2020 Advent Manifesto of US Bishops

Post date:   2020-12-06
Autor:   BCP
Dear Catholics in the USA, we, your bishops, turn to you, knowing that if we ourselves do not bear fruits worthy of repentance, we will be cut down like a barren tree with an ax of truth and justice and burned like useless chaff with unquenchable fire. The words saying that we will all perish without repentance are the words of Christ which cannot be broken. We are fully aware that the call for repentance and the word of Christ apply first and foremost to us.

Reflection on Ps 42:1-2

Post date:   2020-12-01
Autor:   BCP
We live in very hard times. We can say we are already entering the apocalyptic age, when each of us will be put to the test in connection with vaccination and chipping which will carry punishments if rejected. Maybe the martyr’s crown is prepared for some. That is why it is so important that our soul pants for God as the deer pants for the water brooks. That it thirsts for the living God – for the day it shall come and appear before God, not just seeing a poor reflection as in a mirror, as the Apostle says, but seeing Him face to face in eternity. “For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.” (1Cor 13:12)

Bishops of the United States, dissociate yourselves from the criminal promotion of vaccines launched by some of you

Post date:   2020-11-30
Autor:   BCP
Dear US Bishops, we were stunned to read a report: Representatives of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Msgr. Kevin C. Rhoades and Archbishop Msgr. Joseph F. Naumann, distributed a memo to all US Catholic bishops stating: It is not immoral to be vaccinated with Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. We respond: The two bishops thus say that the use of Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines is morally acceptable. This statement is a gross lie which has dire consequences for both temporal and eternal life.  

Response to a promotional broadcast “A chip under the skin” of the Orthodox channel “Spas”

Post date:   2020-11-30
Autor:   BCP
One can watch an online Russian Orthodox broadcast Re:Action on the topic “A chip under the skin” of the Spas channel. Among the guests were Orthodox activists who defended the truth, and Prof. Katasonov provided brief specialist information over Skype. However, the directors of the programme did not mean to warn the Orthodox public against chipping. On the contrary, they also invited a young man who had two chips under his skin and advertised them. In the same way, an Orthodox priest present manipulatively promoted chipping. What methods were used? Gross manipulation, trivialization of the truth, and even ridicule of God’s Word... The host describes herself as an Orthodox believer and, among other things, claims that a chip need not be a barrier with regard to participation in Holy Communion. She even repeatedly says that chipping is inevitable for everyone. Archpriest Dudko totally boycotted the warning from Orthodox activists. He argued that it only concerned the technical aspect, but that he would clarify the spiritual one. Instead, he manipulatively opened the door to suicidal chipping.

Word of Life – Ps 42:1-2 (29/11/2020 – 13/12/2020)

Post date:   2020-11-29
Autor:   BCP
“As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?”

Churches closed in France, what to do? (+ video)

Post date:   2020-11-28
Autor:   BCP
Quote from the press release: “With the second wave of the pandemic, France entered into its second lockdown, which includes a ban on public Masses starting with 3 November.” The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate, as the voice of one crying in the wilderness, asks: Does France repent adequately for the Church’s internal apostasy from God? Put your hand on your heart, dear French bishops and priests: Was it not through your apostasy and impenitence that God allowed the closure of churches? You manifest your unity with the source of the curse by repeating like a mantra the name of the archheretic Bergoglio daily in the Mass. Do you now understand, dear bishops and priests, why God allowed the closure of churches in France? If you honestly ask, dear bishops, priests, and believers, what to do, how to begin to repent, and how to continue on this path, the answer is: Let everyone promise God one hour of personal prayer a day, and set up prayer watches following the example of the Christians of America. You French Catholics are calling for churches to reopen. Dear French bishops, priests and believers, what would St Bernard say concerning these two demands? “God wants it!” He will then give you His blessing.

The Second Vatican Council was heretical. Without acknowledging this reality, restoration is not possible.

Post date:   2020-11-26
Autor:   BCP
The Parable of the Wicked Vinedressers (Lk 20:9-19) fully applies to Vatican II and the post-conciliar period culminating in the archheretic Bergoglio. Bergoglio and the apostate structure have taken possession of God’s vineyard and are destroying it. Modernism, formerly condemned by Saint Pius X, came to power through Vatican II, with the promotion of the Modernist Roncalli (John XXIII) to the papacy. Its heresies and spirit of the world (aggiornamento) have ravaged God’s vineyard, the Church. However, this anti-Church disguises itself as the true Church of Christ. Vatican II, with ambiguous terms and the document Nostra Aetate, has opened the door to syncretism with paganism and embraced the heresies of Modernism which deny the divinity of Christ, His unique redemptive sacrifice on the cross as well as the divine inspiration of Scripture. Behind Modernism and its historical-critical method is the philosophy of atheism. The Bible points to the root of sodomy. It is unbelief in God – atheism – and openness to paganism in Nostra Aetate. Unbelief + paganism = sodomy (cf. Rom 1:18f).

BCP: Three letters on the purity of heart (The second letter – To married couples)

Post date:   2020-11-24
Autor:   BCP
Civilized Europe and America were built on Christian foundations. A healthy family founded on lifelong marital fidelity and indissolubility of the marriage bond has always been the basic cell. When St Vladimir, ruler of Kievan Rus, embraced Christianity, he dismissed his three wives and all concubines and remained faithful to one wife until his death. Jesus said about marriage: “A man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh” (Mt 19:5), one being. “What God has joined together, let not man separate.” (Mt 19:6) Marriage is therefore raised to the dignity of a sacrament and is associated with indissolubility. Making marriage vows before God, the couple promise to stay together for better for worse until death do them part.

Reflection on Ps 39:7

Post date:   2020-11-24
Autor:   BCP
True wisdom is to think about the end. We will leave everything around us: our belongings, our property, our dearest ones. We will take nothing into eternity. But Scripture says that love never ends. And the Apostle says what love is like. It is patient, it does not envy, it is not proud, it does not behave rudely, it does not seek its own, it keeps no record of wrongs. It does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth. So love is intrinsically linked to truth. Pure love, agape, means that we are to give God the first place, that is, to love Him with all our heart, with all our soul and with all our strength, and we are to experience this above all in interior prayer. Here we first give God our sins and then we give Him all our problems and worries. This is the way out of the futility of life and a taste of a happy eternity into which we shall sooner or later enter.

Pensioners of the United States, become a pillar of the spiritual army

Post date:   2020-11-23
Autor:   BCP
The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate has previously addressed all sincere and responsible Americans with a call for spiritual mobilization and the establishment of prayer watches (https://youtu.be/a-s2HawV0WU, http://vkpatriarhat.org/en/?p=18712). We also encouraged the Americans in a prophetic prayer according to Ezekiel 37 as well as in a prayer of faith – the lifting up of a spiritual mountain of demonic forces (cf. Mk 11:23). Over the past half century, the satanization of the world has been secretly prepared by the very strong influence of pagan pseudo spirituality. It concerns mainly the popularization of Hindu yoga, transcendental meditation, Buddhist meditations, occult yin and yang, magical acupuncture, homeopathic pseudo-healing and various forms of divination, magic and superstition. One must renounce and break with this false spirituality, that is, a sin against the First Commandment. God demands continual prayer to save the United States at this critical time. Let us build a net of one-hour prayer watches (cf. Lk 18:1; 1Th 5:17). You, pensioners, are needed to fill the hours during the working day, because students and workers can only start praying when they return from school or work.