Serbian Orthodox Church

Patriarch Porfirije: Our faith is the faith of the Evangelist Mark

Patriarch Porfirije: The Holy Apostle Mark wrote about God uncreated, about God without beginning and end, who, limiting himself to the human body, came among us not by chance, not for some adventurous motives, not because he had to, but because he came among us because he is essentially love. God who is love out of love created the whole world as the crown of the human world. God came into this world as love for our salvation.

On the occasion of the church Patron Saint-day, His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch,   served the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark on Tasmajdan, on May 8, 2021, on St. Mark's Day.

Bright Wednesday at St. Herman of Alaska Monastery in Platina, California

On Bright Wednesday, May 5, 2021, His Grace Bishop Maxim visited the St. Herman of Alaska Monastery in Platina, California. Accompanying His Grace was V. Rev. Djurica Gordic from the St. John the Baptist Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in San Francisco and V. Rev. Vasilije Cvijanovic from the Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church in Moraga, California.

Serbian Patriarch Porfirije: Let's build unity!

His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, served the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy with the concelebration of His Grace Bishop Nikanor of Banat, in the Cathedral church in Vrsac, on 6 May 2021, on the feast day of Holy Greatmartyr George.

At the end of the Holy Liturgy, Bishop Nikanor greeted His Holiness and presented him with the icon of Saint Teodor of Vrsac. Patriarch Porfirije thanked Bishop Nikanor and said in his sermon: - We need to build unity and be one in faith in Christ. Faith in the Resurrection of Christ, in the victory over death, over injustice, and in our victory over transience, has shaped our people from the earliest times. Orthodox Serbs lived with such faith. This shows that our people drew the meaning of their existence and strength in glorifying God, rejoiced in what they are to the same extent and when temptations arise in the areas where they live and knew that he was not alone, that God was with him and the Cross of Christ with him.

Paschal at Saint Steven’s Cathedral in Alhambra, California

The services of Holy Week at Saint Steven Cathedral concluded with the glorious Paschal Liturgy in the early morning hours of Sunday, May 2, 2021, celebrated by His Grace, Bishop Maxim, along with Cathedral Dean, Very Reverend Protopresbyter Stavrophor Nicholas Ceko, Reverend Presbyter Norman Kosanovich, and Deacon Vladan Radovanovic, Episcopal Deacon and Secretary.  All in attendance – clergy, the choir, boys and girls participating as Liturgical servers, and gathered faithful – were grateful to God to be assembled in faith and love to proclaim the Resurrection!  Later in the day, the Paschal Vespers concluded with the reading of the Patriarchal Paschal Encyclical.

Vandalism in front of the church of St. Nicholas in Kotor

Unprecedented desecration of the Kotor church of St. Nicholas on Easter

On the night between May 2 and 3, 2021, at least four people insulted Popadija Ivana Krivokapic, the wife of the Kotor priest Nemanja Krivokapic, after she warned them of inappropriate behavior.

Serbian Patriarch Porfirije visited Rakovica Monastery

 His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, visited the Rakovica Monastery where he venerated particles of the saint's relics, on 3 May 2021, on the feast day of Saint Nikolaj, Bishop of Zica and Ohrid. 

His Holiness was welcomed by Abbess Evgenija with the sisterhood. The Patriarch prayed to the sacred in monastery's churches of Saint Michael the Archangel, Saint Nicholas of Myra and the Dormition of the Mother of God, and then he sang an Easter troparion at graves of his predecessors patriarchs Dimitrije and Pavle.