You can quite rightly call this a miracle – at a times when the LGBT horde is occupying Serbian Parliament, the Holy Chilandar Monastery is coming to the Smederevo High School!

I cannot remember receiving a more beautiful invitation to do a report in my life than the one sent to me by our @mari.ana last Sunday. The signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation between the Holy Monastery of Chilandar and my former school, the High School in Smederevo, was scheduled for Monday, September 9th.

Without any exaggeration, we could call this magnificent move by the High School in Smederevo providing a spiritual straw of salvation, which is especially important to young generations. Today, they can witness for themselves the perversity of the satanic anti-civilization that is persistently imposed on us as a ‘global standard’. And that’s why it won’t be difficult for them to choose the right side when anti-civilization is opposed by the spiritual force of the ancient civilization that has sustained us all throughout history. The Holy Chilandar Monastery was founded at the very end of the 12th century, and today – like never before – it is a beacon from Mount Athos to the entire freedom-loving World.

While waiting for the monks from Sveta Gora, in the gymnasium hall you could see the exhibition of photos of the monk Milutin of Chilandar.

The dear guests, monks from Chilandar led by Archimandrite Methodius, Abbot of the Holy Monastery, were welcomed by the Assistant Head of the Department for Emergency Situations of the Republic of Serbia, Goran Nikolić, Director of the High School in Smederevo Aleksandar Marinković, and Professor of Literature Marijana Nikolić.

The three-member delegation consisted of Father David, Father Simeon and Abbot Methodius.

In front of the packed ceremonial hall of the High School in Smederevo, professor Maja Pavlović gave a speech of welcome and the announcement of the performance in honor of the guests from Sveta Gora. Then the vocal group performed a song Angel Cantillation.

Student Jana Aleksić read a part of the speech in which she won 3rd place in the oration competition organized by the Church Municipality in Smederevo, and Helena Stojić sang a song about Vladimir and Kosara, with which she won first place in the national ethnic singing competition.

Then the students performed the musical number ‘Simonida had a dream’. First voice: Ana Đorđević and Ana Pjano. Second voice: Dunja Milenković, Milica Lazarević, Jana Aleksić, Jana Stojanović; harmonica Milan Ranković.

At this point, the most deserving of this great event should be mentioned. The bearers of the initiative were professors Maja Pavlović and Marijana Nikolić, and by the nature of his job, Goran Nikolić, Assistant Head of the Department for Emergency Situations of the Republic of Serbia, was the ‘liaison officer’ between the Holy Chilandar Monastery and the High School in Smederevo.

Then Aleksa Gitarić and Ana Đorđević read a short story about the church of St. Archangel near Prizren and the pine tree of Emperor Dušan the Strong, and then all the participants sang the song ‘Grow, grow my green pine’.

Student Damjan Marinković, originally from Serbian Krajina, recited his poem ‘Fireplace without fire’, reminding those present of the repeated genocidal persecution of the Serbian people from Croatia. Then all the participants sang the song ‘A Thousand Vidovdans’, and Aleksa Gitarić announced the welcome speech of the director of the High School in Smederevo, Aleksandar Marinković, and the speech of Archimandrite Methodius.

In addition to words of wisdom, love and faith, the guests from Mount Athos also brought gifts. For the students, they were monastery icons…

…and for the new Chilandar corner in the School – a cast of the seal of St. Sava from the Karelian typic. Principal Aleksandar Marinković received the gift on behalf of the School.

And as the final act of this modest ceremony, the signing of the Protocol on Cooperation followed:

There is an excellent Russian proverb that was created in times of war, and which is repeated throughout every war: “There are no atheists in the trenches!” In the wake of that proverb, we could freely say after this that the High School in Smederevo, with this move, raised a spiritual barricade for the conflict that is inevitably ahead of us.

We will be ready when it comes