+ Elijah
Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

The first form of love is constant self-humiliation. But you need not fabricate anything. You only need to accept the truth! If you feel bitterness towards your neighbour, remember his good qualities and his good deeds, and on the other hand your bad qualities and evil done in the past, and humble yourself before him in spirit and see Jesus in him. And God will then give you the light and fill your heart with love for this person.

The second form of love is sacrifice! It means to offer little sacrifices, self-denials for your neighbour. But do not do so from the “I-am-the-saviour” position but only after you have humbled yourself before him and regarded him as better than yourself.

We can do nothing more for thousands of thirsty, seeking, helpless souls than resolve again and again to surrender ourselves in meekness and humility to Our Lord Jesus Christ, so that we may have His Spirit. We see the exact opposite in the history of philosophy. The founders of various philosophical trends, obsessed with a false thought, subtly grew in pride and their rise in pride opened the power of spirit, but not the Spirit of Christ. Unlike them, we need to allow the Spirit of God to work in power. Our hidden and invisible struggle is a struggle for the salvation of thousands of immortal souls! It is faith that overcomes the world. We have to remain faithful to Jesus and His word – the Gospel! His word is to be lived out, and not philosophized about! We need to put God’s word into practice! May we live our days with Christ, so that Jesus may really be in our midst and it may be true that if two of us agree concerning anything we ask, He will give us! Jesus wants us to have this unity, and in order to have it we must each die to self on the cross, enter into Christ’s death.

Heaven is at hand, for I will die soon. Just a few more years and I shall stand before the gates of heaven. And should I even live a hundred more years, they will pass in no time. How powerfully the thought of heaven should motivate me! This thought moved so many boys and girls to despise the joys and goods of this world, which will pass, so as to attain eternal heaven.

St Bernard had seven brothers. All of them resolved to forsake everything, to join a monastery and to serve God wholly. They had great wealth and wondered what to do with it. They said to each other: “Let us give everything to our youngest brother.” They came to him and told him: “Dear brother, we decided to give all our heritage to you.” He looked at them and said: “How clever you are! You want eternal heaven for yourselves and earthly kingdom for me? I want the kingdom of heaven too! What is the good of wealth?” Finally, after their mother’s death, their father likewise joined a monastery. They really burned with zeal for Christ. They experienced a true spiritual renewal.

Let us stand firm in the faith, a living faith, even in little things. Therein lies holiness. Let us open our eyes to these little things, let us accept them with faith and stand firm in the faith without complaining about the circumstances, enemies etc. We have to live by faith today, not tomorrow, though everything is seemingly calm today! We may not live to see tomorrow. There is no true humility without a living faith. Humility is the inward sacrifice, but it must also be shown outwardly after the example of Our Lord Jesus Christ, meek and humble of heart, and after the example of His Mother, the bondslave of the Lord who always says “Fiat” and “Magnificat” – “Let it be to me!” “Praised be the Lord!” God’s will be done, not mine!

25 January 2023

Dear bishops, priests and faithful of Poland,

on 5-12 February 2023, an assembly is to be held in Prague related to the so-called continental stage of the Synod on Synodality. It is to be attended by all presidents of the European Episcopal Conferences accompanied by three different delegates, plus ten more online. You need to be aware that participation of your president of Episcopal Conference, Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki, and three Polish delegates would, on their part, be a multiple crime against God, the Church and the Polish nation! It is a rebellion against God and the Church, because by mere passive attendance in Prague the president of the Episcopal Conference (EC) gives consent on behalf of himself, the entire episcopal conference and the entire Polish nation to the ecclesiastical legalization of LGBTQ perversions, the punishment for which, as the Scripture warns, is both temporal and eternal fire. This criminal ecclesiastical legalization of LGBTQ abolishes God’s laws and God’s commandments. Abp Stanislaw Gadecki will thus bring down God’s curse on himself, the entire Polish bishops’ conference as well as the Polish nation. This can manifest itself in war fire and a tragic disaster for the whole of Poland.

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven,

but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.”

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’

shall enter the kingdom of heaven,

but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.”

After these words, Jesus continues in the Gospel: “Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practise lawlessness!’”

Jesus speaks here about a false disciple, saying that such disciples will not be saved because although they use religious phrases and hide behind the name of Jesus they do the exact opposite. Moreover, even if they prophesied, cast out demons or did many wonders, it would not help them to be saved.

The Word of God emphasizes: those who have faith in Jesus. This is the condition. Surely, Jesus died for all people and we are obliged to preach to them the Gospel, salvation. Without Him no one can be saved. But today we hear another gospel: to let pagans dwell in darkness and perish in darkness. Certainly, some of them will be saved, but perhaps only those who are not under the sway of pagan religious systems. Or those who have at least not opened up to them. Abraham was a pagan, too, but he had a conscience. Pagans also have a conscience and Christ died for them too. But how can they achieve salvation if no one can be saved without Christ? If they live a righteous life, God will give them a chance to believe in Christ at least in the hour of death. They will either receive Him or reject Him. We will likewise either receive Jesus at the hour of death for the last time or reject Him. That is why the Apostle says that we must be rooted in Him, grounded in Him, so that at the hour of death we may cast away all doubts, all intrusive thoughts, all vanity. It is a hard struggle. You will understand that once you resolve to devote one hour to interior prayer, to spend one hour with Christ.

“A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also.” (Jn 14:19) Jesus speaks here about His death, saying that He will be buried in a tomb but then rise again and His dead body will be seen in the tomb no more. He will be raised from the dead with a glorified body. The world, however, will not see Him risen. In the Gospel of John we read: “The world will see Me no more, but you will see Me.” When does Jesus say these words? On Thursday evening at the Last Supper, probably between eight and ten o’clock. On the next day, Friday, He dies. And then, on Saturday night, Christ comes out of the tomb. He rises from the dead by His own divine power. The whole Trinity takes part in Christ’s resurrection. Indeed, God raised Him from the dead.

The old self is governed by precise principles that are very subtle. They are best recognized and unmasked in ourselves, but even more intensely when two or three truly strive to put the old self to death on the cross, so that we can say: “We died with Him, and we were buried with Him.” And then it is also true that “we were raised with Him”. It is not about physical death, physical burial or physical resurrection. It is a matter of faith and the life of faith, especially the basic steps that we are to take daily again and again: 1) deny yourself, 2) take up your daily cross. Sometimes this cross is the same for a certain period of time. Sometimes it takes a variety of forms during the day. It is mainly about giving up our views, opinions or habits, even in small matters, and it hurts!

“Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down

and thrown into the fire.”

“Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down

and thrown into the fire.”

Jesus does not speak here about a physical tree, but rather about man and his evil works. He says it at the end of the statement about false prophets, who come in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. Jesus continues: “You will know them by their fruits.” And then He adds: “Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?” And then: “Every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.” With a nature corrupted by original sin, we can’t really bear fruit that lasts for eternity. The root of original sin is the seed of the devil. This is the pride of self-deification and rebellion against God, either overbearing pride and arrogance or subtle spiritual pride of pharisees, which is even worse. All this grows from a poisoned root, and that is why Jesus says: Deny yourself, i.e. the source of evil within you.

14 April 2023

A global assembly of the Synod on Synodality, promoting LGBTQ legalization, is scheduled to begin from 30 September 2023 in the Vatican. All participants shall incur the most severe punishment of God – anathema – as well as the most severe ecclesiastical penalty – latae sententiae excommunication. The legalization of the sin of sodomy is a graver sin than sodomy itself. Those who promote and legalize sin break God’s commandments and prevent sinners from repenting and following the path of salvation. Breaking God’s laws is the sin of devilish pride, which opposes God the Creator, the Supreme Lawgiver.

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We, orthodox Catholic bishops on all continents, as successors of Christ’s apostles, following the example of the former nuncio to the United States, Carlo Maria Viganò, hereby publicly before the entire Catholic Church call on the invalid Pope Francis Bergoglio to resign.

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20 April 2023

As of 31 March 2023, the continental phase of the Synod on Synodality was closed. On 30 September 2023, a global assembly is to begin in the Vatican as part of this suicidal process. The initiator of the Synod is a fanatical promoter of sodomy and other moral perversions. The official documents of Bergoglio’s synod use and fully accept the acronym LGBTQ, though the letter Q covers even the worst sexual perversions, associated with the most serious crimes.

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