Thanks are due to all who kept watches in the Czech Republic and Slovakia on Easter Monday. To them who stood on the squares with placards: Stop to the stealing of children! (Istanbul) , Stop to Islamization! (Dublin IV) , SOS: Jesus, save us!

What is the relation of our Patriarchate to the Mother of Jesus?

Fully biblical, in line with the whole Church’s tradition. Jesus is true God and Mary is the Mother of God – Birth-giver of God – Theotokos. It was proclaimed at the Council of Ephesus in 431. She well deserves special honour from everyone who has received Jesus, as stated in the Scripture: “All generations will call me blessed.” (Lk 1:48)

The purpose of a critical view of the papacy is not its elimination, as attempted by some cardinals or liberal theologians. The purpose is its purification.

How did the Apostle Peter and his successors understand the papacy in the first three centuries? In the first place in such way that they themselves, dying a martyr’s death, witnessed to Christ. Jesus is the Son of God who died for our sins and, being God, rose again from the dead historically and really. There is salvation in no one else (Acts 4:12).

25 March 2018

The Lenten season culminates; we are entering the Holy Week. We commemorate Christ’s redemptive death and His glorious resurrection.

The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate is pleading You, Most Reverend Bishops of the V4 countries: Please, encourage Your priests and believers to hold the Easter procession on 2 April 2018. This demonstration in support of the family and nation will then take place in every village and town.

When Slovakia was under threat of a maidan, a lot of believers made a promise to God. They pray for two hours every day until Easter for the salvation of Slovakia. They pray for one hour between 8 and 9 p.m. in the family circle. The second hour is set aside for personal prayer at a time during the day which suits them best. Many keep the fast on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in such way that they do not eat hot meal until evening. God did hear the fervent prayers. But the spiritual battle has not ended. The V4 countries are still under threat of planned suicide through Dublin IV and the Istanbul Convention. It is like the battle between David and Goliath.

“But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident,

for ‘the just shall live by faith’”

But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident,  for ‘the just shall live by faith’.

It is clearly said here that no one will be justified by the law, and it is emphasized that the just shall live by faith. Let us focus again on the term ‘the just’, both from the natural point of view and from the point of view of the Scripture. The just is the one who gives everyone his due, i.e. giving God, neighbour and oneself what is due by right.

Injustice is to respond to the love of God with indifference. Jesus gave His life for us on the cross, and our response is boycott and unbelief – this is injustice. Let us be just; let us respond to His great love with gratefulness and love.

From the point of view of faith, the word justice also means justification or purification from various injustices and sins. We are justified by faith; not by our works but by faith which is connected with the admitting of our trespasses before God. By faith we are united to Christ’s death on the cross, which means that each of us personally believes in the Word of God saying that Jesus died for all my sins and if I walk in the light, His blood cleanses me from all sin (cf. 1Jn 1:7-9).

One of the crucial statements is: “Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you!” We can practise it until death. This is the Law and the Prophets (cf. Mat 7:12). You can write down concretely what you do not want others to do to you, and then stop and think if you do not do exactly the same to others, perhaps in a subtler form. How simple and topical for our everyday life! We only need to begin to see and practise it, and then the lived Gospel will do its blessed work.

“And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith,

preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying,

‘In you all the nations shall be blessed.’”

Verses 6 and 7, which speak of justification by faith, are continued by verse 8. It is said that the Scripture foresees that God would justify the Gentiles by faith. An example is Abraham himself, who was a Gentile but he believed in God, in His almightiness, acknowledged God as his sovereign Lord and surrendered his life to Him. He accepted the moral laws which God had put into the heart of man through conscience. In this respect, Abraham is an example to the Gentiles. If they have the faith of Abraham, God will justify the Gentiles; He promised it to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.” However, we have to distinguish between the Gentiles like Abraham and the Gentiles who have embraced religious systems which block them and are the greatest obstacle for the Abrahamic faith because they force the Gentiles to worship demons rather than the one Sovereign God as the Creator and Supreme Lawgiver.

26 February 2018

A draft pastoral letter for Czech bishops

In this historic year which marks the 100^th anniversary of the Czech Republic, we, Czech bishops want to participate effectively in its spiritual growth. We consider it our primary task before God and before the Czech people.

We are in the period of Lent. Therefore, we call on the faithful to use this time for their spiritual renewal by prayer and acts of repentance. After the example of spiritual fathers, we follow an old proverb: “Actions speak louder than words.” In our conscience therefore, we feel bound to set an example for you, our spiritual sons and daughters, by admitting self-critically our own guilt, i.e. by showing repentance. After due consideration and acceptance of painful criticism, we have come to the conclusion that we will make radical steps of repentance.

“Just as Abraham ‘believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.’

Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.”

Verse 5, preceding verses 6 and 7, reads: “Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?” Once again, the Apostle emphasizes here that God works miracles not because we keep the law but because we have believed and stand in the faith. The Scripture clearly emphasizes that we must not suppose that God justifies us through our own effort to keep the law. We would be mistaken just as if we thought that God gives us His Spirit through our own effort.

The Apostle continues in verse 6: “Just as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” The Apostle points to Abraham again and sets him as an example of faith. He believed God, believed in God’s almightiness, and he stood in this faith even in the face of hard trials. Faith was accounted to him for righteousness; in other words, he was justified of his sins by faith. The Apostle continues in verse 7: “Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.” The faith in one God the Creator is the foundation for justification of sins.

18 February 2018

An interview with Patriarch Elijah of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate:

Question: What about the present-day Church?

Answer: Our Lord Jesus Christ established His Church which is a means of saving the souls. This Church of Christ has been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets (cf. Eph 2:20). The Church is the pillar and ground of the truth in the world (cf. 1Tim 3:15).

The Church exists as Militant and Triumphant. The Church Triumphant are the saints in the glory of heaven. The Church Militant is on earth.

Question: Who has eternal life?

Answer: He who has received and has the Son of God. It is written, “God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has (eternal) life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have eternal life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” (cf. 1Jn 5:11-12; Jn 3:36) The death of every man will reveal what is the true state of his soul and whether he is a living or dead member of Christ.

14 February 2018

Francis Bergoglio, a Jesuit, has been admonished, warned several times to distance himself from heresies. However, he obstinately rejects any repentance. He continues to cause extreme offence not only to the believers of the Roman Catholic Church but also to all Christians and unbelievers.

By abusing the supreme church authority through heresies, he intensely promotes the self-destruction of the Church, in matters of both faith and morals.

It concerns the following heresies: Francis Bergoglio

1) denied the universally valid moral norms in the exhortation Amoris Laetitia.

2) did not distance himself from heresies of syncretism with paganism which place the redemptive death of Christ on the same level as the sacrifice to pagan gods, de facto demons. He thus destroys true mission.

16 February 2018

Some German theologians today do not consider the papacy to be necessary. These theologians, moreover, advocate not only gender deviations but also same-sex marriage.

We are entering Lent. Every Christian should stop and realize anew the most fundamental things concerning their life and salvation. If anyone believed a lie or accepted heresies, even if it was in the distant past, one must repent. It means to stand by the cross of Christ, to break with heresies and the path of sin, and to set on the path of repentance, truth and the following of Christ.

13 October 2017

Christian nations have come to a stage when things can no longer be called by their proper names either in the sphere of politics or education or public life in general. So-called political correctness is being promoted to cover up the most serious crimes against humanity. This spiritual atmosphere does not allow evil to be called evil.

Evil must be accepted as good, so people are unable to defend themselves against it. If nowadays anyone dares to call evil evil, one is punished as the most dangerous criminal. (In Germany, media coverage of migrant crimes carries 5 years’ imprisonment.)

It is an unwritten law that self-destruction of the individual and nation must be enforced under the guise of positive terms. Everyone must play-act following the dictates of the secret elites.