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Jesus is in you
God gave us freedom and this freedom is in Jesus. If we received Him and allow Him to be the Lord of our soul every day, we taste true freedom. God is almighty and so is everyone who prays because he has Jesus in his heart. If you unite your will to the will of God, the enemy has no power over you and the whole mountains of demons must retreat. And if you say to the mountain with faith – be lifted up and thrown into the sea – it will obey you. God has given us power. He who is in us is stronger than he who is in the world. Jesus is in you but you must be conscious of it. Unite to Him through the cross – your cross.
Let us live by faith
At the hour of death we shall stand before the judgment seat of God. There is nothing covered that will not be revealed. Not only the camera of our conscience but also God and His angels see us. Therefore we should live by faith, wisely, not as slaves of sin but as slaves of God after the example of the Blessed Virgin. She said: “Behold, the bondslave of the Lord!” And this is true freedom.
The Word of Life – Jn 16:9-11 (29/3/15 – 12/4/2015)
“Sin is that they do not believe in Me. Righteousness is that
I go to the Father, and you will see Me no more.
Judgment is that the ruler of this world has already been judged.”
Reflection on Jn 16:9-11
“Sin is that they do not believe in Me. Righteousness is that I go to the Father, and you will see Me no more. Judgment is that the ruler of this world has already been condemned.”
There are people who say: I have no sin; I have not killed anyone, nor robbed anyone. I am an honest citizen, I don’t need God. But it is a lie. Moreover, such person has all the greater sin because he rejects Christ. Not to believe in Christ, the Son of God and the Saviour, is a sin! The saving faith means to believe in Christ, the Son of God, who died for our sins, as well as to believe that He is with us.
“Righteousness is that I go to the Father.” It was unrighteous that being innocent, He was condemned. It is righteous that He is already in the glory of heaven.
“The ruler of this world has already been condemned.” He has already been condemned but he has the right to work if we allow him to through our sin. If we are in actual unity with Christ, this condemnation is real!
We receive the Word of God as the Word of God
+ Elijah
Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
The death of Jesus – the victory over sin and the devil
Through baptism we were immersed in the death of Jesus. His death is a victory over sin and the devil. We should actualize this mystery of baptism by faith so that in our everyday life we might taste more and more this victory over the system of evil and lies which dominate the world. Our life pilgrimage is short, 70-80 years. This time will just slip by. Life will come to an end, and so let us live by faith every day. Every day is a struggle against our laziness or doubts or we are lured by mammon so as to prefer material values to spiritual ones. Naturally, we need material things too, but we must give the first place to God and salvation of our soul. For it is written: Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness…
An appeal to ex-Pope before death
25 March 2015
Msgr. Joseph Ratzinger
Ex-Pope
Your Eminence,
we are writing to You at this time of the culmination of Lent, when Christians turn their eyes to the cross of Christ, approaching Good Friday, the day of Christ’s death, and the dawn of glorious Christ’s resurrection.
Being a young theologian, You were an adviser (peritus) to Vatican II. In 1982, You were appointed by John Paul II as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (of crucial importance among the Congregations). In 2005, You were elected Pope. At the time when You were a Prefect, Your opponents called You “Iron Cardinal” who was about to stage a coup in the Church. We often referred to Your book “An Exclusive Interview on the State of the Church”. When You became Pope, we were convinced that You were going to do the most important thing: start the reform in the field of orthodoxy and implement a practical programme of holiness highlighting the life of prayer, fellowship, repentance and true following of Christ. The most urgent need was to make the Church the salt and the light of the world again even at the cost of martyrdom of many!
True love
Sometimes you need to tell the truth to your brother in plain words, without putting too fine a point on it, although it may hurt him – if it is the will of God. But you must do so with the purpose of saving his soul and with the attitude of forgiveness. Sometimes the will of God is to be silent and just say: “Lord, Your will be done! If You want me to be silent, I will; if You want me to attack, I will!” It is crucially important that you should be obedient to God in a particular situation. You must do it for the salvation of souls, for the good of your neighbour. And above all these things is love – and sometimes love is chastising rather than caressing. Just like the love of children involves upbringing.
Do not ask in trial: “Why?” but “For what purpose?”
+ Elijah
Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
Lord, You see it!
Sometimes you need to do some work, e.g. you do repairs in your house… You shop around for this or that thing, and it’s impossible to get it… You sigh: “Lord, I would rather pray…” Time flies and you walk to and fro at a crowded and noisy marketplace, your head is splitting… What you can do is give your pain to the Lord. Although you have no time to pray, give your problem to God, be in God’s presence, put your trust in Him and unite with Him in your powerlessness: “Maybe I will just walk to and fro and worry about it, but I give You this helplessness. Finally, You will solve it just like You always solved all other things!” And this is, in fact, trust in God in every situation.
