If you judge yourself – that means, you admit your sin truly before God here in time, you can taste forgiveness in this light. God’s Word says: “If we judge ourselves, God is so good and just to forgive us our sins.”

People can overcome sin neither by means of psychology, nor by modern theologies, nor by oriental meditations… The victory depends on our deep communion with Christ. The essential thing is to be in Christ Jesus, our Lord, by faith. It means that in the particular present moment I am in Him not only passively but at that moment I love Him with all my heart, with all my soul and with all my strength.

To love Him means to offer Him my spiritual powers – heart = emotions, soul = powers of the soul, i.e. memory and reason, as well as my members. To love Him with all my strength means to give Him my will.

What to do in order to discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

The Apostle writes: Rom 12:1-2  I beseech you, brethren, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – this is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

How to transform our minds in order to accept God’s Word, to have experience of God, to trust in Him and to live by faith? Our soul has reason, will and heart – i.e. feelings. And if there is disharmony between them, evil and sinful feelings begin to manipulate us, enslave us and our will and reason must be conformed to them. And that’s our ruin! We become slaves of sin – fornicators, drug addicts, careerists… Or we live in hatred, envy, open our hearts to the spirit of evil which is behind them, and reason doesn’t work any more.

The Apostle Paul says: …we constantly enter into Christ’s death”. It does not mean that we die physically but that in a particular situation we give the whole problem to God.

Psalm 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you.

God promised to instruct us and teach us in the way we should go. How much we need it, for the world today is full of evil and traps prepared for us. And God says – I will counsel you.

We need to get at the root of Christianity. The essence of Christianity is our communion with Jesus, Jesus crucified and risen. This must not be just an empty phrase. We need to live a life of repentance and true following of Christ in a small house Church, in a sound cell of a biblical and prayer community under the guidance of the prophetic voice of a pastor or teacher. Moreover, we must be prepared for persecution. A fight with the spirit of antichrist is going on and destroying the Church little by little. It was our duty to stand against this whole system. It will seek to attack and destroy us.

What is necessary for us Christians to live a true life? How can we achieve unity among us? This is the most needful and, at the same time, the most difficult thing. Often it is not possible to speak about the problems of others in the community or to point to the root: “Look, you have such fault, you need to do something about it. You cling to this thing and attitude, and you deprive yourself of 90% of the blessing and all the graces which God has given you.” If you say this to someone, the old self (i.e. our corrupt nature) reacts by taking offence and fleeing both from the community and from Christ. What’s that? The problem is, too, that we are mostly under pressure, exposed to a spiritual fight, and so it is not possible to tell a brother about his faults because he would not have the strength to continue to fight.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding. In all your ways be mindful of Him, and He will make straight your paths.” (Pro 3:5-6)

We have a variety of vices and self-pities which hold us in bondage. We can speak of spiritual resurrection if we let ourselves be healed by God. The precondition is to stand in the truth and to be willing to see and admit our faults. We should not take offence. Let us say: “Yes, it is true. This is my weakness.” We should not fall into depression but say to ourselves: “I have to fight against it. Yes, I will fail again and again but I will ask God for light and strength.

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.

On Sunday, 6 July 2014, we will mark the first anniversary of the renewal of baptism in the Dnieper River in Kiev.

We vividly recall the canonization of John Milic of Kromeriz, Czech preacher of repentance and prophet, by Patriarch Elijah of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate during a solemn liturgy in front of the Church of St. Sophia in Kiev on the eve of the feast of nativity of St. John the Baptist. After the Divine Liturgy, we, the believers of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek Catholic Church (UO GCC), together with our bishops and Patriarch Elijah marched in procession with banners and placards, singing religious songs, from the Church of St. Sophia to the sculpture of St. Olga, St. Andrew and Slavonic apostles Sts. Cyril and Methodius. From there we went to the statue of St. Vladimir, where all of us – on behalf of ourselves and of the whole nation – renounced the devil and demonic forces. Then we confessed the faith and went down to the Dnieper.

Canonization of the heretical Pope John Paul II is the greatest tragedy for the Church. Canonization of a heretic has been unheard of throughout the history of the Catholic Church. By his words, gestures and policy of concealment John Paul II opened the Church to heresies and the spirit of antichrist. The fruit is massive apostasy of Catholics from the living and saving faith in Jesus Christ and dechristianization of the Christian nations. Instead of just laws founded on the Decalogue, Christian states have adopted an anti-Decalogue which establishes a totalitarian globalization system of the antichrist. Its main feature is the promotion of homosexuality associated with child stealing through the juvenile justice system.

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)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has described recent happenings in Ukraine as a pogrom and called on the Ukrainian people to keep the peace. By contrast, the aim of the coup organizers is to launch a civil war. They only need to provoke armed clashes between the so-called “demonstrators” and security forces. The same scenario was used by intelligence agencies in Syria. “Operation Revolution” there also began with peaceful demonstrations, which gradually changed into open armed clashes with the police. Demonstrators in Damascus received money from the Rockefeller foundations, depending on how many policemen they managed to injure or how many police cars they set on fire. Well-organized “paramilitaries” in helmets and with chains attacking the police in Kiev with sprays and iron bars are a carbon copy. This is done with an unconcealed aim to provoke a harsh police action and by the use of propaganda to make a “revolutionary hell” break loose in the streets. Always the same. And always effective.

Saint John Milic of Kromeriz

canonized 6 July 2013, Kiev

(Brief biography)

The beginning of the third millennium is the time when we need to think about the Scripture prophecy about the coming of the Antichrist. John Milic of Kromeriz, a preacher of repentance in Prague, warned of the presence of the spirit of evil in the world.

The brother of Pope Urban V, Cardinal of Albania, said about Milic: “Although my brother, the late Pope, shines with miracles, this Milic should be canonized before my brother.” Today, the time is ripe for the canonization of this prophet and servant of Christ.

This day, 6 July, is connected with the martyrdom of another Bohemian preacher of repentance, John of Husinec.

Czech history has its heroes. During the reign of Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Roman Emperor, there lived a servant of God and prophet John who served in the Kingdom of Bohemia. He was not afraid of telling the truth, even if it was not to people’s liking. He was not afraid of going against the stream! God’s words came alive in his mouth to confront the dismal state of society and the Church. What’s more, they convicted even the Emperor himself.