These Last Days News - August 12, 2024
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7-6. Bishop Strickland: The Church Is Meant To Save Souls, Not Provide a ‘False Peace’ To the World...
"Your world cries peace, peace, where there is no peace. You consort with the enemies of your God in My Son's Church! And what have you in common, the light with the darkness? Shall you be unevenly yoked?
"Compromise! Compromise, and you shall fall! You shall not, O pastors, win souls for the Kingdom of your God by compromise! Your example is poor! Shall you stand before My Son and say that your teaching has been pure in His sight? Oh no, I say unto you! You shall be cast into the fires of eternal damnation!”
– The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, December 24, 1976
"The Bread of life, My Son, is your salvation. Without Him you will never be able to withstand the attacks of satan and his agents. The forces of evil have accelerated. Protect yourselves and those you love with the armor We have given you. Do not succumb, My children, to the fallacies about you, the half-truths and falsehoods. Know that your sacramentals were given for reason. Do not cast them aside! Understand, My children: if satan removes your sacramentals, he has more advantage over you."
- The bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, March 18, 1975
The above Messages from Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York.
LifeSiteNews.com reported on August 11, 2024:
by LifeSiteNews staff
On this week’s two-part episode of The Bishop Strickland Show, Bishop Joseph Strickland discusses the Transfiguration of Our Lord, the blasphemy at the Olympic opening ceremony, how faith in the Lord saves us, a letter he wrote about staying faithful to the Church despite infiltration, and more.
Strickland begins the first part of the episode by offering commentary on Mark 9:2-10, in which Our Lord transfigured before Peter, James, and John on a mountain, with Moses and Elijah appearing beside Him.
The bishop noted that when looking at this Gospel passage, it’s important to reflect that Jesus showed these three apostles a glimpse of what He’s always been, namely God, even after becoming incarnate on earth. He further emphasized that the Transfiguration came close to the end of Our Lord’s ministry to give the apostles strength.
“He is giving them a glimpse of the reality that He will rise from the dead. Giving them the strength to be able to experience that. And it acknowledges that they were terrified, and I think that’s a very reasonable reaction to seeing Jesus manifesting who He actually is, the Son of God who they’ve been walking with,” Strickland said. “That perfection of St. Peter in a different passage in the Gospel: ‘You are the Christ, the son of the living God.’ – this Gospel really demonstrates that.”
The bishop later added that while seeing the Transfiguration strengthened the apostles, it was also a great responsibility. “As Peter, James, and John were being strengthened in order to keep the faith even as Jesus died and then rose. And they struggled even there; they were strengthened, but they weren’t the strongest still. Peter denies Jesus but then ultimately clings to Him and believes in His resurrection. So, Peter, James, and John, I think, are great reminders to us of those who have received much, much will be expected. That is the truth of the Gospel.”
Strickland, touching on the recent National Eucharistic Congress, reminded viewers that “the very same Jesus that is transfigured on that mountain, speaking to Moses and Elijah, is present with us at every Mass. Really, I think that that emphasis is something we’ve got to continue to strengthen in each of our lives and in the life of the Church because it is the same Jesus of whom the Father says, ‘This is my beloved Son, listen to Him.’ We all need to hear those words echoed as we go to Mass, and for me as a priest, for every ordained priest, we really need to embrace that deeply into our hearts, the very same Jesus we’re celebrating at the Eucharistic altar.”
Later in the episode, host Terry Barber asked the bishop about the blasphemy at the 2024 Olympic opening ceremony. Strickland said he was glad bishops have spoken out in response, adding: “This is said not because our feelings are hurt as Christians but because this is blasphemous toward the Son of God. And I think we shouldn’t miss the fact that this comes on the heels of the Eucharistic Congress, which reminds us of the sacred gift of the presence of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.” Strickland then read from a letter written by Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, about the blasphemy and urging reparation.
Many people, including Catholic bishops and numerous Christians throughout the world, have condemned the blasphemous event that took place during the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in Paris. As almost everyone now knows, there was a mocking display of the Last Supper where Jesus was portrayed as an obese female dressed in white. She was surrounded by a gaggle of drag queen ‘apostles,’ and a young girl was also – we should worry why? – included in this hypersexualized and sacrilegious depiction
Amid all the condemnations and claims of the display’s offensiveness, what has not been stated, even by Christians, is that those who planned, orchestrated, and perpetrated such a blasphemous portrayal, unless they repent, will not die a happy death. At the very moment of their death, they will be about to face the very one that they blasphemously mocked and demeaned. And contrary to the sentimentalized Christianity of many today, Scripture itself tells us that He will be their judge – the holy and risen Lord Jesus Christ.
Bishop Strickland said those paragraphs of the letter need to be highlighted because they remind us that the Lord was blasphemed. “There’s just nothing really positive about it. Even if it hadn’t been depicting Jesus at the Last Supper, the imagery and the connotations of it are debauchery right there on display at the Olympics, which are international, worldwide events that should uplift humanity and not drag us further down.” The bishop urged viewers to pray for everyone involved in this mocking depiction of the Last Supper because they need to repent, lest they face the very Jesus they have mocked in judgment.
Strickland begins the second part of the episode by offering commentary on Matthew 15:21-28, in which Our Lord healed the daughter of a Canaanite woman. He stresses that the first half of this Gospel passage reminds us that Jesus came to bring back the lost sheep of the chosen people.
“We see ourselves in the Church today as the new Israel; we have inherited that call to be the chosen people of God. And in that context, this woman asks, ‘Who is a Canaanite?’ She is not part of the house of Israel, but Jesus is true to His mission in saying, ‘I can’t throw to the dogs what is for the children of Israel.’” His Excellency adds that the Lord, in this Gospel, shows us what it really means to save the lost children of Israel, that is, to proclaim the truth even when it seems harsh or restrictive.
This woman is a Canaanite; she is not part of the house of Israel. So, Jesus says, ‘I’m not here for you; I’m here to bring back the lost sheep of the chosen people, the house of Israel.’ But … as this passage continues, this woman says boldly, ‘Please, Lord, for even the dogs eat the scraps that fall from the table of their masters.’ In that statement, the woman clearly expresses her faith in the reality that Jesus is the master. And ultimately, it’s her faith that allows her daughter to be healed. ‘Oh, woman, great is your faith.’
Strickland notes how this is echoed in many Gospel passages: it is faith that saves us and allows us to be part of the fold despite not being part of the chosen people originally. “What welcomes her to be part of the fold of God, to be part of God’s flock, is her faith because she recognizes who Jesus is, and ultimately, we know that the ministry that the apostles adopt as they build the Church that is what they proclaim, ‘Embrace Jesus Christ as your Lord and master.’
Later in the episode, Barber asks the bishop about a letter he recently published acknowledging the evil infiltrating the Church while still recognizing the Church’s divine establishment and remaining there. “It is important to recognize that we are never to despair, that the hope of our faith is as sure and strong and founded on Christ as it ever has been. I think that’s an important message,” Strickland said, noting that many don’t support what he says and want to act like everything in the Church is fine. “I disagree. I don’t believe that that’s what Christ calls us to. And I think the blasphemy at the Olympics is a good illustration of, ‘It can happen.’”
Strickland underscored that the Church is meant to save souls, not calm the world. We may want peace, but true peace is in Christ, in which truth reigns. “It doesn’t mean just everything’s tranquil and letting people get away with sinful lives if everything stays calm. That’s not what Christ is about, because that’s a false calm and a false peace. So we need to acknowledge the evil, we need to acknowledge the betrayals, we need to acknowledge all of it. But always remembering that we are founded on Christ, that He is the cornerstone. We have to remember that Christ is always with us, that Christ is there, [that] He’s our strength.”
Strickland uses the example of the saints and martyrs to illustrate how we need to be strong in our faith. “All the saints in one way or another gave their lives for the faith, the martyrs paid the ultimate sacrifice and died for their faith. But we need to be strong in clinging to those pillars of faith. Where is their strength? In Jesus Christ, the cornerstone of their faith.”
The bishop urged viewers to use the foundation pillars on cornerstone of Christ and build a bridge to pull us out of the swamps of evil we find ourselves in, and into everlasting life. Using this analogy, Strickland added: “Let’s say we’re building a bridge over a swamp, that is full of alligators and other beasts that are ready to devour us. This bridge of faith, built on the pillars of faith that has its foundation the cornerstone that is Christ, … allows us to endure, to hold fast.”
"My children, I do not wish to place fear in your heart, but I cannot allow you to go forward without knowing what is happening about you. I assure you, My children, it is not productive to keep the truth from all and to substitute a climate of false hope and false peace. Know, My children, it is by peace, peace, peace--when the world cries peace the highest and the loudest, know that the destruction is at hand! Do you think there is honesty among thieves? Do you think there is honesty among atheists? Are you so blind, My children, not to recognize that communism has a great hold upon your country and the countries of the world?
"O My children, I warned you many years ago, I warned you in Fatima that, unless you prayed and did penance, Russia and the agents of the sickle and the hammer would go throughout the world cutting down nations and bringing death, destruction, and slavery."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, April 2, 1977
THE WAR OF THE SPIRITS
“You cannot understand the Eternal Father in His ways, My child. The Eternal Father allows man to proceed upon his own course. No evil is ever triumphant. The Eternal Father will turn all evil to good.
"This is, My child, you must understand, the war of the spirits. As Lucifer and his agents--satan roams your world now, known as, through history, as 666. He will be allowed but a short time longer for his reign. But the Eternal Father will allow him to proceed as a manner to separate the sheep from the goats, and to cleanse My Son's Church.”
– The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, September 28, 1979
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