"... The Lord has shown us that there is no Resurrection without death, nor Easter without Good Friday.” This is a source of hope and consolation for us, because it assures us that our suffering and our Calvary will end in the resurrection of our entire people, its renewal and its spiritual rebirth. In this way, we shall in the truest sense experience personally the words of Christ from His hierarchic prayer: “Father, I want my servant also to be where I am…”
Bishop Artemije, Easter message
“Kosovo is not, nor has it ever been, the cause of suffering ‘of the entire nation.’ It has rather always been and meant the salvation of the entire nation. And so it is today. Those for whom only worldly criteria exist say that Kosovo led us into five centuries of slavery under the Turks and was therefore the cause of the suffering ‘of the entire nation.’ Others for whom also other, spiritual, criteria exist say that Kosovo gave us the strength to endure the five centuries of Turkish slavery and live to see the sun of freedom rise again in Kosovo and shed its light upon us. These two ways of looking at Kosovo exist also today. Kosovo does not, nor will ever have a price. For this reason, neither the present generation nor any future generation can have the right to renounce its Kosovo for the sake of ‘a better life.’ If any generation were to do this, instead gaining ‘a better life’ it would die a spiritual death from which there is no resurrection…”
Bishop Artemije, interview for 'Glas Javnosti'
The Kosovo Maiden (beginning verses)
On a Sunday early in the morning
The Maid of Kosovo awoke to brilliant sun
And rolled her sleeves above her snow-white elbows;
On her back she carries warm, white bread,
And in her hands she bears two golden goblets,
one of water, one of dark red wine.
Seeking out the plain of Kosovo,
She walks upon the field of slaughter there
Where noble Lazarus, the Tsar, was slain,
And turns the warriors over in their blood;
Should one still breathe she bathes him with the water
And offers him, as if in sacrament,
The dark red wine to drink, the bread to eat.
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Serbian Epic Poem
Ilarion: Russian Church will always stand by SPC Head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk stated after his visit to the Eparchy of R...
Theological dialogue with the Roman Catholics A new session of the Joint International Commission for the Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church is to begin...
Our Hierarchy should take a joint attitude On the occasion of the meeting of the Joint International Commission for the Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox C...
Bishop Artemije: «A simple story, yet profoundly sensible!» For a demon the most frightful thing is to be alone. He wants a company of a man, he wants to be in a man - it is his kind of paradise. «If you cast us out of this man, don't send us away into nowhere where we will be alone, where we will bite and nibble each other...
19. April 2009. 22:31
Easter in Gračanica His Grace Artemije, Bishop of Ras-Prizren, conducted the pontifical services of Paschal Matins and Liturgy in the Monastery Gračanica. The services, which began at midnight with the Resurrection Procession around the church, were attended by a record number of faithful who had come...
15. December 2009. 16:34
CALL FOR HELP to the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Ras-Prizren and Kosovo-Metohija The Diocese of Ras-Prizren and Kosovo-Metohija is forced to turn to the Serbian people in Serbia and Serbian diaspora to ask for help. Years of living and working under existing conditions have left the Diocese drained of resources necessary for achieving its basic goals...
17. April 2009. 12:48
Great and HolyThursday - Gračanica His Grace Artemije, Bishop of Ras-Prizren, officiated on Great and Holy Thursday in Gračanica monastery. During the service twelve Gospels relating the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ were read...
Memorial Services for the Serbs killed in the Pogrom of 2004 Today at noon all churches and monasteries in Kosovo-Metohija held memorial services for the Serbs killed in the Pogrom of March 2004. His Grace Artemije, Bishoip of Ras-Prizren officiated...
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US Capital Commemorates Victims of Jasenovac Death Camp On May 5, 2009, Washington, D.C.’s City Council passed a resolution recognizing April 22 as the Nation’s Capital Jasenovac Day. The Resolution, prepared by RAS, The International Serbian Organization, and sponsored by the Chairman of the City Councill, is to educate the residents ...
04. May 2009. 04:02
Amnesty International will continue to press NATO Amnesty International will continue with its efforts to find mechanisms that will make it possible for NATO to answer for the bombing of the Serbian Radio Television (RTS) building, since not a single body in the world has jurisdiction over this most powerful military alliance on the planet...
16. April 2009. 05:03
Is Serbia on the chopping block again? When Canada Post, a Canadian Government corporation, listed Serbia’s northern province of Vojvodina as a separate country, it must have been just delivering a message from the Canadian Government. The post office does not create foreign policy, it just obeys government orders. It had to be somebody else’s idea...
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His Grace Artemije, Bishop of Ras-Prizren, conducted the pontifical services of Paschal Matins and Liturgy in the Monastery Gračanica. The services, which began at midnight with the Resurrection Procession around the church, were attended by a record number of faithful who had come...
His Grace Artemije, Bishop of Ras-Prizren, officiated on Great and Holy Thursday in Gračanica monastery. During the service twelve Gospels relating the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ were read...
Today at noon all churches and monasteries in Kosovo-Metohija held memorial services for the Serbs killed in the Pogrom of March 2004. His Grace Artemije, Bishoip of Ras-Prizren officiated...
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US Capital Commemorates Victims of Jasenovac Death Camp