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Do not think that spiritual life is special mysticism (video)
Post date: 2015-12-12Autor: BCP
Do not think that spiritual life is special mysticism. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
The political system in Russia
Post date: 2015-12-09Autor: BCP
The current political system of USA has a spirit of neofascism. Its agenda is reduction of mankind to a “golden billion”. Unless Russia builds a political system on the foundation of uncompromisingly opposing principles, it will be globalized.
A man must have a head on his shoulders (video)
Post date: 2015-12-05Autor: BCP
A man must have a head on his shoulders. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Holy egoism (video)
Post date: 2015-12-02Autor: BCP
Holy egoism. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
God has endowed us with gifts (video)
Post date: 2015-11-30Autor: BCP
God has endowed us with gifts. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Shema Israel, love God! (video)
Post date: 2015-11-28Autor: BCP
Shema Israel, love God! + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Stop before God 7 times a day! (video)
Post date: 2015-11-26Autor: BCP
Stop before God 7 times a day! + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Let Christ the King reign! (video)
Post date: 2015-11-22Autor: BCP
Let Christ the King reign! + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
No one can serve two masters
Post date: 2015-10-19Autor: BCP
Jesus says that we cannot serve two masters. We cannot serve both the devil and God. Each of you should ask yourself: Whom do I serve? Who is my master? God, Jesus Christ, or sin or false philosophy which I favour because I can thus be in the darkness of sin? Today, you must make a radical choice and say a definite “yes” to God and a definite “no” to the devil.
Reflection on Jn 19:28-29
Post date: 2015-09-12Autor: BCP
Jesus feels physical thirst caused by the loss of blood during the scourging and crucifixion. However, He also experiences spiritual thirst. He thirsts for the accomplishment of the work of redemption and love: “God so loved the world (you) that He gave His only begotten Son…” Jesus fervently desires to finish the work of salvation. But He also thirsts in you – He thirsts for your love, He desires you to be spiritually transformed, to be in spiritual union with Him. This is the way of following and the way of the cross. It requires daily self-denial in small matters.
Lord, let Your fire burn it up!
Post date: 2015-09-05Autor: BCP
Jesus baptizes us with fire too so that this fire will burn up all dirt of moral impurity in us. If there are some impure images in our mind, let the fire burn it up. Our eye, the inner eye, must be clear. Everything must be brought to light. We need to repent time and again. We must call a lie a lie, evil evil, just as it is. This is repentance. God will then work.
You cannot serve God and mammon
Post date: 2015-09-01Autor: BCP
What is mammon? We suppose it to be money but it is not just money. There are a lot of things which can become mammon. Mammon is all that we prefer to God whom we should love with all our heart. In other words, it is all that our heart clings to and we then serve it. We unite to it in our spirit, open ourselves to it and then we are no longer able to serve God. Mammon can be our bondage, as was the case of Mary Magdalene. Jesus delivered her from her bondage, from unclean spirits. She was a slave; her bondage was her mammon. She was unable to serve God. But Jesus delivered her.
God wants to open our eyes
Post date: 2015-08-27Autor: BCP
The most important thing in our life is to walk in the truth, i.e. to be humble. The devil is a very, very intelligent spirit. If we try to fight against the spirit of lies with logic, he deceives us. However, if we really want the Holy Spirit to lead us and to work through us, we need to stop: “Lord, I see, feel or understand it in this way but now I stand in Your light.” Jesus says: “I am the light of the world.” So if we stand in the light of God, Jesus opens our eyes as He opened the eyes of Mary Magdalene after His resurrection. She did not know Him; she supposed Him to be the gardener. Only when Jesus called her by name, her eyes were opened and she cried out: “Rabboni!”
Let us serve God
Post date: 2015-08-25Autor: BCP
Let us serve God. Yes, we are weak, but the Apostle Paul says: “When I am weak, then I am strong.” (2Cor 12:10) I keep falling but I must repent. Let us come to God as we are, wretched and miserable. Jesus is waiting for us to give Him our weakness, our sin, because He wants to give us His forgiveness and peace.
Love for Christ
Post date: 2015-08-20Autor: BCP
What is love? It is no sentimentality. Love for Christ means to keep His commandments. It means to have a personal relationship with Christ, i.e. to be personally aware of the following truths: “You died for me. You love me. You suffered for me, You carried a cross, fell down, humbled among criminals and murderers as if You were one of them. Finally, You were crucified at Calvary. I am ready, too, to suffer or even to lay down my life for Your sake.
Do not worry about your life
Post date: 2015-08-17Autor: BCP
Jesus tells us to put all our trust in God. He tells us to look at birds and lilies to see how God cares for them. We cannot make one hair white or black by our endeavour. We cannot add a single day, hour or second to our life by worrying or keeping our nose to the grindstone. In other words, let us rely on God, let us be mindful of eternal life. Our life is in God’s hands.
The spirit of the Prophet Elijah
Post date: 2015-08-08Autor: BCP
God’s almighty power is connected with obedience to the Word of God, as we can see it in the case of the prophet Elijah: I have done all these things at Your word. God sent him to the Brook Cherith, so he did go there; when God sent him to Zarephath, he did go to Zarephath; when God told him what to do on Mount Carmel, he said: Let this people know that I have done all these things at Your word! So the essence of the prophetic spirit is the obedience of faith and obedience to the Word of God. God wants us all to be prophets. He wants to speak through every one of us. We should learn, too, the obedience to God’s Word so that we may unite to the almighty power of God in a prayer of faith.
Reflection on Jn 17:24
Post date: 2015-08-01Autor: BCP
Jesus now speaks to His Father in heaven: “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me...” Who are they? The apostles and all who have believed in Christ and received Him.“...that they may be with Me...” Where? Jesus lets us into a secret: “...where I am...”. And where is Jesus? When He was praying, He was physically present in Jerusalem, in the upper room, but through prayer He was in union with His Father. Now Jesus is in glory but at the same time He is mysteriously present in all who received Him. We can live this unity in prayer, realizing the deep truth of unity with Christ, which He speaks about and emphasizes in many places. The most important thing in our life is to be with Christ!
I am strong with Jesus. He gives me the strength
Post date: 2015-07-27Autor: BCP
Evil is in us and around us. The devil exploits our weakness so that we love to hear lies and hate to hear the truth. He works through our egoism, i.e. the enemy in us who drags us to hell. Therefore we must resist original sin – the old self, and we must know that we need to fight and not make peace with it! There is no peace with sin. We must fight against it and this fight will only end 15 minutes after death. We must not make peace with sin nor accept it as a norm. We must not give up and say: “I am weak, I have no more strength!” Yes, I am weak but not so with Jesus. I am strong with Jesus. He gives me the strength!
Only the cross of Christ is a bridge to God
Post date: 2015-07-22Autor: BCP
In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. The Son of God became man to deliver us from our sins: “You shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins.” (Mt 1:21) “There is born to you this day in the city of David the Saviour, who is Christ the Lord.” (Lk 2:11)