In St. Nicholas monastery Rmanj, in the chapel of St. John Chrysostom, on February 17. 2010, His Grace Bishop of Bihac-Petrovac Mr.Chrysostom, served Presanctified Liturgy in concelebration with Monastery Abbot Archimandrite Seraphim, protprezbyter Sasa Crljića and deacon Zdravko Bogojevic, .
The inspired sermon His Grace Bishop Chrysostom exspresed importance and essence of the Great Lent, particular the need for prayer zeal for seven weeks and abstain for Christ, to be with the good will, not with the grumble, because we should welcome the risen Christ, and prayer and fasting are most fruitful struggle thru which we gain the likenes of the Lord.

Bishop Chrysostom reminded the faithful gathered at the personal testimony of fasting, because it represents the best example of personal testimony.
During Holy Liturgy majority of faithful received the holy Communion. After the worship in the monasteic refectory is organized traditional table of love.

Russian traveler Fedor Konyukhov to set Orthodox cross on the southernmost point of American continent

Bobruisk, February 17, Interfax – Renowned Russian traveler Fedor Konyukhov will set a worship cross at Cape Horn (Chili) to commemorate perished sailors.

The cross was made and consecrated in Bobruisk. Students of Bobruisk Art College №15 gave it as a present to Konyukhov, the local Diocese reports.

Cape Horn is southernmost tip of Tierra del Fuego archipelago located off South American mainland. Shipwrecks lie buried here.

On 13 February 2010 Diocesan Council session was held  in the Diocese office in Bosanski Petrovac, where is discussed about the activities in 2009. and adopted: final account for 2009 and budget  in 2010.
It is expressed satisfaction with the construction of many new churches, as well as reconstruction of damaged and destroyed in the war.
With special care is considered a general plan to celebrate for the 20 anniversary of the founding of the Diocese of Bihac and Petrovac wihich was on 19 May 1990, Which will be celebrated and first Šematizma of the Diocese will be published, and also in DVD form.
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Called the Clean week, because during this week - in songs and prayers  it is heard the cry of the soul that repents, plain, mourning their sins. By these hymns the Church teaches the faithful to renounce the sins in which have they fallen, and not to lose paradise -like Grandparents by non abstining did, but - with self abstinence come to the salvation and eternal life. Further, in the service of this week is recommended fasting, prayer, tears, repentance, spiritual feats, cleansing body and soul, renunciation of sin and passions, and comeing to the virtue of vigil, - all, that to become worthy to obeisance the cross, and spiritually celebrate the resurrection of Christ.
During the Great Lent, the prayers are longer and solemn, and to reading is given more space than singing. Length of the prayers in this week is even more increased by the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete, during the first four days on the Great Compline . This week and  in the last week of Great Lent, the fast is significantly tightened, so in the first two days of fasting, and if is possible four days, full abstention from food.

His Grace Bishop Mr.Chrysostom of Bihac and Petrovac have served the Holy Liturgy on the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord in the temple in Klisina monastery. This feast is celebrated as the second monastery Feast Slava, in addition to the main celebration of the Holy Great Martyr Marina. Namely, newly built monastery Klisina is built right on the old manastery enclosure, destroyed during the Turkish occupation, as later revealed it was dedicated to the feast og Meeting of the Lord in the Temple.

Together with the Bishop, the Holy Liturgy have conselaborated protsinkels Benjamin and Barnabas and Deacon  Neven Marinkovic. Celebration attend numerous guests from Banja Luka, friends and donors of Klisina monastery and the faithful who regularly visits this Brotherhood. After the Divine Service, all present have took part in the feastal table of love.

The Sunday of the Prodigal Son is the second Sunday of a three-week period prior to the commencement of Great Lent. On the previous Sunday, the services of the Church began to include hymns from the Triodion, a liturgical book that contains the services from the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee, the tenth before Pascha (Easter), through Great and Holy Saturday. As with the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee, the theme of this Sunday is repentance, and the focus on the parable of the Prodigal Son leads Orthodox Christians to contemplate the necessity of repentance in our relationship with our Heavenly Father.

Excerpts from interview of His Holiness Patriarch Ireneious of Serbia  given to the Vijesti daily newspaper

"Diaspora is part of our church no matter where our people live. Our church in the past always followed its people and was with him, so it makes the later time. One of the great concern of our Church is to meet the spiritual needs of his people in scattering. It has sent priests and bishops to maintain links, active and live with our diaspora. We'll do everything that our people do not forget their origins and to preserve their language as an essential element of nationality. For the first, which is loses, I know it well, losing the language, and probably a lot lot more. "
"That's why we urge our churches and our people to keep and cherish our language. Our people are intelligent and will not be a problem in addition to the language environment in which he lives, and his own. As regards the Church, we will do everything, what we can do, that in obligation meet a sublime task".

The act of Inauguration of newly elected Holines Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovac and Serbian Patriarch Mr. Ireneius, was performed today, Saturday, 23 January 2010 at the end of the Holy Liturgy in the Cathedral of Holy Archanges church in Belgrade.  Holy Hierarchal Liturgy served His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Mr. Ireneius with his brothers concelebration Bishops, priests and deacons, and representatives of Russian and Greek Churches.

The Holy Liturgy was attended by Apostolic Nuncio to Serbia Mr. Orlando Antonini; Roman Catholic Archbishop of Belgrade Stanislav Hocevar; Reis-ul-ulema of the Islamic Community of Serbia Adem ef. Zilkic; Serbian Mufti Muhamed ef. Jusuf Spahić; representatives of churches and religious communities in Serbia; Ms. Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic, Speaker of the Assembly of the Republic of Serbia; Mr. Mirko Cvetkovic, Prime Minister of the Government of theRepublic of Serbia; Mr. Milorad Dodik, Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Srpska; Crown Prince Alexander Karadjordjevic with his wife; professor Dr. Bogoljub Sijakovic, Minister of Faith in the Serbian Government; Mr. Ivica Dačić, Minister of Internal Affairs in the Serbian Government; Mr. Dragan Đilas, mayor of Belgrade; Mr. Mlađan Đorđevic, assistant to the President of the Republic of Serbia; Mr. Dragan Curovic, state secretary at the Ministry of Faith in the Government of Serbia.

French Court recognises that St Nicholas Russian Cathedral in Nice belongs to Russia
According to reliable French and Russian media reports of 20 January, a court in Nice has finally recognised that the Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Nice, together with all property associated with it, does indeed belong to the Russian Federation. Built by the martyred Tsar Nicholas in 1912, St Nicholas Cathedral, which is the largest Russian Orthodox Church in Western Europe, has in recent years been occupied by modernist schismatics of the ‘Rue Daru’ jurisdiction.
It is not known what the government of the Russian Federation will do next. It is to be hoped that it will in due course hand over the property to the Russian Orthodox Church, so that it can become a centre for local Russian and French Orthodox who wish to live according to the Russian Orthodox Tradition. In this way, the property can become yet another stone in the construction of a United Russian Orthodox Metropolia in Western Europe, the foundation of the future Western European Orthodox Church.

His Holiness Patriarch Ireneius (Gavrilović) of Serbia was born in the village of Vidova, near Čačak in 1930 by his father Zdravko and mother Milijana. When he was baptized he was named Miroslav. He finished the elementary school in his village, and then in Čačak he completed the high school. After the end of the high school he enrolled and completed a seminary in Prizren, and then he finished the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Belgrade. Upon graduation, he went into the army. Following his return from the army he was soon appointed a professor of the Prizren seminary. Before taking the office of the professor in October  1959, at the Rakovica monastery he was tonsured by His Holiness Patriarch German, gaining the monastic name of Ireneius.

That same month, on St. Paraskeva's day, October 27, 1959 at the Ružica church on the Kalemegdan, he was ordained to the rank of hieromonk. While he worked as the professor at the Prizren seminary he was sent to the postgraduate studies in Athens. In 1969 he was appointed as the head of the monastic school at the monastery of Ostrog, from where he returned back to Prizren and there he became a rector of the Prizren Seminary. From that duty, in 1974 he was elected for a vicar bishop of His Holiness Patriarch of Serbia with the title of Bishop of Moravica. A year later, in 1975 he was elected for Bishop of Niš, where he has been until now.