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.”

On 22 June 2015, early in the morning, a criminal act was committed at the request of the apostate clergy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC). The event took place in the chapel of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek Catholic Church (UO GCC), Sosnova St., Bryukhovychi, and in the Contemplative Monastery on Shkilna St. simultaneously.

See next videos http://vkpatriarhat.org/ http://bcp-video.org/

+ Elijah
Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

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.

+ Elijah
Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

“And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God,

and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.”

+ Elijah
Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

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:

If we ask what eternal life is, Jesus gives us the answer: “And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.” Jesus speaks here about eternal life which is connected with the knowing of God the Father, and with the knowing of Jesus Christ. We may know God – Jesus Christ even now in prayer, in reading the Gospel, in suffering and especially when we renounce our own will and make an act of love by accepting the will of God by faith and in self-surrender. Jesus spoke about eternal life even before, when He said: The Father has given the Son authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as He has given Him.

During the prayer stops we can think particularly of the words: “know You”.

This whole system of Feng-Shui is tied up with pagan magic practices and with false faith focused on a number of absurdities through which man is deceived, bound and promised false happiness and false prosperity. It does not say a single word about eternity, conscience or morality. One only speaks about spirituality, about harmony with so-called “ch’i” energy, and that according to yin and yang philosophy. It is a whole system of lie. Certain objects are attributed spiritual power. Those who are just superficial Christians let themselves be deceived by these massmedia-advertised practices.

The root of paganism is an effort to find favour with “a deity” or to get harmonized with so-called energies – demons. However, who meets with Christ’s Gospel, the life of the one undergoes a radical change. The one transforms one’s mind and believes in the Gospel (cf. Mk 1:15).

Nowadays paganism is carrying out an effective mission in Europe which has fallen away from the living Christianity.

+ Elijah
Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

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!

+ Elijah
Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

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.