In our age, the system of Yoga is proposed as a panacea to nearly all the problems that humanity encounters. We hear advertising slogans such as: „Do Yoga for health and beauty‟. Since we have been engaged in Yoga for years, some of us had also become teachers of Yoga,and we want to convey to …
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Down on the Herăstrău lakeside, right in the middle of Romania’s capital city, the wandering traveller will encounter an authentic Romanian village, rich in monuments and artifacts from the XVIIth century, all the way up to the XXth century, representative constructions originating from important ethnographical regions which have been granted a second life at the …
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Hilandar (fig. 1) is a Serbian imperial lavra in the Holy Mountain. It ranks fourth in the athonite hierarchy. Situated in the North-East part of the Athos Peninsula it is surrounded by hills, and cannot be seen from the coast, although it is only ca. two and a half kilometres far from it. There is …
Continue reading The Monastery of Hilandar and St. Simeon NemanjaSaint Meletius, Archbishop of Antioch, was Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia (ca. 357), and afterwards he was summoned to Antioch by the emperor Constantius to help combat the Arian heresy, and was appointed to that See. St Meletius struggled zealously against the Arian error, but through the intrigues of the heretics he was thrice deposed …
Continue reading St Meletius the Archbishop of AntiochThe story of the monastery’s building goes back a long way in remote, yet vivid legends. They have it that a lone priest lived here who had had advised ruler Lapusneanu to build a monastery on the place where a sycamore maple grew. Thus, the legend has it, was the way the first stone was …
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Why was chosen as the day to day Eminescu National Culture? Is his poetic read more like his lyrics, reached almost all corners of the world, and are current as of his political writings? The universality of his poetic work has been recognized by UNESCO, the poem Star entered into the Guinness Book of Records, …
Continue reading January 15, National Culture Day, marked in Eminescu’s birthdayAbout the Orthodox icon is said to be a “Bible in Pictures”, “Window to Heaven”, “bearing grace” because through her church confesses the truth of faith revealed visually. With the Incarnation and Birth of His Word was God made man, at which his face becomes possible representation. Saviour Himself gave us His face printed on …
Continue reading Nativity Icon interpretationAt 98 years of the Great Union in Romania can be found only three albums with photos documentary made on December 1, 1918 at the Grand National Assembly of Alba Iulia. The only man who immortalized the event, Samoilă Mârza (1886-1967), has assembled those historical frames in an album titled Great Assembly of Alba Iulia …
Continue reading Samoila Marza – the photographer of the Great UnionSaturday, December 3, at 6 pm, on the eve of the Feast of St. Nicholas, we will celebrate the Vespers, attended also by several priests from Toronto and surrounding areas. We will enjoy spiritually worship of Relics and the Cross of Saint Apostle Andrew, as well as those of Saint Healer Panteleimon. After the service …
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