PAROHIJSKI GLASNIK PARISH HERALD List parohije Svetog Simeona Miroto~ivog Srpske Pravoslavne Crkve u Kalgariju, Alberta SRE]AN PRAZNIK! St. Simeon Serbian Orthodox Church Newsletter in Calgary, AB. GLASNIK Mala Gospojina 2008 Uredni{tvo: Editors: Glavni i odgovorni urednik: Editor-in –chief: Protonamesnik Obrad Filipovi} V. Rev. Obrad Filipovic Preveli na engleski: Translated in English: \oko i Morana Ivkovi} Djoko and Morana Ivkovic Milica Zjali} Milica Zjalic Contributors: Saradnici: Milanka Filipovic Milanka Filipovi} Dr. Majda Djordjevic Dr. Majda \or|evi} Darinka Lemez Darinka Lemez Redaction: Redakcija: 2001 31 Avenue SW 2001 31 Avenue SW Calgary AB. T2T 1T3 Calgary, AB. T2T 1T3 Phone: 403/244-3586 Telefon: 403/244-3586 Faks: 403/244-1691 Fax: 403/244-1691 Web site www.svetisimeon.org Internet stranica www.svetisimeon.org E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] - 2 br. 18. god. 6 Glasnik RE^ UREDNIKA Letter from the Editor ,, Novu vam zapovest dajem da qubite jedan ,,Your new commandment is to love one drugog, kao {to ja vas qubih, da se i vi qubite another, just like I have loved all of you, so that me|u sobom. Po tome }e svi poznati da ste moji you will love yourselves amongst eachother. This u~enici, ako budete imali qubav me}u sobom,, is how people will recognize that you are all of my (Jovan 13; 33,34) students if you have love amongst yourselves,,. Ovo su re~i koje je Gospod i Bog i (Jovan 13: 33, 34) Spasiteq na{ Isus Hristos uputio svojim These are the loving words that our Lord Svetim apostolima ukazuju}i im na qubav kao and Savior Jesus Christ said to all of his apostles, najsvetliju vrlinu Hri{}ansku. Ove re~i that love is the most important Christian upu}ujem i ja vama danas, draga bra}o i sestre, virtue. Those are the words that I am extending to you all, dear brothers and sisters, reminding you podse}aju}i vas da je upravo me|usobna qubav ono that the love amongst each other is exactly what {to nam je, kao sledbenicima re~i Hristove, we need as followers of the word of our Lord najpotrebnije. Jesus Christ. Za{to Gospod ove re~i upu}uje kao Why is our Lord giving as the love as a zapovest? Za{to nije kazao pozivam vas na qubav, commandment? He could have said I ma inviting ili upu}ujem vas na qubav ili pak treba da imate you to love, or I am directing you toward love. But qubav? Ne! On daje qubav kao zapovest zbog not! He is giving us love as commandment va`nosti wene. Ovo }e nam svakako postati jasno because of the importance of love. It should ako znamo da je Bog poslao Sina svog become clear to us when we understand that God Jedinorodnog u svet da postrada i vaskrsne i sent his only begotten Son to suffer and be spase nas upravo iz prevelike qubavi prema resurrected and save us out of his love for ~oveku. Znamo tako|e da je Hristos podneo krsnu mankind. Jesus Christ died on the cross out of His smrt i u adu boravio iz qubavi svoje prema nama love for us sinners. God even created the earth out gre{nima. A i samo stvarawe sveta u~inio je Bog of His love. We could say that love toward man is iz qubavi svoje. Dakle, neprestano je dejstvo the way that He is revealing Himself to us. qubavi Bo`ije prema nama. Mo`emo kazati da je God only asks for our love in return. Not qubav prema ~oveku na~in na koji se projavquje just love towards Him but love between mankind. postojawe Bo`ije i On kao takav otkriva nama The way he loves us is the way we are obligated to gre{nima. love one another. Love is the way that others will S obzirom na gore kazano Bog i od nas recognize us. When they see our love they will tra`i qubav. Ali ne samo qubav prema Wemu ve} say: ,,Truly God is among those people,,. qubav nas jednih prema drugima. Kao {to On Knowing that this is the wish of God let us voli nas tako smo du`ni i mi voleti jedni druge. take a look at our faces and answer: are we Qubav je ta po kojoj }e nas poznati svet. Videv{i fulfilling His will? Our suffering and troubling na{u qubav kaza}e: ,,Zaista me|u ovim qudima Serbian people, I have to say, have distance itself boravi Bog,,. from this commandment. In the last sixty years Znaju}i dakle, da je takva voqa Gospodwa there has been a period filled with disbelievers that pogledajmo sami sebe u lice i odgovorimo da li has retarded brotherly love. There has been too mi ispuwavamo voqu Wegovu? Na{ mnogo much envy, greed, and jealousy among loved ones napa}eni i mnogostradalni narod, moram sa and even poisoning people who are supposed to be gor~inom da konstatujem, odaqio se od ove setting examples for us and teaching us Godly zapovesti. Period bogoodpadni{tva u love. posledwih 60-ak godina u~inio je mnogo da danas Let us start from beginning ant try to find nema qubavi me|u bra}om. Mnogo je zavisti, - 3 - GLASNIK Mala Gospojina 2008 mnogo je sebi~nosti , a na`alost i mr`we m e|u the answer to this problem. Our church teaches us onima koji bi trebali da budu primer drugima, that ever household should be a small church in odnosno po re~i Hristovoj da budu ,,svetlost itself. Every house should be blessed, should have svetu,,. an icon hanging on the wall and should have a Po|imo pak redom tra`e}i re{ewe cresset burning beside it. Everyone should read the problemu ovome. Na{a nas Crkva u~i da svaki bible on a regular basis and we should be teaching Pravoslavni dom treba da bude mala crkva. Da and disciplining our children. Only if we believe treba biti osve}ena ku}a u kojoj }e na zidu this way we will fulfill our true calling stated in the ikona slavska stajati pored we kandilo goreti. opening commandment. Deca, a i odrasli, treba u maloj crkvi da ~itaju It all starts, dear brothers and sisters, in the Sveto Pismo i vaspitavaju se u vrlinama home if the parents. This is where one acquires the Hri{}anskim-u svemu onome {to je sveto i faith and education; this is where the foundation is ~estito i milome Bogu pristupa~no. Tako made for our children to grow into good people. We all know that house, if built on a bad foundation, no pripremqeni mo}i }emo ispuniti gore navedenu zapovest Gospodwu. matter how good it is, will fall down. That is why I am inviting you all to take active role in you Sve, draga bra}o i sestre, otpo~iwe upravo u domu roditeqskom. Tu se sti~e vera i children’s spiritual lives. Read to them from Bible and pray with them in front of an icon. Be example obrazovawe, tu se postavqaju temeqi na kojima se zidaju deca na{a u ~estite qude. Znamo da to them in the way that an Orthodox Christian should live. Remember, brothers and sisters, how ako se ku}a na lo{em temequ sagradi, bez many hours you spend thinking about worldly obzira koliko dobra bila, mora se sru{iti. possessions and health and well being of your kids. Zato vas pozivam sve da uzmete aktivno u~e{}e More importantly we should be thinking about there u duhovnom `ivotu svoje dece. ^itajte im Sveto spiritual state of mind and emotions, connection Pismo i `itija svetih, molite se Bogu zajedno with God and there loved ones. Even those parents pred ikonom slavskom. Svojim im primerom that are not spiritually educated them self can do the poka`ite kako treba da `ivi jedan pravoslavni same. They will together with their kids teaching hri{}anin. Setite se samo koliko vremena them learn them self. For any spiritual need feel free provodite brinu}i se o telesnom zdravqu i to ask your priest who is obligated to help you. blagostawu svoje dece. Znajte da je duhovno May God help each and every one of you to blagostawe i zdravqe wihovo mnogo prete`nije fulfil God’s will while living in peace and love. pa zato pomozite svojoj deci da duhovno ih God’s servant and yours truly vaspitavaju}i u~inite ih dostojnim Very Reverend Obrad Filipovic naslednicima predaka svojih i sledbenicima re~i Hristove. ^ak i oni roditeqi koji ni sami nisu duhovno obrazovani mogu u~initi CRKVENA BIBLIOTEKA isto. Oni }e zajedno sa svojom decom u~e}i wih i sebe mnogo ~emu nau~iti. Za svaku pak U na{oj Crkvi u posledwe vreme radimo potrebnu duhovnu pomo} ne ustru~avajte se na prikupqawu kwiga za budu}u obratiti svom nadle`nom sve{teniku ~ija je Crkvenu biblioteku. du`nost pomo}i vam. U koliko imate neke kwige koje bi Neka bi Gospod podario svima vama da u `eleli da prilo`ite za biblioteku to qubavi i slozi `ivite ispuwavaju}i zapovesti mo`ete u~initi svake nedeqe posle Bo`ije. Slu`be. Va{ slu`iteq otac Obrad Filipovi}. Hvala onima koji su ve} poklonili kwige. - 4 br. 18. god. 6 Glasnik RENOVACIJA CRKVENIH CHURCH RENOVATIONS PROSTORIJA Our church committe e decided a few months Upravni odbor na{e Crkveno-{kolske back that it was time to start various renovation Op{tine odlu~io je pre nekoliko meseci da u projects on our Church and hall property.