Reflection on Jn 17:11

Post date:   2015-07-05
Autor:   BCP
Jn 17:11 in the Greek original reads: “...keep them in Your name, which You have given Me...” It means that the disciples must be kept in the name of the Father, which Jesus bears. Verse 26 specifies the primary meaning of verse 11 which shows that Jesus has made known the Father’s name in His name: “I made known to them Your name, and I will continue to make it known.” So this indicates a process of knowing the depth of the name of God – Yehoshua, which Jesus makes known through the Holy Spirit. This knowledge is connected with the love of the Father towards the Son as well as the love of the Father and the Son towards us. The culmination is the dwelling of Christ in the soul of a disciple which is conditioned by the process of knowing the divine name ever more deeply.

Bull of Canonization of the Czech martyr John Huss (+ video)

Post date:   2015-07-04
Autor:   BCP
The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate after examining the documents relating to the writings of John Huss, his testimony of life and orthodoxy of the Catholic faith as well as orthodox doctrine, and also after examining the evidence about his imprisonment and death, on the occasion of the six hundredth anniversary of his martyrdom, by authority of the apostolic and prophetic office, in the name of the Triune God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, numbers John Huss, Czech priest and martyr for Christ and the truth, among the choir of saints. We hereby appeal to the Czech nation to follow its heroic preacher of truth especially in these hard times of serious heresies, invasion of neopaganism and moral devastation.

Two Greek hierarchs betrayed Christ, the Church and the nation

Post date:   2015-07-04
Autor:   BCP
The head of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop Hieronymus II, in a critical moment in the period before the referendum, betrayed the laws of God, Christ and the nation. Instead of pointing to the root of the curse brought down by homosexual laws and appealing to the nation to repent in earnest and to separate from the EU system of homodictatorship, he deceived the nation. He called the people to remain in this system of homodictatorship and thus enabled this system to continue its destruction of human souls.The same is true of Metropolitan of Thessaloniki Anthimos, who at this critical moment made the same gesture of betrayal: “I will vote for Europe”. By this gesture he also betrayed God, the Church and the nation, and brought down on himself God’s anathema according to Gal 1:8-9.

John Huss was no archheretic

Post date:   2015-06-27
Autor:   BCP
On 6 July 2015, the whole Czech nation will commemorate the 600th anniversary of the martyrdom of Master John Huss.The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate (BCP) hereby declares before the whole Catholic Church and Czech nation: The Czech priest John Huss was no heretic but he died a martyr for truth and the law of God. It is evident from his own writings, especially from his letters written several days before his death. Huss’ writings contain no heresies. If someone means to ascribe heretical intentions to his writings, let him know that John Huss himself warns against it.

A barbaric attack on a monastery of contemplative sisters in Bryukhovychi, Ukraine (video)

Post date:   2015-06-23
Autor:   Contemplative sisters
On 22 June 2015, early in the morning, a criminal act was committed at the request of the apostate clergy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC). The event took place in the chapel of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek Catholic Church (UO GCC), Sosnova St., Bryukhovychi, and in the Contemplative Monastery on Shkilna St. simultaneously.At 6 a.m. assaulters in masks and police uniforms broke into the buildings with crowbars and axes.They dragged four bishops and one priest of the UO GCC – Czech and Slovak citizens – out of the Basilian monastery on Sosnova St. by force, took them to the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) department in Lvov and do not allow solicitors to enter the case. Three of them were unlawfully deported from Ukraine soon. The other two were subject to an absurd trial with the testimonies of false witnesses and also deported from Ukraine on 25 June 2015. At the same time when the Basilian monastery was attacked, a group of armed criminals in military and police uniforms with batons, pistols and even machine guns (among them were also UGCC monks in disguise) encroached on the private territory and broke into the Contemplative Monastery of St Elijah the Prophet. There were about 200 of them altogether – 3 buses and several private cars.

Eternal reward is in store for us (video)

Post date:   2015-06-22
Autor:   BCP
Eternal reward is in store for us. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

What is true brotherly love? (video)

Post date:   2015-06-21
Autor:   BCP
What is true brotherly love? + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Restitution, repentance and John Huss /An open letter to the Vatican/

Post date:   2015-06-21
Autor:   BCP
The feast of Sts Cyril and Methodius and the feast of Master John Huss (5 and 6 July 2015) will be the culmination of national repentance.The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate hereby presents a proposal to the Vatican for three historic gestures of repentance to be made in Velehrad:1) The Church in the Czech Republic shall waive the right to restitution.2) A gesture of repentance shall be made in the form of renunciation of heresies, syncretism and immorality.3) The Czech martyr John Huss shall be declared a saint.

Reflection on Jn 17:3

Post date:   2015-06-20
Autor:   BCP
Jesus speaks about eternal life which is connected with the knowing of God the Father, and with the knowing of Jesus Christ. We may know God – Jesus Christ even now in prayer, in reading the Gospel, in suffering and especially when we renounce our own will and make an act of love by accepting the will of God by faith and in self-surrender. Jesus spoke about eternal life even before, when He said: The Father has given the Son authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as He has given Him.  

Declaration of John Huss a martyr of Christ for the sake of truth and moral values

Post date:   2015-06-20
Autor:   BCP
With the approach of the 600th anniversary of the martyrdom of John Huss, the Byzantine Catholic (Universal) Patriarchate hereby declares the Bohemian priest John Huss a martyr of Christ.600 years ago, on 6 July 1415, he was unjustly and dishonestly burnt at the stake in Constance. John Huss was and is a martyr for truth and moral values.