We all know, logically, that we must die. However, none of us is mindful of it. It is the height of folly that even people in hospitals, paralyzed by illness, do not think seriously about death. I used to visit hospitals, administering the last sacraments to the terminally ill, and I asked myself: “O God, how is it possible that people are so indifferent to the salvation of their souls?” It happened once that I heard a confession of a dying man in a hospital. After the confession, the man said to me: “When I return home, I’ll make rabbit hutches.” I said to him: “How can you talk such nonsense? You are at death’s door and you think about such foolish things?! Think of your encounter with God when you will stand before His judgment seat!”

“Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely,

but shall perform your oaths to the Lord.’ But I say to you, do not swear at all.”

In the Old Testament, the person taking an oath took God as witness and called down upon himself a curse which was incurred by those who broke the oath or did not tell the truth. The person sometimes put himself under oath by God (1Sam 20:3; 1Sam 25:26), sometimes by man who was thus bound to avenge the broken oath. To make the oath stronger, sometimes an animal was offered for sacrifice. It was cut in two and the person taking the oath passed between the parts of it. Perhaps the symbolical meaning was that if a person breaks the oath (Gen 15:8-18; cf. Jer 34:18), he will suffer the fate of the animal. The Israelites took an oath before the altar of the Lord (1Ki 8:31) or by the temple (Mt 23:16f).

The Law strictly forbade a false oath (Lev 19:12), but entrusted punishment entirely to God (1Ki 8:31f; Zec 5:4).

27 December 2015

Before Christmas, Francis appealed to the governments of all nations for four things:

1) the abolition of the death penalty even for the most dangerous criminals and mass murderers

2) the abolition of life imprisonment for those criminals

3) an alternative for criminals instead of imprisonment

4) an amnesty for the toughest criminals in prisons

This is no attitude of mercy but the height of cruelty to defenceless citizens. All societies in the history of mankind have observed the basic principles of justice. Mass criminals and murderers have always been punished because the society was thus protected. As a result of Francis’ appeal, the police should be abolished and no longer search for criminals. Within the bounds of Francis’ mercy and tolerance, criminals may kill with impunity, torture, assassinate, commit violence, rob banks and even perpetrate mass genocide of nations, and remain untouchable.

On 6 September 2015, “the Pope” Francis appealed for the suicide of Christianity and Europe by a regulation to accept Muslims in every parish, in every monastery and in every sanctuary. On the day of Christ’s birth he cynically continues promoting the suicide program and invites Herods and thugs to kill the living Christ in the souls of Christians in Europe.

Francis, like a true apostate from Christ, His Gospel and the whole Tradition, pulls the wool over the eyes of the Christian world telling a colossal lie and irreality about so-called blessing for both individuals and states that would adopt the programme of Islamization: “May blessings in abundance reward those, whether individuals or countries, who welcome migrants and refugees.” The beginning of this “blessing” we have already seen in Paris.

Byzantine Catholic (Universal) Patriarchate, by authority of the apostolic and prophetic office, in the name of the Triune God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, hereby declares God’s anathema on Patriarch Bartholomew on the basis of Gal 1:8-9.

Reason:

1) He did not profess the faith in Jesus Christ as the only Saviour, Lord and God. He did not dissociate himself from the contemporary Catholic heresies which deny the Divinity of Christ, Christ’s historical and real resurrection and the inspiration of the Holy Scripture.

2) By his gesture in Assisi he expressed unity with the spirit of paganism. He promotes apostasy through interreligious dialogue.

3) He abuses ecclesiastical authority to spread the NWO system and the spirit of the New Age under the guise of ecology.

4) He promotes anti-Biblical, false tolerance towards sexual perversions such as homosexualism, transsexualism …

Dear Christians and citizens of the Czech Republic!

At Christmas we commemorate the birth of Christ. The Divine Child has brought us eternal life. But Herod sought His death. Today, Herod’s spirit of death is especially behind the NWO, Islamization, heretical hierarchy and heretical theologians. They kill the living Christ in the souls.

Where Islam and Sharia come out in full force, there particularly the lives of the followers of Christ, but even of unbelievers, are in danger. Christians either have their heads cut off ritually (the genocide of Armenians in 1915…) or they are blackmailed and downgraded. The whole territory of Turkey used to be Christian. Today there are de facto no Christians there. This is also true of North Africa.

We are witnesses to cunning Islamization of Europe. The appeal of “Pope” Francis to host Muslim groups in every parish, every monastery and every sanctuary is a betrayal of Christ and of the Christian faith. The phrases by Cardinal Duka about the Good Samaritan in the given situation are hypocrisy and a crime against Christians and the entire nation! Church officials have received a Judas’ sum of money amounting to 200 million Czech Koruna. It is intended to secure the withdrawal of and accommodation for Muslims from Germany through Caritas! This is to be a decisive turning point in the plan of nationwide Islamization of the Czech Republic. The consequence would be self-destruction of Christianity.

“But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason

except fornication causes her to commit adultery;

and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.”

“But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason

Jesus develops the truth about the sacrament of marriage in chapter 19: The Pharisees came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?” And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?’ So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?” He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for fornication, and marries another, commits adultery.” His disciples said to Him, “If such is the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry.” But He said to them, “All cannot accept this saying, but only those to whom it has been given.”

+ Elijah

Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

What is in store for me after death? Either eternal life or eternal damnation. This is a serious thing. The Word of God says: “It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment.” (Heb 9:27)

If someone is summoned to appear before a judge in court, one trembles with fear. We all shall stand before the judgment seat of God, but we fail to cover evil done by us. What would a person carrying drugs do if he knew that he will be shot to death if the drugs are discovered? He would quickly get rid of them, throw them away.

+ Elijah
Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Life is really very short and then comes eternity! The devil, the world and the old self try to keep us in dullness, sleep and pointless efforts lest we should pray, humble ourselves, encourage one another or earnestly seek the kingdom of God first. And therefore, let us deny ourselves and give the first place to Jesus and His will every day!

+ Elijah
Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

7 December 2015

To President and Government

of the Russian Federation

The current political system of USA has a spirit of neofascism. Its agenda is reduction of mankind to a “golden billion”. Unless Russia builds a political system on the foundation of uncompromisingly opposing principles, it will be globalized.

The contemporary Orthodox hierarchy secretly promotes the NWO globalization ideology through interreligious ecumenism. Therefore, the political system in Russia must set an essential condition for the Orthodox Church and demand that Patriarch Kirill should break with the globalization line of the West even at the cost of resigning from office. Only then can the Orthodox Church become, just like in the past centuries of Russian history, a unifying ideological force in the ongoing spiritual and national struggle.

+ Elijah
Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate