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

Listen and Ask Questions of Serbian Archeologist

at St. Nikola Church, Brookfield, Illinois

Misko Kaludjerovic, a Serbian archeologist, explored many excavations throughout the Serbian territory which proved to be one of the richest finds in Europe. It is an area of our ancestry where many empires, emperors, rulers, and battles, have taken place. Misko will begin a speaking series, introducing the archeological finds in the places of origin of our parishioners and Sunday School children. Please join us for this most insightful archeological journey with a question and answer session for you to gain additional information about your rich Serbian ancestry.

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Miško Kaludjerović, arheolog, učestvovao je u brojnim iskopavanjima na teritoriji Srbije, jednoj od arheološki najbogatijih u Evropi. U oblasti naših predaka nalaze se arheološki ostaci mnogih kultura, naroda, imperija, gradova, bitaka, seoba, careva i vladara.... Tokom ručka posle crkvene službe, u nedelju, 14. decembra u 13 sati, Miško će početi seriju razgovora upoznajući decu iz nedeljne škole i naše parohijane sa arheološkim nalazima iz krajeva odakle potiču. Molimo Vas, učestvujte u ovom uzbudljivom putovanju na krilima arheološke mašte, sa konkretnim pitanjima i odgovorima koji će dodatno obogatiti znanja o Vašem bogatom srpskom poreklu.

Date: December 14, 2014 @ 1:00 P.M.
Location: St Nikola Serbian Orthodox Church
4301 Prairie Ave, Brookfield, Illinois 60513
website: www.stnikolasoc.org/

Special Note: St. Nikola Church would like to encourage parents to enroll their children in the St. Nikola Sunday School program. It is important that your children receive a spiritual and Serbian cultural education. Misko will also be a frequent guest speaker at the St. Nikola Sunday School to discuss the archeological finds of each student's ancestral Serbian towns. There is still time to register your children this school year; classes from grades Pre-K through young adult meet every Sunday. Instructors have lessons prepared to help our young people grow in their Orthodox faith. Prayers in Serbian, Religion and History are taught every Sunday.

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Sava Vemić

Sava Vemić

Sava Vemić (born 1987), bass, comes from Belgrade, Serbia. He is a member of The Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program in the season 2014/2015.

He studied singing in the Music School Mokranjac with prof. Tanja Obrenović and later at the Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade with prof. Nikola Mijailović. In Mozart’s Magic flute he made his debut as Sarastro at the opera stage of Madlenianum Opera & Theatre in Belgrade. He received scholarships from the International Vocal Arts Institute (IVAI) in 2013 when he sang Bartolo in an IVAI production of Le nozze di Figaro and in July 2014 when he sang Osmin in their production of Die Entführung aus dem Serial in Tel Aviv, Israel. In June 2014 he made his Carnegie Hall debut as Sir Walter Raleigh in Donizetti’s opera Roberto Devereux with The Opera Orchestra of New York led by Mo. Queler. In 2012 he performed at the Esterhazy festival in Haydnsaal, Austria.

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On Divine Philanthropy

On Divine Philanthropy

From Plato to John Chrysostom

by Bishop Danilo Krstic

This book describes the use of the notion of divine philanthropy from its first appearance in Aeschylos and Plato to the highly polyvalent use of it by John Chrysostom. Each page is marked by meticulous scholarship and great insight, lucidity of thought and expression. Bishop Danilo’s principal methodology in examining Chrysostom is a philological analysis of his works in order to grasp all the semantic shades of the concept of philanthropia throughout his vast literary output. The author overviews the observable development of the concept of philanthropia in a research that encompasses nearly seven centuries of literary sources. Peculiar theological connotations are studied in the uses of divine philanthropia both in the classical development from Aeschylos via Plutarch down to Libanius, Themistius of Byzantium and the Emperor Julian, as well as in the biblical development, especially from Philo and the New Testament through Origen and the Cappadocians to Chrysostom.

With this book, the author invites us to re-read Chrysostom’s golden pages on the ineffable philanthropy of God. "There is a modern ring in Chrysostom’s attempt to prove that we are loved—no matter who and where we are—and even infinitely loved, since our Friend and Lover is the infinite Triune God."

The victory of Chrysostom’s use of philanthropia meant the affirmation of ecclesial culture even at the level of Graeco-Roman culture. May we witness the same reality today in the modern techno-scientific world in which we live.

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