We didn’t have an in-person conversation, instead we e-mailed each other. And yet, I think that my conversation with Sava Janjic, Abbot of Visoki Decani Monastery, as I’m conveying it to you, turned out just as it would had we sat across from each other. I wouldn’t have interrupted him, I wouldn’t have poked and prodded at him. Everything would have been the same, except for the first question, journalists Olja Beckovic wrote for NIN magazine.
“Since, unfortunately, we’re not sitting face to face, could you please describe for our readers what your surroundings are like, what you’re looking at through the window, so we can better imagine where you are writing to us from?”
“I’m in the room with the best view, as far as I’m concerned. A church that was built more than 700 years ago by Stefan of Dečani is right in front of me. This church is both a constant reminder and a constant source of inspiration for those of us who live here and for everyone who visits. It speaks to us with each one of its stones, every relief, every fresco, and with this marvelous beauty it joins together Western Romanesque and Gothic architecture with Serbian Byzantine artistry, and reminds us of what we were, what we are, and what we need to be,” Abbot Sava Janjic explained.
The full interview can be read at: https://kossev.info/sava-janjic-to-be-silent-when-someone-could-force-our-people-to-leave-kim-forever-is-from-a-spiritual-perspective-totally-unforgivable/
