13th of April 2008 - Governor of Illinois, Rod R. Blagojevich and his family visited the New Gracanica Monastery and The Right Reverend Longin, Serbian Orthodox Bishop of the USA & Canada. The Governor attended Divine Liturgy in the New Gracanica Church and then joined everyone at the banquet in the monastery hall where he felt, according to his own words, at home among his own people...>>>
   
12th of April 2008 - Our famous basketball player, Dragan Tarlac visited the New Gracanica Monastery on the 12th of April 2008. Dragan Tarlac is a great benefactor of our Serbian Orthodox Church, especially Krka Monastery in the Diocese of Dalmatia where his family roots are. While he played professional basketball, he played for the Chicago Bulls, among others, and it was at that time that his love for the New Gracanica Monastery has developed...>>>
   
 

5/7 March 2008 - Report from the meetings of the Clergy and the Diocesan council of the Diocese of America and Canada, Metropolitanate of New Gracanica
The clergy of the diocese of America and Canada met on the 5th and 6th of March, 2008 and the members of the Diocesan council met on the 7th of March, 2008 in New Gracanica Monastery. Aside from discussing the usual issues in the Church, they also addressed the issue of the forthcoming reorganization of the Church on the territory of North America...>>>
   
  8/9 January 2008 - Enthronement of the new Abbess in the Nativity of the Theotokos Monastery, Indiana
By the instruction of the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church, on January 8th and 9th, 2008, His Grace Bishop Longin made a visit to the Stavropegial Women's Monastery of the Nativity of the Thotokos, New Carlisle IN, in order to install the new Abbess for the monastery. At the end of the Divine Liturgy on the 9th of January, Mother Makrina was enthroned as the new Abbess...more>>>
   

6/7 January 2008 - Christmas Eve / Christmas Day
Christmas Eve - "Badnje Vece" service was celebrated by Bishop Longin along with the rest of the New Gracanica clergy. The service was attended in great numbers, probably exceeding five hundred people. The Vigil was followed by the traditional burning of the Badnjak and the traditional Christmas Eve supper at the hall.Christmas Day Liturgy was served the next morning...more>>>
   

23 December - About Kosovo Relief Fund
The New Gracanica Monastery is collecting donations for Serbian children of Kosovo. A separate charitable fund named "Kosovo Relief Fund" has been established for that purpose. The aim is to collect as much money as possible in America and Canada from people of good will for needy Serbian kids of Kosovo. The target date to finish this project is St. Sava's Day (January 27, 2008) so that help can still be distributed to Serbian kids in Kosovo during this winter. The New Gracanica Monastery will distribute all collected money to families of the neediest kids through the Diocese of Raska and Prizren....>>>
   

21 September - Memorable Weekend In Indianapolis
Glory be to God; thanks be to the Theotokos and the saints; health, prosperity and salvation to all of the faithful. The dedication of our new St. Nicholas Church and fellowship hall took place September 21-23, 2007. The weekend was awesome. In fact, it was the most memorable weekend ever in the history of this parish.It all started with the welcoming of His Grace Bishop Longin on Friday evening for the Akathist service in front of a myrrh-streaming icon of the Mother of God. This icon, which recently began flowing myrrh, was jointly commissioned in the year 2000 by the Orthodox Churches of Central Indiana, and many of their clergy were present on Friday: ...>>>
   

25 May - Message of the holy Assembly of bishopsof the Serbian Orthodox Church on Kosovo & Metohija - Kosovo and Metohija have been throughout the centuries populated with Serbs, and up until the great forced migrations of the Serbian people toward the north, in the 17th and 18th centuries, Serbs have always been the majority population in Kosovo and Metohija. It is a generally known historical fact that the medieval centre of the Serbian state was located therein, and remaining to this day the centre of national, Christian sacred and secular culture of the Serbian people. There, in the Patriarchate of Pech, beginning in the 13th century and until this present day, is the official seat of the Serbian archbishops and patriarchs. ...>>>