The nature of all commandments (video)

Post date:   2015-06-20
Autor:   BCP
The nature of all commandments. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Not only being born of God but abiding in Him (video)

Post date:   2015-06-17
Autor:   BCP
Not only being born of God but abiding in Him. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

What accord has Christ with Belial?

Post date:   2015-06-16
Autor:   BCP
What accord has Christ with Belial? We can never say that Christianity and paganism are equal ways to salvation! Salvation is only in Jesus. If pagan ways led to salvation, Christ would not have come to our earth and died for our sins. But, as the Scripture says, He came and endured pain, suffering and humiliation to save us and to deliver us from darkness and from the slavery of the devil.

Sense of the essence

Post date:   2015-06-13
Autor:   BCP
We need to know the essence so that we may be witnesses in the place where we are. Everyone should ask for the power of the Holy Spirit to be an evangelist, teacher or prophet at a particular place. We must be full of the Holy Spirit, we must be witnesses to Christ, we must have a sense of the essence. We shape our environment above all by the example of our life. There are just a few essential truths to live: to learn to deny yourself in little things, to learn to pray, to find time for prayer and to rely on God.

Resist sin unto blood! (video)

Post date:   2015-06-13
Autor:   BCP
Resist sin unto blood! + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Because you received the Word of God as the Word of God...

Post date:   2015-06-12
Autor:   BCP
We must receive the Word of God as the Word of God, the simple truths of the Gospel of God as they are presented to us by Jesus. If we follow Him in earnest and take His Word seriously, if we deny ourselves and take up our cross, God gives us true wisdom and true knowledge, as the Apostle Paul says: “We do not preach the wisdom of the world but the wisdom of God.” Every Christian should have such wisdom.

Who sins not? (video)

Post date:   2015-06-10
Autor:   BCP
Who sins not? + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Our attitude must be unwavering

Post date:   2015-06-09
Autor:   BCP
What is it in us!? Conscience, the voice of God, on the one hand and the poison of sin on the other. If people hear lies, they gladly believe in them. On the other hand, they keep questioning the truth. They even question the truths of our salvation – maybe it is true, maybe not… Our attitude must be unwavering: “Jesus said it and it is true! I won’t invent anything! He who believes will be saved; but he who does not believe will go to hell.”

Reflection on Jn 17:1

Post date:   2015-06-06
Autor:   BCP
“…lifted up His eyes to heaven…” Jesus thus sets an example to us. We must lift up our eyes to heaven too. We often look down or fix our eyes on vanity or even sin. Jesus said: “Father, the hour has come.” What hour? The hour of Jesus, the hour of His physical and mental suffering and of His death in disgrace on the cross. The time will come when we too shall glorify the Heavenly Father by our suffering and death.During the prayer stop, when you will repeat these words, awaken to the reality of the hour of Jesus as well as your hour to come. Stop for a while, lift up your eyes to heaven and make an act of love for God, an act of total self-surrender.

The fruits of dead faith (video)

Post date:   2015-06-05
Autor:   BCP
The fruits of dead faith. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate