Not only being born of God but abiding in Him (video)

Post date:   2015-06-17
Autor:   BCP
Not only being born of God but abiding in Him. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

What accord has Christ with Belial?

Post date:   2015-06-16
Autor:   BCP
What accord has Christ with Belial? We can never say that Christianity and paganism are equal ways to salvation! Salvation is only in Jesus. If pagan ways led to salvation, Christ would not have come to our earth and died for our sins. But, as the Scripture says, He came and endured pain, suffering and humiliation to save us and to deliver us from darkness and from the slavery of the devil.

Sense of the essence

Post date:   2015-06-13
Autor:   BCP
We need to know the essence so that we may be witnesses in the place where we are. Everyone should ask for the power of the Holy Spirit to be an evangelist, teacher or prophet at a particular place. We must be full of the Holy Spirit, we must be witnesses to Christ, we must have a sense of the essence. We shape our environment above all by the example of our life. There are just a few essential truths to live: to learn to deny yourself in little things, to learn to pray, to find time for prayer and to rely on God.

Resist sin unto blood! (video)

Post date:   2015-06-13
Autor:   BCP
Resist sin unto blood! + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Because you received the Word of God as the Word of God...

Post date:   2015-06-12
Autor:   BCP
We must receive the Word of God as the Word of God, the simple truths of the Gospel of God as they are presented to us by Jesus. If we follow Him in earnest and take His Word seriously, if we deny ourselves and take up our cross, God gives us true wisdom and true knowledge, as the Apostle Paul says: “We do not preach the wisdom of the world but the wisdom of God.” Every Christian should have such wisdom.

Who sins not? (video)

Post date:   2015-06-10
Autor:   BCP
Who sins not? + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Our attitude must be unwavering

Post date:   2015-06-09
Autor:   BCP
What is it in us!? Conscience, the voice of God, on the one hand and the poison of sin on the other. If people hear lies, they gladly believe in them. On the other hand, they keep questioning the truth. They even question the truths of our salvation – maybe it is true, maybe not… Our attitude must be unwavering: “Jesus said it and it is true! I won’t invent anything! He who believes will be saved; but he who does not believe will go to hell.”

Reflection on Jn 17:1

Post date:   2015-06-06
Autor:   BCP
“…lifted up His eyes to heaven…” Jesus thus sets an example to us. We must lift up our eyes to heaven too. We often look down or fix our eyes on vanity or even sin. Jesus said: “Father, the hour has come.” What hour? The hour of Jesus, the hour of His physical and mental suffering and of His death in disgrace on the cross. The time will come when we too shall glorify the Heavenly Father by our suffering and death.During the prayer stop, when you will repeat these words, awaken to the reality of the hour of Jesus as well as your hour to come. Stop for a while, lift up your eyes to heaven and make an act of love for God, an act of total self-surrender.

The fruits of dead faith (video)

Post date:   2015-06-05
Autor:   BCP
The fruits of dead faith. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

A chance for Ireland – repentance

Post date:   2015-05-30
Autor:   BCP
On 22 May 2015, Ireland held a referendum in which the nation voted of their own free will for the legalization of gay and lesbian marriages. The referendum had a turnout of 60.5%. Thus the Irish nation chose to go to its doom. God’s Word clearly says that for the sin of homosexuality, Sodom and Gomorrah were punished with fire from heaven and that this punishment is a warning to all nations (Jud 7).How will a citizen of Ireland stand before the judgment seat of God if on 22 May 2015, dropping his vote into the ballot box, he passed a sentence of death upon himself and the whole nation? You betrayed your fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers; you betrayed Christ crucified; you betrayed all the saints of your nation and brought down upon yourselves and future generations not only the punishment of God but also temporal punishment. There is only one solution for you to be saved from the eternal punishment of hellfire, and that solution is repentance. Without it no Irishman can be saved from the curse of hellfire.  

When He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will do it

Post date:   2015-05-25
Autor:   BCP
One can live in a community which has received the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, who wants to guide us into all truth. We are slaves of sin and deceit, and only Jesus can make us free, no one else. He does so through His Spirit who guides us into His Word and into communion with Him, Jesus.

Reflection on Jn 16:33

Post date:   2015-05-23
Autor:   BCP
True happiness on this earth does not lie in abundance of property, wealth or career but in true peace. We can find this peace only in Christ. Supposing we seek it somewhere else or in someone else, we will not find it. We can by no means find this peace in the world. In the world we will only have tribulation. We must know it. There is no peace in the glory of the world, in vanity or in sin.

Learn God’s Word by heart! (video)

Post date:   2015-05-23
Autor:   BCP
Learn God’s Word by heart! + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Pastoral letter to Hungarian bishops

Post date:   2015-05-21
Autor:   BCP
You live in a historic time when we are witnesses to gradual autogenocide of the nations under the influence of the ideology of consumerism which is associated with immorality and perversion. This age is ruthlessly anti-Christian and anti-Catholic. The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate appeals to all Hungarian Catholics as well as all Christians in Hungary to join in perpetual prayer and to call on God day and night for spiritual resurrection of the Catholic Church in Hungary.

Man is the head of the family (video)

Post date:   2015-05-19
Autor:   BCP
Man is the head of the family. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Man must be wise (video)

Post date:   2015-05-18
Autor:   BCP
Man must be wise. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

“…let not sin reign” (Rom 6:12) (video)

Post date:   2015-05-16
Autor:   BCP
“…let not sin reign” (Rom 6:12) + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

The poison of original sin

Post date:   2015-05-16
Autor:   BCP
The poison of original sin is in every one of us. This is in us and the devil laughs. Unless we fight against sin, pride and lusts for all our life, we can easily lapse into heresy. If we believe ourselves, we destroy ourselves. That is the poison in us and we have to fight with it continuously because it leads us to self-destruction. We must carry it as a cross, not unite with it but resist it. “Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Jesus!”

Be conscious of your dignity! (video)

Post date:   2015-05-14
Autor:   BCP
Be conscious of your dignity! + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

And we do not know it! (video)

Post date:   2015-05-12
Autor:   BCP
And we do not know it! + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate