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St. Nikolai Velimirovich – A Saint of the Modern World
By fatherstephen
December 7, 2007 at 7:21 pm
WOW!!!
December 9, 2007 at 3:34 am
Too great a post to not comment, but any comment seems to weak to respond to it. I am blessed to know him in as limited a way as I do through my copy of Prayers by the Lake.
December 10, 2007 at 1:43 am
It is amazing how there is gentleness and fire in his eyes at the same time.
December 11, 2007 at 10:02 pm
[...] what Carlyle referred to as “imperial analysis”. To illustrate what I mean, go and see Father Stephen’s embedded video of Saint Nikolai Velimirovich, where the saint, at the end of the video, is portrayed in a series of photographs as an aging man, [...]
February 24, 2008 at 8:59 pm
When I watch this video of St. Nikolai, I am reminded of the Roman centurion who stood by the Holy Cross as the earth quaked. “Surely this…was (and is) a saint of God!” The words of St. Nikolai have long been like a cool spring of fresh water for me in the parched desert of these Godless times…
Holy hierarch, Nikolai, pray to God for us sinners!