The Word of Life – Jn 15:18-19 (15/2/15 – 1/3/2015)

“If the world hates you, know that it hated Me before it hated you.

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own;

but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world,

therefore the world hates you.”

Reflection on Jn 15:18-19

“If the world hates you, know that it hated Me before it hated you.

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world,

but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”

The term “the world” does not mean the wonderful work of creation but the godless system which hates Christ as well as all who are dedicated to the service of Christ. Jesus speaks about this hatred by the world and warns all of us who desire to follow Jesus in earnest that we must be prepared for hatred and persecution by the world. “Because you are not of the world … therefore the world hates you.” People of this world have received the spirit of the world and therefore they persecute true Christians. Moreover, if they kill them, they will believe that they offer God service (Jn 16:2). Those who condemned Christ to death – religious hierarchy, the Pharisees and the scribes – believed so, and it is the same today. Why? Because the world lies under the sway of the ruler of this world. Jesus says: “Now the ruler of this world will be cast out. (Now is the judgment of this world.)” (Jn 12:31)

We prevail with Christ alone

Sin is rebellion against God. Through sin man loses eternal life. However, Jesus paid for us, for all our sins. If we turn to Jesus with faith, we receive the forgiveness of sins. We obtain it through the sacrament of penance and through repentance. The condition is to express sorrow for sins and to confess them. The criminal on the cross did not even specify his sins, and he was saved. He just said: “I have sinned. Jesus, save me!” Similarly, David did not confess a concrete sin, yet he fell down before God and said: “I have sinned!” The biggest problem is that we do not want to admit our sin. And so we walk in darkness. If we are not self-critical, we are unable to perceive the truth around us. We are like in a fog. Unless you are rooted in the truth, in the time of spiritual battle the devil will pull your leg and defeat you. But if you are rooted in the truth and in Christ, if you know that you must not let yourself be caught in a trap and if you cling to Christ, you will conquer the whole hell. But you must cling to Christ.

The fight for souls!

Let us not dialogue but rather bear witness! Let us repeat the truth – this is this. I can start a discussion but if I see that the person I talk to rejects the truth, I must tell him clearly: “This is the truth and it concerns you personally. You either believe or not. The reality is that you will die and whether you like it or not, you will stand before the judgment seat of God and then you will go to heaven or hell. I want to tell you one thing: if you want to be saved, you must give your sins to Jesus; you must confess them and kneel before Him, receive Him as your Saviour, receive His Gospel and His way. He who endures to the end will be saved. And no one will be saved without faith! Not without philosophy but without faith!”

Prayer of unity and power /modified version/

1) Perfect contrition (5 minutes)

(position – kneeling)

a) One person says: “I am self-willed.”A self-willed person does not seek the will of God in crucial situations, does not rely on God and breaks the laws of God.” Think of a particular case of your self-will and repeat quietly: “I am self-willed, I am self-willed…” (1 minute)

b) One says: Hedonism may be physical – indulgence in eating, drinking, impure feelings, alcohol, drug abuse. Mental hedonism – addiction to television, rock music, internet, human praise…Think of at least one concrete manifestation of your hedonism and repeat quietly: “I am a hedonist, I am a hedonist…” (1 minute)

c) One says: Criticism: Think of a particular situation when you rebelled against God or criticized your neighbours in thoughts or by words, when you regarded yourself higher than all. Repeat quietly: “I am a critic…” (1 minute)

The Word of Life – Jn 15:16 (1/2/15 – 15/2/2015)

“You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you

that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain,

that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.”

Reflection on Jn 15:16

“You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit,

and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.”

Think to yourself for a moment that God chose you: “I did not choose You, my God and Saviour, but You chose me before the foundation of the world…” (cf. Eph 1:4)

Jesus wants me to bear fruit – the fruit of works done according to the will of God and in faith. This fruit should remain forever!

Jesus assures us again that the Father will give us whatever we ask in His name. This holy name of God is “Yehoshua” (Lord is my salvation).

Reflection on Jn 15:12-13

“This is My commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life /soul/ for his friends.”

Jesus emphasizes this commandment twice on the evening before His death (see Jn 13:34-35). He says: “A new commandment I give to you”, and He adds: “By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love one to another.” The Greek original of the Gospel uses the term agape for “love”. It is the love of God which is “shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who is given to us” (Rom 5:5). This is the love by which Jesus has loved us. Jesus puts it more precisely what kind of love He means: “that you love one another, as I have loved you”. How has Jesus loved us? Being God, He became man; He humbled Himself, assumed human weakness, yet without sin. He was innocent and yet sentenced to death, even death on a cross. He suffered the pains of scourging, crowning with thorns, the way of the cross; He suffered dying amid mockery and in abandonment, and finally painful death. He paid the price for your sin.

Death on behalf of men can be well illustrated by an example from the Auschwitz concentration camp. It happened that one prisoner ran away. Therefore all prisoners were told to stand in a row and every tenth of them was sentenced to death. One of the prisoners was a priest Maximilian.

The Word of Life – Jn 15:12-13 (18/1/15 – 1/2/2015)

“This is My commandment, that you love one another

as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this,

than to lay down one’s life for his friends.”

Spiritual mobilization of women in Russia and Ukraine

These days we commemorate the Nativity of Christ – God became a defenceless Child to save us from eternal death. He accomplished His sacrifice on the cross for you as well.

Dear women and mothers, God turns to you and wants you to mobilize in this spiritual battle for the salvation of your nation from moral, spiritual and physical autogenocide. This autogenocide is pursued by the amoral West which promotes gender homosexuality, anti-Decalogue, mass stealing of children, their moral and psychological devastation in so-called professional business families, which children are shunted between. In the West, these families are made up especially of homosexuals and paedophiles. It concerns the crimes of neofascism connected with the mass use of destructive narcotics and the killing of old people by euthanasia (the Netherlands, Belgium). It is a plan of a holocaust of mankind, programmed by the Masons of the Club of Rome, reduction to a so-called golden billion (which means extermination of 5-6 billion people). Satanic globalization, which destroys all moral values and Christianity at the root, fights even for Ukraine.

The Word of Life – Jn 15:7 (4/1/15 – 18/1/2015)

“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you,

you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.”

Patriarch Elijah’s message on the feast of the Nativity of Christ 2014

At Christmas, we commemorate the coming of our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ into this world as a defenceless child. “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.” (Jn 3:16) God gave us the most precious Gift – His Only Begotten Son. Jesus died for our sake. He, the Son of God, rose from the dead, that we should not perish but have eternal life. But there is one condition: saving faith. Only he who believes in Him and receives Him by this personal faith has eternal life and is a child of God.

The Word of Life – Jn 15:5 (21/12/14 – 4/1/2015)

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him,

bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”

Reflection on Jn 15:5; 15:7

At the Last Supper, Jesus reveals the deep mystery of the inner life in God as well as our unity in Christ and through Him in the Father too. At the Last Supper, Jesus instituted the Eucharist. The Gospel of the Apostle John points out the mystery of the Eucharist even some time before. Jesus said: He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.” (Jn 6:56) “I am the living bread.” (v.51) “I am the bread of life. If anyone eats of this bread, he will not die; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.” “Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.” (v.54)

Mission of prayer

We can carry out mission by prayer too. The key words are: “You in me. Jesus, You in me.” I say in spirit: “You in me…” and I add: “…and in my brother and sister too”. In this mission of prayer, I begin to see Christ in other people by faith. But I must first see Christ in me with the eyes of faith.

Jesus will say on the Day of Judgment: “Whatever you did to one of the least of My brethren, you did it to Me. And whatever you did not do to them, you did not do it to Me.” Jesus speaks about doing and not doing. We should do positive things in relation to our neighbour, but in essence we should do it for the sake of Christ. Our Lord Jesus says Himself: “You did it to Me.” It means that Christ is hidden in the least of His brethren, i.e. is in him. To put it better, He is hidden in him like in prison.

Reflection on Jn 15:4

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself,

unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.”

Abide in Me, and I in you

When the Lord opens our spiritual eyes, it is as if the blind begin to see! The first shock to us is when we realize how long we lived under the influence of the spirit of lies. False prophets, heretical theologians, preach supreme heresies wrapped in pious phrases. Masses of people are thus led to destruction. One would cry and shout: Christians, wake up! Don’t believe in lies! Don’t believe the servants of lies! Believe Jesus! Believe His apostles! Do receive the Word of God, and not human philosophies, pseudo psychologies or heretical theologies! Do receive Jesus by sincere repentance!


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