These Last Days News - December 19, 2019
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Upside-Down Christmas Trees Trend Reflects a Confused, Rootless World...

END NOVELTY
"You are blind, My pastors. You permit untold evil to ravage My House. How long do you think I will permit you to mislead and destroy the souls entrusted to you? I want an end to the experimentation in My House. I want an end to novelty. Restore My House, or I will come and send you out of it!" - Jesus, May 26, 1976

ONLY ONE WAY
"There is only one way that this can be stopped, this evil that has seeped into My House and into the hearts of all mankind. You must stop now your seeking for change and novelty. You must restore My Church to its former glory. Admit your error. Do not conceal this with pride and arrogance." - Jesus, September 7, 1978

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LifeSiteNews.com reported on December 17, 2019:

by Peter Kwasniewski

Thoughtful observers may debate the merits and demerits of the internet age. Nearly all are agreed that it has brought about a frightening escalation in addictions to pornography and violence; that it has amplified the phenomenon of wasting time and killing time, in spite of the fact that time is the most precious gift we have, more valuable than health or wealth; that it has vastly multiplied data while superficializing and fragmenting public discourse; that it leaves people with more “friends” and less friendship.

Nearly all, I guess, would agree that the internet has also made available the truth about many issues the Powers That Be would rather see remain hidden — the truth, for example, about the ideological liturgical reform under Paul VI, or about the criminal ring governing the Catholic Church today, or about many political alliances and strategies that depend on deception or secrecy for their success.

One thing, in any case, can be agreed upon by everyone: the internet puts on full display, around the clock, the strangeness of the world in which we live.

I am still rather low-tech, in spite of using a computer for much of my work. I spend most of my time looking at or thinking about old liturgical rites, old books, and old works of art, because they are the best, and anything good happening today happens in continuity and conversation with them. As a result, I generally find out about the latest fads and fashions (if at all) by chance, usually when they are no longer the latest fads and fashions.

It was not long ago that I first heard about the odd idea of upside-down Christmas trees, which is apparently “a thing.” It would never have occurred to me to put a tree upside-down. In an article entitled “Exploring the Upside-Down Christmas Tree Phenomenon,” Coral Nafie writes: “Hanging fir trees upside down goes back to the Middle Ages when Europeans did it to represent the Trinity. But now, Christmas trees are shaped with the tip pointing to heaven, and some think an upside-down Christmas tree is disrespectful or sacrilegious.” Nafie provides no sources for her claim that this custom has a distant precursor in the Catholic Middle Ages, but even if that were true, it’s not difficult to see why suddenly reversing the orientation of Christmas trees, after a gap of several centuries in which they were always placed right-side-up, would be, well, disorienting. (As I have recently argued with regard to another example, an ancient custom that has disappeared and is then suddenly reintroduced many centuries later will always carry a radical shift in meaning.)

This much I can say: an upside-down Christmas tree will not transmit a message of long lost medieval Trinitarian symbolism. Rather, it encapsulates a very modern appetite for irregularity, imbalance, and inversion. It’s a sort of arborial representation of dysphoria with the natural order.

Many modern people are, in fact, just like upside-down trees, because they have turned their priorities upside-down. Tradition is the root of any man, but we put modernity ahead of tradition, as if standing on our heads.

Dogmatic truth is the root of revealed religion, but we put relevance and public acceptance ahead of truth. The commandments of God are the root of holiness and social peace, but we put a false mercy and tolerance ahead of them. Liturgy is the primordial act of worship and adherence to God, but we put just about everything ahead of solemn, reverent, beautiful liturgy, which is an afterthought or nonexistent in most Catholic parishes. In all these ways, today’s Catholics are very much like upside-down trees.

It’s obvious, moreover, that if someone tries to plant a tree by its branches and leaves, while leaving the roots dangling in mid-air, it will not be able to grow, let alone bear fruit. He will be killing the tree by not respecting its inherent order, where up cannot be exchanged for down, crown for root. It is not left to our whimsy to determine what needs to be planted deep in the soil and what needs to be standing upright, pointing to the sun.

Moderns have a terrible habit of thinking their will, their volition, determines reality. A flattering illusion, this way of thinking can be true, at best, only in the minor part of reality that our free actions determine, such as cuisine or Christmas decorations; and even these have to observe the laws of nature, whereby gravity will have its way, and heating and cooling their inevitable results.

To take the premiere example of our times, moderns think they can decide whether they are male, female, or many other types of things in between or altogether off the map. But this is madness. We are what we are, and we fight that fact to our own destruction. When we accept who and what we are — and when we look toward who and what we should become, with God’s help — then real achievement in life is possible. When the tree has its root in the right place, and the fertilizer of grace (so to speak) is well applied, fruit will start to appear — lasting fruit, sweet to the taste.

A (right-side-up) Christmas tree has much obvious symbolism in it, but one of its most basic characteristics should not pass unpondered: that it arrives at a topmost point, which points upward to heaven. The point of the tree should remind us of the point of our souls: the acies mentis, the highest and most godlike power we possess, the “peak of our mind,” by which we can see, hear, and touch God, in whose image we are made. Were it not for this intellectual power, we would be no better than the beasts that perish or uprooted plants cast into the fire. Because of it, however, we are capax Dei, capable of possessing God Himself; and because of it, God Himself could become a man.

Spending our eternity with Him is the reason we were made and the purpose of our lives. This is what the Christian calendar reminds us of, year in, year out. Our home decorations should also do the same.

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CHANGES MUST BE STOPPED AND REVERSED
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YOU WILL STOP EXPERIMENTING
"My child and My children, I come once more with an urgent and pleading message to the hierarchy in the Church, My Church upon earth. I want you to know now that We look upon you and find many that do not fall into grace. They are falling out of grace and misleading many of Our sheep.
     "Therefore, I warn you now as your God: You will stop your intricacies within My Church. You will stop experimenting. I gave you the rules to follow many years ago, two thousand years approximately. And why now, two thousand years later, do you deem it necessary to change My Church upon earth? I, your God, say to you, you will be judged accordingly. You will return My Church to its former glory, and in that manner you will have more vocations and more entering the seminaries, and not fleeing from them as they hear the heresies and all other innovations that are going on within My Church. This is My last and final word to My clergy: Change now or suffer a just punishment and banishment." - Jesus, June 18, 1986

RETURN TO YOUR TRADITIONAL RITES
”I send to My clergy, those whom I have given the grace to represent Heaven upon earth, this warning: You must now return to your traditional rites! You must restore My House from its crumbling exterior and rotting interior. You must rebuild what you seek to destroy--now!
     "Many who call themselves My chosen ones have set themselves to destroy from within. Your actions have not gone by unnoticed by the Eternal Father. Error, deception, deceit, in the guise of sanctity and piousness! You are unmasked before the Eternal Father. You shall start little by little and repair the foundation, or you shall be within and destroy.
     "I look upon all manner of abominations being committed in My House. Do you think you will go much longer without chastisement? Awaken from your slumber, My clergy! You deceive no one!”  - Jesus, November 22, 1975

CHANGING THE CONSTRUCTION
“You will not bring about a conversion of those who are presently apostate by compromising your Faith or changing the construction of the exterior lines of My Church; and by that I mean the physical appearance and the manner in which you conduct the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
     “Many are giving My Body in a manner that can only be called blasphemy. Many are accepting My Body in the Eucharist in a manner that defames the Divinity, and also promotes unholiness, paganism, and impurity of heart and actions during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.” - Jesus, May 26, 1979

CHANGES MUST BE STOPPED AND REVERSED
"There is no excuse accepted now by the Eternal Father among the clergy, who now offend the Eternal Father by misleading the children of God upon earth. The experimentation and changes must be stopped and reversed! There is no other course.” – Our Lady, August 4, 1979

“RESTORE MY HOUSE!”
"My Mother has given you My way. It is a simple road that must be followed. The rules have been given to you that must not be changed, as you cater to the basic carnal nature of man, a generation that has fallen! You will not make changes within My House, for you have dispersed My sheep. You will restore My House to its former glory. Strip you hearts of your pride! Recognize your errors and restore My House!
     "I say this to you for your Creator, as your God: Restore My House, or I shall come down and restore it Myself with a firm hand! And shall you stand before Me, O pastors, and say that your teachings have been pure in My sight? I shall take you and spit you out as spittle into the fires of eternal damnation! Vermin that came out of the flowers!”  – Jesus, December 28, 1976

STOP CHANGE AND NOVELTY
"My child and My children, make it known to all that the road to Heaven was never easy, but you can make it much easier upon yourselves and your families if you follow the rules, if you follow the Commandments from the Eternal Father. The changes that We see taking place in My House and upon earth are not good, for many, many souls are falling into hell. And a great measure of responsibility now is with those who have been called to the holy orders, who have given themselves to represent Me upon earth. Shall I say that I have found many Judases now within My House? Cannot this situation be changed?
     "There is only one way that this can be stopped, this evil that has seeped into My House and into the hearts of all mankind. You must stop now your seeking for change and novelty. You must restore My Church to its former glory. Admit your error. Do not conceal this with pride and arrogance.
     "Remember there was the time when it was necessary to cast Luciel and his followers from Heaven--Lucifer, who now goads you on to hell with him, upon earth. He had to be cast from Heaven because he, too, became prideful and arrogant, seeking to make himself another living god. This cannot be done. You cannot be above your Creator.” – Jesus, September 7, 1978

DO NOT ACCEPT
"My children, you must retain Tradition; you must retain a firm foundation of your faith by keeping all of the good publications. Do not accept the changes that have been made by satan to seduce your souls.” – Jesus, November 19, 1977

INDOCTRINATED
Veronica - The books are being changed to cover the evil being perpetrated now. The young are being indoctrinated to accept changes which will take away Tradition and even doctrine. Our Lady said we must all pray a constant vigilance of prayer. It has a great power over the demons. – November 19, 1977

NOT FROM HOLY SPIRIT
"I must, My child, make it known at this time that you must go back in the immediate years and bring the knowledge to mankind that these changes, the changes that have given bad fruits, have not been given to you through the Holy Spirit and through your Vicar, Pope Paul VI. It is the web of satan reaching out. Many are now, My child, puppets. The strings are being pulled by Benelli, Villot, and Casaroli and their followers.” – Our Lady, September 27, 1975

YOU HAVE STRAYED
"O My children, how far you have strayed from the truth! The knowledge given to you by your prophets were written down in truth to guide you, but now you change the words to suit your basic carnal human natures. Go back and read, My children, the true words of your prophets. But do not accept changes in the Book, for these changes have been promoted by satan. Heresy, O mournful heresy, whatever shall become of you!
     "Parents, I caution you anew to guard the souls of your children by your teaching and example. You cannot save your children's souls by giving them to false teachers and the world, for the world has now been given to satan.” – Our Lady, June 5, 1976

“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.” – Jesus, February 10, 1977

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.” – Our Lady, March 22, 1975

Directives from Heaven... https://www.tldm.org/directives/directives.htm

D1 - The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass  PDF
D81 - Faith  PDF
D85 - Tradition  PDF
D123 - Catholic Church, Part 1  PDF
D124 - Catholic Church, Part 2  PDF
D125 - Ecumenism   PDF
D211 - Changes, Part 1 PDF
D212 - Changes, Part 2 PDF
D265 - The Papacy  PDF
D311 - Pray for Your Clergy  PDF

EDITOR'S COMMENT:  Evil is accelerating and the Anti-Christ forces are gaining power in the world.  When the persecution starts, all Christian web sites on the internet will be forced to close.  Be sure to have in your possession all the following items: the Bayside Prophecy books, Bayside Medals, Douay-Rheims Bibles, the Protection Packets, Candles, Sacramentals, and Religious Books.  Purchase these items now while they are still available!  You will urgently need them in the days ahead.  Also, you can print out all PDF files for the Directives from Heaven and all of the Bayside Prophecies.  Copy Our Lady's messages and the Directives from Heaven now while they are still available!  Pray to the Holy Spirit for wisdom and guidance on how to prepare now and for the days ahead when the Antichrist is revealed.  Viva Cristo Rey!

Your names have been written in Heaven… "It is not by accident that you are called by My Mother, for your names have been written in Heaven.... But with this great grace you have great responsibility to send this Message from Heaven throughout the world, for if you are able to recover just one more for Heaven, an additional star shall be placed in your crown." - Jesus, August 5, 1975

A great obligation to go forward... "It is not by accident that you are called by My Mother, for it is by merit and the prayers that have risen to Heaven for your salvation.  For those who have received the grace to hear the Message from Heaven, you have a great obligation to go forward and bring this Message to your brothers and sisters.  Do not expect a rest upon your earth, for you will have eternal rest very soon." - Jesus, June 12, 1976

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