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Reflection on Joh 1:12-13
Post date: 2017-10-07Autor: BCP
The Word of life confirms that as many as received Jesus and believe in His name – this is the condition – to them He gave the right to become children of God. Ask yourself: Am I a child of God? Whether you understand it or not, whether you feel it or not, if you have received Jesus by faith and believe in His name, you are a child of God. This is the truth revealed by God, and you believe the testimony of God.
The nuts and bolts of the Gospel
Post date: 2017-08-25Autor: BCP
The Scripture gives us directions for life. So we need to begin to learn slowly and seriously THE NUTS AND BOLTS: e.g. Jesus says, “If your brother has something against you, go and be reconciled to your brother.” In other words – e.g. your brother vents his anger and rebukes you unjustly and now there is a tense situation. He becomes aware of his guilt afterwards, and is overcome with sorrow. He doesn’t know what to do, how to apologize, and tension increases. Who should make the first step, or rather, who is obliged to? According to the Gospel, he who has been wronged is obliged to make the first step. You have been wronged, and moreover, your brother has something against you! So you have to make the first step and not wait until your brother does so! When you realize in prayer that you must go and you would not go, then however good your prayer may be, you are disobedient to Jesus!
Patriarch Elijah’s message on the feast of the Transfiguration
Post date: 2017-08-06Autor: BCP
Three disciples, Peter, James and John, were witnesses of Jesus’ transfiguration on Mount Tabor in Galilee. The light of Jesus’ Divinity shone on them. It was a great experience for them. You think to yourself: If I had a vision, my faith would deepen. But we can see what an impact that vision had on the apostles. After a few days these three disciples were on the Mount of Olives in the Garden of Gethsemane and instead of praying with Jesus and staying with Him in His abandonment, they were sleeping. After His transfiguration, Jesus says to the apostles about His suffering and resurrection. He said to them so many times that He would rise from the dead but practically they did not believe in that, not even when it happened. How strong our corrupt nature is!
Reflection on Eph 5:15-16
Post date: 2017-06-17Autor: BCP
We must be careful, every one of us. Careful about whom? About ourselves. And about what? About how we live. And why? Because we should live not as unwise but as wise. So what should we do? Redeem the time, because the days are evil. What does it mean to redeem the time? Not to walk after vanities which pass away but to do our best in time to store spiritual treasures which thieves will not steal and rust will not destroy.
We do not wrestle against flesh and blood...
Post date: 2017-05-26Autor: BCP
The Word of God says clearly, “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age – so-called kosmokratoras.” (Eph 6:12) Are we aware of it? If we want to fight with a sling or a bow against an army with tanks, it is de facto suicide. Similarly, if we want to fight against the kosmokratoras with our feelings or anything human only, for example with our cunning, the battle is lost in advance. First of all, we must realize that the spiritual powers are leading a spiritual struggle against us. In the spiritual struggle, as the Apostle Paul writes in the Ephesians, we must have spiritual weapons and spiritual armour: the breastplate of righteousness, the belt of truth, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit. The sword of the Spirit, i.e. the Word of God, is not a physical sword, but a symbol of a spiritual weapon. The Apostle Paul also constantly repeats and emphasizes that we should act “in faith”.
The beauty of heaven surpasses everything
Post date: 2017-05-25Autor: BCP
Heaven surpasses all our imagination. Let us imagine supreme happiness, unspeakable beauty, and yet heaven is far more beautiful. The Scripture says about heaven that no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him. What then this heaven must be like if it surpasses our imagination?!
How to pray the prayer of unity and power
Post date: 2017-05-22Autor: BCP
If you are absent-minded during the prayer and you use the prayer model as a mere formality, you benefit minimally from the prayer. If you pray with the heart, you benefit more. But what is most important is to pray with faith, to concentrate your thoughts and to be in union with Christ, with His death – and the power of God works.
Part 3: Christian theocracy vs. NWO
Post date: 2017-04-27Autor: BCP
In the first and second part, there was a reference to Christian as well as natural morals. The present-day generation, poisoned with consumerism and the terror of amorality, grows indifferent and is reduced to the level of beasts. Reason is no longer used to search for truth but to justify a lie which leads to self-destruction. In order to be able to resist the psychologically developed genocidal system of the NWO and to start to promote moral values, one has to wage the hardest struggle in one’s personal life in the first place. It is a struggle with oneself, with the evil embodied in us. When one resolves to engage in this fight, one necessarily needs a mobilization stimulus or motivation!
Easter pastoral letter – 2017
Post date: 2017-04-16Autor: BCP
Today we celebrate the day of the glorious Resurrection of Christ! This day Jesus encountered women and the apostles several times. Even you can encounter the Risen Christ today! At the moment of our death, we will see Jesus in all His glory. Maybe some of us very soon. But how shall we encounter the living Jesus today? Jesus is in our midst, even though we cannot see Him with our physical eyes. He is present not only in the sacraments but He is also in us when we show true repentance. We experience His powerful presence especially in the hard trials of life, such as the death of our loved ones. If we abide and believe in His Word, we experience His closeness and comfort. Like a blind person who feels the closeness of the one who loves him, hears his voice and feels his presence, even though he does not see him. In such moments, Jesus speaks to our heart.
To accept in faith everything God allows in our life
Post date: 2017-04-13Autor: BCP
What should our attitude be toward God, His providence and the mystery of sin in the world, in us and in the Church? Again, we need to humble ourselves. When Job complained, God said to him: “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?” Our understanding is very limited! We must not complain but rather accept with humility and in faith everything that God allows in our life.
Repent, and believe in the Gospel (Mk 1:15). Part 4: Conversion, personal relationship to Jesus Christ
Post date: 2017-03-03Autor: BCP
Deep in his soul, man has a desire for happiness, true happiness, which no one can take from him. Only the very thought of happiness ending one day makes us sad. People search for happiness in human relationships, wealth, money, career, fame, success or in pleasures, alcohol, drugs. But they cannot find it there. They experience disillusionment, an even deeper emptiness, loneliness and pain in their soul. St Augustine expressed this desire for happiness with the words: “You have made us for Yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in You.”
Repent, and believe in the Gospel (Mk 1:15). Part 3: Original sin (in Adam) and deliverance (in Christ)
Post date: 2017-03-01Autor: BCP
Christ paid for our sins with His blood on the cross. Our old man (Adam) was crucified together with Him. Christ became the satisfaction for our sins as well as for our Adam-nature. On that day on the cross, there were not only our sins but also our nature. When Christ was crucified, we (our Adam-nature) were crucified too. Provided that we understand this single point, the rest will be clear: “I (Adam’s nature) have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I (ego) who live, but Christ lives in me.” (Gal 2:20)
Part 4: Spiritual mobilization for Trump
Post date: 2017-02-28Autor: BCP
Repeat the name of God with gratitude for a while, and then invoke it in faith for the salvation of the whole American nation and for the protection of the President. If you call on the name of God with a heart purified by repentance, God hears you. Your true prayer paralyzes even the forces of darkness represented by witches, magicians and other dark powers who seek to bring both temporal and eternal disaster to the US people.
Reflection on 2Cor 4:10-11
Post date: 2017-02-25Autor: BCP
What does it mean to be delivered to the death of Christ? Example: If you are to bear witness to Christ in a particular situation, and you know that it is the will of God for you to do so, you have to be innerly prepared beforehand for being ridiculed or persecuted, which is like being spiritually killed for the sake of Christ. Or a similar situation: You act according to conscience and it is disadvantageous to you. It would be easier to commit fraud or betrayal. However, you refuse to do so. Aware that God sees you, you want to keep Christ’s commandment in this situation and make this sacrifice for His sake. When you are to overcome fear and to resolve to accept suffering, it is like being united to the death of Christ on the cross.
Reflection on 1Cor 15:45
Post date: 2017-02-12Autor: BCP
The first man was a living soul and committing sin he lost this life given to him by God. The last Adam, i.e. Christ, however, is a life-giving spirit. A dead soul cannot enter the kingdom of God unless and until given life by the Spirit of Jesus. He Himself said: “Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.” So through the faith in Christ and through Baptism we are born into the kingdom of God. At that moment, Jesus gives us life through His Spirit. Of course, it is our task to keep this life even in the moment of our physical death and thus to enter the kingdom of heaven.
How to humble ourselves truly
Post date: 2017-01-23Autor: BCP
A living fellowship and certain forms of self-humiliation are the best means of dying to our self. The first and basic form is that I accept the order established by God and that I want to be open to the Holy Spirit every day and to do the will of God to the extent I am able to discern it. Humility also means that I sincerely consider others better than myself (cf. Phi 2:3).
Reflection on 1Cor 10:20-21
Post date: 2017-01-14Autor: BCP
True Christianity built on a true relationship to Christ, when we trust in Him and make sacrifices for His sake, cannot be associated with various occult practices or superstitions which are false beliefs and lead us away from Christ and salvation. A true Christian who has received Jesus as his personal Saviour and Lord must renounce these practices which influence him from all sides in order to bring him under their control. One must know clearly that the Church has always taught that pagan cults do not lead to the true God but to the worship of demons.
How pride manifests itself
Post date: 2017-01-11Autor: BCP
You can ask yourself: How does pride manifest itself? The others around me are better than me – jealousy. And this manifests itself even if we follow Jesus: competitiveness, comparing with others, sadness or bad mood if I am not who I want to be. For the most part I am not interested in who God wants me to be and what His plan for my life is.
Christmas in Moravian Bethlehem (video)
Post date: 2017-01-04Autor: BCP
Christmas in Moravian Bethlehem
Reflection on 1Cor 6:19-20
Post date: 2016-12-31Autor: BCP
The Word of God expresses three truths: 1) our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, 2) the Spirit of God lives in us, 3) we are not our own. And it adds that we were bought at a price. This price was the death of Christ on the cross! Therefore we are called to glorify God in our body. The Scripture says in another place: “The body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord.” (v.13) Life is short, and what is more, we know neither the day nor the hour, so we must be ready at all times for departure from this life, God’s judgment and eternity.