These Last Days News - July 28, 2022
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9-8. Pope Francis and Canadian Bishops Take Part in Pagan ‘Smudging’ Ritual Invoking ‘Sacred Circle of Spirits’...
“Pagans! Pagans, My child, pagans roaming also in the House of My Son! Is there no one who will go and chase them out? I have asked you, for the Father, to return Michael to My Son’s House. He is the guardian of the Faith. Michael must be entered into My Son’s House.
“Pastors, shepherds of the flock, why do you scatter Our sheep? Do you not know that your responsibility lies with the Father, your Creator, Who has chosen you to direct His sheep? Why have you chosen to scatter them? Gather these sheep, or forever you, too, shall enter into the abyss. There is no place in Heaven for one who has cast aside the role so important, of such greatness, one who is a representative of My Son in His House, chosen from among thousands, millions upon your earth. How sad that so few recognize any longer their true calling!"
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, June 15, 1974
THE AGENTS OF 666 NOW ARE LOOSED IN ROME
"The agents of 666 now are loosed in Rome and have entered into the highest places of the hierarchy. It will be bishop against bishop and cardinal against cardinal, till all that remains will come forward out of the cleansing."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Jesus, July 25, 1977
"My children, in the past My Church, My people have gone through crucibles of suffering, but I say unto you: My House, My Church upon earth is passing through a trial far greater than any in past history. Lucifer and his agents now are working with diligence and are most successful at this moment in their striving to topple the Seat of Peter and to place in Rome a pope that is the antipope of history."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Jesus, June 18, 1978
"Without the number of prayers needed to balance the scale and acts of reparation from the children of earth, there will be placed upon the Seat of Peter one who will put and place souls and the House of God into deep darkness."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, March 18, 1974
The above Messages from Our Lord and Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York.
LifeSiteNews.com reported on July 28, 2022:
by David McLoone
On the fourth day of his Apostolic “pilgrimage” to Canada, Pope Francis joined a pagan “smudging” ritual during his visit to Quebec, partaking in the indigenous practice before delivering a lengthy speech in which he expressed “deep shame and sorrow” for the part played by Catholic Church members in government-funded residential school abuses.
The Pope arrived in Quebec Wednesday afternoon, traveling first to the Archbishopric before transferring to the Citadelle de Quebec, the official home of Governor General Mary Simon, where a welcoming ceremony took place.
After brief introductions, Pope Francis, along with civil dignitaries, was greeted into the reception hall as an indigenous man chanted while beating a drum. According to the emcee, a “traditional Inuit lamp was lit.”
A number of high-ranking prelates were also in attendance, including the Archbishop of Toronto, Cardinal Christopher Collins; Archbishop of Quebec and Primate of Canada Gerald Lacroix; Cardinal Michael F. Czerny, S.J., prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development; Cardinal Marc A. Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops; Archbishop of Edmonton Richard W. Smith; and the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin.
As part of the planned welcome ceremony, an elder from the Huron-Wendat nation opened proceedings by initiating what is known as a ritual “smudge to the four directions,” using sweetgrass and animal feathers to waft smoke around the room.
As noted by LifeSiteNews, the ritual, which apes the use of Catholic sacraments and sacramentals, “is a clear act of pagan superstition,” reminiscent of the Holy Father’s veneration of the pagan pachamama idol at the Vatican in 2019.
The ritual is intended as “a ritual of purification” in which “mother earth” is prayed to as a kind of pantheistic deity.
The elder explained that he would “light the sweetgrass and make my link with the four directions,” after which he takes “the sweetgrass to Pope Francis and a feather from a wild turkey, which is an element of survival for the Huron-Wendat nation on the land.”
“Sweetgrass purifies through the smell,” the elder said, urging that it is “important that Pope Francis receive this sweetgrass and this feather to participate in the smudge to the four directions.”
The Pope was presented with a turkey feather and sweetgrass, which he took from the elder who then asked all to participate in a “circle in spirit,” from which “we can visualize a sacred fire.” He added that “the sacred fire unites everything that exists in creation.”
“We will honor earth, wind, water, and fire,” the elder stated. “We will honor the mineral aspect, the vegetable aspect, and the human aspect.”
Continuing the ritual, the elder said he “will ask the east direction to open its door so we can have access to that direction. I will as the southern direction to open its door as well to have access to that direction,” he added while fanning the smoking sweetgrass with the turkey feather.
“I will ask the western direction to open that door,” which he called “the grandmother door,” adding lastly that he will “honor the northern direction,” which he called “the direction of grandfathers.”
All present were asked to place their hands over their hearts. Video footage shows Pope Francis participating, as well as the high-ranking bishops and cardinals in the front row of the audience all following suit.
To “open the four directions” the elder whistled through a bone instrument four times before saying: “I ask the western grandmother to give us access to the sacred circle of spirits so they can be with us, so we can be united and stronger together.”
Following the ritual, Francis delivered a speech condemning “ideological colonization,” lamenting a past “colonialist mentality” which he said “disregarded the concrete life of people and imposed certain predetermined cultural modes.”
Continuing, the Holy Father appeared to endorse the paganistic rituals of the indigenous peoples, stating that “the Holy See and the local Catholic communities are concretely committed to promoting the indigenous cultures through specific and appropriate forms of spiritual accompaniment that include attention to their cultural traditions, customs, languages and educational processes, in the spirit of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.”
Earlier during his Canadian visit, the Pope, donning traditional indigenous headwear, also attended a “healing dance,” replete with drumbeats apparently supposed to imitate “the heartbeat of mother earth.”
As in the “smudge,” reference was made to the “four elements” and the “four directions.” An indigenous leader said that “[f]rom the west side we have the wind, the oxygen that we breathe, this is the government of mother earth. And on the north side we have mother earth, mother earth is who we are. Mother earth is all the plant life, mother earth, our mother, is also the mother of all insect life, mother earth is also the mother of all animals on the ground, in the water, in the air.”
“Mother earth, is of course, the mother of all humanity,” the leader added.
"There will be an uncanonically elected pope who will cause a great schism, there will be diverse thoughts preached which will cause many, even those in the different orders to doubt, yea, even agree with those heretics which will cause my Order to divide, then will there be such universal dissensions and persecutions that if those days were not shortened even the elect would be lost."
- St. Francis of Assisi (The Reign of Antichrist, Fr. R. Gerald Culleton)
"I will not stand for My priests who condone homosexuality and allow it in My priesthood! I will not stand for My priests who allow the murder of the unborn with their permissiveness! I will not stand by and allow My priesthood to be destroyed!"
- The Bayside Prophecies
Jesus, June 18, 1982
“Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven."
- Matt. 10:32-33
ROME SHALL BECOME THE SEAT OF ANTICHRIST
"Your world, mankind, is now developing into a one-world government and a one-world religion that will cast aside My Son. Woe, I say unto you, as I cried before, that unless you pray, unless you act now, 666 shall entrench himself in Rome, the Eternal City of Rome, and then it shall become the seat of the antichrist forces. My children, remove the blindness from your hearts and your eyes. Can you not recognize what is happening?
"I cry bitter tears of sorrow. I ask all My children to save My Son's House, His Church upon earth. And how may this be accomplished? By prayer, My children; by good example; constructive criticism. You cannot give full confidence to satan or his agents. You cannot expect another to take your part in this battle of the spirits. Each and every one of conscionable age must now go forward as a bearer of truth and light. These days, My children, are the days that had been spoken of and written of by the prophets of old."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady, December 7, 1977
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Francis to Participate in ‘Purification’ Ritual with Indigenous People During Visit to Canada...
“Pagans! Pagans, My child, pagans roaming also in the House of My Son! Is there no one who will go and chase them out? I have asked you, for the Father, to return Michael to My Son’s House. He is the guardian of the Faith. Michael must be entered into My Son’s House.
“Pastors, shepherds of the flock, why do you scatter Our sheep? Do you not know that your responsibility lies with the Father, your Creator, Who has chosen you to direct His sheep? Why have you chosen to scatter them? Gather these sheep, or forever you, too, shall enter into the abyss. There is no place in Heaven for one who has cast aside the role so important, of such greatness, one who is a representative of My Son in His House, chosen from among thousands, millions upon your earth. How sad that so few recognize any longer their true calling!"
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, June 15, 1974
THE AGENTS OF 666 NOW ARE LOOSED IN ROME
"The agents of 666 now are loosed in Rome and have entered into the highest places of the hierarchy. It will be bishop against bishop and cardinal against cardinal, till all that remains will come forward out of the cleansing."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Jesus, July 25, 1977
"My children, in the past My Church, My people have gone through crucibles of suffering, but I say unto you: My House, My Church upon earth is passing through a trial far greater than any in past history. Lucifer and his agents now are working with diligence and are most successful at this moment in their striving to topple the Seat of Peter and to place in Rome a pope that is the antipope of history."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Jesus, June 18, 1978
“Rome will lose the faith and will become the seat of Antichrist.”
– Our Lady of La Salette, September 19, 1846
"Without the number of prayers needed to balance the scale and acts of reparation from the children of earth, there will be placed upon the Seat of Peter one who will put and place souls and the House of God into deep darkness."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, March 18, 1974
The above Messages from Our Lord and Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York.
LifeSiteNews.com reported on July 18, 2022:
by Clare Marie Merkowsky
During his July visit to Canada, Pope Francis is scheduled to partake in pagan ceremonies with Indigenous peoples.
According to Crux, Father Cristino Bouvette of the Archdiocese of Calgary plans for Pope Francis to participate in a pagan “smudging” ceremony and pray facing all four directions, according to Indigenous traditions.
During the Pope’s visit to Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples, an elder will process into the church holding a bowl of smoldering cedar, sage, sweetgrass, and tobacco to reportedly purify the church.
“The smudge that is being proposed at Sacred Heart holds a two-fold purpose: 1) To show recognition of the ritual in an observable/public way; and 2) As a ritual of purification in the space itself as a gesture of making the space ‘more hospitable’ to welcome the Holy Father as he arrives,” Bouvette wrote in an email to Crux.
Bouvette acknowledged that “smudging” is not a Catholic tradition but maintained that it is “certainly not contrary to it.”
“For Indigenous Catholics to see the Holy Father welcomed to some place like Sacred Heart Church by having smudged the space first, or facing the four directions to offer his blessing — as simple as those gestures may seem — clearly demonstrates a sensitivity on his part to their traditions which, though outside of any particular Catholic expression of faith, are certainly not contrary to it,” he wrote to Crux.
“Certain ‘pagan’ practices would be ‘sacrilegious’ because they either make a mockery of our faith or dangerously open one up to the spiritual order where one has no control over what enters or attaches,” he admitted. “There are a variety of Indigenous rituals such as this which I have intentionally left off the table from the beginning.”
“In a Catholic context, we could see the ritual of smudging as being akin to the use of certain of our sacramentals which are borne for personal, spiritual purposes, such as wearing the scapular or anointing with the oil of St. Joseph’s Oratory,” he added.
The cedar, sage, sweetgrass, and tobacco are “gifts of the Creator and therefore returned back to the Creator,” he claimed.
“Personal purification or the purification of the space where the smudge is happening are the exclusive purposes of the ritual,” he said, without explaining what people were being purified from or how burning herbs could spiritually purify a person.
“Usually, the person doing the smudging would use a feather or branch to direct the smoke toward participants who use their hands to welcome it as a sign of their desire to cleanse their minds and hearts. However, Bouvette said, at Sacred Heart the elder will smudge the church itself but will not direct the smoke toward the pope,” Crux reported.
In addition to being an Indigenous tradition, the “smudging” ceremony is practiced in witchcraft and wicca.
According to Bouvette, Pope Francis might also pray facing all four directions, which is another Indigenous practice.
“We do not pray ‘to’ the four directions — we pray only to God, the creator,” he clarified, arguing the movement is “similar to the ancient Christian appreciation of directional orientation — like facing East at the altar as we await the second coming of Christ or facing north to proclaim the Gospel in the direction of darkness where the light of the sun does not pass.”
However, the Indigenous tradition is not to pray facing all four directions but rather to pray to each direction, honoring them as deities or gods in themselves.
Bouvette further justified his claim with comments that have no history as Catholic tradition, saying that praying in all directions “serves as a reminder of the omnipresence of the Creator and that all creation belongs to him.”
“Each direction is also aligned with the stages of human life: infants and children to the east; adolescents and young adults to the south; parents and middle-aged to the west; and our elders to the north,” he added.
“In addition to recognizing the dignity of all human life, it also demonstrates a humble submission to the passage of time, following the direction of the sun in the sky, to which we all must submit ourselves if we seek to live in harmony and peace,” Bouvette claimed.
Pachamama scandal
This is not the first time that Francis will have partaken in pagan practices. During the 2019 Amazonian Synod, the pope participated in a ceremony in which Pachamama statues were venerated. Pachamama, whose name literally means “Mother Earth,” is the pagan goddess of fertility who demands child sacrifice. Her cult is still practiced within the Andes of South America,
The idolatry took place in the Vatican Gardens in the presence of Pope Francis during a tree-planting ceremony, in which pagan shamans led participants in a dance around a Pachamama statue, then offered incense, knelt, and bowed down to the ground in homage.
The statue was subsequently carried in procession during a public prayer of the Stations of the Cross in Rome, was given a place of prominence in the official conference hall for the Synod Fathers, and copies were placed on the altars of Santa Maria in Transpontina.
Additionally, in Laudato Si, Francis purported a new environmental paganism by introducing a new category of “sins against the earth” to be introduced into moral theology.
Such “sins” in turn give rise to an apparent need for “environmental conversion” and “reparation to the earth.” Critics say these at best are pious euphemisms for accepting the climate-change propaganda of globalists who include in their abortion and population control agenda; at worst they are an outright pagan divinization of nature.
Pope Francis said in his interview with Télam that Laudato Si was planned to be written for the Paris climate conference, claiming “nature is paying us back” for “slapping” it.
Controversy over upcoming papal visit to Canada
The Pope has described his upcoming visit to Canada as a “penitential pilgrimage.” His recent meetings with Indigenous leaders have been focused primarily around the Church’s involvement in Canada’s nation-wide residential school system in the 19th and 20th centuries, which saw indigenous children unjustly removed from their families, and taken to the schools for the supposed purpose of education and assimilation into the non-indigenous culture.
The schools were largely run by the Catholic Church, although by no means were they exclusively under Catholic care only, as other Christian denominations also ran some of the schools.
The seized children were prevented from speaking their native tongue or from engaging in their cultural practices from home.
Once attendance at the schools became mandatory in the 1920s, children were forcibly removed from their families and parents threatened with prison if they did not comply. Upon arrival at the school, children rarely saw their families, with many disappearing or never seeing their families again.
Catholic author Michael O’Brien, who attended residential schools and presented testimony to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, previously told LifeSiteNews that the chief underlying issue in the residential school saga was the institutional abuse of children by removing them from their families by the state authorities and then taken to the schools, noting the “long-term psychological and social effects of this.”
Furthermore, residential schools were severely underfunded, meaning that children did not receive sufficient medical care. These children often suffered from excessively high rates of tuberculosis. From 1910 through 1920, child mortality rates were consistently high. Additionally, the Department of Indian Affairs often refused to ship home the bodies of children who died at the government-mandated schools, meaning they were frequently buried on site.
In May 2021, media outlets began publishing stories about the alleged discovery of unmarked graves at the former schools. However, more recent investigations in January 2022 found that despite the allegations of “physical genocide” on the part of the Church, no graves have actually been found.
Accusations of murder and genocide have been levied against the Church over its role in the residential schools, particularly since start of the May 2021 media coverage of the alleged unmarked graves. A series of church burnings began across Canada in an apparent attack of retaliation on the Catholic Church. At least five of the vandalized or burned churches were Catholic churches that specifically belong to First Nations communities.
Pope Francis plans to “meet individually with delegations of Canadian indigenous peoples, accompanied by their Bishops, to listen to their testimonies.”
"I will not stand for My priests who condone homosexuality and allow it in My priesthood! I will not stand for My priests who allow the murder of the unborn with their permissiveness! I will not stand by and allow My priesthood to be destroyed!"
- The Bayside Prophecies
Jesus, June 18, 1982
“Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven."
- Matt. 10:32-33
ROME SHALL BECOME THE SEAT OF ANTICHRIST
"Your world, mankind, is now developing into a one-world government and a one-world religion that will cast aside My Son. Woe, I say unto you, as I cried before, that unless you pray, unless you act now, 666 shall entrench himself in Rome, the Eternal City of Rome, and then it shall become the seat of the antichrist forces. My children, remove the blindness from your hearts and your eyes. Can you not recognize what is happening?
"I cry bitter tears of sorrow. I ask all My children to save My Son's House, His Church upon earth. And how may this be accomplished? By prayer, My children; by good example; constructive criticism. You cannot give full confidence to satan or his agents. You cannot expect another to take your part in this battle of the spirits. Each and every one of conscionable age must now go forward as a bearer of truth and light. These days, My children, are the days that had been spoken of and written of by the prophets of old."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, December 7, 1977
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