What do young people need? (video)

Post date:   2014-10-17
Autor:   BCP
What do young people need? + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

The message by Patriarch Elijah on the feast of the Protecting Veil of the Mother of God

Post date:   2014-10-14
Autor:   BCP
In relation to this feast, Jesus says in the Gospel: “Blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.” (Lk 11:28) The first thing is to hear the word of God and the second thing is to keep it. How many obstacles there are in us and around us which prevent us from hearing the word of God, thinking about it and keeping it so that it may become incarnate in us. This word should become incarnate in us just like in the Blessed Virgin – in her the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. And how did it happen? She was prepared. She lived by faith, wholly devoted to God.

Exorcism – the need of today (video)

Post date:   2014-10-14
Autor:   BCP
Exorcism – the need of today. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Reflection on Jn 14:21

Post date:   2014-10-11
Autor:   BCP
True love for Jesus is connected not only with the receiving of the Word but there is also one condition: the keeping of His commandments. In fact, it means the following of Christ, which involves the loss of our soul for His sake: “Whoever loses his soul for My sake and the Gospel’s will save it.” If a disciple keeps Christ’s commandments, he will be loved by the Father and by Jesus, and Jesus will manifest Himself to him (see v.21). “We will come to him and make Our home with him.” (v.23) We thus become a living tabernacle like the Blessed Virgin. So the knowledge of Christ cannot be acquired through theological, philosophical or psychological studies but only through love – agape – which becomes manifest not in phrases but in the following of Christ, i.e. in the keeping of Christ’s commandments.

The primary task – Christian education (video)

Post date:   2014-10-11
Autor:   BCP
The primary task – Christian education. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

The essential thing is silence of heart and true humility (video)

Post date:   2014-10-08
Autor:   BCP
The essential thing is silence of heart and true humility. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Salvation is in Jesus Christ alone (video)

Post date:   2014-10-07
Autor:   BCP
Salvation is in Jesus Christ alone.   + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Jesus is the one true God (video)

Post date:   2014-10-04
Autor:   BCP
Jesus is the one true God.   + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Victory over sin

Post date:   2014-10-03
Autor:   BCP
People can overcome sin neither by means of psychology, nor by modern theologies, nor by oriental meditations… The victory depends on our deep communion with Christ. The essential thing is to be in Christ Jesus, our Lord, by faith. It means that in the particular present moment I am in Him not only passively but at that moment I love Him with all my heart, with all my soul and with all my strength.

Jesus is the Firstborn Son of God, and we are second-born (video)

Post date:   2014-10-02
Autor:   BCP
Jesus is the Firstborn Son of God, and we are second-born.   + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Be transformed by the renewal of your mind

Post date:   2014-10-01
Autor:   BCP
Not only should our soul, our reason, be transformed by the renewal of our mind but our body too should be sanctified. In another place, God’s Word says that our body is the temple of God, the temple of the Holy Spirit. God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple. (1Cor 3:16-17)

“Pope” Francis urges people to receive the “mark of the beast”

Post date:   2014-09-30
Autor:   BCP
In May this year, “Pope” Francis uttered a statement that shocked the whole world! Bergoglio approved and blessed the “mark of the beast”, calling RFID-chips God’s blessing for mankind. Even if the Scripture did not speak about the “mark of the beast”, the very satanic system which influences the will of man and enslaves him turns him into a controlled “biorobot”. Everyone who will have received such a chip will lose one’s freedom, eternal life and will become a slave of the devil. And if one would wish to withdraw from this system, it will not be possible. Christians must reject the implantation of chip with the number 666 even at the price of martyrdom.

Reflection on Jn 14:20

Post date:   2014-09-27
Autor:   BCP
We are in Christ, and He in us. Jesus said: “On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.” (Jn 14:20)I realize the truths: 1) Jesus is God, and He is in the Father; 2) We are in Christ crucified' 3) The risen Christ is in us.

Constantly entering into Christ’s death

Post date:   2014-09-26
Autor:   BCP
The Apostle Paul says: …we constantly enter into Christ’s death”. It does not mean that we die physically but that in a particular situation we give the whole problem to God. When we suffer pain, insults or persecution: “Here I am, Lord, I accept it, I give it all to You and I trust in You.”

Untapped treasure (video)

Post date:   2014-09-25
Autor:   BCP
Untapped treasure.   + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Why can you rely on God?

Post date:   2014-09-25
Autor:   BCP
God promised to instruct us and teach us in the way we should go. How much we need it, for the world today is full of evil and traps prepared for us. And God says – I will counsel you. This is what we need so much as well!   

The essence of Christianity

Post date:   2014-09-24
Autor:   BCP
We need to get at the root of Christianity. The essence of Christianity is our communion with Jesus, Jesus crucified and risen. This must not be just an empty phrase. We need to live a life of repentance and true following of Christ in a small house Church, in a sound cell of a biblical and prayer community under the guidance of the prophetic voice of a pastor or teacher.

What is true holiness? (video)

Post date:   2014-09-23
Autor:   BCP
What is true holiness? + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Unity in a community

Post date:   2014-09-23
Autor:   BCP
Serving others, you need to be very careful and learn to be sensitive to the Spirit of God so as to perform spiritual operation. At the same time, you yourself must allow Jesus to perform an operation on you through your brethren. We need to trust each other. You need to know that those who do you this spiritual service do so because they love you, that your brethren in the community love you, that the community needs you, that God needs you.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding

Post date:   2014-09-22
Autor:   BCP
We have a variety of vices and self-pities which hold us in bondage. We can speak of spiritual resurrection if we let ourselves be healed by God. The precondition is to stand in the truth and to be willing to see and admit our faults. We should not take offence. Let us say: “Yes, it is true. This is my weakness.” We should not fall into depression but say to ourselves: “I have to fight against it. Yes, I will fail again and again but I will ask God for light and strength. I will give Him all problems I have: Lord, I am weak in this thing, I fall time and again, I am overcome by this bondage, I am a slave. I don’t want it but I can’t help it. I rely on You with all my heart.”