1Jn 1:7 “If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from every sin.”

The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin if we walk in the light. What does it mean to walk in the light? To confess our sins is the first step in the light.

The second step in the light is to fix our spiritual eyes on Jesus crucified and to receive His forgiveness by faith. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1Jn 1:9) Jesus died for my sins however small or great they are. We must wholly trust in God’s mercy. Not to degrade God’s mercy by saying: “God is merciful, so I can sin.” That’s a deceit. Remember that God is just at the same time. God did promise the forgiveness of sins but He did not promise you tomorrow. I must not rely on God’s goodness, sinning. I must resist sin: I won’t sin! I won’t! I must cut off a sinful thought or feeling and start to think about something different.

You have families. Man should be as a priest in the family. He has responsibility for his wife and children. Then he will have grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Think of Abraham – he believed and God gave a blessing to all his descendants. Each of you bears responsibility. Family is your diocese, your parish. You are responsible above all for the souls, and not only for yourselves. Husband should be the head of his wife, the head of the family. He has a certain responsibility before God. God also gives man a kind of authority. Man should learn true wisdom. He needs to learn to fight against lies, to manage his family wisely and to protect it. This is not simple. It does not mean just to give orders but to be on the cross many times. Often you cannot force the truth on others, you need to learn to respect in certain situations that people are not yet mature. E.g. children rebel, are manipulated by the spirit of the world and soak it up… When you try to instil into them sound Christian principles, they don’t like it.

God’s Word convicts us all of sin: “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (Rom 3:23) But, on the other hand, it also convinces us many times of the forgiveness of sins. The First Epistle of John reads: “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1Jn 1:9) We can compare it with verse 7 as well: “If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” So there is a condition: to walk in the light as He is in the light. It concerns God’s presence. There is no need of a vision or apparition; I just realize that God sees me and focus my attention on this truth. I can do so at any time during the day too when I face a difficult situation. I stop, realize God’s presence and ask God to give me the light because I don’t know what to do, or I call on Him to intervene in this difficult situation Himself and to give a solution.I do not have to kneel or be alone in my room; wherever I am, faced with a concrete problem or suffering, I stop and make contact with God. In this way I enter into God’s light.

So what is the truth then?

1Jn 3:8-9: “He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.”

This is one of the most difficult verses of the Scripture. You might even say that what is written here is not true: “Whoever has been born of God does not sin.” Now compare it with verse 8 of chapter 1 in this Epistle: “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (1Jn 1:8) These are totally different statements. And verse 10 adds: “If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.” (1Jn 1:10) It is emphasized twice that if someone says he has no sin, he deceives himself and makes God a liar. But on the other hand, the same Epistle reads: “Whoever has been born of God does not sin.” You can say: All of us were born of God when we were baptized, when we believed in Jesus through personal faith and received Him as our Lord and Saviour.

Those who experienced renewal in the Holy Spirit consciously opened their hearts to the Holy Spirit. It is true about them: “Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you?” (1Cor 6:19) If He is in us, then it is true: “There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.” (1Cor 12:4) So the Holy Spirit is the Author and Source of all gifts, and if He is in your heart, in Him you have all His gifts. But the question is which gifts He wants to be manifested right through you. God ordained that gifts should be developed within the communion of the Church, and at the right time. There are some people who, being renewed in the Holy Spirit, started to serve with several gifts at once – the gift of interpretation, the gift of healing… But that’s rare.

Mary conceived by the Holy Spirit – what happened and what did she do?

The Word became flesh and Mary became the Mother of God. Mary immediately went to visit her relative Elizabeth. When she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth, something great happened: the Holy Spirit descended on Elizabeth. Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and her baby likewise benefited greatly from that special visit. Zechariah also was filled with the Holy Spirit, which became manifest on the day of his son’s birth. Zechariah spoke a prophecy about his child (Lk 1:68-79). Mary remained in the house of Zechariah about three months. But she was not alone there. Jesus Christ, true God, dwelt in her. She had become the living ark, the living tabernacle. She was filled with the light of the Holy Spirit. Interestingly, the time had not yet come for the Holy Spirit to be poured out on the New-Testament Church – the Body of Christ – but all in the house of Zechariah already had the firstfruits of the Holy Spirit through Mary. Let us notice that here the Holy Spirit manifested Himself as the Spirit of prophecy (cf. 1Cor 12:10-11). Elizabeth prophesied, saying: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!” No one had told Elizabeth that Mary was pregnant. Moreover, she was pregnant for less than a week, and pregnancy is not recognized so early. However, Elizabeth did recognize it, not by her reason but the Holy Spirit revealed it to her. Elizabeth called Mary blessed because Mary believed that what the Lord had said to her would be fulfilled. But Mary had not yet told Elizabeth about it, she just greeted her. Elizabeth prophesied, Zechariah prophesied, and what about the child, John the Baptist? His spiritual benefit from the visit was obviously the greatest one. He became the greatest prophet. Jesus said about him some time later: “Among those born of women there has not risen one greater than John the Baptist.” (Mt 11:11)

On the day of Pentecost, the Apostle Peter sets two conditions (Acts 2:38):

1) conversion

2) baptism

Many people have been baptized and confirmed. The Holy Spirit is with them but not in them. Why? Because they were not led to turn to God with all their hearts and to receive Jesus as their personal Lord and God and the only Saviour. As far as conversion is concerned, no one can be converted instead of you, be it your father, mother, godparents, priest or bishop. Conversion allows no substitute!

1) Read carefully the following verses from the New Testament:

2) Asking for the Holy Spirit

Lk 11:9-13: “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” These are practical directions for us! And the result? “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” (v.13)

This is perhaps the only clearly expressed petition which is said to be answered exactly the way we ask. The Scripture tells us to ask for the gift of the Holy Spirit.

We heard in the Gospel that Jesus cried out: “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” Jesus was speaking about the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive. Notice the words: “…whom those believing in Him would receive.” So the condition for the receiving of the Holy Spirit is to believe in Jesus.

“He who believes in Me, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”

God’s Word uses the word believe twice: he who believes and those believing. So it confirms doubly that the condition for us to receive the Holy Spirit is to believe in Jesus: “He who believes in Me…”. The condition is to believe in Him and in His Word given to us.

Ukraine, 1 May 2014

To bishops, priests, religious and faithful of the Catholic Church

By canonizing two heretical Popes, the Church de facto canonized heretical doctrine – an anti-Gospel, for which reason the Vatican and the apostate hierarchy are under an anathema – God’s curse acc. Gal 1:8-9. The Spirit of God had been gradually expelled from the church organization and the spirit of antichrist was officially canonized and elevated to the altar. Every bishop, priest and believer must decide whom they want to obey, Christ and His Gospel or the aggiornamento and Assisi spirit of antichrist.

At the present time, the true Catholic Church must raise the alarm and send an SOS! To be silent on the satanization of the Christian territory is de facto consent to global satanization associated with the legalization of homosexuality, stealing of children and their demoralization. These are mass crimes against humanity, the responsibility for which falls in the first place on the apostate Vatican. Canonization of two heretics is a shock and a scandalous mockery of the Gospel and apostolic tradition. The Bride of Christ has become the harlot of antichrist. Rome has turned into the spiritual Babylon.

Dear faithful!

We are coming to the close of the Lenten period which culminates on Good Friday when we commemorate the death of Christ on the cross. Jesus died on Calvary for us all, that means, for each of us individually. We form a community, we form the Ukrainian nation. The crucifixion of Christ was preceded by the betrayal of Judas. The betrayal was followed by unjust trial both before the Church and state. The plotter was the then religious hierarchy who opposed God and God’s word and delivered the Son of God to be crucified and disgraced. After being sentenced to death, Jesus suffered cruel scourging and painful and humiliating crowning with thorns. This was followed by the way of the cross during which Jesus fell to the ground several times until He reached the place of execution. When He had come to Golgotha, His hands and feet were nailed to the cross and the cross was erected. Three hours of extreme suffering, physical, mental and spiritual. Jesus suffers and dies. His suffering is associated with the last seven words from the cross.

18 April 2014

Prosecutor General of Ukraine

Minister of the Interior of Ukraine

Head of the Security Service of Ukraine

Dear Sirs!

This week, when Christians around the world commemorate the Passion of Christ (betrayal, unlawful condemnation, scourging and crucifixion of Jesus), it came to our knowledge that the leadership of the UGCC was finally successful with the government authorities when demanding religious genocide of the orthodox Greek Catholics.

According to our information, the Security Service of Ukraine of the Lvov Region prepared a large-scale action concerning this matter, which also involves physical destruction of undesirable people. The Security Service of Ukraine now just waits for a “command” from Kiev.

The EU planned compulsory microchipping of children this year and microchipping of adults in 2017! The plan has been put off until a later time. What does the Word of God say about chipping?

“This evil man will come to do the work of Satan with counterfeit power and signs and miracles. He will use every kind of wicked deception to fool those who are on their way to destruction because they refuse to believe the truth that would save them. So God will send great deception upon them, and they will believe all these lies. Then they will be condemned for not believing the truth and for enjoying the evil they do.” (2Thes 2:9-12)

“The beast required everyone – great and small, rich and poor, slave and free – to be given a mark on the right hand or on the forehead. And no one could buy or sell anything without that mark, which was either the name of the beast or the number representing his name… His number is 666.” (Rev 13:16-18)

The approval of the Rome Statute would lead to the persecution of Christians, pose a threat to the family and gradually pave the way for the legalization of various forms of sexual perversion. Legalization of same-sex marriages, adoption of children by homosexuals and perverse sexual “education” of children are nowadays regarded as European standards and priorities of the EU and U.S. policies. Protection of sexual perversion and unjust and unwarranted special privileges for LGBT people have become the subject of various resolutions of international organizations. This policy destroys the family and poses a great danger to a state built on Christian moral principles. It will lead to a drastic persecution of parents and Christians, and will also be the cause of autogenocide and rapid extinction of the nation.

The signing of the Rome Statute would mean subordination of Ukraine to the International Criminal Court. It would mean that Christians, when judged by the new international standards, would be treated as homophobes, i.e. people who allegedly discriminate against and persecute LGBT persons.

Every year at the end of the Great Lent we commemorate the death and resurrection of Christ. The Lenten period is the time of preparation when we need to stop and devote more time to God and our soul. Jesus said about the liberation of man from the evil spirit: “This kind of demon does not go out except by prayer and fasting.” (Mt 17)

Fasting can be physical or spiritual.

Spiritual fasting: We should abstain from useless and harmful information. It requires discipline of vision and thought. Our thoughts are influenced by the mass media, billboards, people we talk to who think only of earthly and vain things and do not think or speak about the most important things, such as death, God’s judgment and eternity.

There is not only a “negative” aspect of fasting – that you abstain from something, but also a “positive” one – that you receive information leading to the recovery of intellectual and spiritual life.