Father Stefan Sandjakoski

ermons from Kalista by father Stefan Sandjakoski is an unusual book and severe at the same time. It is a book of a great value, since it continues the permanent historical ison of the Macedonian sermonic genre from St. Clement of Ohrid till today. However, these sermons are a result of authentic sermonic poetics and practice. The homiletic speech of father Stefan Sandjakoski does not blindly follow the strict Byzantine form of sermons. He is closer to the pragmatic and emphatic rhetoric of St. John Chrysostomos. These sermons were spoken in the temple of the Holy Mother of God in Kalista, where father Stefan Sandjakoski used to serve a holy liturgy. Uttered thunderingly amidst the divine hesychia of the monastery on the side of the Ohrid Lake, they touch and wave the acute issues and dilemmas of modern man via the perspective of Godman Christ. Here, the superb intellectual endeavor is interwoven with a subtle tremor of heart. Therefore, the sermons by father Stefan Sandjakoski are not only a witness of the temptations of present time but a moving and sobering message to all historical eons, as well.