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novi svetski poredak dobija zvanicnu vladu u decembru na sastanku u Kopenhagenu. Sad je valjda jasna "pandemija". I kome je bilo potrebno da napravi paniku u svetu. goran kosovski-australijski -------------------------------------------------- From: "ANTIC.org-SNN" <antic.miros...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:46 AM To: "'Balkan News'" <balkann...@yahoogroups.com>; <balkanr...@yahoogroups.com>; <n...@antic.org>; <n...@siem.net>; <se...@googlegroups.com>; "'Serbia'" <ser...@googlegroups.com>; "'SerbianNewsNetwork'" <serbiannewsnetw...@yahoogroups.com>; <sorabia@yahoogroups.com>; "'YUGO'" <yugol...@yahoogroups.com> Cc: "Global L" <globalobser...@yahoogroups.com>; "'srpski nomadi'" <srpski_nom...@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [sorabia] Patriarch PAVLE Obituary (S. Trifkovic in Orthodoxy Today) > > > http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles-2009/Trifkovic-Obituary-Serbian-Patriarch-PAVLE-May-His-Memory-Be-Eternal.php > > > Obituary: Serbian Patriarch PAVLE > > > – May His Memory Be Eternal > > > Srdja Trifkovic > > > Let us guard against inhumans, but let us guard even more against becoming > inhuman ourselves. – Patriarch Pavle > > When the man destined to become the 44th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox > Church was conceived in the the winter 1913-1914, horses and steam moved > the world. That world appeared ordered and stable. The calamities of the > 20th century – two world wars, revolutions and civil wars, genocides and > expulsions, and the suffering of tens of millions of Christian New > Martyrs – could not be foreseen. In the Old World the Serbian nation, > although divided into two small kingdoms and two mighty alien empires, the > Habsburg and the Ottoman, appeared vigorous and full of hope for the > future. > > Shortly after “the lights went out over Europe,” on September 11, 1914 > (n.s.) – the Feast of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist – a boy was > born to the Stojčević family in the village of Kućanci, in today’s eastern > Croatia. The family’s ancestors came to the Turk-devastated borderlands of > the Habsburg Monarchy with the Great Serb Migration of 1690 from Kosovo, > the martyred Serbian province with which the future Patriarch’s life was > destined to be closely intertwined. > > The weeks that followed the outbreak of World War I were a trying time for > the Serbs in the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy: they were collectively > blamed for the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo and > subjected to mob violence and police persecution. For newborn Gojko’s > mother Ana, however, the main worry was the fact that the war was raging, > the prices were soaring, and her husband Stevan was far away: he had left > for America only months earlier in search of work. > > In early 1917, just before the United States joined the fray and made the > war truly global, Stevan Stojčević came back home – without a penny to his > name – to die of tuberculosis contracted in the workshops and rented rooms > of western Pennsylvania. A year later Ana remarried but died in childbirth > soon thereafter. Gojko and his elder brother Dušan were left in the care > of their paternal aunt who raised them as her own children. He was a > sickly child unfit for farm work, but the aunt recognized his aptitude for > learning and – although poor herself – endeavored to give him a good > education. > > After graduating from the Fourth Gymnasium (high school) in Belgrade young > Gojko enrolled at the Orthodox Seminary in Sarajevo. During World War II, > suffering from tuberculosis, he took refuge in the Holy Trinity monastery > in Ovčar, in central Serbia. In 1944 he was given only three months to > live. His recovery, miraculous in those pre-penicillin times, prompted him > to take monastic vows in 1946 and assume the name of his favorite saint, > Pavle (Paul).. > > The Serbian Orthodox Church, which had a quarter of its shrines destroyed > and a fifth of its clergy killed during World War II, was left in 1945 at > the mercy of Tito’s militantly atheist clique. Most of its property was > confiscated immediately after the war, religious education was effectively > banned, and the political cost of liturgical attendance was high, often > prohibitive. Yet monk Pavle visibly thrived in those years, spiritually > and intellectually. In 1954 he was ordained hieromonk. After completing > postgraduate studies in Athens (1955-1957) he became archimandrite, and > only months later elected the Bishop of Ras and Prizren. Bishop Pavle > remained at the helm of that ancient diocese, which includes Kosovo and > Metohija, for 33 years – until he was elected Patriarch in 1990. > > The long decades of Tito’s autocracy were a trying time for the Serbian > Orthodox Church. Patriarch German, elected in 1958, had to strike a > sensitive balance between the imperative of keeping his Church alive in an > inherently hostile political environment and the necessity of establishing > a workable modus vivendi with the communist regime. The dilemma, well > known to the Russians, had a similar consequence in the misnamed “American > Schism” (raskol) of 1963. The split soon spread from the United States to > all other communities in the Diaspora. It caused deep divisions that left > a lasting scar on the Serbian community as a whole. It is now known that > the split was surreptitiously encouraged by the regime in Belgrade, and > fanned by the divisive work of its agents infiltrated into the émigré > ranks. > > As the Bishop of Kosovo, Pavle faced tribulations that were of different > nature but similar magnitude. In seeking to win over the Albanians of > Kosovo during his wartime struggle to seize power, Tito promised them > autonomy and duly proceeded to change the character of the province in > their favor after the war. Over 100,000 Serbs were forced out of Kosovo by > Albanian Quislings during World War II; incredibly, they were not > permitted to return after 1945. An additional 200,000 Serbs left the > province, often under duress, between the late 1950s and early 1980s. On > the other hand, 200,000 Albanians from Albania settled on deserted Serbian > farms after 1945. Their “cadres” took control of the local Communist > apparatus. In 1948 the Albanians made a half of the population of Kosovo; > by 1981 78 percent; and over 90 percent today. > > By the 1970s Orthodox priests in Kosovo were routinely harrassed. Bishop > Pavle himself was assailed by an Albanian while walking to the post office > in Prizren, and slapped in the face by another at the city’s main bus > station. The authorities were invariably “unable” to identify the > culprits, however, let alone to bring them to justice. Monastic properties > were damaged or confiscated, well before the wave of KLA destruction > unleashed by NATO in 1999. The biggest church in Metohia, in Djakovica, > was demolished by the authorities to make room for a massive “Partisan” > monument. The secessionist movement of the Albanians in Kosovo, derived > from the logic of the Titoist order, eventually produced Slobodan > Milosevic – the neo-communist quasi-nationalist. The violent > disintegration of Yugoslavia in 1991-1999 was the belated revenge of Tito > and his ideological heirs. > > Bishop Pavle was elected to the Throne of St. Sava in December 1990, on > the eve of that disintegration. He did not seek the post but was chosen as > a compromise candidate because neither of the two front-runners could > secure the necessary majority in the Assembly. In the dark years that > followed he would repeat many times that “there can be no interest, > individual or national, which could be used as an excuse for becoming > inhuman.” As the former Yugoslavia descended into violence, he appealed on > the faithful to pray not only for those of good will but for those of ill > will, too, as “they are in an even greater need of salvation.” When > meeting the late U.S. Ambassador Warren Zimmermann in 1991, he was asked > what could America do to help him and the bChurch. He replied, without > batting an eyelid, “Your Excellency, the most you can do to help us is not > to do anything to harm us!” > > This was not to be. Yugoslavia was a deeply flawed polity, and there could > have been no serious objection to the striving of Croats and Bosnian > Muslims to create their own nation-states. But equally there could have > been no justification for forcing over two million Serbs west of the Drina > River to be incorporated into those states against their will, and without > any guarantees of their rights. Yugoslavia came together in 1918 as a > union of South Slav peoples, and not of states. Its divorce should have > been effected on the same basis. This is, and has been, the real > foundation of the Yugoslav conflict ever since the first shots were fired > in the summer of 1991. This political essence of the war has been > systematically hidden, all over the Western world but especially in the > United States, behind the portrayal of the Serbs as primitive > ultranationalists who sought to conquer other peoples’ lands. The most > vehement such accusations, coming from Muslim and Croat sources, went > wholesale into the media machine, Congressional resolutions, the > pseudolegal fatuities of The Hague “tribunal,” and finally into NATO’s > marching orders. > > Sadly, there are many Serbs who have not followed Patriarch Pavle’s > instruction: “If we live as people of God, there will be room for all > nations in the Balkans and in the world. If we liken ourselves to Cain, > then the entire earth will be too small even for two people.” But the > systematic portrayal of the Serbs as demons, and the Muslims of Bosnia or > Kosovo as innocent martyrs in the cause of multi-ethnic-cultural > tolerance, was a crude exercise in the construction of postmodern > quasi-reality. Patriarch Pavle was painfully aware of this fact, but > decided to refrain from statements that could be construed as political. > He remained silent even when the Croatian authorities demolished the > Orthodox church in his native village, in which he was baptized in 1914. > He was often criticized in the Western press for making appearances at > official functions attended by Milosevic, even though the protocol and > tradition demanded his presence, but in 1997 he also appeared, silently, > at a rally demanding Milosevic’s resignation. > > Patriarch Pavle was deply pained by the Mammonic spirit that became > dominant in Serbia in the aftermath of the collapse of communism: “I wish > I could stand and beg outside the banqueting halls and other gathering > venues of the rich, beg for our poor brothers and sisters and their > children. We should actively shame those who sink into arrogant greed so > openly, instead of expressing our anguish behind closed doors.” His > proverbial modesty was reflected in his use of public transport and > dislike of chauffeur-driven cars. During the Assembly of Bishops in 2006 > he walked our of the Patriarchate and saw a long line of shiny black > Mercedes-Benz, Audi and BMW cars parked outside the building. “Who do > these belong to?” Pavle asked his secretary. “Em, to the Bishops who came > to the Assembly, Your Grace.” “I only wonder,” the Patriarch commented, > “what would they have driven if they had not taken the vow of poverty…” > > Serbia was blessed with several politically astute Patriarchs in some > critical moments of its history, notably Arsenije III (Charnojevich) at > the time of the Turkish wars and Great Migration of 1690, and Gavrilo > (Dozhich) during World War II. > > Patriarch Pavle belonged to a different tradition. He was a mystically > prayerful monk, rather than a sanguine Prince of the Church. He was a > Patriarch who blended, harmoniously, three key functions of his throne: > that of the father, of the priest, and of the prophet. He understood, and > lived, the legacy of Prince Lazar, martyred at Kosovo in 1389: “The > Kingdom on Earth is but paltry and small; yet the Kingdom of Heaven is > forever and knows no bounds. > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > =============== > Group Moderator: sorabia-ow...@yahoogroups.com > page at http://magazine.sorabia.net > for more informations about current situation in Serbia > http://www.sorabia.net > Slusajte GLAS SORABIJE nas talk internet-radio (Serbian Only) > http://radio.sorabia.net > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
