In the Lenten period, bear in mind the basic realities: You shall die. You shall stand before the judgment seat of God. Your eternity will either be happy or unhappy. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, suffered and died for your sake to give you eternal happiness after death. Your impurity made Him suffer bloody scourging, your pride made Him suffer humiliation when He was crowned with thorns and covered with spittle. Your devious sinful paths made Him walk the way of the cross. The death of Christ conquered sin and the devil and opened for you the way to eternal glory. Jesus says to you today: “Deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Me.” Where to? To Golgotha. Narrow is the path (Mt 7:14) that leads through the death of Christ to eternal life.

In the Lenten period, make a resolution to deny yourself at least once a day. Self-pity, envy, impure thoughts, anger… Say: “Jesus, I deny myself, I deny myself… I break with the spirit of lies and vanity.”

a) Reflection on God’s Word:

Jesus is arrested: The apostle-traitor brought soldiers and temple guards with torches into Gethsemane. He came near to Jesus and gave Him a traitorous kiss. And the soldiers seized Jesus.

Last Supper

a) Reflection on God’s Word:

On Thursday evening Jesus celebrates the Last Supper with His apostles. The Passover is connected with the sacrificing of the lamb and with the Passover meal. This festival commemorates the passing over of Israel from the slavery of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Jesus came to deliver mankind from the slavery of sin and the devil.

“Whoever fears the Lord walks uprightly, but those who despise

Him are devious in their ways.”

Whoever fears the Lord walks uprightly, but those who despise Him are devious in their ways.

Why should we fear the Lord? Does the Book of Psalms not say in many places, “The Lord is good”? Psalm 136, for example, reads: “Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. … To Him who by wisdom made the heavens, for His mercy endures forever. … To Him who divided the Red Sea in two and made Israel pass through the midst of it, but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea, for His mercy endures forever.”

Why should we fear God if He is good and merciful? The problem is within us. There is a source of evil in our heart which entered our human nature with the first sin of our first father Adam. This evil deceives us in a masterly fashion. Its goal is to bring us into the bondage of sin, so that we finally lose our soul by abandoning God and becoming one with the evil in us. Therefore, because He loved us, the Good Father gave His only-begotten Son for us. Jesus became man and dying in disgrace on the cross delivered us from this evil in us which we love. We also call it our self and we feel hurt if someone points out the evil we do.

On the Sunday before the beginning of Lent in the Eastern Church, we shall hear the passage from the Gospel of Matthew: “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (Mt 6:14-21)

+ Elijah
Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

With God’s permission, we lost our monastery overnight which housed forty Sisters, including the novices. At the same time, we lost the men’s monastery, with a retreat house and chapel, where the faithful would regularly attend liturgies on Sundays. We see it as a trial, and we try to say with patient Job: “The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord!”

We put our future into God’s hands. Above all, we have at heart the whole situation, which affects not only us, and we pray that God may turn everything into a blessing both for Ukraine and other nations.

Our missionary work is now paralysed to some extent.

25 February 2022

In his address to the symposium on the priesthood, the head of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Unity, Cardinal Koch, emphasized the importance of discussing the issue of primacy in relation to synodality.

If anything is to be discussed, both sides must first realize the basic paradigm, and that is: primacy does not exist without being rooted in the foundations of faith and morals and defending those foundations against heresies. However, the whole synodal journey and Bergoglio himself have abandoned the foundations of faith and morals, so any discussion on their platform is self-destructive.

Quote by Koch: “One of the biggest differences from the Orthodox Church is the question of papacy.”

Koch knows that many so-called Catholic theologians seek to abolish the papal institution in order to create so-called ecumenical unity with Orthodoxy and Protestantism.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.

In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.”

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.

There is wise counsel in the Book of Proverbs, which is rooted in age-old experience: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart.” God speaks to man through His word, but also secretly through various life situations. It is important to know first when exactly I should trust in the Lord. Above all, I should trust in Him in the face of trial. I should also trust in Him when asking for wisdom in a situation that is unclear and not easy to navigate. Our trust is then manifested in prayer.

Testimony: More than thirty years ago, a young man visited a group of believers. They encouraged each other, and then one of the believers asked the young man, “Why do you have a crutch?” He replied, “I’ve had a motorcycle accident and my knee won’t work properly any more. Thank God it wasn’t worse. I have to come to terms with that crutch, get used to it. My sick leave was not extended and due to that leg, I will be receiving a partial disability pension.” One of the brethren suggested, “Why not pray for it? Perhaps the Lord will enlighten us on this.”

22 February 2022

On 17-19 February, a symposium on the theology of the priesthood was held in the Vatican.

Early this month, however, the German “synodal Church” voted in favour of the so-called Church’s blessing on same-sex pseudo marriage! This is not only a schism; this is a public presentation of synodal Satanism, apostasy from Christ, and the adoption of an anti-gospel agenda (Gal 1:8-9) resulting in a curse and expulsion from the Church of Christ. Bergoglio approved the suicidal decision of the German synodal path at the symposium by his notorious silence!

Watch this video on: https://rumble.com/vw068u-vatican-symposium.html   
https://ugetube.com/watch/zGZAol6hTyMQiXi   
https://cos.tv/videos/play/34456121521247232   
https://www.bitchute.com/video/trdQNmv0Jl8o/   

At this time of the Church’s apostasy, the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate is the prophetic voice of one crying in the wilderness. By authority of the apostolic and prophetic office, in the name of the Triune God, we hereby publish an anathema, that is, exclusion of Joe Biden, a Catholic, the current President of the United States, from the Mystical Body of Christ, and thus from the Catholic Church.

Watch this video on: https://rumble.com/vvn09f-anathema-biden.html  
https://cos.tv/videos/play/34362116485452800   
https://ugetube.com/watch/iSuVjMTH3ko1buE   
https://www.bitchute.com/video/3lqXRH6vy9rE/   

2 February 2022

The current pseudo Pope applies completely opposite principles to the teachings of the Catholic Church. There is no such paradox in secular society. Bergoglio makes the Church of Christ the harlot of the antichrist – the New Age satanic Church.

Watch this video on: https://rumble.com/vvlabi-bergoglio-and-synod.html   
https://cos.tv/videos/play/34348587429434368   
https://www.bitchute.com/video/7sLB6oUXkrcM/   

“God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing,

whether good or evil.”

God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.

This is the last verse of the Book of Ecclesiastes. Realize that everything you do is filmed by invisible cameras and stored in your soul, and it is all seen by angels too. Not only the holy angels but also the evil ones see everything, and will accuse you before God’s judgment seat. Modern technology with ubiquitous cameras monitors and records many human actions and preserves them as evidence. This human technology is mere child’s play in comparison with the spiritual principles and laws that apply in the spiritual world. Be aware that you are not hidden anywhere; God sees you everywhere. He even sees into your heart and examines your thoughts and feelings. Nothing is hidden from Him. He has given you freedom. When you do good, you show gratitude to God and His reward awaits you. When you do evil, God is grieved by the evil done, and He often allows suffering in your life to make you stop and begin to take care of your soul.