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True love
Post date: 2015-03-22Autor: BCP
Sometimes you need to tell the truth to your brother in plain words, without putting too fine a point on it, although it may hurt him – if it is the will of God. But you must do so with the purpose of saving his soul and with the attitude of forgiveness.
Lord, You see it!
Post date: 2015-03-18Autor: BCP
Sometimes you need to do some work, e.g. you do repairs in your house… You shop around for this or that thing, and it’s impossible to get it… You sigh: “Lord, I would rather pray…” Time flies and you walk to and fro at a crowded and noisy marketplace, your head is splitting… What you can do is give your pain to the Lord. Although you have no time to pray, give your problem to God, be in God’s presence, put your trust in Him and unite with Him in your powerlessness.
The only remedy for everything is Jesus
Post date: 2015-03-17Autor: BCP
The only remedy for everything is Jesus. On our part we need to learn to deny our self, our self-centredness, faultfinding, envy or self-pity time and again. If we nourish it, there may be a price to pay for it – the enemy will claim his right to harm us. Therefore, it is better and wiser – for our own sake – to humble ourselves, and we will be sound in mind and body. But of course our soul can only be healed by Jesus. He is our Healer and by His wounds we are healed.
Reflection on Jn 16:2-3
Post date: 2015-03-14Autor: BCP
Persecution for the sake of Christ is a sign of true discipleship. We should rejoice that we can suffer for Christ’s sake, but we avoid it. We need not desire suffering but we need to be prepared and when it comes, we should give thanks for it. Suffering for the sake of Christ purifies us, obtains new grace and light for us, and, moreover, we can perform a mission by suffering. Suffering can be physical or spiritual. We should unite our suffering with the suffering of Christ rather than suffer alone. During Lent, an example for us to follow is Jesus Himself who was innocent and endured suffering for the sake of each of us. He suffered the just punishment for our iniquities.
The old self must be judged
Post date: 2015-03-07Autor: BCP
The liar and murderer constantly pulls our leg. We have found ourselves betrayed a thousand times and yet we habitually believe and believe and believe him and ourselves, and we do not believe God. Whenever we are to receive something by faith, we immediately get into a bad mood or feel resentment. The spirit of lies simply leads us by the nose in our spiritual life without end. The old self must be judged and condemned; otherwise it is Jesus who is judged and mercilessly condemned by the old self. We need to judge ourselves: “If we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.” (1Cor 11:31)
Reflection on Jn 15:26
Post date: 2015-02-28Autor: BCP
The Holy Spirit will testify, but Jesus also reminds: “And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.” (v. 27) This is said about us too. We also should bear witness about Christ at the present time together with the Holy Spirit who is in us and whom Jesus has sent to us from the Father. He is our Counsellor, Comforter and Advocate. He bears witness about Christ through us too! This is an important task: to bear witness about Christ!
Humility
Post date: 2015-02-27Autor: BCP
Any virtue without true humility is lost. Why? Because humility is truth. It considers nothing as its own and sees everything in the light. And next, the opposite of humility is pride. Pride leads to disobedience. Pride turned angels into demons. Pride was the source of Eve’s first sin. You must dissociate yourself from Eve and receive the new woman, Mary. Mary is your Mother. She conquered the serpent, the devil, by her obedience and faith.
Remember the Last Things
Post date: 2015-02-26Autor: BCP
The saints often encourage us to remember the Last Things especially during Lent: death, judgment, heaven and hell. God knows the day, hour and place of your death. There is nothing more certain than the fact that this earthly pilgrimage will end one day for each of us. And then we shall stand before the judgment seat of God. Jesus says: “There is nothing covered that will not be revealed.” We shall be judged before angels, the whole universe and all mankind. What to do so as not to hear one day the words of Jesus spoken to the foolish virgins: “Amen, I say to you, I do not know you!” What to do to hear the words instead: “Come, you blessed, inherit the kingdom!” What to do? To live by faith, to believe in Jesus and His word, and not to believe the liar and deceiver who leads us away from Jesus and from His programme given to us.
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also
Post date: 2015-02-18Autor: BCP
We should have our treasure in heaven, and our greatest treasure must be Jesus Himself. If it is so, we really give Him the first place in our lives. He is the most precious treasure; in Him are all our treasures. In Him is the fullness of wisdom and knowledge, as God’s Word says. In Him is eternal life: “He who has the Son has eternal life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.” And where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
True heroism
Post date: 2015-02-17Autor: BCP
Original sin is in every one of us. It is inborn stupidity which deceives us all our life. We must fight against it. That is why Jesus says: “Deny yourself!” Deny that lie in you which wants to harm you, leads you by the nose into self-destruction and finally into hell. If we do not fight, we lose. We are automatically dragged to hell rather than heaven. The way to heaven is no ride on a sleigh. We must take up our cross and swim against the stream – and that’s a fight, that’s true courage. And that’s true heroism!
The hardest fight – the fight against our self
Post date: 2015-02-16Autor: BCP
We want to do good but we keep sinning. This is caused by our corrupt nature – the old self in us. And therefore we need to repent time and time again. All things considered, we must have the courage to make mistakes, for otherwise we would do nothing in pursuit of false perfection. Humility is the will to learn.
Reflection on Jn 15:18-19
Post date: 2015-02-14Autor: BCP
The term “the world” does not mean the wonderful work of creation but the godless system which hates Christ as well as all who are dedicated to the service of Christ. Jesus speaks about this hatred by the world and warns all of us who desire to follow Jesus in earnest that we must be prepared for hatred and persecution by the world. “Because you are not of the world ... therefore the world hates you.” People of this world have received the spirit of the world and therefore they persecute true Christians. Moreover, if they kill them, they will believe that they offer God service (Jn 16:2). Those who condemned Christ to death – religious hierarchy, the Pharisees and the scribes – believed so, and it is the same today. Why? Because the world lies under the sway of the ruler of this world.
We prevail with Christ alone
Post date: 2015-02-09Autor: BCP
Sin is rebellion against God. Through sin man loses eternal life. However, Jesus paid for us, for all our sins. If we turn to Jesus with faith, we receive the forgiveness of sins. The biggest problem is that we do not want to admit our sin. And so we walk in darkness. If we are not self-critical, we are unable to perceive the truth around us. Unless you are rooted in the truth, in the time of spiritual battle the devil will pull your leg and defeat you. But if you are rooted in the truth and in Christ, if you know that you must not let yourself be caught in a trap and if you cling to Christ, you will conquer the whole hell.
The fight for souls!
Post date: 2015-02-05Autor: BCP
If you want to convert others to the faith, you must pray and bear witness. If you discuss with them, the demon that enslaves them will defeat you. In this fight for the salvation of souls we must learn to wear the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, the belt of truth and the sword of the Spirit!
The spirit of pharisaism
Post date: 2015-02-03Autor: BCP
The spirit of pharisaism is a spirit which vegetates in the Church in a special way. One must take a whip and drive it out of the temple of God like the money-changers. Religious Pharisees hate the truth. They are full of rebellion and pride. They neither enter the kingdom of God themselves, nor do they allow others to enter it, as Jesus said in the Gospel.
Reflection on Jn 15:12-13
Post date: 2015-01-17Autor: BCP
Jesus emphasizes this commandment twice on the evening before His death. He says: “A new commandment I give to you”, and He adds: “By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love one to another.” The Greek original of the Gospel uses the term “agape” for “love”. This is the love by which Jesus has loved us. How has Jesus loved us? Being God, He became man; He humbled Himself, assumed human weakness, yet without sin. He was innocent and yet sentenced to death, even death on a cross. He suffered the pains of scourging, crowning with thorns, the way of the cross; He suffered dying amid mockery and in abandonment, and finally painful death. He paid the price for your sin.
Prophetic prayer for the resurrection of Russia and Ukraine
Post date: 2015-01-13Autor: BCP
Before beginning this prayer, admit your sins before God and before yourself: I am an egoist. When someone admonishes me for whatever error, I take offence. I criticize and condemn others; however, what I condemn I do myself. I see the speck in my neighbour’s eye, but I cannot see the log in my own eye. I am lazy to seek the truth and to endure suffering for its sake. I do not read the Bible and the lives of saints, and I am not familiar with them. I do not bear in mind the ultimate reality, which is death, God’s judgment and eternity! I am interested in all kinds of philosophies or psychologies, but I do not seek the true psychology and philosophy of the Gospel which is vital in life.“The wages of sin is death.” Jesus died for you and for your sins. The name “Jesus” is a Graecised form of the Hebrew name “Yehoshua”. It is the holy name of God and the Word of God says about it: “Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Rom 10:13)
Spiritual mobilization of women in Russia and Ukraine
Post date: 2015-01-12Autor: BCP
Dear women and mothers, God turns to you and wants you to mobilize in this spiritual battle for the salvation of your nation from moral, spiritual and physical autogenocide. Satanic globalization, which destroys all moral values and Christianity at the root, fights even for Ukraine. What should you do for the salvation of the nation? Penance! More specifically: Restrict watching TV or rather turn it off for the whole of this year. Make a promise to God for one year that you will spend at least one hour every day in prayer. Pray daily a so-called holy hour from 8 to 9 p.m.Dissociate yourselves from the influence of fortune-tellers, horoscopes and signs of the zodiac, extrasensory individuals, and rock music with the roots in satanic voodoo which disposes to occultism, drugs, sexual perversion and cynicism. This calls down a curse on the individual and the nation!
Heaven and earth, now celebrate ... (video)
Post date: 2015-01-12Autor: BCP
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Patriarch Elijah’s message for the Feast of Christ the King
Post date: 2014-11-22Autor: BCP
Ask yourself each: Is Jesus the King in the kingdom of my soul? Is He really the King there? If we have not received the kingdom of God, He is not the King there. Jesus says that we should seek first the kingdom of God and all other things will be added to us. So the first thing is to seek the kingdom of God. Jesus is the King in the kingdom of God. Who is the king in the kingdom of this world? The prince of this world. Jesus speaks about the truth while the kingdom of the devil is built on lies. Jesus is the Truth, as He says Himself: “For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” (Jn 18:37)