Patriarch Elijah’s message on the feast of the Transfiguration

Post date:   2017-08-06
Autor:   BCP
Three disciples, Peter, James and John, were witnesses of Jesus’ transfiguration on Mount Tabor in Galilee. The light of Jesus’ Divinity shone on them. It was a great experience for them. You think to yourself: If I had a vision, my faith would deepen. But we can see what an impact that vision had on the apostles. After a few days these three disciples were on the Mount of Olives in the Garden of Gethsemane and instead of praying with Jesus and staying with Him in His abandonment, they were sleeping. After His transfiguration, Jesus says to the apostles about His suffering and resurrection. He said to them so many times that He would rise from the dead but practically they did not believe in that, not even when it happened. How strong our corrupt nature is!

Reflection on Col 2:12

Post date:   2017-07-29
Autor:   BCP
In the mystery of baptism, the work of Jesus’ death for our sake is accomplished on His part. We have been baptized into this reality. On our part, however, we must begin to live our own baptism, to actualize it. It means that when we unite by faith with the power of Christ’s death in relation to our corrupt nature, or in other words we actualize our baptism, at that moment we die together with Christ to our selfishness, our egocentrism, our pleasures and passions which enslave us and lead us away from salvation. We cannot do so by our own strength but only by faith in the power of Jesus’ death. This power of God, which works in us, is called the working of the Holy Spirit, or God’s grace.

Word of Life – Col 2:12 (30/7/17 – 13/8/2017)

Post date:   2017-07-29
Autor:   BCP
Word of Life – Col 2:12 (30/7/17 – 13/8/2017)

Reflection on Col 1:27

Post date:   2017-07-16
Autor:   BCP
In verse 27, the Apostle points out a mystery. We ask what this mystery among the Gentiles is. It is the mystery concerning us who often live among non-believers. The mystery is this: Christ is among us and in us at the same time. In verse 29, the Apostle Paul says: “I strive according to His working which works in me mightily.” He thus points out that Jesus is in him. But Jesus is in us, too, and we have to know about this might of God. We have to rely on His might in our struggle with original sin which is in us, as well as in our struggle with the system of the world which boycotts divine truths concerning our salvation and in our struggle with the spirit of lies and evil which works through this system of the world and has a direct impact on our thoughts and feelings. So it is an ideological and spiritual fight.

Word of Life – Col 1:27 (16/7/17 – 30/7/2017)

Post date:   2017-07-15
Autor:   BCP
Word of Life – Col 1:27 (16/7/17 – 30/7/2017)

An attack on a contemplative monastery with Molotov cocktails /An open letter to the President of Ukraine P. Poroshenko/

Post date:   2017-07-14
Autor:   Contemplative sisters
Dear Mr President, we hereby address You with a request for help and protection of our monastery in Lvov-Bryukhovychi since the lives of our Sisters are repeatedly in danger! On 13 July 2017, at 23:30, there was an attack on our monastery. An unknown group of men threw Molotov cocktails at the windows. There were 30 religious sisters and 5 guests sleeping inside. Only by a miracle of God there was no catastrophe and the monastery was not turned into a mass grave.

Reflection on Eph 6:11-12

Post date:   2017-07-01
Autor:   BCP
It is said that we should put on the whole armour of God. So not only part of it, but the whole armour. And it is said that it must be the armour of God, and not of man. Why should we put it on? That we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. And what does the devil, the spirit of lies, wile us into? Into doing evil under the guise of good, or into promoting lies through a sophisticated mosaic of partial truths. So we need the armour of God, for we do not wrestle against human enemies but against principalities, against spiritual powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. It is a spiritual battle.

Word of Life – Eph 6:11-12 (2/7/17 – 16/7/2017)

Post date:   2017-07-01
Autor:   BCP
Word of Life – Eph 6:11-12 (2/7/17 – 16/7/2017)

Reflection on Eph 5:15-16

Post date:   2017-06-17
Autor:   BCP
We must be careful, every one of us. Careful about whom? About ourselves. And about what? About how we live. And why? Because we should live not as unwise but as wise. So what should we do? Redeem the time, because the days are evil. What does it mean to redeem the time? Not to walk after vanities which pass away but to do our best in time to store spiritual treasures which thieves will not steal and rust will not destroy.

Word of Life – Eph 5:15-16 (18/6/17 – 2/7/2017)

Post date:   2017-06-17
Autor:   BCP
Word of Life – Eph 5:15-16 (18/6/17 – 2/7/2017)