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The truth shall make you free
Post date: 2007-12-02Autor: 1
Jesus is the truth. “If Jesus (the Son) makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” (Jn 8:36) However, the Lord adds a condition and that is: to abide in His Word. “If you abide in My word… you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” (Jn 8:31-32) In order to abide in God’s Word, first we have to receive Jesus and His word. If we have received Jesus and if we abide in Him, we are God’s children.
Metanoite and believe in the Gospel
Post date: 2007-12-01Autor: 1
Jesus said: “Metanoite.” How in particular situations we are to change our way of thinking and believe in the Gospel is briefly shown in several model situations following. If we are to change our way of thinking, we first need to realize that our natural thinking is wrong, whereas the thinking based on the Gospel is right.
Six-year public penance for the present-day Church
Post date: 2007-11-01Autor: 1
Your Holiness, hereby we have presented to You a proposal of a concrete form of repentance for the whole Church. It relates to the experience of the healing effects of public penance, which was practised especially by the Eastern Church. We believe that the unsolvable state of the Church will be solved by God through all-Church repentance lasting six years. For the whole of this period there would be a prohibition against the celebration of the Holy Liturgy applying to all bishops and priests. We believe that the fruit of repentance will be that the year 2014 will be the year of spiritual resurrection of the Church, and You will see it.
Prayer and fasting
Post date: 2007-10-28Autor: 1
Jesus said: “This kind of demons never comes out (of man) except by prayer and fasting.” (Mt 17:14-21) These words are topical even today. Jesus is not speaking here symbolically but realistically. Demons are not a mere symbol of evil but they are real spiritual beings. Even the present-day pagans do not doubt the existence of demons. They have personal experience with them. However, only few Christians have experience that Jesus heals today, that His Word holds true even in the present time and that the living faith in His Word, prayer and fasting bring not only physical healing but also liberation from different kinds of bondage – demonic slavery.
Inquiring of the Lord
Post date: 2007-10-25Autor: 1
If we are to do the will of God, it is necessary that we know this will of His concretely. It is not enough to know just God’s commandments, which generally show what is good and what is evil. I need to know what in a particular situation is God’s will for me, providing that I am to choose between two or more good and permitted possibilities.
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