Reflection on Mk 11:22-23

Post date:   2025-09-28
Autor:   BCP
What is human faith and what is God’s faith? Human faith is necessary in everyday life. We have to believe people’s testimonies about Antarctica, for example, even though we have never been there ourselves. We believe that there is snow there, even though we have never seen it. This is natural faith, which can be proven materially. What is faith in God or God’s faith? It is faith that is bound to the promises God has given us. It is faith in God’s omnipotence. By His almighty power, God created everything that exists; He created this world and cares for it. He created it for a purpose. We believe in God the Creator. We also believe in God the Saviour; we believe that the Son of God became man and died for our sins, and we also believe God’s word. Furthermore, in order to have God’s faith that works miracles, we need to receive grace so that God will show us that He wants to be glorified in this situation and that He requires us to stand in faith and not doubt. Everyone will face a test of faith, so we must overcome the doubt in our hearts. God’s faith is a gift that we must ask for.

Be aware that you will meet Jesus face to face (video)

Post date:   2025-09-27
Autor:   BCP
Be aware that you will meet Jesus face to face. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Unless we abide in Christ, we cannot bear fruit

Post date:   2025-09-25
Autor:   BCP
Unless we abide in Christ, we cannot bear fruit. Jesus says: “Without Me you can do nothing.” We can only do one thing – we can sin. This is programmed in us. But we are unable to do good. Perhaps we can do good outwardly, but this is full of pride and it bears the fruit of death. If we are to bear fruit which is of worth for eternity, we must be united to Christ and His cross. How? In suffering, let us start to give thanks instead of complaining: “Lord, I do not understand but I thank You.”

Purity is the fruit of God’s grace bestowed upon the humble

Post date:   2025-09-21
Autor:   BCP
Purity is the fruit of God’s grace bestowed upon the humble

Jesus is waiting for our faith

Post date:   2025-09-17
Autor:   BCP
We greatly need people who pray, suffer and sacrifice everything. This is all love, and what could be more useful in this short life, where not only our own eternity is decided, but that of others too? Through faith and sacrifice, we can save immortal souls. It is wonderful that Jesus waits for our faith, through which He wants to give grace not only to us, but also to others whom we can influence through our faith and prayers to turn to God, open their hearts to Him and follow Him.

Word of Life – John 6:29 (14/9/2025 – 28/9/2025)

Post date:   2025-09-16
Autor:   BCP
“The work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent.”

Reflection on Jn 6:29

Post date:   2025-09-16
Autor:   BCP
A group of people once asked Jesus how they could do the work of God. Jesus replied, “The work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent.” (Jn 6:29) God desires belief and faith from us, for “without faith it is impossible to please God” (Heb 11:6). The word of life we now repeat during our prayer stops also tells us that if we believe in the One whom the Father has sent, that is, Jesus, in a specific situation or problem, God responds to our faith by acting. The following verses give a deeper insight into this truth related to faith.

Be a warrior of God! (video)

Post date:   2025-09-15
Autor:   BCP
Be a warrior of God! + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Jesus is with me today and always

Post date:   2025-09-12
Autor:   BCP
Jesus says: “I am with you all the days of your life.” Jesus is with me today and always, whether I feel it or not. He said so and it is true! He calls us out of our self to fix our eyes of faith on Him. Instead of dwelling on the problems that are weighing us down, we should ask: What does God want now? What is God’s will? Then comes peace.

CLEMENT Disciple of the Apostle Peter. Volume 1

Post date:   2025-09-10
Autor:   BCP
Clement of Rome was a real person.He lived in the first century.He was a faithful disciple of the Apostle Peter.He came from a patrician familyrelated to the imperial Flavian dynasty.The family’s dramatic fate culminated in theirconversion to Christ. Clement became not onlya disciple of the Apostle Peter and participantin his mission, but also his successor. The book sheds a timely light aon the healthy roots of Christianity,which we need to return to ever anew.

Have salt in yourselves

Post date:   2025-09-09
Autor:   BCP
The younger generation longs for a great ideal. There is no greater ideal than following Jesus radically. Jesus says: “Everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other.” (Mk 9:49-50) Therefore, we must be persistent in radically following Jesus. We must have salt, the fire of zeal, within us. At the same time, our old self must be crucified in our everyday life; in other words, we must lose “our own” for the sake of Jesus.

Do you have a place for Him? (video)

Post date:   2025-09-07
Autor:   BCP
Do you have a place for Him? + Elijah  Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

The necessary law of the grain of wheat

Post date:   2025-09-05
Autor:   BCP
As was the case with Abraham, every work of God must have at its core obedience of faith unto death. This is the law of the wheat grain. The devil will attack us with depression, pressure, gloom, tension, or an indefinable apathy, but there is no reason to take these feelings seriously and remain in that state. That is the wealth of vanity. We must pray with faith. God alone knows how He will resolve the matter. He wants us to have absolute faith in His omnipotence and to surrender completely! What He will do with it, we will see later or in eternity. The death of a grain of wheat always bears manifold fruit.

Word of Life – 1 Pet. 5:6-7 (31/8/2025 – 14/9/2025)

Post date:   2025-08-30
Autor:   BCP
“Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”

Reflection on 1Pe 5:6-7

Post date:   2025-08-30
Autor:   BCP
Jesus should truly be the Lord of our lives. We should talk to Him in prayer about our problems, seek His will and, if He is truly our Lord, we have not lived our lives in vain, but fruitfully – both for time and, above all, for eternity.

Mary will never abandon us

Post date:   2025-08-27
Autor:   BCP
Today is a very serious time indeed. The spiritual atmosphere is poisoned. It is hard to discern what is what. New demonic forces are entering the scene and working through people who have power and influence – not only material, but also spiritual. The Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, is literally crucified. Now more than ever, it is crucial to unite with Jesus so that we may persevere and remain faithful to Him. We must also cooperate with the graces God gives us and the Mother of God mediates to us. We are her spiritual children. We must always keep our eyes on her. She will never abandon us.

How to carry our cross

Post date:   2025-08-25
Autor:   BCP
The enemy of God attacks in order to destroy the work of God, Christianity, to steal Christ – the life of God – from the souls and to lead them to eternal damnation. His attacks are from both without and within and have a meaning. We need to see them as a cross to be borne. The carrying of this cross is the will of God. However, before we can carry this cross, we need to deny ourselves. Jesus first demands: “Deny yourself!” and only then He adds: “Take up your cross!” To deny oneself means to be poor in spirit, to be humble.

Open letter to Cyril Vasiľ (video)

Post date:   2025-08-19
Autor:   BCP
Dear Bishop Cyril, I am writing to you as my former professor, who guided me through my licentiate thesis in Canon Law in Rome. At that time, you were also dean of the law faculty, later becoming rector of the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. You were not a dry lawyer or a soulless professor, but a man with a sense of truth and justice who understood human weakness. You earned a place in the hearts of all your students, who surely remember you in the best possible light.

Word of Life – John 13:13 (17/8/2025 – 31/8/2025)

Post date:   2025-08-18
Autor:   BCP
"You call me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am."

Reflection on Jn 13:13

Post date:   2025-08-18
Autor:   BCP
Jesus Himself says to you: ‘You call Me your Teacher and Lord,’ and He adds: ‘and that is what I am.’ In this short Bible study, we will examine some quotes from Scripture and consider whether Jesus truly is my Lord. If He is not, and if my ego is my god, then I must pray: Jesus, be truly my Lord! Let us call out to Jesus from the depths of our hearts. Only then can we confess with the repentant Thomas: ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus, be truly my Lord and God! Jesus Christ is Saviour and Lord. Of all the titles of Jesus, the title ‘Lord’ became by far the most commonly used, wide-spread and important. It would hardly be going too far to say that the word ‘Lord’ became a synonym for the name of ‘Jesus’. What does Jesus mean to you? Which areas of your life do you feel are subject to His control? Anyone who wishes to be His disciple must carefully consider this often overlooked aspect of Christian practice.