Browse Tagged “Faith and Religious Life” from the Canadian Macedonian Heritage Society archive, library and community collections.
If I was a good shepherd And had a herd of sheep Protect them all and guide them The baby lambs I would keep I would carry them on my back So vulnerable and mighty Safe in the round coral No matter black or white Away from all butchers From villages and towns And the hungry smoochers Carnivores and clowns I watch them run around My green meadow field Protect from rabbits and hounds Inside my ...
The mountain climber with his athletic beauty And his golden heart He is set out early in the morning For his morning walk towards the mountains. On his shoulders, he carries the green bag filled with food And a flask of refreshing water. Lassie, the dog runs lively. She is ahead of him. The uphill road Is too narrow and too tiring. A gentle wind caresses their faces And the birds are welcoming them in singing. ...
Christmas Day is a Saint Day Where the justice and the kindness conquers. This day commemorated the birth of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the savior of the World, the Miraculous. Mother, you are a praiseworthy mother and a grandmother. You raised six children and five grandchildren. You faced the difficulties in life with bravery And you conquer them all. This poem is for you, mother With all my love and ...
I sing for the Macedonian Villager. I have a great respect for him. In his life, he suffered greatly from the Greek Authorities But he never lost faith to God. The time when I visited a Macedonian village I felt the presence of the Lord. The villager has faith in his heart His gift is the virtue. In the past, the villager was walking with his head bend down The reason the Greeks had underestimated him The Macedonian ...
In 1913 the great powers divided us. They took away a part of our souls. O, Lord help us, reunited us The Macedonian Hymn all together to sing it. Macedonian people With all your strength run and run. The Bucharest Agreement will open soon The giant door of justice will creak With the love of God and united We should tell the world that this is a Macedonian land. This land is not Greek, neither, Bulgarian nor ...
My memory goes back To those years that I had no speech. I loved the Macedonian songs. The unmerciful Greeks forbade our culture. Why, why, they took away The customs which belonged to us? Why, why, they took away The language and the scripts which belonged to us? Discrimination is a mortal disease. It poison's the mind and the soul. We search for human rights We obey the Holy Word. Rise, O, Macedonian children To ...
Organized by the Canadian Macedonian Historical Society (CMHS) in 1999, the lecture Ancient Rock Carvings in Macedonia by Vasil Ilov represents an important contribution to the study of Macedonia’s prehistoric and protohistoric past, focusing on one of the oldest and least understood forms of human expression: rock carvings, or petroglyphs. Through this lecture, preserved in the CMHS archival lecture series, Ilov explores the archaeological significance of ancient carvings discovered throughout Macedonia, situating them within broader questions of early human spirituality, communication, astronomy, ritual, and social organization. His presentation highlights the importance of Macedonia as a prehistoric cultural landscape, emphasizing that its rocky terrain contains evidence of human symbolic activity stretching back thousands of years. Recent institutional and archaeological documentation confirms the significance of Macedonian rock art, particularly in areas such as Kratovo and the Osogovo region, where extensive rock carvings have been recorded and studied.
On June 27, 1996, the Canadian Macedonian Historical Society (CMHS) presented the lecture "Macedonian National Experiences in Medicine Throughout the Centuries," featuring Dr. Gradimir Zdravković and Professor Vladimir Vuksan. The event explored the sophisticated medical heritage of Macedonia, using medieval frescoes as evidence of early diagnostic practices, quarantine systems, and surgical knowledge that predated Western European developments by centuries. Furthermore, the speakers bridged the gap between history and modern science by detailing the "Herbal Road" trade with China during the era of Alexander the Great and discussing contemporary clinical research into ancient Macedonian nutritional formulas designed for endurance and immunity.
