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Reflection on Jn 15:4
Post date: 2014-12-06Autor: BCP
Jesus sets a condition: “If you abide in Me…” If we are to abide in Christ, we first need to unite to Him. If we are separated from Him by unbelief, self-will, hedonism, criticism or other sins or vanities, we must enter into actual unity with Him anew. That is why we need interior prayer in which we are first purified through repentance and then give ourselves and our problems to Jesus, become united to Him by faith and, as a result of this unity with Him, make steps of faith.
Lord Jesus, I wish to lay down my life for You too! (video)
Post date: 2014-12-05Autor: BCP
Lord Jesus, I wish to lay down my life for You too! + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Where does the TV belong? (video)
Post date: 2014-12-04Autor: BCP
Where does the TV belong? + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Christianity is paralyzed through apostate hierarchy (video)
Post date: 2014-12-02Autor: BCP
Christianity is paralyzed through apostate hierarchy. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
We must know under what banner we fight (video)
Post date: 2014-11-29Autor: BCP
We must know under what banner we fight. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Why is apologetics so needful? (video)
Post date: 2014-11-26Autor: BCP
Why is apologetics so needful? + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Reflection on Jn 14:27
Post date: 2014-11-22Autor: BCP
Jesus says: “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” Jesus says: “…My peace I give to you; not as the world gives…” Do you want to have peace which the world cannot give? Only Jesus gives such peace. Jesus gives peace and joy in suffering and persecution to those who come to Him! He says: “Come to Me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest (peace) for your souls.” (Mt 11:28-29)
True Church is persecuted (video)
Post date: 2014-11-21Autor: BCP
True Church is persecuted. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
What do people need today? (video)
Post date: 2014-11-18Autor: BCP
What do people need today? + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Foolishness is in our genes as a consequence of original sin (video)
Post date: 2014-11-15Autor: BCP
Foolishness is in our genes as a consequence of original sin. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Prayer of unity and power
Post date: 2014-11-13Autor: BCP
Mk 11:23: "For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says."
Armenian martyrs – witnesses to Christ (video)
Post date: 2014-11-09Autor: BCP
Armenian martyrs – witnesses to Christ. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Start to make the best of everyday life situations (video)
Post date: 2014-11-08Autor: BCP
Start to make the best of everyday life situations. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
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.