God is merciful and just. My heart is is with Fr Solokovich and his joy is my joy. His prayers for his martyr father is a prayer for all martyrs, including my uncle Yovan. I will make sure to remember the feast and offer my veneration to his father.
Kolo, you can certainly relate to this -- 42 generations of priests in this man's family. The gates of hell will never bring down Orthodoxy.
"Kolo, you can certainly relate to this -- 42 generations of priests in this man's family. The gates of hell will never bring down Orthodoxy."
Indeed I can, my friend, indeed I can. What a wonderous thing for this priest and son!
You know, just last night I was at supper with a very old rabbi and his family who had gone through the camps and after the war were refugees from Budapest. He asked me about my Greek family during the War and the Civil War afterwards. I told him the stories I've told you about what happened in the village. He told me how there was a school across from his synagogue in Budapest. The school was filled with little Greek children whom the Communists had kidnapped in Greece and taken to Hungary to be made into communists. One day he was out working around the grounds of his synagogue and found a cache on the grounds of the abutting school...it was filled with little "gold" baptismal crosses. He left them where he found them and has always wondered what happened to those little Christian children. I wish our fellow Aericans understood what Orthodox people in the East went through until the fall of communism.