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Have salt in yourselves
Post date: 2025-09-09Autor: BCP
The younger generation longs for a great ideal. There is no greater ideal than following Jesus radically. Jesus says: “Everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other.” (Mk 9:49-50) Therefore, we must be persistent in radically following Jesus. We must have salt, the fire of zeal, within us. At the same time, our old self must be crucified in our everyday life; in other words, we must lose “our own” for the sake of Jesus.
Do you have a place for Him? (video)
Post date: 2025-09-07Autor: BCP
Do you have a place for Him? + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Christ helps us carry our daily cross
Post date: 2025-07-17Autor: BCP
Every day we can call on Jesus, when worries and vanities overwhelm us and we lack the strength to do the will of God, when we have an urge either to do nothing or to immerse ourselves in a problem which produces another problem and consequently we lose the essence, when we do anything else but not what we are to do. Then we need to fall to our knees, look into the eyes of Christ on the cross and say: “Jesus, I trust in You. You will give me the strength to carry the cross of this duty which I loathe and try to avoid. Please, give me the strength; I have none.” And Jesus will. Sometimes in an extraordinary way.
My cross is also the specific circumstances and situations
Post date: 2025-07-10Autor: BCP
To carry our cross means first to identify what this cross is concretely. My cross, with regard to my character and my nature, is one thing and my brother’s cross is another thing. However, our cross is not just our character but also the specific circumstances and situations in which we are powerless. Whatever we do, nothing works. One can say: we just sink deeper and deeper. Then we must either suffer a blow through our own fault, or we need someone else to give us a blow so that we can finally be pulled out of the swamp.
Deny yourself and the power of God will work
Post date: 2024-09-15Autor: BCP
What God wants from us – and this is the essence of holiness – is the obedience of faith, which is usually associated with small outward self-denials, but especially with inward ones. We have a lot of ideas of doing something and we want it this or another way. God gives us these ideas so that we are not completely empty because emptiness can have a negative impact and not everyone can cope with it. That is why God gives us different ideas, but then wants us to sacrifice our Isaac like Abraham.
BCP: Basics of the Interior Prayer /Part 1/ (video)
Post date: 2024-02-29Autor: BCP
Ve vnitřní modlitbě je potřebné si uvědomit základní pravdy, které se člověka osobně týkají, především je to smrt, Boží soud, věčnost. Křesťanské rozjímání bylo odedávna zaměřeno na dvě oblasti. První oblastí jsou poslední věci člověka a druhou Kristovo utrpení a Jeho smrt. K těmto duchovním pramenům se vracíme i nyní.
The Fall of Jericho - Prayer Initiative in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (Prague and Bratislava, 29 October 2023)
Post date: 2023-11-27Autor: BCP
The Fall of Jericho - Prayer Initiative in the Czech Republic and Slovakia(Prague and Bratislava, 29 October 2023)
The need of the time – home church (video)
Post date: 2023-10-16Autor: BCP
Today, every Christian is under extremely strong pressure from the world. It is about systematic lies that lead to psychological, spiritual and physical suicide. We have learned from the news about one of many current tragedies: Triplets all regressed into autism on the same day following vaccination. We also read in the press: After unsuccessful euthanasia in Belgium, the medical personnel suffocated a 36-year-old woman with a pillow.
Without the personal contact of faith with Jesus in prayer we are like a fish out of water
Post date: 2023-05-25Autor: BCP
The Gospel is for our everyday life. We must put it into practice. To be able to do it we need the Holy Spirit, because it is not possible without Him. Without Him, it is a mere letter that kills, but the Spirit gives life. The Holy Spirit leads us to the living Jesus through the death of our old self and through our entering into Christ’s death (2Cor 4:10f). All this is not possible without the personal contact of faith with Him in prayer. Without it we are like a fish out of water.
Give thanks in helplessness and stand firm in a living faith
Post date: 2023-05-24Autor: BCP
We must learn to accept helplessness, immediately give thanks for everything, and take God’s word as the sword of the Spirit against bitterness or complaining – in other words, put our trust in it. God’s word – the Spirit behind it – will give us strength. We only need to stop and confront our situation in a living faith: “Lord, You see it! I trust in You!” And then try to stand firm in that faith and return to it again whenever all kinds of invisible, cunning pressures or seemingly innocent or good thoughts seek to divert us from our union to Christ.
Who gives the life-giving strength? (video)
Post date: 2023-05-23Autor: BCP
Who gives the life-giving strength? + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Heaven is at hand!
Post date: 2023-05-21Autor: BCP
Heaven is at hand, for I will die soon. Just a few more years and I shall stand before the gates of heaven. And should I even live a hundred more years, they will pass in no time. How powerfully the thought of heaven should motivate me! The thought of heaven filled many a saint with the fire of zeal, urging them to make the best of the short time and to lay up for themselves treasures in heaven.
God gives victory (video)
Post date: 2023-04-08Autor: BCP
God gives victory. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Stand guard over your nation! (video)
Post date: 2022-05-13Autor: BCP
Stand guard over your nation! + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
When will the resurrection of the nation come? (video)
Post date: 2022-05-09Autor: BCP
When will the resurrection of the nation come? + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
The key = “in Christ Jesus” (video)
Post date: 2022-05-05Autor: BCP
The key = “in Christ Jesus”. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Reflection on Ps 112:1
Post date: 2021-02-22Autor: BCP
This psalm shows that blessed is the man who loves God’s commandments. The first of Christ’s Beatitudes reads: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” And the last one says: “Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.” (Mt 5:11-12) Psalm 1, likewise, begins with the words, “Blessed is the man” and continues, “who does not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path of sinners; but delights in the law of the Lord and reflects on His law day and night” (see Ps 1:1f).
Americans, stand up to fight! (+ video)
Post date: 2020-11-06Autor: BCP
In August 2020, the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate called on you, US Christians, to mobilize in prayer. You, dear Christians of the United States, who have already established prayer groups and set up guards to watch in constant prayer, have become the foundation of spiritual restoration – resurrection. You, dear believers, who have not yet joined in, because no one has involved you in the prayer watches, don’t wait any longer today, after the presidential election! Begin by making a commitment to prayer. Make a promise to God specifically of one hour of prayer a day, best joining together across the country from 8 to 9 p.m. He is looking for those who will persevere in prayer. He is waiting for you too! Brother and sister, promise God one hour of prayer a day! And God will save your nation from the net through you.
BCP: Three letters on the purity of heart (The first letter – To persons consecrated to God)
Post date: 2020-10-29Autor: BCP
The first letter – To persons consecrated to God The second letter – To married couples The third letter – To youth about purity The first letter Dear bishops, priests and religious, in a seven-part commentary, the BCP reacted to the promotion of sodomy by the Jesuit J. Martin. What was the attitude of the pagan sage Diogenes towards immorality compared to Martin? It is told of Diogenes that one day at noon he went walking in the market-place at Athens, with a candle, looking for something; and when asked: “What are you looking for?” he said: “I am looking to see if I can find a man.” “Why? Don’t you see the market-place full of them?” “These,” he said, “are not men, but beasts, since they live not as men but beasts, ruled and guided by their bestial appetites.” But the fact is that immorality literally turns men into predatory and dangerous animals – beasts – if not demons incarnate. The Gospel of Christ, by contrast, gives man true dignity.
Stand before God seven times a day (+ video)
Post date: 2020-09-16Autor: BCP
Dear priests, pastors and believers in the United States, America is facing presidential elections this year. They will decide whether or not the elites will succeed in the global economic reset started by an artificial pandemic. The plan of globalists is to shut down all economic systems and cause collapse. The goal is to get not only the United States but all humanity into a hopeless crisis. Why? To make people ready to adopt any so-called solution only to save themselves. In fact, it will be suicide in the form of micro-chipped vaccination. What plays a key role in this is the induction of new waves of artificial pandemic and serial vaccinations resulting in the genocide of six billion people.What are we as Christians obliged to do to save humanity? At this time we must strive even more for the salvation of ourselves and others. This is not possible without communication with God in personal prayer. It is important for us Christians to return to the proven Christian prayer rhythm during the day. Get started! God is looking for zealous people to pray. God wants to save the United States through you too!