True love of yourself

How often it happens that the worst vagabond, if he turns to God with a sincere heart, is saved rather than righteous pharisees. But the fact is that pharisaism and deceit is in the hearts of us all. That is why Jesus speaks about it in the Gospel. When a tax collector and a Pharisee went up to the temple to pray, the Pharisee prayed thus: “O God, I thank You that I am not like this tax collector. I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I get…” The Pharisee’s deeds were not bad, but what was his heart like? His heart was not broken before God.

The Apostle Peter said to the Jews on the day of Pentecost: “You killed God; you crucified Jesus!” They were cut to the heart… and they asked: “What shall we do?” “Repent, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

Indeed, the Holy Spirit comes each time we repent. Every day we make mistakes time and time again, we sin by thoughts, finding fault with everyone… We must stop: “Lord, forgive me, I am twice as bad. And if this person sins and causes offence, forgive him too.” But we immediately condemn our neighbour and think how good we are.

God wants to open our eyes

If we deal with problems only by our reason or emotions, we obtain some experience but it is not sufficient. The most important thing in our life is to walk in the truth, i.e. to be humble. The devil is a very, very intelligent spirit. Even the very last spirit of lies is more intelligent than Einstein or anyone else. If we try to fight against the spirit of lies with logic, he deceives us. He exploits everyone’s weakness – women’s emotions and men’s logic. However, if we really want the Holy Spirit to lead us and to work through us, we need to stop: “Lord, I see, feel or understand it in this way but now I stand in Your light.” Jesus says: “I am the light of the world.” So if we stand in the light of God, Jesus opens our eyes as He opened the eyes of Mary Magdalene after His resurrection. She did not know Him; she supposed Him to be the gardener. Only when Jesus called her by name, her eyes were opened and she cried out: “Rabboni!” On the same day, two disciples went to Emmaus and were joined by Jesus who pretended to be a pilgrim.

God speaks to us…

God speaks to us but the problem is that we are unable to hear Him. The problem is in our receiver. Our heart needs to be attuned to His voice. He wants to work through you, through your faith too. The weaker we are, the more trust we need to place in the Lord, because “when I am weak, then I am strong”. Jesus, I trust in You.

Do not indulge in self-pity but go to Jesus, cling to Him and learn from Him. He will give you true wisdom, He will give you strength, He is alive, He is here, and He loves you more than your parents or your children can love you. He loves you more than you love yourself.

Why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?

Why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking? It is a question addressed to each of us. Why are you weeping? We weep when we lose something or when we feel pain in our soul.

Now is a time when the souls of defenceless children are being deprived of Jesus. Whenever we lose the living Jesus, we should weep. If the soul takes pains to seek God, God can touch this soul.

Whom are you seeking? Jesus! And whom are we seeking? How often we seek pleasure, money, human praise, vanity… But all glory is senseless. We should seek God, seek the truth, seek moral values, seek what gives us eternal life, and our eternal life is in Jesus. Our heart should ache at the living Christ being cast out of the souls. Without Him there is no eternal life, without Him there is eternal punishment and moral devastation.

The old self must be judged

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. That’s the order of the day. 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. Concerning material things, we can see it easily; we look back and know that we were deceived. We singe our feathers and so we are more careful the next time. However, concerning spiritual things, it is pitiful that we keep believing the liar! You ask: And when will we manage to believe Jesus at last? Answer: When we stop being curious like Eve and stop pondering on the liar’s intrusive thoughts by which he attacks us in the smallest matters every day. We fail to walk in God’s Word or to think about it in particular situations, but whenever we get an idea to do something and feel like doing it, we do it so, cling to it and take it as our own, and it never crosses our mind that we should ask in faith what God wants us to do.

The mystery of the gift of a new nature

Dying on the cross, Jesus said to the disciple: “Behold, your mother.” We are saved in the holy name of Jesus: “Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (cf. Rom 10:13) Jesus assumed human nature through Mary and the Holy Spirit. Mary is not God but the Mother of God, and she is full of grace (cf. Lk 1:28). Jesus comes into our heart, too, through Mary and the Holy Spirit. Mary represents us, humans – in fact only those who received Christ. She stood by the cross and experienced the mystery of unity – i.e. crucifixion and death with Christ. She also experienced the truth of Eph 2:6: “He raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places.” She was raised up with Christ at the moment when Christ appeared to her. The Scripture is silent on this event but the Tradition confesses it. In baptism we were grafted on these two mysteries – death and resurrection with Christ. These mysteries should be actualized in us by faith and by the grace of the Holy Spirit.

The only remedy for everything is Jesus

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. Let us give all our sins, illnesses and problems to Him. If we do not do so, if we are only concerned with ourselves and do not care about Him, we cannot be healed, or our problem develops into another one and the enemy is given a new chance to claim his right.

Motivation for the Lenten period

In the Lenten period, bear in mind the basic realities: You shall die. You shall stand before the judgment seat of God. Your eternity will either be happy or unhappy. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, suffered and died for your sake to give you eternal happiness after death. Your impurity made Him suffer bloody scourging, your pride made Him suffer humiliation when He was crowned with thorns and covered with spittle. Your devious sinful paths made Him walk the way of the cross. The death of Christ conquered sin and the devil and opened for you the way to eternal glory. Jesus says to you today: “Deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Me.” Where to? To Golgotha. Narrow is the path (Mt 7:14) that leads through the death of Christ to eternal life.

In the Lenten period, make a resolution to deny yourself at least once a day. Self-pity, envy, impure thoughts, anger… Say: “Jesus, I deny myself, I deny myself… I break with the spirit of lies and vanity.”

Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also

On the Sunday before the beginning of Lent in the Eastern Church, we shall hear the passage from the Gospel of Matthew: “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (Mt 6:14-21)

How to understand the Bible’s statement about the lake of fire in relation to vaccination?

3 March 2021

Questions the public asks:

Question: Would you recommend the current vaccines against Covid-19?

Answer: Certainly not.

Question: Why?

Watch this video on: https://cos.tv/videos/play/26456615093833728   
https://ugetube.com/watch/3gMHvIGwVeyjqmo   
https://rumble.com/vej71b-how-to-understand-the-bibles-statement-about-the-lake-of-fire.html

Statement on Covid-19 and the new vaccine from the position of God’s authority (Part I)

14 December 2020

Many Christians and people of good will address the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate (BCP) with questions about Covid-19 and vaccination. They ask: Who should we trust? Mass media? Politicians? The Vatican with the apostate Bergoglio? Or should we trust real medical professionals and those who warn about the dangers of the new vaccine?

A person guided by reason and conscience accepts the truth from those he knows that 1) have had the opportunity to know the truth and 2) want to pass it on. No one can trust those who 1) do not want to know the truth and 2) do not want others to know it.

That is why we turn to real experts in medicine who know the truth and who testify about it even at the cost of persecution.

Watch this video on: https://ugetube.com/watch/_kPR1Bdt9sxWjfZS.html  
https://cos.tv/videos/play/24694096100365312  

BCP: Three letters about the purity of heart (The third letter – to the youth on purity and happiness)

29 September 2020

If we asked a young person a question: “Do you want to be happy?”, they would certainly reply: “YES!” and even raise both hands in agreement. – But how long would you like to be happy? A day, a week, a year? Ten years, thirty years, all life up until your death? And do you want to be happy after death as well?

Deep in their souls, people desire happiness, true happiness, which cannot be taken away. That is to say that even a thought about happiness that ends one day brings sadness. Man is looking for happiness in relationships with other people, property, wealth, career, fame, success. He looks for happiness in pleasures, alcohol, drugs, but happiness cannot be found there. What follows is a disillusionment, even bigger emptiness, abandonment and pain in one’s soul. Back in his time St. Augustine expressed this desire for happiness with these words: “You have made us for Yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in You.”

The Second Vatican Council was heretical. Without acknowledging this reality, restoration is not possible.

23 November 2020

The Parable of the Wicked Vinedressers (Lk 20:9-19) fully applies to Vatican II and the post-conciliar period culminating in the archheretic Bergoglio. Bergoglio and the apostate structure have taken possession of God’s vineyard and are destroying it.

Modernism, formerly condemned by Saint Pius X, came to power through Vatican II, with the promotion of the Modernist Roncalli (John XXIII) to the papacy. Its heresies and spirit of the world (aggiornamento) have ravaged God’s vineyard, the Church. However, this anti-Church disguises itself as the true Church of Christ.

Vatican II, with ambiguous terms and the document Nostra Aetate, has opened the door to syncretism with paganism and embraced the heresies of Modernism which deny the divinity of Christ, His unique redemptive sacrifice on the cross as well as the divine inspiration of Scripture.

BCP: Three letters on the purity of heart (The second letter – To married couples)

28 September 2020

To speak about sexuality in the way the mass media and Western pseudo-culture present it means to accept their false, decadent view.

Civilized Europe and America were built on Christian foundations. A healthy family founded on lifelong marital fidelity and indissolubility of the marriage bond has always been the basic cell. When St Vladimir, ruler of Kievan Rus, embraced Christianity, he dismissed his three wives and all concubines and remained faithful to one wife until his death.

Jesus said about marriage: “A man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh” (Mt 19:5), one being. What God has joined together, let not man separate.” (Mt 19:6) Marriage is therefore raised to the dignity of a sacrament and is associated with indissolubility. Making marriage vows before God, the couple promise to stay together for better for worse until death do them part.

BCP: Three letters on the purity of heart (The first letter – To persons consecrated to God)

27 September 2020

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.

BCP’s commentary on a journalist’s interview with a homosexuality promoter, Vatican adviser, priest James Martin SJ (Part three: Teaching of the Church, Science and Pseudoscience)

18 September 2020

In order to eliminate moral laws and the teaching of the Church, the Jesuit Martin in his interview appeals to science and declares hypocritically: “Why shouldn’t we open ourselves to what science can teach us?” However, we must distinguish: there is a science which seeks the truth, and there is a pseudoscience, an instrument of politics and ideology, which destroys the truth. Martin appeals to this pseudoscience.

Publicist: … a citation from a Church document: “In the face of various biblical and theological-moral interpretations that deny the moral evil of homosexual behaviour, the Church reminds us that her teaching is infallible.” Does it mean that we must understand that we reject science and the debate is closed down?


Email Marketing by Benchmark


Choose language

ukukukukukukplpghude


Email Marketing by Benchmark


PROPHETIC PRAYER EZEK 37

Prophesy, O Son of man

format doc ,      format pdf

The prayer is designed as a model for USA, but it would be good to apply it to your country.

Search

Word of Life

“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

Rom 5:8 (5/7/2026 – 19/7/2026)

See BCP’s VIDEO SITE

VIDEO

Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate