Metropolitan Gregory of Germany underwent a surgical intervention due to a problem with the gall bladder. According to his office, the operation at the Emergency Center in Belgrade was successful, and the metropolitan is recovering.
On the tenth day of the trip, about 80 cyclists, mostly students, set off from Munich to Ulm, and were escorted by Bishop Grigorije
"If someone told you that you are a rebel, answer that you are, but also add why, why you don't agree to a situation where you are reduced to zero, where you are nobody and nothing." Because if you agree to that, the results will be a bad life, bad politics, bad aesthetics, and the space you are in will become unbearable for you," said Bishop Grigorija for the New Year's issue of "Vremena"
"Now some other young people have appeared, completely different, who are inspired by the same thing. Maybe they are inspired by someone's religious education, maybe someone's anti-religious education, maybe someone's philosophy... Maybe they are a new world that adapts much better to dramatic technological development. But maybe they actually feel what freedom means in the true sense, even much deeper than we who have uttered the word many times felt it. Perhaps they sense the danger brought with it by the apparent crisis of democracy throughout the world. I confess, I thought there were no more such young people as we were. However, they exist and are realistically much better than us and much less susceptible to manipulation, both by the so-called deep state and by politicians and the media."
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"Such a selfless spirit full of potential for noble deeds appears today among young people, students and pupils, who stand up for the common good, just when you would think that there are no more knights," said Grigorije, receiving the "Knight of the Call" award.
"We have to change as a society, we have to stop being a society in which the fate of the whole nation depends on an individual," Bishop Grigorije says in an interview for KoSSev.
"I would very much like to have the opportunity to talk to the Albanians and their religious leaders, because I deeply believe that for every normal person, peaceful and dignified coexistence is in the first place, that he is above all conflict, intolerance and hatred"
"All the people who, for various reasons, talk about how war should be waged and how wars must be fought, should consult with those of us who have lived the war. Because war is terrible, and not only in terms of the fact that you can lose your head or that you can lose someone close to you, like I lost several people I loved very much... But imagine a moment: my brother goes with his father-in-law to exchange of corpses. And that father-in-law lost his son at the age of 23, and he says to my brother: 'If someone had told me that I would be happy with my dead son...'"
"All the people who, for various reasons, talk about how war should be waged and how wars must be fought, should consult with those of us who have lived the war. Because war is terrible, and not only in terms of the fact that you can lose your head or that you can lose someone close to you, like I lost several people I loved very much... But imagine a moment: my brother goes with his father-in-law to exchange of corpses. And that father-in-law lost his son at the age of 23, and he says to my brother: 'If someone had told me that I would be happy with my dead son...'"
"For the Serbs, calling on the people is precisely calling on force, on an eternally threatened mass that should appear at any moment and resolve the matter by aligning itself with the speaker who claims to be its exclusive representative," said Bishop Grigorije
Why are the voices of representatives of religious communities important? Why are they mostly silent? What messages can we hear lately? What is the first thing that comes to mind when talking about family walks? And what else could we think of?
Last night, the promotion of Bishop Grigori's book "Courts of Heaven" published by "Laguna" was held in the literally packed Great Hall of the Kolarc Endowment. Critics praise the book and describe it as an allegory about a small man under the scourge of war, and Bishop Grigorije himself spoke about his work in the following way in an interview with "Vremen" no. 1640
"I don't pretend to be necessarily right when it comes to my political judgments, but I'm sure the only thing worse than being wrong would be to sit idly by and watch blatant injustice and abuse. My civil rights give me the possibility to refrain from participating in political life. However, my episcopal duty requires me to take care of the welfare of all people"
The animal of nationalism is what "ate the cow" of a poor family in the Balkans. Therefore, it was not just hatred and centuries-old intolerance, but a true, wild and insatiable hunger, which made whole peoples unhappy. And no, that animal should not be killed, but it should be unyieldingly tamed and harnessed to plow, not slaughter, kill and fight
