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"WE BEG PENANCE AND REPARATION"
"We beg penance and reparation of you all. All loving hearts must bear the burden of this sorrow, to pray for those lost on the road to perdition, forever to be lost to Heaven. Pray, My children; never cease in your prayers. For many are at the brink of eternity, on the road to eternal damnation."
- Our Lady, August 14, 1970

"Pray on your knees to honor My Son, to make reparation for those who do not honor My Son." - Our Lady, November 21, 1970

“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!" - Our Lady of the Roses, June 15, 1974

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ChurchMilitant.com reported on August 4, 2023:

by Jules Gomes

Police were summoned to a church in Lisbon after a band of traditionalist Catholics picketed an LGBT Mass celebrated to welcome homosexual and transgender pilgrims at World Youth Day in Portugal. 

Carrying crucifixes and rosaries, a dozen traditionalist Catholic youth entered the Church of Our Lady of the Incarnation in Ameixoeira on Thursday around 3 p.m., chanting a "prayer of reparation" for the "mortal sins" that result from "an LGBT ideology in the Catholic Church."

Priest Calls Cops

"The protestors began praying the Rosary in Latin before the Mass could begin," one of the priests concelebrating the Eucharist observed. The presiding priest immediately called the police, who arrived within minutes and ordered the traditionalists to leave.

Several protestors refused to leave and continued to raise their voices outside the church when they were forced out.  

The LGBT Mass was scheduled to be celebrated at the Convent of São Domingo, but the location was changed, as threats had been circulating on the internet for several days, Ann Carvalho, the organizer of the service told Portuguese media. 

"The police were in fact very quick from the moment they were warned. We stopped the Eucharist and waited for the group to leave," Carvalho said. "It was relatively quiet. There was some resistance from a couple of individuals, but the police did well."

Trangender Flag Protestor

In another incident, WYD participants confronted a pro-trans Catholic defiantly waving a transgender flag at the opening Mass at Edward VII Park while pilgrims from around the world were parading the flags of the countries they represent.

When asked to stop waving his flag, the pro-trans pilgrim protested, "I'm representing my people, just like everyone else, with my flag. God loves everyone, right?"

"This is for everyone. This is for the youth. I was let in by the police. I can be here, and I can do this," he insisted. "Are you [the] organizers?" he asked. When the youth told him they weren't representing the organizers, the protestor shouted, "Then go f*** yourself."

The incident was caught on video and went viral later that evening, raising criticisms of "transphobia" from pro-LGBT activists.  

Pro-LGBT Events 

Meanwhile, Ann Carvalho's Arco Íris Center, a pro-LGBT campaign group, is hosting at the Casa da Cidadania do Lumiar in Lisbon multiple events for Catholic youth who claim to identify as homosexual, transgender or non-binary.

The Arco Íris Center has set up an operation base for WYD just a couple of hundred meters from the church where Maria José Vilaça, president of the Association of Catholic Psychologists, offered reparative therapy for Catholics with same-sex attraction.

On Wednesday, the pansexual activist organization hosted homosexualist Jesuit Fr. James Martin. Father James Alison, a homosexualist former Dominican who maintains he has not been laicized even though his "current canonical status is anomalous," spoke at the center on Thursday.   

Gay Iconography of Jesus

On Friday, the Arco Íris Center will screen a documentary film containing homosexual iconography of Jesus. The film Wonderfully Made features interviews with Fr. James Martin and the openly gay Fr. Bryan Massingale.

Film director Yuval David, a Jew "married" to his Catholic "husband," says he noticed the absence of LGBT portrayals of Jesus in Catholicism — a faith where icons play a significant part.

"I myself am Jewish but my husband is Catholic, and he expressed to me feelings of there not necessarily being a place for him in the same way as there was a place for straight people," David told AMNY news.

"When you look at the gospels," Fr. James Martin says in the film, "you see that Jesus reached out specifically to people who are on the margins."

"And so, I think if Jesus were here today, in the flesh, on earth, he would be going first to LGBT people. For Jesus, there is no us and them. There's just us," Martin stresses.

The film emphasizes that homosexual clergy are not responsible for the sex abuse crisis engulfing the Church, Church Militant reported.

Carvalho noted that Pope Francis had called for radical inclusion in his homily during the Eucharist at Edward VII Park. 

"In the Church, there is room for everyone; no one is superfluous. Jesus says it clearly," Francis emphasized while preaching on a text from the Gospel of St. Luke. "God loves us. He loves us as we are, not as we would like to be or as society would like us to be."

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“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."
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"YOU  WILL  BE  SURELY  DESTROYED"
"As in Sodom and Gomorrah, mankind had gone down and given itself over to satan. I ask you now, My children, to turn back from your road to destruction, for you will be surely destroyed as was the time of Sodom and Gomorrah.  Homosexuality shall not be condoned.  It is an abomination in the eyes of the Eternal Father, and as such, is condemning many to hell."  Jesus, June 18, 1991

SODOM:  "WE  DESTROYED  IT"
"And the great issue now of homosexuality in your country, that shall be on the balance that Michael holds.  Unless this balance is evened by removing this evil from your country and bringing in just laws to prevent the spread of homosexuality, you cannot be saved; your country cannot be saved.  Because I repeat again, as I have repeated in the past:  When a country has given itself over to immorality and all pleasures of the flesh, and abominations of the flesh, then that country will fall!  If you do not believe Me, My children, I say:  You will read your history books, and you will find out that there was a Sodom and Gomorrah.  And what did We do to that abominable city, Sodom?  We destroyed it!  And what did We do to Gomorrah?  We destroyed it!  And We destroyed all who did not follow the plan for their redemption." Jesus, November 1, 1985

LEADERS  LAX,  CORRUPT
"Homosexuality is rampant throughout your country and all of the nations of the world.  Your leaders are lax and corrupt.  There are very few voices with authority crying out against the sins that shall bring destruction upon your nation and many nations of the world." Our Lady of the Roses, July 14, 1979

"YOU  WILL  BE  REMOVED"
"I am your God, and I say unto you:  continue to change My Church and you will fall!  You will build a secular church, bringing in all--even heretics, even homosexuals.  All aberrations condemned by the Eternal Father, you will permit in the name of humanism.  Nay, no!  I say unto you as your God.  You will be given a short reign, for I consider you then an abomination, and as such you will be removed." Jesus, May 23, 1979

WOE  TO  THE  PASTORS
"My children, can I bring you a message of joy when My heart is torn by the murders and the loss of respect for your elders?  Children against parents, parents going about, running to and fro, marrying and giving in marriage, living adulterously, consorting with evil, with homosexuals and lesbians!  What manner of life do you show for your children to make example of?  Woe to the parent that scandalizes his child.  It is better if that parent had died in his mother's womb!  Woe to the pastors that scandalize the children!  They shall burn in an eternity of hell for their deception!" Our Lady of the Roses, August 5, 1977

READ  YOUR  BIBLES
"Your word of homosexuality can be explained by the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.  Read in your Bibles or consult your clergy.  Find yourselves, My children, a humble, pious clergy.  Many have fallen away from the Faith." Our Lady of the Roses, October 6, 1992

PASTORS  HELD  RESPONSIBLE
"We hold the pastors of My Son's House, We hold them as being responsible for the fall of the children.  Be ye warned now, My children, that woe to the man who has this responsibility upon his conscience and his soul.  Scandals have been brought into the lives of your children.  Perversion, homosexuality, immorality, perverted sex, My children-where shall you stop but at the abyss!" Our Lady of the Roses, December 7, 1977

HOMOSEXUALITY  IN  PRIESTHOOD
"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!" Jesus, June 18, 1982

THEOLOGIANS
"Immorality, homosexuality, and what do We hear now but permissiveness in sex, even from the mouths of Our trained ones known as theologians?  Have you all lost your minds or your souls to satan?  Human sexuality you call it?  Animal sexuality I call it!  You fornicate like animals.  And why did the Father deem it necessary to intervene upon Sodom and Gomorrah?" Jesus, November 21, 1977

SATAN ENTERED THE CHURCH
"How I warned and warned that satan would enter into the highest realms of the hierarchy in Rome. The Third Secret, My child, is that satan would enter into My Son's Church." - Our Lady, May 13, 1978

SATAN SAT IN ON VATICAN II
"I say this evening, as your God, that on that date, as promised at Fatima, satan entered My Church upon earth. He brought with him his agents--and satan himself, the deceiver of all mankind--sat in on Vatican II and maneuvered all the outsiders to come in and distort My doctrines and distort the truth. At Fatima, My Mother tried to warn of this coming event, but who cared to listen? Who was interested in listening?" - Jesus, June 18, 1986

A SECRET WAS TO BE REVEALED
"I counseled you at Fatima, and who gave My counsel to the world? Pride and arrogance anew! A secret was to be revealed, and who counseled and prepared the world for the onslaught of Satan into My Son's House? No one!" - Our Lady, December 3l, 1977

WIDE ROAD TO DAMNATION
"I say unto you, My pastors, hierarchy and priests of all nations: You will follow the rules as given through countless earth-years. My Church, My House has been set up upon earth. I gave the direction. It was a simple way. And you have entered upon the wide road to damnation. Many mitres shall fall into hell! But sadly they will take others with them.
     "The justice of the Eternal Father has charity, gives hope. However, you cannot compromise the Faith. You cannot compromise with evil. There is no middle road between good and evil.” - Jesus, October 6, 1978

“RESTORE MY HOUSE NOW”
"Many mitres now hold major responsibility for the loss of their sheep. You have scattered them in all directions. And now what do you intend to do to restore My House? Restore My House now, for I shall return and I shall send you out of My House, forever lost to Heaven. Your rank has no precedence over another soul when this soul is being sent into the abyss. You hold a major responsibility for the loss of My sheep.” - Jesus, May 29, 1976 

ARROGANCE AND PRIDE
"Because of the arrogance and pride of My clergy, many of Our sheep, Our children, are lost to the Kingdom of Heaven. Many mitres are destined for the abyss. Heresy and apostasy abounds upon earth.” - Jesus, June 18, 1979 

SOME ARE A DISGRACE
“Clergy in My Son’s houses, you must show more honor to My Son. There are some who are a disgrace to their profession, leading others into ways of sin. Oh ye of little faith, why do you debase the young? You who have given themselves over to worldly pleasures and defamed their profession shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” - Our Lady, June 18, 1993"Red Hats, bishops, you go about earth oppressing the children of God, but you neither chastise nor condemn the evil ones in your House, the Church." - Our Lady of the Roses, May 3, 1978

 "I am your God, and I say unto you:  continue to change My Church and you will fall!  You will build a secular church, bringing in all--even heretics, even homosexuals.  All aberrations condemned by the Eternal Father, you will permit in the name of humanism.  Nay, no!  I say unto you as your God.  You will be given a short reign, for I consider you then an abomination, and as such you will be removed." - Jesus, May 23, 1979 

SATAN ENTERED THE CHURCH
"How I warned and warned that satan would enter into the highest realms of the hierarchy in Rome. The Third Secret, My child, is that satan would enter into My Son's Church." - Our Lady, May 13, 1978

CAPITULATION
"My children, the forces of 666, the forces of darkness now are gathering to do full war with all of the children of God in the light. It will be a battle that will call for great spirit, great sacrifice. And one must retain the knowledge of the Faith, for it will give you necessary strength in the battle.
    "In Rome, the Eternal City of the hills, My children, the forces are gathering to bring about the capitulation of the Seat of Peter to communism and atheism, all promoted in the name of humanism. My children, all this is coming about fast because man has neglected sacrifice and prayer.
    "A delusion has been set upon mankind. The Eternal Father has deemed that man shall go along now and reap what he has sown. Man is forever searching for peace--peace of heart, peace in armaments. But the more he cries for peace the farther he flies from it. There shall be no peace upon earth unless man returns to his God.
    "The state of your world has been reduced by the immorality. The state of your world is capitulating now to all of the forces of the octopus that will seek to bring about a one-world religion and a one-world government under a supreme dictator of evil." - Our Lady, March 18, 1978

TRAITORS IN THE VATICAN
"Your newspapers, even those who call themselves Catholic, have fallen. They have now been given to the enemies of God, for when they seek to destroy the Church of the Son of God, they are enemies of God, and they are of the Antichrist.
    "Make it known, my child, that you all now are proceeding in the days of the Revelations. All will come to pass as given in the Book of life. There are many seers now throughout the world who will carry the message forward. Many must accept martyrdom, but the glory beyond the veil far exceeds the suffering of earth time.
    "Control--you must know, my child, and tell the world that satan has control now of many major positions in the House of God, in the Eternal City of Rome. Traitors surround your Vicar. His sufferings are great.
    "Already they have chosen his successor. But pray, my children, pray much that he does not be removed, for woe to the world! The crucifixion of the Mystical Body of Christ! Woe to mankind!" - St. Michael, August 21, 1974

HAVEN FOR HERETICS
"Hasten, harken, and listen! The Message from Heaven is going throughout your world. The Queen of Heaven, your Mother, has come to your earth to bring you the admonition from Heaven. Each man shall accept or reject this message in his free will. The sheep shall be separated from the goats.
    "Rome, Eternal City, the light is dim. Rome, haven for heretics and all manners of abomination, shall you not cleanse yourself before the Eternal Father places His hand upon you in chastisement? You have opened your doors to all manner of evil spirits.
    "Holiness and piety! Man--men of God, you must wear your garment of purity, dedication, and piety. What manner of foul deeds do you perform for the destruction of your sheep! For what? Material gain and pride and arrogance? You shall be cast into the abyss! Rank shall give you no advantage when you come over the veil." - St. Michael, December 24, 1975

ONLY THROUGH HUMBLENESS
"My children, the forces of evil are gathering in the Eternal City of Rome. You must all pray a constant vigilance. Your Holy Father has accepted a heavy cross.
    "The Message from Heaven has entered upon the Eternal City. It is only through humbleness of heart and prayer that those who have a high station in My Son's House will understand the errors they have fallen into and will turn back now while there is time. They have consorted with the enemies of God. The road to hell is often paved with good intentions, My children, but you have been deluded by many.
    "In your striving to bring peace and brotherhood, you have lost your way, O pastors of My Son's houses. There shall be, without prayer, a battle: bishop against bishop and cardinal against cardinal, and all that is rotten shall fall." - Our Lady, May 29, 1976

GREAT DARKNESS COVERING ROME
"There is a great spirit of darkness covering the Eternal City of Rome. I, your Mother, as Mediatrix between God and man, implore you now to turn back, for you are creating your own destruction. A Church in darkness wears a band of death about it!
    "My children, pastors in My Son's House, you must not compromise your Faith! What manner of church are you creating? Who has yielded My Son into the hands of the enemies of God?
    "My children, the time is growing short. There are many victim souls now in your world who have carried the balance, the balance that grows heavily to the left. When the peak of iniquity is reached, know that the final cleansing of mankind shall be at hand!
    "My children, I cannot, as your Mother, refrain from bringing to you the facts. I give you hope in My Son. Remain with Him at the tabernacles in your world. I bring you confidence from My Son, that if you persevere you will overcome all of the evils now rampant in your world." - Our Lady, December 28, 1976

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