What to do to let brotherly love abound

Post date:   2017-12-09
Autor:   BCP
To love means – to humble ourselves again and again, to accept our brother just as he is. His old self exploits us, is jealous of us, enslaves us. But the fact is that we are bound by the same bonds – chains, the only difference being that we easily see it in others but not in ourselves. This is humility: the faults and bad habits of my brother should be like a mirror to me. The old self is essentially the same in everyone, it only has different shades. I need to look at my brother by faith, i.e. to be aware that Jesus is in him, though hungry, thirsty and in prison. But the same is true about me. Jesus is in me too, hungry, thirsty and in prison. One can speak of a law of love which leads to healing and liberation.

Sow in faith

Post date:   2017-12-07
Autor:   BCP
The time you spend in the place where you are is predestined by God and will never return. What you sow in faith, you and others will reap once. Sow in faith, even if you do not see any results. Sow every day by accepting the situations you face rather than by being dispirited or overwhelmed by them. Accept them in faith and in union with Jesus – learn to abide with Him!  

Reflection on Rom 4:3-4

Post date:   2017-12-02
Autor:   BCP
“Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” Here the meaning of righteousness is more like ‘justification’. Man does unspeakable injustice to God by sinning. The holiness of God is infinite, and so an insult to God deserves the highest punishment.  We can offend God by our sin, but we cannot make amends for the offence by our works. Only the One who is equal to God – the Son of God – can make just reparation for our offence. He did so by His death on the cross. He took on Himself the punishment for our sins, the just punishment.

Word of Life – Rom 4:3-4 (3/12/2017 – 17/12/2017)

Post date:   2017-12-02
Autor:   BCP
“For what does the Scripture say? ‘Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.’ Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt.”

On the Day of Judgment our prayers will become manifest

Post date:   2017-11-30
Autor:   BCP
We should pray in such way as to pull down the strongholds of the forces of darkness and to lift up the mountains of demons in our territory, so that the Holy Spirit may descend, God may show His power, send His blessing, the kingdom of God may come into human souls, and a spiritual breakthrough and change may take place. When and how shall it come?! Let us leave it to the Lord; what we need to do is stand in faith and not doubt in prayer. Then on the Day of Judgment our prayers will become manifest – it will be revealed how we prayed.

The obedience of faith (video)

Post date:   2017-11-23
Autor:   BCP
The obedience of faith. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

The obedience of faith

Post date:   2017-11-23
Autor:   BCP
What did the Prophet Elijah say when the fire of the Lord fell on Mount Carmel and consumed the burnt sacrifice? “I have done all these things at Your word.” Nothing more and nothing less. But we often want to add something, because we like it that way, or on the other hand we think that something is extreme. However, God wants us to learn obedience through small things; He teaches us to walk in the Spirit, to follow Christ. Jesus says: “Follow Me.” (Lk 5:27), and He also says: “Father, My food is to do Your will.”

Reflection on Rom 3:25

Post date:   2017-11-18
Autor:   BCP
Let us realize that God forgives our sins because Jesus became a propitiation. The condition on our part is the faith in Christ who is the Saviour, the Son of God, who paid the just price for my sins by His blood and obtained the forgiveness for me. This is the most important truth, the necessary condition of our salvation. We must know it and put it into practice through faith.

Word of Life – Rom 3:25 (19/11/2017 – 3/12/2017)

Post date:   2017-11-18
Autor:   BCP
…whom God put forward as a propitiation by His blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in His divine forbearance He had passed over former sins.

The Secret of Fatima after 100 years - Part one: Apostasy in the Church (+ video)

Post date:   2017-11-14
Autor:   BCP
This year marks the centenary of the apparition at Fatima. What preceded it and what followed it?The 18th century saw the rise of the Enlightenment. The continuation of the Enlightenment in the 19th century was Modernism. It resulted in the destruction of the fundamental truths of Christianity – apostasy in the Church. The papacy was abused to launch a process of autogenocide of the Church.