Martyrs and Other Saints. December

Post date:   2025-12-04
Autor:   BCP
Martyrs and Other Saints. December + Elijah – Tuptalo

Whoever is ashamed of Jesus and His words...

Post date:   2025-12-01
Autor:   BCP
We need to ask for courage: “Jesus, give me the strength, so that I am not ashamed of You and Your words in this adulterous and sinful generation!” We need the courage to swim against the current, against the current of sin. Do not pay heed to what people think about you but only to what God thinks about you. Stand bravely for Jesus even if all shout or spit at you. One thing is certain: Jesus is with me and I now stand by His side, face to face with the enemies and say to them: “I serve Jesus Christ and I am not ashamed of Him!”

Word of Life – Mt 6:33 (23/11/2025 – 7/12/2025)

Post date:   2025-11-27
Autor:   BCP
"Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you."

Reflection on Mt 6:33

Post date:   2025-11-27
Autor:   BCP
Jesus tells us that we must seek. Seeking is a painful process. When someone loses something precious, it brings a certain pain, and they search especially in the places where they think they might find it. Jesus says that above all we are to seek the kingdom of God. It is within us like a hidden treasure. What is the kingdom of God? It is God’s reign and God’s presence in the souls of the baptized. This treasure lies somewhere deep within us, yet we must search for it. Sometimes it can be found quickly. What does His righteousness mean? It was fulfilled in our Lord Jesus Christ through His redemptive sacrifice for us. He offered a just satisfaction for the sins of humanity – and for all my sins. I find that righteousness beneath Christ’s cross; there, through the act of repentance, my sins are forgiven, and the devil has no right to demand justice – that is, the punishment that sin brings. Jesus completed this righteousness on the cross.

Martyrs and Other Saints. November

Post date:   2025-11-11
Autor:   BCP
Martyrs and Other Saints. November. + Elijah – Tuptalo

Byzantine Patriarchate addresses all the Christians of the United States of America (video)

Post date:   2025-11-10
Autor:   BCP
My dear Americans! For almost ten years, I have prayed for you every day with the so-called prophetic prayer according to Ezekiel 37. First of all, I would like to thank President Donald Trump for his courage. He is bravely risking his life to uphold sound moral principles based on the Christian gospel. It was European missionaries who brought it to America. I thank all of you who faithfully support President Trump in his mission to save America from the NWO system of lies and death. I appeal to you Catholics and other Christians who uphold the pillars of truth and moral principles. Thank you for standing with the President. Carissimi! Dearest, faithful Christians, you have not been deceived and have not accepted the LGBTQ ideology of lies and death.

Word of Life – Eph. 5:17 (9/11/2025 – 23/11/2025)

Post date:   2025-11-09
Autor:   BCP
"Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is."

Word of Life – John 15:7 (26/10/2025 – 9/11/2025)

Post date:   2025-10-26
Autor:   BCP
"If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you."

Reflection on Jn 15:7

Post date:   2025-10-26
Autor:   BCP
Jesus, at the Last Supper, speaks about our spiritual unity with Him. Through baptism we share in His redemptive death and in His new life, which is inseparably linked with His glorious resurrection. Yet baptism alone is not enough. For God’s life to remain within us – and even more, to grow in us – faith is needed, faith in the word of Jesus. This faith is accompanied by acts of humility and by trials of fidelity. In this context, we need to recall the essence of the parable of the vine and the branches. From the vine flows the life-giving sap into the branches – that is, the same Spirit who dwells in Jesus Christ also works in us, the baptized, as long as we remain united with Jesus through faith. Jesus repeatedly emphasizes that without Him we can do nothing, and He gives His branches this promise: “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.” The condition for anything to work for our true good – not only temporal but also eternal – is that we remain united with Jesus through faith.

Give thanks and rely on God

Post date:   2025-10-15
Autor:   BCP
God causes even negative things to work together for good. But we must learn to give thanks and praise to the Lord in time of suffering: “Yes, Lord, I have suffered a misfortune, but something far worse could have happened. This is the price for evil I had done or the price I had to pay to prevent something worse from happening.” Evil often makes us stop and realize that the devil seeks to attack us and that we need to beware of the danger. Even if the devil puts us to trouble, God can turn it into good if we praise Him. But if we grumble, blaspheme against God, lapse into unbelief or rebellion in trouble, the devil laughs at us and things get worse and worse.

Everything must be built on sound foundation – Jesus Christ (video)

Post date:   2025-10-14
Autor:   BCP
Everything must be built on sound foundation – Jesus Christ. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Word of Life – 2 Pet. 1:4 (12/10/2025 – 26/10/2025)

Post date:   2025-10-13
Autor:   BCP
"... by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust."

Reflection on 2Pe 1:4

Post date:   2025-10-13
Autor:   BCP
Our life is short; in essence, it is only a time of testing, during which our eternity is decided. That eternity will be either happy or unhappy forever. An unhappy future – eternal ruin – awaits those who, in proud unbelief, reject the salvation in Jesus Christ. In Him, God has given us the greatest gift: that through Him we may receive a new nature! We must therefore put aside that nature which is infected by original sin and in which our human spirit is, as it were, clothed. Through this, our inner being has been darkened – our intellect struggles to recognize truth, our will tends toward evil, and our heart is filled with a perverted desire that unites with the spirit of the world, driving humanity toward temporal and eternal destruction. How can we escape this destruction? We must, through faith, accept the Saviour, Jesus Christ. Then the following applies to us: “To those who did accept Him He gave power to become children of God. They were born not of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” (cf. Jn 1:12) 

Pure love is the sign of the will

Post date:   2025-10-12
Autor:   BCP
Pure love is the sign of the will – I want to love even if I do not feel that I give Jesus the first place in my life. I lose my soul – this is very important; this is a moment when I forsake all vanities for Your sake, Jesus, not for my sake, not for the sake of money or fame, but for Your sake and the Gospel’s. I give You all I have.

We are obliged to know the basic principles of the life of faith (video)

Post date:   2025-10-11
Autor:   BCP
We are obliged to know the basic principles of the life of faith. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive…

Post date:   2025-10-10
Autor:   BCP
If I do not forgive, I cannot be forgiven. But stop! When I think of my offences against others, that I do not pray for them, that I am indifferent to their salvation, that I do not set a good example for them, that I speak empty or angry words, etc., I should ask them for forgiveness in my spirit, or sometimes even in words. I feel guilty towards the other person, and when I realize that he, the other person, has also hurt me, it’s like a triumph for me – I have a chance. Something for something!!! If I am able to forgive, I take the credit for it and, in a sense, I triumph over my neighbour. Then I can say in earnest, “Our Father, forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us…” Forgive us both, me and the one who hurt me. And now I forgive, and it is as if I am forgiving those who have hurt him too, and then the Lord hears such a sincere prayer of the Our Father.

The harder the fight, the more humility and self-surrender to Jesus we need

Post date:   2025-10-09
Autor:   BCP
The Lord shows us that the harder and deeper the fight is, the more humility and self-surrender to Jesus we need. We need to deny ourselves! There is only one rule here: to carry the cross and enter into death with Christ through the Mother of God.

A life of victory (video)

Post date:   2025-10-03
Autor:   BCP
A life of victory. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

With Mary, in Mary and through Mary

Post date:   2025-09-30
Autor:   BCP
We need a sound foundation, which is the foundation of humility and faith in relation to God, and this foundation is not stable in the old Eve’s heart. Therefore we should receive a new heart by faith every day, stopping at least once a day for a few seconds. But we should do so more often – e.g. whenever we want to make a decision, we should not do so on our own but we should try to do everything, as Grignion writes: with Mary, in Mary and through Mary.

Word of Life – Mark 11:22-23 (28/9/2025 – 12/10/2025)

Post date:   2025-09-28
Autor:   BCP
"So Jesus answered and said to them, "Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says."