The teaching about Christ must be connected with interior prayer (video)

Post date:   2014-11-07
Autor:   BCP
The teaching about Christ must be connected with interior prayer. + Elijah  Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

The mystery of the gift of a new nature

Post date:   2014-11-07
Autor:   BCP
God promised to give us a new heart and a new spirit (cf. Ezek 36:26). He performed this transplantation of heart when Jesus, dying on the cross, said: “Behold, your mother” and the disciple received her. Each of us must be a disciple standing bravely by the cross like John. It is the place where our salvation and transplantation of heart is accomplished.

Care about Jesus and He will care for all other things (video)

Post date:   2014-11-06
Autor:   BCP
Care about Jesus and He will care for all other things. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Hear, O Israel! You shall love God! (Deut 6:4-5)

Post date:   2014-11-04
Autor:   BCP
To love God means to lose my soul for His sake. There is no other way. By losing my soul and its spiritual powers, which are infected by original sin, I will keep it for eternal life.

The fruits of the betrayal of God (video)

Post date:   2014-10-31
Autor:   BCP
The fruits of the betrayal of God. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Masonry and careerism in the Church (video)

Post date:   2014-10-30
Autor:   BCP
Masonry and careerism in the Church. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Reflection on Jn 14:23

Post date:   2014-10-25
Autor:   BCP
Jesus said these words the night before His death. These and other words, which He said before His death, are contained in chapters 13-17 of John’s Gospel. Jesus speaks about love which is necessarily connected with the keeping of His commandments. Jesus the Son of God acts as the Law-giver on His own authority. He repeats several times: “But I say to you…” Jesus does not abolish the Decalogue; on the contrary, He points out its essence. He points to the root of sin, lusts, pride, hatred, revenge. Christ makes more accurate the commandments of the Decalogue.

Try it! (video)

Post date:   2014-10-23
Autor:   BCP
Try it! + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

“If you love Me, keep My commandments.”

Post date:   2014-10-21
Autor:   BCP
What is it – Christ’s commandments? What the Ten Commandments are, it is clear. They are God’s laws formulated in ten clear commandments of God. And what are Christ’s commandments? Is it the same or is it something different? Nobody speaks about them, nobody emphasizes them. Nobody has taught us about them. Christ’s commandments are partly expressed in the Sermon on the Mount, then in the words of Jesus the night before His death, and in other places of the Scripture too.

The renewal of the nation begins with the renewal of the Church (video)

Post date:   2014-10-21
Autor:   BCP
The renewal of the nation begins with the renewal of the Church. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate