Woe to him who is alone! (video)

Post date:   2014-10-18
Autor:   BCP
Woe to him who is alone! + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

What do young people need? (video)

Post date:   2014-10-17
Autor:   BCP
What do young people need? + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

The message by Patriarch Elijah on the feast of the Protecting Veil of the Mother of God

Post date:   2014-10-14
Autor:   BCP
In relation to this feast, Jesus says in the Gospel: “Blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.” (Lk 11:28) The first thing is to hear the word of God and the second thing is to keep it. How many obstacles there are in us and around us which prevent us from hearing the word of God, thinking about it and keeping it so that it may become incarnate in us. This word should become incarnate in us just like in the Blessed Virgin – in her the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. And how did it happen? She was prepared. She lived by faith, wholly devoted to God.

Exorcism – the need of today (video)

Post date:   2014-10-14
Autor:   BCP
Exorcism – the need of today. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Reflection on Jn 14:21

Post date:   2014-10-11
Autor:   BCP
True love for Jesus is connected not only with the receiving of the Word but there is also one condition: the keeping of His commandments. In fact, it means the following of Christ, which involves the loss of our soul for His sake: “Whoever loses his soul for My sake and the Gospel’s will save it.” If a disciple keeps Christ’s commandments, he will be loved by the Father and by Jesus, and Jesus will manifest Himself to him (see v.21). “We will come to him and make Our home with him.” (v.23) We thus become a living tabernacle like the Blessed Virgin. So the knowledge of Christ cannot be acquired through theological, philosophical or psychological studies but only through love – agape – which becomes manifest not in phrases but in the following of Christ, i.e. in the keeping of Christ’s commandments.

The primary task – Christian education (video)

Post date:   2014-10-11
Autor:   BCP
The primary task – Christian education. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

The essential thing is silence of heart and true humility (video)

Post date:   2014-10-08
Autor:   BCP
The essential thing is silence of heart and true humility. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Salvation is in Jesus Christ alone (video)

Post date:   2014-10-07
Autor:   BCP
Salvation is in Jesus Christ alone.   + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Jesus is the one true God (video)

Post date:   2014-10-04
Autor:   BCP
Jesus is the one true God.   + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Victory over sin

Post date:   2014-10-03
Autor:   BCP
People can overcome sin neither by means of psychology, nor by modern theologies, nor by oriental meditations… The victory depends on our deep communion with Christ. The essential thing is to be in Christ Jesus, our Lord, by faith. It means that in the particular present moment I am in Him not only passively but at that moment I love Him with all my heart, with all my soul and with all my strength.