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The teaching about Christ must be connected with interior prayer (video)
Post date: 2014-11-07Autor: BCP
The teaching about Christ must be connected with interior prayer. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
The mystery of the gift of a new nature
Post date: 2014-11-07Autor: BCP
God promised to give us a new heart and a new spirit (cf. Ezek 36:26). He performed this transplantation of heart when Jesus, dying on the cross, said: “Behold, your mother” and the disciple received her. Each of us must be a disciple standing bravely by the cross like John. It is the place where our salvation and transplantation of heart is accomplished.
Care about Jesus and He will care for all other things (video)
Post date: 2014-11-06Autor: BCP
Care about Jesus and He will care for all other things. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Hear, O Israel! You shall love God! (Deut 6:4-5)
Post date: 2014-11-04Autor: BCP
To love God means to lose my soul for His sake. There is no other way. By losing my soul and its spiritual powers, which are infected by original sin, I will keep it for eternal life.
The fruits of the betrayal of God (video)
Post date: 2014-10-31Autor: BCP
The fruits of the betrayal of God. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Masonry and careerism in the Church (video)
Post date: 2014-10-30Autor: BCP
Masonry and careerism in the Church. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Reflection on Jn 14:23
Post date: 2014-10-25Autor: BCP
Jesus said these words the night before His death. These and other words, which He said before His death, are contained in chapters 13-17 of John’s Gospel. Jesus speaks about love which is necessarily connected with the keeping of His commandments. Jesus the Son of God acts as the Law-giver on His own authority. He repeats several times: “But I say to you…” Jesus does not abolish the Decalogue; on the contrary, He points out its essence. He points to the root of sin, lusts, pride, hatred, revenge. Christ makes more accurate the commandments of the Decalogue.
Try it! (video)
Post date: 2014-10-23Autor: BCP
Try it! + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
“If you love Me, keep My commandments.”
Post date: 2014-10-21Autor: BCP
What is it – Christ’s commandments? What the Ten Commandments are, it is clear. They are God’s laws formulated in ten clear commandments of God. And what are Christ’s commandments? Is it the same or is it something different? Nobody speaks about them, nobody emphasizes them. Nobody has taught us about them. Christ’s commandments are partly expressed in the Sermon on the Mount, then in the words of Jesus the night before His death, and in other places of the Scripture too.
The renewal of the nation begins with the renewal of the Church (video)
Post date: 2014-10-21Autor: BCP
The renewal of the nation begins with the renewal of the Church. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Woe to him who is alone! (video)
Post date: 2014-10-18Autor: BCP
Woe to him who is alone! + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
What do young people need? (video)
Post date: 2014-10-17Autor: 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: 2014-10-14Autor: 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: 2014-10-14Autor: BCP
Exorcism – the need of today. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Reflection on Jn 14:21
Post date: 2014-10-11Autor: 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: 2014-10-11Autor: 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: 2014-10-08Autor: 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: 2014-10-07Autor: BCP
Salvation is in Jesus Christ alone. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Jesus is the one true God (video)
Post date: 2014-10-04Autor: BCP
Jesus is the one true God. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Victory over sin
Post date: 2014-10-03Autor: 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.