What is emphasized?

God’s love. Verse 5 says that God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit. In the Greek original God’s love is denoted by the word “agape”, unlike human love which is denoted by the word “philia”. There is a difference between these two kinds of  love. God’s love is a gift and is intrinsically linked with the Holy Spirit!

Lvov, 1^st September 2011

Members of the Ukrainian Parliament

Dear Members of Parliament,

we would like to ask You to deal with an urgent issue at the Parliament session on Tuesday 6^th September 2011, namely with religious discrimination now already associated with deportation and dissolution.

As from 10^th September 2011, Ukraine is introducing liberalization of the visa regime between Ukraine and the EU. The State Committee of Ukraine on Matters of Nationalities and Religions has been illegally blocking the registration of a religious minority – Ukrainian orthodox Greek-Catholic Church (UOGCC) for two years. From this it follows:

a) 23 contemplative sisters from the monastery of St. Elijah the Prophet find themselves outside the law, they will not obtain documentation for a long-stay visa and will have to leave Ukraine. They do not have monastery in the EU. Religious discrimination de facto passes into their dissolution.

Lvov, 1^st September 2011

Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine

Head of Delegation

Jos? Manuel Pinto Teixeira

Dear Mr Teixeira,

we turn to You in the matter of violations of human rights in the field of discrimination of a religious minority. Specifically, the enquiry here is discrimination of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek-Catholic Church (UOGCC). Monitoring over the Ukraine concerning observance of human rights is delegated to Mrs Reps and Mrs Wolwend. Their duty is to solve a specific problem which threatens to develop into an international scandal. The main culprits in the religious discrimination against the UOGCC are Deputy Minister of Culture, Mr Y.Bohutskyi, and Minister of Justice, Mr O. Lavrynovych. The new law on the liberalization of visa regime connected with the promotion of antidiscrimination laws does not bring liberalization but has an opposite effect. EU citizens in Ukraine, 23 religious sisters, are not only in danger of discrimination but also of deportation and, de facto, liquidation. Some of them have been in Ukraine for 17 years. The root of the problem is that there has been unlawfully refused registration of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek-Catholic Church (UOGCC) for two years. As a consequence of this religious discrimination, the Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate and 23 religious sisters now cannot be granted long-term visas.

Ministry of Interior

No. BO-167/1-PL-2009

In Prague, on 9^th February 2009

Certificate

According to § 9, paragraph 1 of Act No. 451/1991 Coll.,

which lays down several other requirements for certain

positions in state bodies and organizations of the Czech and Slovak

Federal Republic, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic,

What is emphasized?

Hope. Christian hope has its model in the hope of Abraham, who against hope believed in hope (Rom 4:18). So Abraham believed that God is almighty, and facing Him in powerlessness he trusted that God was able to work a miracle.

Lvov (Ukraine), 17th August 2011

The mayor of Prague took under his patronage promotion of homosexuality – Prague-pride on 10th-14th August 2011. Vice Chancellor of the President justly condemned this support of his. The President said that he was not proud at all that a gay-pride was held in Prague. Ladislav Batora, an employee of the Ministry of Education, took the President’s side too.

Homosexual exhibition culminated in an allegorical procession on Saturday, 13th August 2011. One of the banners displayed an insulting cartoon of naked Vice Chancellor. Similarly, a cartoon of the President wearing pink glasses and standing on an allegorical car falsely and rudely labelled the President as a gay.

Lvov, 11^th August 2011

President of Ukraine

V. Yanukovych

Dear Mr President,

the laws relating to religious discrimination and fomentation of religious hatred are being violated in Ukraine. These crimes are committed by the state authorities, namely by the Regional State Administration in Lvov (R. Kurash) and Regional State Administration in Ternopol (I. Kulchytskyi). The police in Lvov and Chortkiv (Ternopol region) cooperates with them in these crimes.

Word of life: “We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.” Rom 5:2b-4

+ In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

“Ephphatha!” (Be opened!) “I am self-willed. I am a hedonist. I am a critic.

“Maran atha!” (Come, O Lord!) “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, have mercy on me!” (5?)

“Shema” (Hear), “(name), love God! Jesus, my God, I love You with all my heart, with all my soul and with all my strength. Now I lose my soul for Your sake and the Gospel’s.”

The Word of life: (a verse from the Holy Scripture for 14 days; repeated 3?)

“We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.” Rom 5:2b-4

“From this moment I do everything + in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” (3?)

Studying this verse from God’s Word, let us focus on two principal questions:

1) Which truth (word) is emphasized in this verse?

2) What connection does it have with other verses of this chapter?

Lvov (Ukraine), 3^rd August 2011

President of the European Parliament

Jerzy Buzek

Dear Mr President,

the letter of our Bishop’s Synod of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek-Catholic Church (UOGCC) was responded to on Your authority by Head of Your Cabinet. Your reply does not refer at all to the substance of the issue which we wrote You about. Instead of responding to the real facts, Your letter contains mere phrases about respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and so-called rights… Among other things, Your letter states the following: “Legislation on euthanasia in Belgium represents the decision of a sovereign EU Member State on a matter of national competence. As you are certainly aware, the European Union has no competence in such internal matters.”

Lviv, 2th August 2011 – Feast of St. Prophet Elijah

In this historic moment when it is being decided whether the juvenile justice system will be approved in the near future, the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate appealed to all Christian Churches in Ukraine not to be indifferent but to urge Members of Parliament not to permit in any case legalization of this criminal structure in Ukraine whether in August or at any time later. 1st August 2011 was set as a term by which they were to publish their appeal to the Ukrainian Parliament on their web pages.

The juvenile justice system, without witnesses, without trial, without any real guilt and without a chance of defence, removes children from good families, places them in reception camps and then sells them preferentially to pseudo-families of homosexuals and paedophiles by means of so-called international adoption.

Lvov, 25 July 2011

Mayor of the City of Lvov

A. Sadovyi

Dear Sir,

on 14 December 2010, we requested You personally to put a place at our disposal where we could celebrate Divine Liturgies. Specifically, we applied for the Jesuit Church of Sts. Peter and Paul in Lvov. You said that it was not possible because You had already donated it to the UGCC. You suggested that we should look for some other place in Lvov. We found a disused warehouse which was once a church. We bought it lawfully and it became our private property. We did most urgent repairs. We put on a new roof and now we use the church for regular worship and Liturgies for our faithful.

What is emphasized?

We have been justified by faith. Through faith in Jesus Christ we have peace with God and access into grace.

Faith in Jesus Christ is the saving faith. Sin causes death, enmity with God, and it gives the record of our debt into the hands of the enemy of man who then demands our just punishment. It is true for everyone who believes in Jesus that the record of his debt was cancelled on the cross. Through the Blood of our Saviour we found peace with God, for our soul was cleansed from every sin. “By Him He reconciled all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross.” (Col 1:20)

21 July 2011

Religious sisters of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek-Catholic Church have their chapel in Lvov on 6, Pluhova St., which is their private property. On Sunday 17 July 2011, another of a series of provocative actions organized by the Redemptorists and apostatical UGCC hierarchy took place in front of the chapel, during which they “sanctified” a cross. This all took place under the leadership of O. Fredyna, until recently chancellor of the Lvov archeparchy. He now holds the new office of a church political instructor of the Lvov City Council. This office is an anachronism since the Church in Ukraine is separated from the state. The main purpose of their action was to defame the orthodox Catholics, to incite the UGCC faithful against them, to arouse religious hatred and, finally, to steal the chapel, which is the private property of the sisters, or at least to prevent celebration of Divine Liturgies in that place. In other words – religious discrimination! The orthodox Catholics, though being publicly defamed during the provocative action, did not repay evil for evil.

Lvov (Ukraine), 14 July 2011

Dear Mr President,

dear government representatives of Austria,

we live in historic times, witnessing artful destruction of moral and spiritual values which have formed the foundation of Europe for nearly 2000 years. The new thinking is built on lies and unreality and leads to moral, spiritual and physical genocide of individuals, families and individual nations of Europe. Unfortunately, the tragedy is that this process of self-destruction is supported by international organizations such as the UN, European Parliament and PACE. However, the greatest responsibility falls on the Christian Churches.

It is publicly known that Austrian ex-Cardinal Sch?nborn shares the views that deny the essence of the Christian faith and morals. He sees the so-called reform of the Church in abolition of the priestly celibacy, in ordination of women priests, in church marriages of homosexuals and their ordination as priests and bishops.

On 29 June 2011, 300 priests in Austria signed a petition in which, among other things, they demand promotion of the above-mentioned perversions. The Catholic Church in Austria is no light any more but darkness, no way to salvation but to eternal perdition. The reason is that it has abandoned the Gospel and the Apostolic Tradition and failed to highlight conversion to Christ and true mission.

Lvov (Ukraine), 14 July 2011

Dear Mr President,

dear government officials of Germany,

we announce to You a painful reality that the Evangelical Church of Germany and the Old Catholic Church, just like the Catholic Church in Germany, have brought down God’s anathema upon themselves and hence upon the German people. The reason is internal apostasy from the saving faith and in the case of the Evangelical Church its open legalization of homosexuality. They virtually denied sin, God’s laws and commandments, they no longer call evil evil and the truth the truth. These Churches have no more right to be called the Church of Christ. Denying the essential truths of the Gospel and casting out the Holy Spirit, they have become the spiritual Babylon (Rev 17:5) and the harlot of antichrist (Rev 17). They pose a threat of a dangerous infection for Germany.

On 26 July 2009, the Synod of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek-Catholic Church (UOGCC) promulgated God’s anathema upon the Catholic hierarchy of Germany. The reason was the unity of the German hierarchy with the heresy of Msgr. Zollitsch who said that Christ did not die for our sins but only out of solidarity with the suffering. Denial of this fundamental truth of faith means denial of the essence of Christianity.