Bishop Dimitrije served in Hodžićitranslated

On the twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, His Holiness Metropolitan Dimitrije celebrated the Holy Liturgy in the Church of the Shroud of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Hodžići, in the parish of Avtovac. Priests Miodrag Vrtikapa and Srđan Milošević, as well as deacons Goran Gurović, Miloš Bjelica and Marko Lozo, served the Most Reverend Metropolitan.

Interpreting the Gospel story about the resurrection of the son of the widow of Nain, Bishop explained that it is the third resurrection that the Lord performed - in addition to Lazarus and the resurrection of Jairus' daughter. Christ resurrects the dead with the same word with which he created the world and man in the beginning, so that man would become the host and guardian of the world, not its master. That Word appeared through prophets, righteous people and saints, because the Spirit of God moved into their pure hearts. Among the Serbs, such were Saint Sava, Saint Peter of Cetinje, Saint Stefan of Dečan and Patriarch Paul, who was the living embodiment of the Gospel. The Metropolitan stressed that the Lord resurrects the dead for this life as well, but at the end of his life, with his Cross, he showed that there is no death as an end, after which both soul and body go to the grave. Death is only a dream, the Savior declared.

Death is just sleep, the soul separates from the body, the body goes to...