All the Sad’s Joy

First Edition issued on April 23rd 2005. at St. Lazar Saturday
The seventeenth legal edition in sale

ABOUT THE BOOK

     First time after two thousand years!
     Joy of All Who Sorrow – a novel about earthly life of the Holy Mother. This deeply moving and thrilling confession about the most important event since the beginning of the world is told by the two closest to Jesus - the Holy Mother herself and St. John the Evangelist, the beloved Christ’s disciple to whom the lord from the cross confided the most beloved creature he has left on earth – his own mother. “The names mentioned here show the courage and earnestness of the literary efforts of the authoress to literary embody the characters that have been formed in the memory and experience of the centuries, which is an enormous limitation and a frame enforced upon the writer’s imagination, who in a certain measure has to accommodate a new character to an already formed one, and on the other hand needs to provide a brand new original character adjusted to the story, relations to other characters and the reality presented in the literary work. Exactly in that portraying of hers Ljiljana Habjanović Đurović, illuminating the depths, achieves the mastership and truly revives their psychologies accommodated to both their true biographies and the characteristics which result from the literary process. Thanks to the Joy of All Who Sorrow today’s readers will experience the Holy Mother in the total plenitude of a being who is not only sacred, but also earthly.
     Love as the counter-measure to evil, shown through spiritual existence, through merging with Logos by the word of God from which grows life and faith in the meaning of human existence and suffering is consistently realized in the novel Joy of All Who Sorrow, written by the authoress inspired to present in the phantasmagoria as real and compose a poem, a prayer about the most beautiful character of the Christian civilization and eschatology.

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GLOBOSINO ALEKSANDRIJA 2005.

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AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

The Seal of Prince Lazar, 2005.

Book of Kochic, 2005.

Golden Hit liber, award of Radio Television of Serbia, for one of the ten most wanted book in 2003.

Golden bestseller, recognition by daily paper Novosti, for one of the ten best-selling book in 2005.

Most read books in the libraries of Serbia in 2005. (Although this information was officially published on the website of the National Library of Serbia and in the media, by the will of NLS management, the author of most popular book did not get that award, but the author whose book was fourth on the reader's List.)

REVIEWS – ABSTRACTS

As a Forerunner indicated the time for the arrival of the Savior, so it shall a new book of Ljiljana Habjanovic Djurovic by its style, wisdom and knowledge of the outstanding opportunities at the time of the earthly life of the Virgin Mary to, be an extension to all, so gladly read previous novels ...Authoress of this book is an extremely brave woman. About a holy Mother of God, hers method and way, even a courageous theologians would rarely dare to write about. This is the transcript of Gospel...

(Arch Priest Stavrophor Mr. Dragomir Sando, Theology PHD)

As if she created all of her works over the years just to get to do this book. Ljijana Habjanovic Djurovic wrote a novel about the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” with all due inspiration, the way in which dedicated works are created, the way in which temples are established and deepest respect and glory given. Words are treasures from within our being and are undoubtedly fit to determine the birth and immortality of myth as something subliminal...

(Dragoljub Stojadinovic)

In the portraying of characters, the author achieves mastery, she really revives a real personalities, by deep illuminating of their psychology and biography, arising from the literary methodology. Due to this novel, the modern reader will experience the holy Mother of God, in its fullness, of being from this world, not just the sacral. But take a look at how this is achieved: in the current New Testament canon and in a story about a life of holy Mother of God, which is used as a preface only, the author's by her imagination outlines all meticulous details that constitute a real character, making it as a living, closer for understanding.

(Milica Jeftimjevic Lilic)

At a time when Latin, the Roman conception of the word urban is increasingly sliding into barbaric word shopping, this book can not count on advertising of multinational companies and their media offices. This brings this novel to a paradoxical situation. Trying all the time to be in cahoots with biblical undertones, not to be rebellious, it becomes unruly in a particular cultural context.

(Slobodan Vladushic)

QUOTE FROM THE BOOK

     Island of Pathmoss.
The pitted dates, dumped into the sea in the middle of twelve major islands near the coast of Middle East. Here I came up by the will of Domitian, the ruler of Rome and all what the Romans conquered and kept by the power and fear. Me, John, your brother, and partakers of the kingdom in distress and suffering, I was detained because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. When the ship reached the shore, when I saw that the entire island fits into one glance, I thought the Lord is removing me from a big deal - of spreading His word among the people. And I wondered how I will continue to serve him.
     On the island grow figs, oranges and grapes. The houses were scattered at the edges of steep rocks and seem to be any moment plunge into the sea. The grass is scarce, and the country burned, like the red dust.
     The heat is unbearable, and winds severe.
     Few people live on Island of Pathmoss. Jelin`s shepherds and fishermen and a few Roman soldiers. Used to prostitute among themselves and with a sheep. To trust in the power of magic, curses and sorcery. Used to eat the victims sacrificed to the Idols and to compete with their Gods in perversion and cruelty. The Lord said: "Whoever knocks, it shall open to him." But we, His apostles, we used to open the door of faith even to those who do not knock. Because,most often, the live word is most needed to such. As in many places of Judah, and Middle East and Roman, people have attacked me angrily, when I rebuked them because of decay of paganism and sin. In fear and disbelief received my first words of God who lived among us as a man. On whose breast I laid down my unworthy head. And who suffered for our salvation. But when the Lord have done some healing by my hands, they were filled by wonder. Then the hope sparked out. And souls, thirsty for consolation, joined the source of life. Just as we were once visited by every wind that blows around these shores, on Island of Pathmoss a good Church of Christ was established. After, came that day when I was in the Holy Spirit, and when the Lord gave me to see the door open in Heaven, and what is going to be, when I heard a voice behind me, mighty as trumpet, who told me:"What you see, put in the book!" Then I understood what duty Lord intended to his servant. So, I testified the secret of revelation, as it was ordered to me. But it remained in me, unsaid, the story of the Son of God, the first and last one, which was dead but revived, who has a sharp sword with two sides, who has the key, and what he opens no one will shut, and what he closes no one will open, which is faithful and true witness, and who is a founder of God's creations. Who is appointed by love and that love is appointed in him."So far, I was wearing His doctrine alone, among the people. A moment comes to write it down and spread away, multiplied by skill and effort of many hands, throughout all known and unknown world. Yes, to be saved for future time, stored on the roll,” I thought. I knew that, Matthew, Luke and Mark, the apostles and partakers in our suffering, before they felt the revenge of Satan's sons, each of them were presented their word about what happened between us. They spread it through Patria and Midia, through Ethiopia and Achaia, and through Rome itself. Also, they send it in many other areas. But to the mortal man, faith, love and hope are never enough. And then I decided, being the witness from the beginning, to announce the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as I remember it.
     This is my second witness.
     In tonight vision, Lord instructed me what next to do.
Again, I was under the cross. As on that day, when the people committed the most terrible sin.
     - Here's my mother! - He told me then.
     He looked at me in that way clearer than any words. Louder than any thunder.
     "He entrusted to me the dearest ones leaving behind on Earth.", I thought. And I promised that I shall never leave Her in poverty, homelessness and loneliness.
     - Here's my mother! - Repeated He tonight.
     I immediately understood his holy order. And, behold, I do rush to meet it, grateful that He entrusted just to me to write the truth about the one whose bowel was abode and bosom the throne of the living God.
     There are six long decades have passed since the Son of God sat on the right side of his Father. And just as He said it will be, many false prophets went out into the world. Swindlers, Antichrists. They say that Jesus Christ isn't come in the flesh. They say that He was not a man and not a God.
     A God-man. That He was not born and breast-fed by Her, who was called by the angels of the Lord as blessed among women. That those unique moment in David's cave in Bethlehem of Judea was an illusion. Illusion of the mind. And if the birth of an illusion, then the death is not even real . Neither His sacrifice. Neither the suffering, which turned Mother's heart into a bloody wound.
     I lived next to Her for thousands of days and as many hours as there a stars in the sky.
     Today, I begin a new testimony on the rolls. I will tell, what I have heard of those who knew Mary,   daughter of Anne and Jakob's . Mary, the mother of Jesus. Mary, maid of the Lord. Of honorable and pious people. I will discovery and what I learned from Her own, the Virgin. I'll tell all what I was told, exactly as I heard. And I'll add what I have seen, heard and touched by myself.
     And if anyone else ever told you anything other than this you will now hear from me, do not believe him. I do witness to you, my brothers in suffering for Jesus Christ, by my faith in God, and testify to you that everything was just like this.