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"Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation.” (Mark 15:16)

ByzCath.org was launched in October 1996 to provide information about the Byzantine Catholic Church in America. Now, in its second decade, byzcath.org is wiorking to expand to provide information about all the Eastern Christian Churches with more information about the Faith (including downloadable resources), "News of the Christian East" and upgraded messageboards.

ByzCath.org is an unofficial site. We strive to provide an accurate presentation of Church Teachings. If you believe we have failed in this task please let us know.

As this site expands we hope to contribute to the “New Evangelization” of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

About the site design:

This site is designed for screens with a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels or higher. Users with older screens (800 x 600 pixels) will find that some of the screen layouts are not ideal. Since it is impossible for us to design the site so that it looks the same on every type of monitor and with every type of browser we have designed it to be viewed on the screens that are most popular. If you have problems with this website please let us know so that we can investigate and, if possible, correct the problem.

Wisdom from the Church Fathers

Even a pious person is not immune to spiritual sickness if he does not have a wise guide -- either a living person or a spiritual writer. This sickness is called _prelest_, or spiritual delusion, imagining oneself to be near to God and to the realm of the divine and supernatural. Even zealous ascetics in monasteries are sometimes subject to this delusion, but of course, laymen who are zealous in external struggles (podvigi) undergo it much more frequently. Surpassing their acquaintances in struggles of prayer and fasting, they imagine that they are seers of divine visions, or at least of dreams inspired by grace. In every event of their lives, they see special intentional directions from God or their guardian angel. And then they start imagining that they are God's elect, and often try to foretell the future. The Holy Fathers armed themselves against nothing so fiercely as against this sickness -- prelest.

Metropolitan Anthony Khrapovitsky
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