But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin,

you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.

You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

8 December 2018

In these times of spiritual chaos, one needs to have a clear grasp of the means that lead to spiritual life – orthopraxy.

1) Celebration of Sunday

On the night from Saturday to Sunday, Christ rose from the dead. On Sunday, too, at about nine o’clock in the morning, the Holy Spirit was sent down on the Apostles and the Church was born. The early Christians were built on four spiritual pillars (Acts 2:42):

1. prayers,
2. apostles’ doctrine (an interpretation of God’s Word in the same Spirit as it was taught by the Apostles),
3. fellowship (koinonia),
4. the breaking of bread (the Eucharist).

Prayers for the celebration of Sunday (everybody prays at home)

5 December 2018

Why is the present-day Church in such a deep crisis? Much of the blame for this falls on John XXIII’s aggiornamento and the postconciliar spirit.

What then should bishops, priests and religious do in Advent time, the time of repentance? They should separate from the spiritual poison of the aggiornamento and of the postconciliar spirit promoting heresies which destroy the essence of Christianity.

Currently, the renewal of baptismal vows concerns the following areas:

1) Contemporary heresies

In terms of faith, it is necessary to break with heresies which deny the most fundamental truths. It is necessary to create such conditions as to be able to identify heresies and to dissociate oneself from them. The truths of faith will thus shine brightly again. Furthermore, it is necessary to preach the full and living Word of God and to lead the believers to conversion and to the path of following Christ!

3 December 2018

The Catholic Church has no Pope. It is in a state of Sede Vacante. In accordance with the Scripture and Church doctrine, a heretic must not be obeyed by anyone because he is excluded from the Church of Christ.

On 28 November 2018, the Vatican under pseudo Pope Bergoglio promulgated the following statement through the mass media: “We give our full support to the UN pact on migration (Global Compact).”

26 November 2018

The biblical model of the Christian temple is the vision given by God (to Moses). It was applied to the Jerusalem Temple. The basic structure consists of the Holy of Holies, where God is present in a special way, the Holy Place, where the priests offered sacrifices to God, and the place for people.

The Eastern temple with an iconostasis, altar and tabernacle has preserved this biblical structure to this day. The Western Church had preserved it only until the Second Vatican Council which carried out an absurd reform. After the reform, the priest, who represents the people and offers sacrifice to God on the altar in their behalf, has turned his back to the centre of the temple, which is the tabernacle where God’s presence dwells constantly. Moreover, in many places the tabernacle has been removed from the centre of the temple. The reform has also removed the rail which separated the place for priests and for those who served at the altar.

25 November 2018

The Epiclesis is the invocation of the Holy Spirit both on us and on the gifts. It has three parts:

1) The priest kneels and implores God in a spirit: “Send down the Holy Spirit upon us” (Note: Throughout the Epiclesis, the chorus sings the antiphon: “We praise You…” or there is silence).

God promises through the prophet Ezekiel (37): “Behold, I will send spirit into you, and you shall live.” – We beseech in spirit: Lord, give us the Spirit of repentance, that we may live!

“I will put sinews on you” – Put sinews on us – the gift of prayer!

“I will bring flesh upon you” – Fill us with the power of Your commandments!

“I will cover you with protective skin” – Give us living communities!

“I will put Spirit in you, and you shall live” – Put the fullness of the Spirit in us, that we may live! Ye-ho-shu-aaa

“Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone

as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey,

either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience,

which leads to righteousness?”

“Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?”

This verse from the Scripture reveals a deep truth about obedience the fruit of which is eternal life in heaven or eternal death in hell.

Apart from the word obedience, this verse also emphasizes the word slave (Gr. dúlos). According to the Greek original, the verse should actually read as follows: Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey? You are either slaves of sin, which leads to death, or you obey God, which leads to justification from sin and to life.

If we do not serve God wholeheartedly, we are not free but we are slaves of original sin which is in us. We automatically obey original sin, i.e. the source of lies and evil in our heart. Original sin clouds our mind and weakens our will so that we hate the truth about ourselves, reject the true good and refuse to serve God and keep His commandments.

22 November 2018

Before His death, before sacrificing His body and blood on the cross, Jesus established this sacrifice of the cross to be offered to God for the remission of sins. The symbolic sin-offerings, when the blood and life of the sacrificial lambs was offered in the Jerusalem temple, lost their significance. Jesus is the true Lamb who took on Himself the sins of the world (Jn 1:29). Before the completion of His sacrifice of the cross, Jesus instituted a new sacrifice, which is also a new covenant (Mt 26:26) for the forgiveness of sins. At the Last Supper, He took bread and said, “This is My body, which is given for you.” Then He took the cup of wine and said, “This is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed … for the remission of sins.”

What about the Apostles? What did they think? They did not understand His words because His sacrifice had not yet been accomplished. During the Last Supper, Jesus also spoke a number of times about the Holy Spirit, “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when the Spirit of truth has come, He will guide you into all truth.” (Jn 16:13)

21 November 2018

Part one: The Difference between Eastern and Western Liturgy, the Question of Epiclesis

Part two: The Holy Spirit and the Epiclesis

Part three: How to experience the Epiclesis in the Liturgy

Part four: Liturgical Space and Iconostasis

Part one: The Difference between Eastern and Western Liturgy, the Question of Epiclesis

The Eastern Liturgy of St Basil the Great and St John Chrysostom (4th century) contains the Epiclesis. The Epiclesis is also found in other Eastern rites. It comes directly from the Apostolic Tradition.

What is the difference between Eastern and Western Liturgy? The Western Liturgy was radically modified at the Second Vatican Council. The reform introduced four Canons instead of one. The pre-conciliar Latin Liturgy had no mention of the Holy Spirit in the Canon. The reformed conciliar Liturgy does make mention of the Holy Spirit but it has been inserted before the words of Institution. Unlike the Latin Liturgy, the Eastern Liturgy includes a so-called intense invocation of the Holy Spirit, or the Epiclesis, after the words of Institution.

21 November 2018

To Slovak MPs

Dear Members of the Parliament of Slovakia,

the “UN Global Compact on Migration”, more precisely “Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration”, is to be signed at the forthcoming meeting in Marrakesh. A number of states have decided not to sign this document: USA, Australia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Austria and many others are on the way to rejecting this compact, as it directly threatens their sovereignty, removes the difference between legal and illegal migration, and poses serious security risks with long-term consequences.

The consequences of illegal migration in the last few years have been obvious and alarming: social unrest, an enormous increase in crime, extreme health risks, cold-blooded terrorist attacks the victims of which are mostly the civilian population. The most vulnerable group is women and girls, who in many cases become victims of brutal rape, in some cases even fatal. Another product of illegal migration is so-called no-go zones, which are not subordinated to the local law of the state. On the contrary, Muslims establish there unacceptable Sharia law which proclaims hatred against the non-Muslim population.

17 November 2018

An open heretic Francis Bergoglio issued two documents aimed at destroying contemplative monasteries, one on 29 June 2016 and the other on 1 April 2018. Of course, everything has been wrapped up in pious phrases and positive terms. Obviously the purpose of this church globalization is to put into practice his statement about the hosting of Islamists in every monastery, and thus a gradual transition from monasteries to Muslim mosques.

 The usefulness of contemplative monasteries in the Church can be likened to the function of the heart in the human organism. Bergoglio decided to stab the Mystical Body of Christ – the Church – through the heart.

The process of destruction of true spirituality through the so-called aggiornamento was started at the Second Vatican Council. It was most painfully reflected in the women’s monasteries. The former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Card. Ratzinger, testifies to it in the book An Exclusive Interview on the State of the Church with V. Messori. He gave shocking statistics from Quebec: “At the beginning of the sixties, Quebec was the region of the world with the highest number of women religious. Between 1961 and 1981 (note: after Vatican II), the women religious have been reduced from 46,933 to 26,294.

“And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin,

but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead,

and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.”

“And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.”

What verse precedes it? “Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.”

And what verse follows verse 13? “For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.”

Chapter six of the Epistle to the Romans expresses a deep truth of our deliverance from sin. Verses 3 and 4 speak about baptism through which we have been immersed in the mystery of Christ’s death, and at the same time have received a new life: “Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” Verse 6 points out the spiritual reality that the root of evil in us – original sin – the old self – was crucified with Christ. In verse 11, we are told to accept by faith the reality of spiritual death as well as the reality of new life: “Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” It calls for a faith which is connected with spiritual struggle.