that this Sunday we will have potluck lunch.
If you like to prepare your favorite dish please do so,
that we can share for lunch on Sunday of Orthodoxy,
Remember, prepare Lenten food !
Zelim da iskoristim ovu priliku da vas podsetim
da cemo ove nedelje imati Patlak rucak.
Ako zelite da pripremite vase omiljeno jelo ucinite to,
da bi smo hranu koju smo pripremili podelili izmedu nas za rucak u Nedelji Pravoslavlja.
Hranu koju budete pripremili treba bit posna jer smo u vereme Velikog Posta
REFLECTION
Those who do everything for us according to our will are neither our good teachers nor our good friends. St. John Moschus writes about a prominent woman of a senatorial family who visited the Holy Land. Arriving in Caesarea, she decided to remain there and turned to the bishop with this request: “Give me a maiden to teach me the fear of God.” The bishop introduced her to a humble virgin. After a period of time, the bishop met that woman and asked her: “How is the virgin to whom I introduced you?” “She is good,” replied the woman, “but she is of little benefit to my soul, because she is humble and allows me to do my own will. I need her to reproach me and not allow me to do whatever I want.” The bishop then gave her another girl, of a very coarse character, who began to rebuke the woman, calling her a senseless rich woman and the like. After some time, the bishop again asked the woman: “And that maiden, how does she con- duct herself with you?” “She truly benefits my soul,” replied the senator’s wife. And so she became very meek. (Excerpted from The Spiritual Meadow by St. John Moschus.)
St. Nikolai Velimirovic
RASU?IVANJE
Nisu nam ni dobri u?itelji ni prijatelji, koji nam ?ine sve po našoj volji. Prep. Jovan Mosha piše o nekoj znamenitoj ženi, senatorske familije, kako je posetila Svetu Zemlju. „Došavši u Kesariju rešila se ostati tu i obratila sa episkopu s ovom molbom: „Daj mi devojku, da me nau?i strahu Božjem.” Episkop joj pristavi jednu smernu devicu. Posle izvesnog vremena episkop se sretne s onom ženom pa je zapita: „Kako je ona devica koju sam ti pristavio?” „Dobro je”, odgovori žena, „no ona je malo korisna mojoj duši, zato što mi dozvoljava da vršim svoju volju; a to je otuda što je ona smerna, a meni je potrebno da me ona grdi i da mi ne dozvoljava da ?inim što ja ho?u.” Episkop joj da neku drugu, s karakterom dosta grubim, koja stane ženu grditi, nazivati je bezumnom bogataškom i tome sli?no. Posle izvesnog vremena episkop opet upita ženu: „A ta devojka kako se ophodi s tobom?” „Ona istinski koristi duši mojoj”, odgovori senatorka. – I tako ona postane vrlo krotka (Lug Duhovni). Sv. Nikolai Velimirovic