These Last Days News - February 26, 2024
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7-1. Bishop Strickland Champions Sanctity of Life, Turning America into ‘One Nation under God’ At CPAC...
PUT INTO YOUR GOVERNMENT GOD-FEARING MEN
"You must inform My children in your country that they must put into your government God-fearing men who follow the rules of the Father. If you bring murderers into the house, robbers and thieves, they will rob you until nothing remains. You will be stripped of all earthly wealth and this wealth will be turned over to one small group to govern the lives of many!"
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, November 1, 1974
GOVERNMENT
"For that one reason among many, the United States will suffer unless there is placed into your government a group that fears the Lord if they cannot love the Lord. They will fear Him and find measures to stop the slaughter of the unborn."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, April 14, 1984
The above Messages from Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York.
LifeSiteNews.com reported on February 23, 2024:
by LifeSiteNews staff
Bishop Joseph Strickland, the beloved former bishop of Tyler, Texas, delivered powerful words on the need for humility, the sanctity of life and the goal of reforming America into “one nation under God” on Friday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland.
Speaking at CPAC’s Ronald Reagan Dinner, Strickland began with the notion that the United States must reform itself to the ideal of being “one nation under God.”
“We need to really pray and reflect on what that means, and return to those values,” Strickland urged. “Because too many, in the political world especially, are encouraging an atheistic approach to leading this nation. That will never last. That will never thrive.”
Strickland emphasized to the audience that the first step to returning America to its proper place under God is “humility.”
“Humility,” the bishop began. “Think about our nation, our time, our culture… humility is not popular, (but) humility is the greatness of Jesus Christ.”
Strickland mentioned that Christ, while being fully God, was so perfectly humble that He chose to become man starting from the smallest of human lives, an embryo in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
“We need to remember that,” he stressed, encouraging everyone to seek God’s mercy always.
Strickland then related how he would like to share a letter written by a friend of his, challenging him and “all of us.” Beginning this letter, Strickland read:
Those of you who are gathered here today are a group of people who understand the importance of tradition, the sanctity of life and the importance of staying ‘on course.’ However, there are many people in our country who might describe you as intolerant, while lamenting that the country can’t be moved to where it needs to go because of ‘these people.’
Strickland explained that his friend’s letter included a quote from the late American Archbishop Fulton Sheen, which seems even more poignant today than when it was delivered over five decades ago. Quoting Sheen, Strickland said:
America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.
“I want to add to that personally,” Strickland followed. “I’m here today at this dinner as a witness to Truth … a witness to Christ’s truth. And I am thankful for those of you who sit here today who are also a witness to truth.”
“But let me speak a word of caution here,” Strickland warned. “When you portray yourself as standing for truth, it is easy to pat yourself on the back, and to feel – we’ve have arrived. And it is easy to think that it’s fine for you to cut corners or to be just a little dishonest or to attack people unjustly if it furthers your purpose. Beware, though, and remember what the Lord said to the leaders, the elite, in His day, ‘You brood of vipers, how can your speech be good when you are evil? For words flow out of what fills the heart.'”
“Therefore, as we go forward and fight this battle … we must be careful to not take on the attitude that the Lord will overlook our transgressions because, after all, look at what we are accomplishing. We must understand that, if anything, we will be held to a higher standard of conduct because – to whom much is given, much is required.”
Strickland, stressing the necessity of ridding America of its sins, then quoted Mother Teresa and her critique of America:
America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father’s role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts – a child – as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters. And, in granting this unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners. Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being’s entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign.
Strickland, adding to Mother Teresa’s words, stated:
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, that was a wonderful day, but we are still far from stamping out the killing of our children. Make no mistake that every one of us still has the blood of children on our hands for there is always more that we can do to make abortion not only illegal but unthinkable.
Strickland then turned to an even more recent issue, that of in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Strickland heralded the Catholic Church’s condemnation of the practice and outlined why opposition to the procedure is integral to the pro-life ethic.
He urged those to become well-versed in all issues opposing life, including that of IVF, which like abortion, brings an end to life by the artificial creation and destruction of human embryos.
Strickland challenged those in the audience to help “guide” political leaders in the true pro-life ethic, praising the recent court decision in Alabama that recognized the dignity of human beings in their embryonic form.
Strickland then read from Second Chronicles, urging the audience to truly listen to the words of Scripture:
If my people who bear my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my presence and turn from their wicked ways, then I will listen from heaven and forgive their sins and restore their country…
But if you turn away and forsake my laws and commandments which I have laid down for you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, then I shall uproot them from the country which I have given them.
In his concluding remarks, Strickland turned to the words of St. Ignatius:
Truth always ends by victory; it is not unassailable, but invincible.
He urged the audience to never “compromise the truth,” warning that even a little comprise can “destroy.”
“Don’t compromise! Stand for the truth, and trust in its power.”
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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