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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
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
Jesus is the Firstborn Son of God, and we are second-born (video)
Post date: 2014-10-02Autor: BCP
Jesus is the Firstborn Son of God, and we are second-born. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Reflection on Jn 14:20
Post date: 2014-09-27Autor: BCP
We are in Christ, and He in us. Jesus said: “On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.” (Jn 14:20)I realize the truths: 1) Jesus is God, and He is in the Father; 2) We are in Christ crucified' 3) The risen Christ is in us.
Untapped treasure (video)
Post date: 2014-09-25Autor: BCP
Untapped treasure. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
What is true holiness? (video)
Post date: 2014-09-23Autor: BCP
What is true holiness? + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
The consequence of original sin: we easily accept lies (video)
Post date: 2014-09-20Autor: BCP
The consequence of original sin: we easily accept lies. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Seek first…! (video)
Post date: 2014-09-20Autor: BCP
Seek first…! + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Practical spiritual advice /5/ - Pearls
Post date: 2014-09-16Autor: BCP
Salvation is the gift of God. It lies in the fact that Jesus shed His blood for us and sacrificed His life. We have not been saved by our good deeds but because He paid for us. And we receive this greatest gift through faith. Christ died for all people but not all will be saved, only those who will receive this gift. Those who will refuse it will not be saved. Therefore, it is necessary that we should preach the Gospel, the forgiveness of sins. If we accept other religions and their myths and mix them up with the pure Gospel, none of us can be saved. We have the treasure, the assurance of salvation, and we cannot replace this saving faith by fables or pagan myths. Salvation is the gift of God, through the blood of Jesus, through faith.
Reflection on Jn 14:15-16
Post date: 2014-09-13Autor: BCP
For the period of the next two weeks, enter into God’s presence, into the column of light, and stand by Christ’s cross beside the Blessed Virgin. There accept the last will of Christ. To receive the Mother of God means to fulfil Christ’s commandment: “If you love Me, keep My commandments.” (Jn 14:15) The reception of the Mother of God by the Apostle John in the hour of Christ’s death is a model for us too. Jesus came to this world through Mary and the Holy Spirit. Through Mary and the Holy Spirit He will also come into our souls and make His dwelling with us (see Jn 14:23).
He who prays is almighty (video)
Post date: 2014-09-13Autor: BCP
He who prays is almighty. + Elijah Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate