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Who sins not?

+ Elijah
Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Our attitude must be unwavering

What is it in us!? Conscience, the voice of God, on the one hand and the poison of sin on the other. If people hear lies, they gladly believe in them. On the other hand, they keep questioning the truth. They even question the truths of our salvation – maybe it is true, maybe not… Our attitude must be unwavering: “Jesus said it and it is true! I won’t invent anything! He who believes will be saved; but he who does not believe will go to hell.” And what to say to those who speculate or to Jehovah’s Witnesses if they ask: “And what about hell? What is it like?” Say simply: “You’ll see for yourself when you are there! Don’t ask me; I’ve never been there and I don’t want to go there either!”

The Word of Life – Jn 17:1 (7/6/15 – 21/6/2015)

“Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said:

“Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You.””

Reflection on Jn 17:1

“Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said:

“Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You.”

Jesus closes His intimate words to the apostles with a prayer. He spoke about a deep mystery related to the Holy Spirit, about the life of the Triune God in us, about the promise that the Father will hear a prayer in the name of Jesus, about the greatest love which we can show for our friends when we lay down our life for them, and about other deep mysteries.

“Jesus spoke these words…” It concerns the words in chapters 13-16. “…lifted up His eyes to heaven…” Jesus thus sets an example to us. We must lift up our eyes to heaven too. We often look down or fix our eyes on vanity or even sin. Jesus said: “Father, the hour has come.” What hour? The hour of Jesus, the hour of His physical and mental suffering and of His death in disgrace on the cross.

The fruits of dead faith

+ Elijah
Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

A chance for Ireland – repentance

29 May 2015

To the Irish nation

On 22 May 2015, Ireland held a referendum in which the nation voted of their own free will for the legalization of gay and lesbian marriages. The referendum had a turnout of 60.5%. Thus the Irish nation chose to go to its doom. God’s Word clearly says that for the sin of homosexuality, Sodom and Gomorrah were punished with fire from heaven and that this punishment is a warning to all nations (Jud 7). What is worse, however, is eternal fire after death which awaits those who received this spirit. To what extent the public was manipulated – as it was stated even by some MEPs – should be discussed by competent people. We point out in the first place the crimes within the Church – heresies, syncretism with paganism and denial of God’s laws.

The Church hierarchy is most to blame for the moral catastrophe in Ireland, as they did not punish paedophilia among priests who worked in educational institutions for youth. In recent decades, the spiritual infection of heresies progressed. These heresies deny the Divinity of Christ, His redemptive death on the cross (e.g. Archbp. Zollitsch), real and historical resurrection of Christ, the inspiration of the Holy Scripture.

When He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will do it

One can live in a community which has received the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, who wants to guide us into all truth (“When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth”) and yet one can become withdrawn and not let oneself be influenced by the community. Jesus says: “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will do it! He will guide you into all truth!” And what are the fundamental and full truths of the Gospel? It is above all the truth that we are sinners enslaved by the old self, flesh, world and devil. People do not want to hear it and think they are free.

The Word of Life – Jn 16:33 (24/5/15 – 7/6/2015)

“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace.

In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.

Reflection on Jn 16:33

“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace.
In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

True happiness on this earth does not lie in abundance of property, wealth or career but in true peace. We can find this peace only in Christ. Supposing we seek it somewhere else or in someone else, we will not find it. We can by no means find this peace in the world. In the world we will only have tribulation. We must know it. There is no peace in the glory of the world, in vanity or in sin. If someone lives without Christ, he may look peaceful and be always smiling but such peace is just a piece of play-acting, deceit! One serious thought of death and God’s judgment, and everything comes apart at the seams.

Learn God’s Word by heart!

+ Elijah
Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Brief reflection on the Descent of the Holy Spirit

We are now in the 40 days’ Easter period, commemorating the glorious victory of Christ over death and sin. The Word of God points out a deep relation to the mystery of the Resurrection of Christ through the Holy Spirit: “The Spirit of Him who raised Christ from the dead dwells in you…” (Rom 8:11f).

New life – the life of the risen Christ should be manifested in us through the Holy Spirit. The condition is to walk by faith and to give all our plans, worries and everything to Jesus. Let us not cling to anything, be it our thoughts, hurt feelings, doubts about God and His Word, or self-pity. Let us give our all to Him. He will then work through us in power, maybe in secret only, but our union with Him in faith will bear fruit for eternity.

Pastoral letter to Hungarian bishops

18 May 2015

Dear Bishops of Hungary!

You live in a historic time when we are witnesses to gradual autogenocide of the nations under the influence of the ideology of consumerism which is associated with immorality and perversion. This ideology prioritizes homosexualism, paedophilia, zoophilia, narcotics, euthanasia even for children and healthy people, stealing of human organs. This age is ruthlessly anti-Christian and anti-Catholic. The individual’s identity is eroded and a kind of biorobots are formed by means of gender ideology. This false ideology removes the God-given difference between man and woman and produces de facto mentally disturbed individuals who become a plaything of a variety of not only unclean but even sadistic demons. These dubious characters are then purposefully promoted to key positions in order to terrorize normal people by establishing antilaws and consequently by sanctions and imprisonments. The priority in the EU currently is not just legalization but directly privileging of homosexualism and sexual perversions associated with the stealing of children from their loving parents, and that not from dysfunctional families but from good families. An artificial pretext for stealing of children is so-called “domestic violence” or “stifling love”, which are terms used by this system to refer to sound Christian and moral upbringing.

Man is the head of the family

+ Elijah
Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

Man must be wise

+ Elijah
Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

The poison of original sin

The poison of original sin is in every one of us. This is in us and the devil laughs. Unless we fight against sin, pride and lusts for all our life, we can easily lapse into heresy. If we believe ourselves, we destroy ourselves. That is the poison in us and we have to fight with it continuously because it leads us to self-destruction. We must carry it as a cross, not unite with it but resist it. “Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Jesus!”

Jesus says: “Whoever desires to save his life (soul) will lose it, but whoever loses his life (soul) will save it.”

Be conscious of your dignity!

+ Elijah
Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate


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