{"id":2867,"date":"2022-06-28T06:30:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T12:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2022-06-28T06:32:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T12:32:14","slug":"the-covenant-which-the-serb-people-made-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=2867","title":{"rendered":"The covenant which the Serb people made with God"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fr Justin (Popovic) of Chelije writes: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holy martyr king Lazar Saint Sava\u2019s ideal and plan for his whole nation was: \u2018Give up everything for Christ, but Christ for nothing.\u2019 No one has ever realized this ideal and plan to such a full extent as the holy and great martyr, Tsar Lazar. He brought it about for his whole nation when he decided in favor of the Heavenly Kingdom and offered up himself as a sacrifice on the field of Kosovo, together with the whole Serbian people. He did this from the purely evangelic reasons recorded in our folk epic: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018The earthly kingdom lasts only for a brief time,
But the heavenly kingdom always and forever.\u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe die with Christ, to live forever\u201d, he told his soldiers. That Kosovo\u2019s declaration and testament is regarded as the covenant which the Serb people made with God \u2013 and sealed with martyrs\u2019 blood. Since then all Serbs faithful to that Testament regard themselves as the people of God, Christ\u2019s New Testament nation, heavenly Serbia, part of God\u2019s New Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: “The Mystery and the Meaning of the Battle of Kosovo”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fr Justin (Popovic) of Chelije writes: Holy martyr king Lazar Saint Sava\u2019s ideal and plan for his whole nation was: \u2018Give up everything for Christ, but Christ for nothing.\u2019 No one has ever realized this ideal and plan to such a full extent as the holy and great martyr, Tsar Lazar. He brought it about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-holiday"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t