{"id":1791,"date":"2010-05-03T08:43:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T13:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2010-12-18T16:20:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T22:20:11","slug":"new-serbian-saint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/03\/new-serbian-saint\/","title":{"rendered":"New Serbian Saint"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">This doesn&#8217;t sound like good news. From <a href=\"http:\/\/rorate-caeli.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/one-more-dose-of-reality.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rorate Coeli<\/a>:<\/div>\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">When the Serbian Orthodox Church elected a new Patriarch in Irinej (Gavrilovic), there were predictions about a new era of ecumenical dialogue between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches, which were fired by the new Patriarch&#8217;s suggestion that the Pope visit Serbia.<\/div>\n<p>However, just a few days ago, on April 29, 2010, the Serbian Orthodox Church <a style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\" href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxword.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/30\/st-justin-popovich-of-celije\/\">decided to glorify<\/a> (canonize) Justin Popovich of Celije (1894-1979), one of modern Orthodoxy&#8217;s harshest critics of ecumenism, and of the Papacy in particular. The formal glorification will be held today.<\/p>\n<p>The <a style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\" href=\"http:\/\/ishmaelite.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/troparion-to-st-justin.html\">troparion<\/a> to the new Orthodox saint reads as follows:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"COLOR: #660000\">Apolytikion mode 1<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"COLOR: #660000\">Let us honor with splendor the divinely inspired theologian, the wise Serb Justin, <\/span><span style=\"COLOR: #660000; FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">who by the scythe of the Holy Spirit hath thrashed the error of atheism and the insolence of the Latins<\/span><span style=\"COLOR: #660000\">, being a mystic of the God-man and lover of piety, crying out: Glory to Christ Who hath glorified thee, glory to Him Who hath crowned thee, glory to Him Who hath rendered thee a luminary to those who are in a state of darkness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"COLOR: #660000\">Kontakion mode 1<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"COLOR: #660000\">We proclaim to the faithful the inexhaustible fount conveying the Orthodox doctrines, and an angel-like man full of divine zeal, the divine Justin, the offspring of the Serbs, who by his sound teachings and writings hath strengthened the faith of all in the Lord.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Serbian Orthodox Church decided to glorify (canonize) Justin Popovich of Celije (1894-1979), one of modern Orthodoxy&#8217;s harshest critics of ecumenism, and of the Papacy in particular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,362],"tags":[213,756,212],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecumenism","category-saints-mary","tag-justin-popovich","tag-rorate-coeli","tag-serbian-orthodox"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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