18 June 2015

Dear Presidents of the countries of the former Kievan Rus, Vladimir, Peter and Alexander!

At this historic time, You represent three Slavonic nations – Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. All the three of You retain Your national Christian roots and 1000-year Christian tradition which was adopted on this territory thanks to St Vladimir. It is painful that this historic anniversary has been so poorly emphasized in the mass media, culture or education throughout this jubilee year.

Saint Vladimir was a pagan, though his grandmother, St Olga, had accepted Christianity. That was why there were already some priests on the territory of Kievan Rus. Thanks to St Olga, the first temple was erected over the Askold’s grave.

Igor Rurikovich transferred the seat of government from Novgorod to Kiev. There his wife, St Olga, gave birth to their first son Sviatoslav. Sviatoslav Igorevich had three sons – Yaropolk, Oleg and Vladimir.

July 4, 2015

To the people of Greece

The head of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop Hieronymus II, in a critical moment in the period before the referendum, when he was obliged to say a clear word against the dictatorship of homosexuality associated with child stealing by the juvenile justice system, betrayed the laws of God, Christ and the nation. Instead of pointing to the root of the curse brought down by homosexual laws and appealing to the nation to repent in earnest and to separate from the EU system of homodictatorship, he deceived the nation. He called the people to remain in this system of homodictatorship and thus enabled this system to continue its destruction of human souls. His phrases about solving the economic crisis are deceitful. He was obliged to defend God’s laws, which ultimately also bring economic well-being, and to condemn homosexuality, the consequence of which is among other things the economic crisis too. By his hypocritical statement and gesture he brought down upon himself God’s curse – anathema.

Prague, 6 July 2015, 600^th anniversary

The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate after examining the documents relating to the writings of John Huss, his testimony of life and orthodoxy of the Catholic faith as well as orthodox doctrine, and also after examining the evidence about his imprisonment and death, on the occasion of the six hundredth anniversary of his martyrdom, by authority of the apostolic and prophetic office, in the name of the Triune God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, numbers John Huss, Czech priest and martyr for Christ and the truth, among the choir of saints.

14 June 2015

To priests of the Czech Republic

Dear brothers in the priesthood,

on 6 July 2015, the whole Czech nation will commemorate the 600^th anniversary of the martyrdom of Master John Huss.

The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate (BCP) hereby declares before the whole Catholic Church and Czech nation: The Czech priest John Huss was no heretic but he died a martyr for truth and the law of God. It is evident from his own writings, especially from his letters written several days before his death. Huss’ writings contain no heresies. If someone means to ascribe heretical intentions to his writings, let him know that John Huss himself warns against it. In his letter to Pope John XXIII dated 1 September 1411, he writes: “If they have given or are giving information that I taught the people that in the Sacrament of the Altar the material substance of the bread remains, it is a falsehood. It is a falsehood that I have said that when the Host is elevated it is then the Body of Christ, but when it is laid down it is not. It is a falsehood that a priest in mortal sin cannot consecrate.”

19 June 2015

Vatican Secretariat of State

The feast of Sts Cyril and Methodius and the feast of Master John Huss (5 and 6 July 2015) will be the culmination of national repentance.

The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate hereby presents a proposal to the Vatican for three historic gestures of repentance to be made in Velehrad:

1) The Church in the Czech Republic shall waive the right to restitution.

2) A gesture of repentance shall be made in the form of renunciation of heresies, syncretism and immorality.

3) The Czech martyr John Huss shall be declared a saint.

31 May 2015

With the approach of the 600^th anniversary of the martyrdom of John Huss, the Byzantine Catholic (Universal) Patriarchate hereby declares the Bohemian priest John Huss a martyr of Christ.

600 years ago, on 6 July 1415, he was unjustly and dishonestly burnt at the stake in Constance. John Huss was and is a martyr for truth and moral values.

JUSTIFICATION AND AN EXAMPLE TO FOLLOW:

What accord has Christ with Belial? We can never say that Christianity and paganism are equal ways to salvation! Salvation is only in Jesus. If pagan ways led to salvation, Christ would not have come to our earth and died for our sins. But, as the Scripture says, He came and endured pain, suffering and humiliation to save us and to deliver us from darkness and from the slavery of the devil. Today the exact opposite is being proclaimed. This being the case, mission becomes pointless. It is not even possible to carry out any mission, nor are we allowed to say who we are because pagans, as the saying goes, would take offence. 20 years ago, an editor of a Catholic magazine in USA was prohibited from publishing an article about the conversion of a Buddhist because the editor-in-chief told him that such article dishonoured other religions. So if someone converts to Christianity, it reportedly offends pagans. And it was no atheistic magazine! What destructive manipulation of human minds!

We need to know the essence so that we may be witnesses in the place where we are. Everyone should ask for the power of the Holy Spirit to be an evangelist, teacher or prophet at a particular place. An evangelist preaches the Gospel in power. A teacher interprets Scripture. A prophet is the one who sees and points out the essence of things. There is a so-called law of spiritual entropy. An example is the people of Israel. The Israelites came out of Egypt but then returned to their idols. As soon as Moses went up to the mountain, they made for themselves a metal bull calf. This is the picture of our old self: it is eager to bow before sin and demons, even to make sacrifices or observe fasts… For example, some Indian gurus are skin and bone, but not for the sake of Christ and for the salvation of their soul. They are stimulated by their pride and by demons to whom they opened. In contrast to them, we must be full of the Holy Spirit, we must be witnesses to Christ, we must have a sense of the essence. We shape our environment above all by the example of our life.

We must receive the Word of God as the Word of God, the simple truths of the Gospel of God as they are presented to us by Jesus. The apostles were no theologians. They were simple fishermen. But the whole world was saved through their preaching. Human pride and philosophizing is absurd. The Word of God is connected with mystery. Human reason must be conformed to the Word of God, then it can govern the will, and emotions come last. If we reverse the order and cast away the relationship with God founded on faith, everything in our life is turned upside down. This is the result of our pride. Many people have no experience of spiritual battle and of the cunning of human nature but they set norms and invent theories without ever trying them out in practice.

What is it in us!? Conscience, the voice of God, on the one hand and the poison of sin on the other. If people hear lies, they gladly believe in them. On the other hand, they keep questioning the truth. They even question the truths of our salvation – maybe it is true, maybe not… Our attitude must be unwavering: “Jesus said it and it is true! I won’t invent anything! He who believes will be saved; but he who does not believe will go to hell.” And what to say to those who speculate or to Jehovah’s Witnesses if they ask: “And what about hell? What is it like?” Say simply: “You’ll see for yourself when you are there! Don’t ask me; I’ve never been there and I don’t want to go there either!”

29 May 2015

To the Irish nation

On 22 May 2015, Ireland held a referendum in which the nation voted of their own free will for the legalization of gay and lesbian marriages. The referendum had a turnout of 60.5%. Thus the Irish nation chose to go to its doom. God’s Word clearly says that for the sin of homosexuality, Sodom and Gomorrah were punished with fire from heaven and that this punishment is a warning to all nations (Jud 7). What is worse, however, is eternal fire after death which awaits those who received this spirit. To what extent the public was manipulated – as it was stated even by some MEPs – should be discussed by competent people. We point out in the first place the crimes within the Church – heresies, syncretism with paganism and denial of God’s laws.

The Church hierarchy is most to blame for the moral catastrophe in Ireland, as they did not punish paedophilia among priests who worked in educational institutions for youth. In recent decades, the spiritual infection of heresies progressed. These heresies deny the Divinity of Christ, His redemptive death on the cross (e.g. Archbp. Zollitsch), real and historical resurrection of Christ, the inspiration of the Holy Scripture.

One can live in a community which has received the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, who wants to guide us into all truth (“When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth”) and yet one can become withdrawn and not let oneself be influenced by the community. Jesus says: “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will do it! He will guide you into all truth!” And what are the fundamental and full truths of the Gospel? It is above all the truth that we are sinners enslaved by the old self, flesh, world and devil. People do not want to hear it and think they are free.

18 May 2015

Dear Bishops of Hungary!

You live in a historic time when we are witnesses to gradual autogenocide of the nations under the influence of the ideology of consumerism which is associated with immorality and perversion. This ideology prioritizes homosexualism, paedophilia, zoophilia, narcotics, euthanasia even for children and healthy people, stealing of human organs. This age is ruthlessly anti-Christian and anti-Catholic. The individual’s identity is eroded and a kind of biorobots are formed by means of gender ideology. This false ideology removes the God-given difference between man and woman and produces de facto mentally disturbed individuals who become a plaything of a variety of not only unclean but even sadistic demons. These dubious characters are then purposefully promoted to key positions in order to terrorize normal people by establishing antilaws and consequently by sanctions and imprisonments. The priority in the EU currently is not just legalization but directly privileging of homosexualism and sexual perversions associated with the stealing of children from their loving parents, and that not from dysfunctional families but from good families. An artificial pretext for stealing of children is so-called “domestic violence” or “stifling love”, which are terms used by this system to refer to sound Christian and moral upbringing.

The poison of original sin is in every one of us. This is in us and the devil laughs. Unless we fight against sin, pride and lusts for all our life, we can easily lapse into heresy. If we believe ourselves, we destroy ourselves. That is the poison in us and we have to fight with it continuously because it leads us to self-destruction. We must carry it as a cross, not unite with it but resist it. “Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Jesus!”

Jesus says: “Whoever desires to save his life (soul) will lose it, but whoever loses his life (soul) will save it.”

Life is so short! We know neither the day nor the hour. And yet we do not believe in God’s Word, we do not reflect on it but rather we think about foolish things, we get angry… Let us look at the cemetery. How many people lie there who also were angry, suffered heart failure, pursued career, wealth… But this all is passing away. Our goal must be life, eternal life, which we are given by God. Therefore we need to be prepared at all times for the moment when we shall depart this life. We must be in Christ even here on earth and carry all our crosses and burdens with a living faith. Jesus says: “Deny yourself and take up your cross; do not be in depression, take up your cross and follow Me – Jesus.” How very needful it is to follow Him! It is an everyday way of the cross. Lord, what is my cross? How should I deny myself? In little things – you thus get to the level where the power of sin does not work, you get out of your nature and enter into communion with Jesus. The kingdom of God is in us and corrupt nature is in us too.

Whenever a problem arises, our old self automatically begins to complain against God, swear or be distressed. Learn one thing: Deny yourself and give thanks. “Lord, thank You for this cross – for getting a scolding again, for missing my bus…” You only need to give thanks and God will enlighten you: “Look, such bad thing would have happened to you there, it could have such and such consequences…” And you suddenly realize numbers of other things related to it. But if you revolt against God and indulge in self-pity, you actually throw away your cross. If someone rebukes us, the automatic reaction is hatred and self-pity. We must deny it and our eyes will be opened. We must take up our cross – our concrete pain – and follow Jesus. Where to? To Calvary and then to glorious resurrection. Where is Jesus? In glory. There is our homeland. Here we are mere pilgrims.