4-2. Laypersons to Vote at Synod on Synodality...

 

These Last Days News- April 27, 2023

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4-2. Laypersons to Vote at Synod on Synodality...

 

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"Watch, My child, what is to be. They will call another Council. Oh, but satan now has his plans. O woe, woe to evil man-what is to come upon them!"

- The Bayside Prophecies

Our Lady of the Roses, February 1, 1974

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Worse to Come

"And if you think you have seen carnage now already in the Church, the worst is yet to come, unless you follow the rules given by My Mother many years ago, of prayer, atonement, and sacrifice. By your example you may be able to save others. For soon there will come upon you the great Chastisement. It comes in two parts, My child and My children: the Third World War, and also the Ball of Redemption. These can no longer be delayed. For the good seem to go about their way, perhaps pridefully. We do not seek to accuse or place a stigma on any, but some may pridefully sit back and let others go forth and make these sacrifices and prayers and penance. Because they have become smug, or because they have not the grace to understand that once you receive this grace much is expected of you. You must even work harder to save your brothers and sisters."

- The Bayside Prophecies

Jesus, June 18, 1986

 

ONLY SATAN SEEKS CHANGE

"We ask--the Eternal Father speaks, and demands that all bishops in the houses of God throughout your world must turn back to prayer. They must turn back from the road they have chosen, a road filled with error, corruption, and sin. Man will not make changes in the House of God to please the basic carnal nature of mankind! But man in the House of God--the leaders, the clergy chosen by the Eternal Father, shall turn man from his path of destruction and bring him into the House of God. This he will not accomplish by lowering the rule or standards. Man must change his ways and follow the ways of God."You are, My children, living in the era of Antichrist. Recognize the signs of your times, and you will not fall into error. Read the Book, My children. You read books of corruption and vile debauchery. Restore the truth in your heart, into your children and homes. Open the good Book, the Bible, and read it in your homes."My Son has already set up the rule for the houses throughout the world, the churches. They are written in the Book of love and life, the Bible. Read and learn, and follow the truth!"There is no time or change in Heaven. The Father never changes. It is only satan who seeks change to disturb, corrupt, and degrade. Satan roams wherever there is darkness of spirit. He will debase mankind in a manner so foul that you will know that no human could conceive of such vileness of sin.”

- The Bayside Prophecies

Our Lady of the Roses, March 22, 1975

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The above Messages from Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York.

 

ChurchMilitant.com reported on April 26, 2023:

 

by William Mahoney, Ph.D.

 

Pope Francis introduced four modifications to the Synod on Synodality, including voting rights for men and women among religious and laity.

 

Today the Vatican announcedthe four modifications to the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, which Pope Francis has dubbed the Synod on Synodality.

 

Those four modifications are:

 

· Archdioceses and dioceses that do not belong to an episcopal conference may elect a bishop

· The 10 clerics from institutes of consecrated life are replaced by five women religious and five men religious

· The pope will replace auditors with 70 non-bishop members from priests, deacons, consecrated women and laity, with a goal that "50% of them be women and that the presence of young peoplealso be emphasized"

· The pope will choose representatives from the Vatican's dicasteries

 

As members, all of these new participants will have voting rights.

 

The five women religious, who now have voting rights, join Sr. Nathalie Becquart, whom the pope appointed in 2021 as the Synod of Bishop's undersecretary. This appointment made Becquart the first woman to have the right to votein the Synod of Bishops.

 

Rome Correspondent Weighs In

 

Church Militant's Rome correspondent Jules Gomes, Ph.D., commented on the new modifications.

"After repeatedly raising the issue of clericalism, Pope Francis is most definitely seeking to de-clericalize the hierarchy of the Church," he explained.

"In light of early Christianity, the pontiff is attempting to recover a Pauline vision of the Church where every member has a ministry and these ministries need not be confined to the local church," he added.

Gomes recalled the involvement of lay people in choosing bishops in the early Church.

"His inclusion of womenat every level possibleis intentional," he noted about the pope. "The danger is that of lay or non-ordained persons appointed to high officethemselves getting addicted to power and clericalism."

Gomes further posited that, for the new structures to be more credible, the pope must demonstrate to the universal Church how those structures are rooted in Scripture and Tradition.

"But, more importantly," Gomes noted, "he needs to reverse his recent moves that have centralized more power to the Roman pontiff by snatching some power from the bishops."

He concluded by highlighting a change of course from a recent Vatican decision to the pope's latest modifications.

"Ironically, when a German diocese asked for permission to include lay persons in the cathedral chapter to elect the bishop (in the light of an accepted concordat), the Vatican refused to let them do it," observed Gomes.

 

Vatican Defends Modifications

 

The Vatican's announcement offered justifications for the unprecedented modifications. "This decision reinforces the solidity of the process as a whole, by incorporating into the Assembly the living memory of the preparatory phase, through the presence of some of those who were its protagonists, thus restoring the image of a Church-People of God," reads the document.

As a basis for its reasoning, the document mentions the "relationship between common priesthood and ministerial priesthood," expressed at the Second Vatican Council. The statement further argues the changes do not alter the nature of synodal assembly but rather confirm it.

"This is shown first of all by the numerical ratio between bishops and non-bishops, the latter being less than 25% of the total number of Assembly members," explains the document.

It continues:

But above all this is shown by the way in which the non-bishops are appointed. ... [T]hey are not elected by some demosor coetus, whose representation they would take on, but are appointed by the Holy Father on the proposal of the bodies through which episcopal collegiality is realized at the level of continental areas, rooting their presence in the exercise of pastoral discernment.

 

Mixed Reactions

 

Reactions on social media to the Vatican's announcement were mixed, but mostly negative.

"That's great progress. Long overdue. Thanks to Pope Francis!" readsone response.

"Historic! the Pope plans to appoint 70 non-bishop members of the synod, with half of them being women, who will also have voting rights. … This is a significant effort," wroteLawrence Taveras.

"This farce is rigged, like most everything else in this corrupt pontificate," readsanother response.

"Then why is it called the Synod of Bishops?" wroteMario Cataldo. "What a joke. Our Church is becoming a secular democracy."

Another reaction concurredwith Cataldo: "This is absurd. The Church is not a democracy. Welcome to Protestantism."

 

 

 

JESUS NEVER CHANGES

"Come out of the darkness, my sisters. You have been misled. Do not follow the fashions of your world. There is no fashion in Heaven. Jesus never changes. There is great punishment ahead for those who follow the world. Do not leave when you are discouraged by those who satan has sent into your convents. Stand forth as an example of purity and godliness. You will not be cast aside by your God, as you will by man, as you stand to defend your God. Pick up your cross and carry it. You will return the habit to the floor."

– The Bayside Prophecies

St. Theresa, November 20, 1972

 

“WE DO NOT CONDONE VARIATIONS AND CHANGES"

"It has grieved Me much in the past, as it grieves Me now, that mankind is making changes to My words. I assure you, My children and pastors within My houses, My Church upon earth, there is no necessity to change My words. Heaven, hell, purgatory, and especially, My children, the word 'hell' must be retained in your prayers."Repeat, My child, the confessional prayer.O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I confess to all my sins, because I dread the loss of Heaven and the pains of hell, but most of all because I love Thee, my God, Who are all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life. Amen."Yes, My child, We do not condone variations and changes. It is the enemies of your God that have set themselves to promote change upon My words. The word of your God is eternal and must not be changed.”

– The Bayside Prophecies

Jesus, February 10, 1977

 

 

 

 

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