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These Last Days News - December 11, 2023
"The Eternal Father has given mankind a set of rules, and in discipline they must be obeyed. It behooves Me to say that My heart is torn by the actions, the despicable actions, of My clergy. I unite, as your God, man and woman into the holy state of matrimony. And what I have bound together no man must place asunder. And what do I see but broken homes, marriages dissolved through annulments! It has scandalized your nation, and it is scandalizing the world. Woe to the teachers and leaders who scandalize the sheep!"
- The Bayside Prophecies
Jesus, May 3, 1978
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!”
- The Bayside Prophecies
Jesus, November 22, 1975
LifeSiteNews.com reported on December 10, 2023:
On this week’s episode of The Bishop Strickland Show, Bishop Joseph Strickland discusses his new YouTube channel, how Eucharistic devotion affects the way priests celebrate Mass, active participation in the liturgy, the Spanish Socialist government’s decision to stop a Rosary rally, and more.
Strickland addressed the decision of the Spanish government to ban Rosary rallies near the headquarters of the current ruling party, the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE). While the rallies began on November 12 in protest of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s amnesty for Catalan secessionists in an effort to create a coalition government, rally organizer José Andrés Calderón said in a November 27 post on X (formerly Twitter) that the government banned the rallies and other prayer events. Calderón received a fine on two days later for defying the government’s orders, and a 60-year-old woman was arrested.
His Excellency observed that if enough people resist the government’s ban, “they can’t throw the whole country in jail.” He also said that going to jail for praying the Rosary is “ridiculous,” “atheistic and anti-Christian,” and that people “shouldn’t put up with” the fact that people “get away with” persecuting Christians more than any other group, as that hurts humanity as a whole.
“When Christianity is persecuted, it diminishes the blessings and the availability of the Good News of Jesus Christ for all of humanity,” he said. “We have to resist prayerfully and peacefully, but we have to resist.”
Strickland, meanwhile, started a YouTube channel on November 28. He said he wants to do “shorter segments” so people can “listen about a topic if they find it interesting and to just talk about the faith.” The channel would be similar to the show, but in a format more accessible to a different group of people.
He also addressed Eucharistic adoration in the latter half of the show, saying that he wants to get priests to know Our Lord in the Eucharist more deeply. He explained that Eucharistic adoration had an immense effect on his life and on how he celebrates Mass – something that people notice whenever they attend his Masses. He also stated that every priest needs to treat the Mass with great reverence and hopes the YouTube channel will be a means to help priests to that end.
Reacting to an observation of show host Terry Barber – that the liturgical practices surrounding the Eucharist from before the Second Vatican Council should return, such as kneeling when receiving the Eucharist, receiving on the tongue, and an ad orientem posture for the priest – Strickland said that while the Council talked about the active participation of the laity at the liturgy, he thinks that what the Council meant was misunderstood.
“I think we missed the point that ‘full and active participation’ is being engaged in the sacred and really being alert and at work and praying actively, but not necessarily doing anything but kneeling there in the pew, and sitting and listening deeply to the Word of God, but really being spiritually present, I would say, rather than just saying, ‘Oh yeah, well, his homily’s still a little too long,’ or the distractions could easily come,” he said. He further observed that the devotion of the priest and the people during the liturgy bolsters both priests and laity, feeding each other’s faith.
According to Strickland, if people were to say the liturgy is too long, then “we’re not fully and actively engaged in the way we should be.”
“It’s really not a matter of how long it takes,” he noted. “I think it is a matter of taking the time to make sure that it’s a sacred event, and that we’re not just saying, ‘Okay, how quick can we zip through this?’”
At the end of the episode, His Excellency addressed a question posed to him recently on what to do if a priest faces a situation where his preaching of the Gospel without compromise earns him a scolding, or if he is told to avoid discussing certain topics.
Strickland answered that the world and all its troubles are temporary, but Catholics should focus on those things that are eternal. “We need to ask ourselves: ‘Can I dilute or ignore this eternal truth for the sake of a temporary consequence that I may avoid, but that’s only temporary?’”
While we are in the world, further, we are made for eternity, and “that’s a lot of what we’ve forgotten.” While most are worried about “today and tomorrow,” Strickland said we need to be worried about “everlasting life … and live today and tomorrow in that context, rather than saying, ‘Oh, I don’t want the consequences of what may happen.’”
“I think I’m an example of not worrying about the consequences, but you’ve got to speak the truth,” he chuckled. “It brings joy, it brings peace, it brings fulfillment, even in these temporary days.”
"Many now rebel against their leader, their God-given leader, your Vicar. In matters of faith and morals, man must not change the God-given laws, coming from the seat of Peter, and established through tradition upon earth through My Son's Church." - Our Lady of the Roses, October 6, 1979
CARDINAL AGAINST CARDINAL
"Unless you pray more for your bishops, there will be chaos in Rome: bishop against bishop, cardinal against cardinal, while satan stands in the midst of them. Blood shall flow in the streets of Rome. Your Pastor, the leader of your sheep, shall flee in terror.”
- The Bayside Prophecies
Jesus, July 15, 1976
Veronica - Jesus wants you to know that many marriages are not approved of by Heaven. The example within the homes have led many children onto the road to hell. There will be no rationalization of adultery, there will be no rationalization of the breaking up of the home in divorce. Marriages, consummated and blessed by God the Father, shall not be dissolved by the whims of man.
Know ye now that satan rules throughout your world for a short time. He has the power to turn the husband against his spouse, and the wife against her husband. Know you now that you cannot escape the fires of hell if you dissolve a marriage blessed by God the Father. It is permanent, and in the eyes of God, permanent unto death.
- The Bayside Prophecies
October 2, 1973
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