These Last Days News - July 18, 2024
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Bishop Strickland: ‘Silent Shepherds’ Are Betraying Christ with Their Apathy...

"My Son's Church, His House upon earth, is undergoing a great trial from within. The numbers of Judases are multiplying in Rome, My children. If this continues there will be a bloodbath in the streets of Rome." - Our Lady, June 18, 1978

"My children, you will all recognize the faces of evil. Satan has entered into the highest ranks of My Church. Pray now for your priests: your bishops, your cardinals, your clergy. Many prayers are needed, for many are on, now, the road to perdition and taking many others with them." - Jesus, July 15, 1977

"There will be many mitres in hell. Many priests are on the road to damnation; with them they take others. For this, the lowest pit of the abyss will be eternity! Those entrusted in My Son's House will be held accountable for the fall of young souls. Your rank will be no guarantee of your entrance into the Kingdom. You have betrayed My Son. How dare you sell His House! You have sold My Son's House for the profit of your temporary lifetime!" - Our Lady, July 25, 1972

bishopjosephstrickland.substack.com reported on July 18, 2024:

by Bishop Joseph E. Strickland

“As he was yet speaking, behold a multitude; and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them and drew near to Jesus, for to kiss him.  And Jesus said to him: Judas dost thou betray the Son of man with a kiss?”  (Luke 22:47-48 DRB)

“And he said to his disciples: It is impossible that scandals should not come. But woe to him through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should scandalize one of these little ones.” (Luke 17:1-2 DRB)

BETRAYAL!  

Betrayal is the coward’s path – it comes from a weakness, a lack of backbone, a desire for an easier path. At its core, betrayal is a selling out – knowingly and willingly exchanging something of greater value for something of lesser value for one’s own personal gain – for example, exchanging the Son of God for 30 pieces of silver. Betrayal is a participation in evil, as it turns one from a selfless love ordered towards the good of others, to a selfish desire which disregards others and elevates the betrayer above all else. Betrayal despises what is good. 

In Dante’s Inferno, the author places betrayal at the frozen center of hell. Instead of fire, he envisions betrayal as ice – a place where there is complete lack of fidelity, love, and warmth – with the devil sitting in the very center as the greatest traitor in history.

Judas, likewise, is the ultimate human betrayer.  He betrayed Our Lord, and he did so with a kiss.  What pain this must have caused Christ Jesus who loved him so much! The overwhelming consensus throughout the past two millennia is that Judas has been, is, and ever will be among the damned because of his betrayal and then his failure to repent of that betrayal prior to taking his own life. Jesus pronounced judgment on him: “But woe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were better for him, if that man had not been born.” (Matthew 26:24 DRB).

Judas was one of the twelve – he had an intimate relationship with Our Lord Jesus Christ. But that is the essence of his betrayal – he sold out the One who knew him most intimately and who loved him more deeply than any other.  Judas rejected the faithful, selfless, and life-giving love of Christ for a meager financial reward.  And sadly, this betrayal of Our Lord continues even today. Nowhere is this more clearly seen than in the betrayal of so many in the hierarchy of Our Lord’s Church.

Over the past century, the Catholic Church has been quietly but methodically infiltrated, and this attack has resulted in decades of weak, compromised, and silent clergy – betrayers.  Have you noticed that we are in the time of the silent shepherds – for never a word do they speak. For many, their betrayal is in the form of silent apathy, as it seems there is nothing that they love enough to cause them to act – or nothing that they love enough that will cause them to call out or to attempt to stop the betrayal.

We can clearly see the fingerprints of Satan in the massive betrayal of the Lord and His Church in the sex abuse crisis that has so rocked the Church since at least the early 2000’s. Perhaps nowhere was betrayal in the form of protecting and promoting abusers more evident than in the case of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.  His story is an example of betrayal on an unprecedented scale. Those in positions of power in the hierarchy of the Church were living the high life, abusing seminarians, and paying hush money.  It is now evident that the Vatican began receiving reports about McCarrick and his unusual interest in seminarians and his predatory behavior as early as the 1990’s.  However, those who could have put a stop to this evil turned a blind eye, and McCarrick continued to abuse more victims while at the same time rising to positions of greater and greater authority in the Church.

Decades have passed and yet little has changed. In fact, we are now living under a papacy in which abusive clerics not only flourish but are often rewarded and even celebrated. In fact, there are many cases of priests who still remain in ministry today even though they have committed gravely immoral acts – priests such as Marko Rupnik, a Jesuit who was expelled from the order after decades of sexual abuse against women religious. Rupnik has been accused of sexually abusing some 30 religious sisters.  However, he is currently still an active priest (now incardinated into the Diocese of Koper, Slovenia following his dismissal from the Jesuits), and he is living and working in Rome as the director of art and dean of theology at Centro Aletti.

Some of the horrific and sacrilegious allegations against Rupnik include incidents of sexual abuse which reportedly occurred while he was designing and creating works of art, and yet his works of art still adorn some of the most holy and reverent locations throughout the Church, such as the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception at Lourdes, France – a place of healing and faith that should bring honor to our Blessed Mother.  This art remains even though at least five women who claim to have been abused by Rupnik, and whose claims the Jesuits ruled were credible, sent letters to Catholic bishops around the world asking that Rupnik’s artwork be removed from these churches and shrines. Instead, the Vatican’s top communications official defended using the images and insisted that they caused no harm to the victims. It is disheartening to know that Rupnik is just one example of many “betrayers” who continue to receive the full protection of the Vatican while many other faithful priests, bishops, and cardinals are silenced, canceled, and removed.

And what about the betrayal of heresy? There is widespread betrayal going on in the Church right now as Catholic teachings and Catholic doctrine are pushed aside to make room for the teachings of the world. One such betrayal is in regard to homosexuality. Homosexuality has become “the elephant in the room” in the Church today.  Although we rightly recognize that as faithful Catholics, we must always love our neighbor (which of course includes those with same-sex attraction), the Catholic Church teaches that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered and are always violations of divine and natural law.  Therefore, we must be clear that it is never permissible to participate in these acts, and clergy should never mislead their flocks by condoning such acts or minimizing their grave nature.  Instead, we must always call people away from sin and towards Christ, and to the forgiveness that He offers through repentance and conversion.  However, we now have a situation where many in high positions in the Church celebrate and even glorify this lifestyle which leads souls away from Christ. The editor-at-large of the Jesuit magazine America, Fr James Martin, an advocate of this perversion, is one of the most prominent spokesmen in the Church today, and he is often solicited as a consultant to the Vatican. The document Fiducia Supplicans greatly added to the confusion by opening the door to potential blessings of homosexual relationships, an outcome unthinkable even 50 years ago. This document has been an open invitation to the devil to go after souls who are confused by a Church in which many clergy no longer remain anchored to the Sacred Deposit of Faith, but who instead seek to modernize teachings to appease modern ears.

And in the midst of this climate of betrayal, the 10^th National Eucharistic Congress is beginning in Indianapolis, Indiana, at a cost of about $14 million. As Catholics, we know that the Eucharist is the center of Catholic life because the Eucharist is nothing less than Jesus Christ Himself. Our Lord is present – body and blood, soul and divinity – in the Holy Eucharist. Jesus did not leave the apostles with only a book or some vague assurances of His help – He left them, and us, with Himself! He gathered them together and transformed ordinary bread and ordinary wine into his divine, glorified body and blood, made present in every Holy Mass. His words, “This is my body … This is my blood … Do this in remembrance of me” were His confirmation to them that this was to continue in perpetuity, and He would remain with them always. And so we have His assurance that the Eucharist we celebrate today is the same Jesus who broke bread that night with His apostles, and He is still fully present among us at every Holy Mass. The loss of Eucharistic faith in the Church has been epidemic and indeed devastating to our Catholic faith; therefore, a Eucharistic Congress is a good thing.

But still, I wonder … when priests who are guilty of grievous acts of immorality are still allowed to celebrate Mass and hold the sacred Eucharist in their hands … does Christ say to them …. “Judas dost thou betray the Son of man with a kiss?”  (Luke 22:47 DRB)

Perhaps what concerns me most in these days of confusion and betrayal is that I fear time is running out, and that we are fast approaching a time when the cord of Mercy may be withdrawn from Heaven, and in its place, the rope of Justice shall swiftly descend. It is imperative that in this time we prepare ourselves with frequent confessions, frequent Mass and reception of Holy Eucharist, and frequent charity to others so we may be found greeting Our Lord Jesus with a kiss of love, not a kiss of betrayal.  

“And he said to his disciples: It is impossible that scandals should not come. But woe to him through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should scandalize one of these little ones.” (Luke 17:1-2 DRB)

May Our Lord continue to bless you and may Our Blessed Mother intercede always for you and lead you always to her Eternal Son.

Bishop Joseph E. Strickland

Bishop Emeritus

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MANY HAVE BECOME JUDASES
“My children and My child, in past counsel to you I hastened with great urgency to warn you that My Son shall be recrucified by His own. In the Holy City of Rome many Red Hats have now become the Judases in the hierarchy. As men of the cross they have now won for themselves the title of ‘evil men of the cross.’ Many have entered My Son’s House, His Church, upon earth to do harm. I warned you, O pastors, bishops, cardinals, that you have been infiltrated. Your actions now have brought a reverberation from about the world, and it has been in wake of a coming cataclysm and tribulation to mankind.” - Our Lady, September 13, 1978

CARDINALS OVERSTEPPED THEIR BOUNDARIES
“You will inform Our bishops that intellectual pride has been their downfall. You will inform the Red Hats that they have overstepped the boundaries. They are like rodents burrowing into the structure of My Son's House. Many mitres shall fall into hell.” - Our Lady, July 15, 1972

MANY HAVE BECOME JUDASES
“My children and My child, in past counsel to you I hastened with great urgency to warn you that My Son shall be recrucified by His own. In the Holy City of Rome many Red Hats have now become the Judases in the hierarchy. As men of the cross they have now won for themselves the title of ‘evil men of the cross.’ Many have entered My Son’s House, His Church, upon earth to do harm. I warned you, O pastors, bishops, cardinals, that you have been infiltrated. Your actions now have brought a reverberation from about the world, and it has been in wake of a coming cataclysm and tribulation to mankind.” - Our Lady, September 13, 1978

MESSAGE FROM HEAVEN
"My children, I cannot impress you more with the urgency of going faster forward in the time that is left, forward to save your brothers and sisters. I ask you to approach My priesthood. Bishops and cardinals must now accept all of the Message from Heaven, even though it will bring about controversy among them. For it will be bishop against bishop and cardinal against cardinal. For all that is rotten will fall and must not be retained.” - Jesus, November 20, 1978

SECRET SOCIETIES
"It is through My voice-boxes throughout the world that We must send this warning of caution to all of Our cardinals and bishops. The Father will not tolerate their entering into secret societies! The discipline and rules set down by My Son and those He chose to write the Book of life and love must be adhered to. We direct, in the name of the Trinity, that you bishops and cardinals of the world must use your full powers as hierarchy to excommunicate and defrock all who seek to dethrone My Son and destroy the Faith!” - Our Lady, August 21, 1974

EXCOMMUNICATE
"The Eternal City of Rome must now take action by those in rule, the cardinals and the bishops, to restore this city to the light. Those who seek to build a church of man must be removed by the power of excommunication given to those who rule as representatives in My houses, churches upon your earth.” - Jesus, December 31, 1975

ENTERING THE HIGHEST PLACES OF THE CHURCH
"As I warned you in the past and you did not listen, unless you prayed more, did more penance, sacrifice, communism would go throughout your world, ravishing nations, destroying your Faith, entering into the highest places of My Son's House. Can you deny what is happening now in your world? Remove the blindness from your eyes and look!" - Our Lady of the Roses, March 18, 1977

SATAN HAS DONE HIS WORK OF FOLLY WELL
"Satan has done his work of folly well. Yes, satan has gone into the highest positions in My House, but he will not triumph. In the final count the victory will be with Us, for he will only proceed as My Father deems." - Jesus, August 15, 1971

MANY HAVE GIVEN THEMSELVES TO SATAN
"Do not be misled by the outer clothing of man, for there are many wolves in sheep's clothing, wearing the apparel of rank. Know that many have given themselves to satan.
"Pray, pray much for those who wear the highest mitres, for they, too, have set themselves onto the road to hell. Your prayers and your acts of sacrifice and those who hear My voice, pray much for the Red Hats that have gone onto the wide road." - Our Lady, October 2, 1974

“WHY DID YOU NOT GIVE MY MESSAGE TO THE WORLD AS I GAVE IT TO YOU?”
"I cry to you, My children, that immorality is the gauge, the measuring point for the fall of a nation. Your country, My children, the United States, has fallen to satan. The great eagle has been plucked by sin. Corruption has entered into the highest places of your government and in My Son's Church. I say unto you, and I say this with counsel from high, the Lord high God in Heaven, the Father of all creation, that as you sow so shall you reap!
"My children, why did you avoid giving My counsel to the world? O you of little faith in the high places of My Son's House, His Church, why did you not give My message to the world as I gave it to you? Pride and arrogance! That is why, My children." - Our Lady, December 31, 1977

“DO NOT DESERT MY CHURCH”
"My children, you will all recognize the faces of evil. Satan has entered into the highest ranks of My Church. Pray now for your priests: your bishops, your cardinals, your clergy. Many prayers are needed, for many are on now the road to perdition and taking many others with them.
"My children, do not cast aside your sacramentals. They are your armor in the days ahead. Do not desert My Church. Do not judge it by the man who has stood there in ignorance or in pride and changed it until it will almost be unrecognizable. I am still with you, My children. Do not leave. You must stay and fight. In this manner, My children, shall the sheep be separated from the goats. It is a form of cleansing." - Jesus, July 15, 1977

SATAN AND HIS AGENTS HAVE ENTERED IN FULL BATTLE
"We ask you from Heaven not to leave, not to create a schism from your main body in Rome. You must remain within My Son's Church and pray a constant vigilance of prayer. Satan and his agents have entered in full battle upon My Son's Church. Satan has entered into the highest ranks within My Son's Church and the world. He will manipulate powers, provincials, until he brings about a great chastisement, because man will not listen and mend his ways.” - Our Lady, February 10, 1977

1972
"Satan, Lucifer in human form, entered into Rome in the year 1972. He cut off the rule, the role of the Holy Father, Pope Paul VI." - Our Lady of the Roses, September 7, 1978

INDECISION, FEAR OF EXPOSURE
"I gave Lucy the Revelation as a temporary secret—as I revealed [the Third Secret] to you on two occasions. Make a concerted effort to bring its entirety to Our children on earth. The hierarchy have not listened to My counsel—thirty-two years lost in indecision and fear of exposure. The Faith is shattered for many." - Our Lady of the Roses, April 29, 1992

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