The anecdote says that a mutual friend of Metropolitan Amfilohi and the President of the State Đukanović, at the end of January 2020, when the processions were gathering momentum, was asked by God's envoy to convey the following message to the earthly king. "Even though it's not the same man anymore, it's worth a try - tell him, please, to abolish this monstrous law while there's still time, because if he doesn't, there will be a popular uprising that no one will be able to control," Amfilohije said to a friend.
The latter ran to Milo and conveyed the mentioned content. It turned out that the black metropolitan's premonitions were justified - it was no longer "the same man".
When I asked the messenger how the Lord reacted, he replied with a sour smile: "He looked through me, without a grimace, dead cold, as if he saw a hologram in front of him, and - he didn't even say anything."
The rest is already history. And you know everything.
Even though power corrupts, and absolute power - absolutely, the DPS president still shows vitality. When he recently listened to Patriarch Bartholomew's eulogy of the deceased metropolitan in the Ecumenical Patriarchate, he did not seem absent-minded at all. Or disinterested. Moreover, from the photos and videos, one could guess that Đukanović was pleased that the first man of Orthodoxy was describing the Montenegrin metropolitan for many decades in chosen words. It would not be said, judging by the announcements and statements, that the father of the "Đilas nation" during his visit to the throne of Constantinople mentioned the CPC and Bishop Mihailo.
If we add to that the undoubted fact that Đukanović had his grandson sprinkled with holy water or a lock of his hair cut in that very Constantinople, near Bartholomew, and not in Cetinje near Mihail, it is clear that the DPS leader learned a lesson. from the adventure caused by the famous Law on Freedom of Religion. Leaving the drooling spokesman Nikolić and our Ranko, a bigger ESDE man than Ivo Ramada, to talk about the "Church of Serbia". And Draginja to ask for a basic contract with the CPC. After none other than the father of the nation, our Milo the First, accepted exactly what the Metropolis and other dioceses have been claiming for a decade or two - that the CPC is more of an NGO than a religious community.
By going to Constantinople, Đukanović denied the champions of the non-governmental sector and the independent media, who have been writing and explaining for decades that our Church, that is, the DPS Church, is in Splendid. Maybe she was up to 7-8. June, when the father of the nation appeared in the Ecumenical Patriarchate, but after that no well-intentioned person can think, let alone say, that our church is in Splendid.
In fact, Damir and Draginja, little Nikolić and doctor Jevto, can continue talking about the Church of Serbia, and perceive Splendid as our Church - as far as Milo is concerned, he is done with that.
Without the church, of course, there are also leaders from the opposite pole of the political and social scene. When at one time Milka Tadić-Mijović was proposed by the then Deputy Prime Minister Abazović as ambassador to Washington, Prime Minister Krivokapić did not say welcome, but strongly opposed it, and the reason was clear: "she is against our Church"! Whose seat is not in Splendid but in Moscow. I don't mean the hotel but the capital.
"Our church", the same one that encouraged the bandit Milosevic with sermons and blessings in the four wars he waged against his brothers and neighbors, plus the biggest and most tragic one, the war against his own people. All of which made Serbia and the Serbs a pariah, instead of the leading country and people of the eastern part of Europe. If it weren't for our church, to which Zdravko, Joko, Aleksa, Andrija, and the rest of our lovers swear, Serbia would be where Poland is today, one of the most powerful countries in the EU. It would not look at Bulgaria's back and depend on the good will of Romania, even less would it rub the back bench of Europe with Albania.
Vice President Joković at the Government session, affected by the provocations of the Communist wing in the Cabinet, screams that he is a Serb, even though no one asks him about it, much less does anyone question his nation. What can we say about Krivi, Mandić and Knežević, their heart is in Red Square, with the fact that Knežević's emancipatory move should be praised - since Putin's tanks started trampling the Ukrainian land and people, he recites great Russian poets less and less and demonstrates an enviable knowledge of the Russian language . I guess he sticks to Latin wisdom - Inter arma silent musae (Among the weapons, the muses are silent).
If one Montenegro prays in Splendid, another in Moscow, what about the third one, which thinks that the only salvation is in a civil society, a reconciled community, social consensus, the rule of law, a healthy environment and a strong economy.
Where is our church?! In Washington, which does not believe in tears?! Or in Brussels, which doesn't know what to do with itself, let alone with us?! The European Union, unfortunately, shows more and more that it has no leadership and leader, and then no strategy and goal, reminding a little of our highway that is not yet open and we don't know when it will be. And which, like the EU, goes from nowhere to nothing.
But one should not lose hope. Elections will come soon. As soon as this much patriotic-national feces are poured out. A normal person cannot breathe because of the bad breath, but - when were decent people the majority in any country in the Balkans?! Diplomacy returns to diplomats, Pobjeda clicks, not shying away from listing the doyens of our diplomatic church, Dušanka, Vlahović, Vero, Kaluđerović, Sanja, Pajović, and other Rocenoids.
No matter how optimistic he is, it seems that there is no escape for us. Not even if Patriarch Bartholomew sends us a tomos. For our church, not the one for motor racing.
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