway, which is financed by the Provincial Government from the funds established two years ago for the renovation of Sremski Karlovci. Together with the President of the Provincial Government, Mr. Igor Mirovic; Provincial Secretary for Culture, Public Information and Relations with Religious Communities, Ms. Dragana Milosevic, and Director of the Provincial Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, Mr. Zoran Vap, who supervises the works, His Holiness the Patriarch - accompanied by the Diocesan Bishop Vasilije - got acquainted with the course of restoration and conservation of two very important buildings of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Sremski Karlovci, former residence of Serbian Metropolitans and Patriarchs.
Serbian Patriarch Irinej visited Diocese of Sumadija
14. August 2020 - 14:05
His Holiness Irinej, Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, visited the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God in Kragujevac on August 13, 2020.
The faithful people and the clergy of the city of Kragujevac, with their hierarch, His Grace Bishop Jovan of Sumadija, warmly greeted the Head of the Serbian Church. His Holiness the Patriarch thanked for the wonderful welcome and gave his archpastoral blessing to the clergy and the faithful people of the city of Kragujevac.
The Dormition Fast
14. August 2020 - 12:46
The Dormition fast was established as preceding the great feasts of the Transfiguration of the Lord and of the Dormition of the Mother of God. It lasts two weeks—from August 1/14–August 14/27 (old style/new style).
The Dormition fast comes down to us from the early days of Christianity. We find a clear reference to the Dormition fast in a conversation of Leo the Great from around the year 450 A.D. “The Church fasts are situated in the year in such a way that a special abstinence is prescribed for each time. Thus, for spring there is the spring fast ]—the Forty Days[Great Lent; for summer there is the summer fast… [the Apostles’ fast]; for autumn there is the autumn fast, in the seventh month [Dormition fast]; for winter there is the winter fast [Nativity fast].”
Bishop Ilarion of Timok – sixth anniversary of Diocesan ministry
11. August 2020 - 15:14
Six years of dedicated and fruitful archpastoral ministry of the Bishop of Timok Ilarion (Golubovic).
The tenth day of August, of the year of the Lord 2014, is written in golden letters in the history of the God-protected Diocese of Timok. On that day, when the Holy Church celebrates prayerful remembrance of the Holy Glorious and All-Praiseworthy Apostles and Deacons Prohor, Nicanor, Timon and Parmen, the decision of the Holy Assembly of Bishops was implemented in May of the same year, when Very Venerable Archimandrite Ilarion (Golubović), abbot of the sacred St. Nicholas monastery of the Bukovo monastery, was consecrated as Bishop.
