Dan Lynch accuses Bishop Strickland

This is truth, imho. These poor priests, and bishops too, may do well to embrace a "hermit's life" of prayer etc, for the good of the Church. Those old words "offer it up" have taken on way more significance than they ever have had in the past.......

 

Amos:
5:13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time, for it is an evil time.
5:14 Seek ye good, and not evil, that you may live: and the Lord the God of hosts will be with you, as you have said.
5:15 Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be the Lord the God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

 

Remember the great number of priests and bishops who spoke against Pachamama? What happened? Did this Pope apologize? No. These poor priests and bishops are cornered by not just a Pope, and some bad cardinals, but also by society. The world does not believe. I believe prayer, obedience, and the sacraments will rid the evil. Better to fight with the best weapon, the Rosary. It’s all we can do. God will do the rest.

 

Ezekiel 34

A Prophecy Against False Shepherds
34 The Lord’s message came to me: 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherdsa]">[a] of Israel; prophesy, and say to them—to the shepherds: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not shepherds feed the flock? 3 You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the choice animals, but you do not feed the sheep! 4 You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost, but with force and harshnessb]">[b] you have ruled over them. 5 They were scattered because they had no shepherd, and they became food for every wild beast.c]">[c] 6 My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over the entire face of the earth with no one looking or searching for them.

7 “‘Therefore, you shepherds, listen to the Lord’s message: 8 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, my sheep have become prey and have become food for all the wild beasts. There was no shepherd, and my shepherds did not search for my flock, but fed themselves and did not feed my sheep. 9 Therefore, you shepherds, listen to the Lord’s message. 10 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand my sheep from their hand. I will no longer let them be shepherds;d]">[d] the shepherds will not feed themselves anymore. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, so that they will no longer be food for them.

11 “‘For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look, I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out. 12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a cloudy, dark day.e]">[e] 13 I will bring them out from among the peoples and gather them from foreign countries; I will bring them to their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams and all the inhabited places of the land. 14 In a good pasture I will feed them; the mountain heights of Israel will be their pasture. There they will lie down in a lushf]">[f] pasture, and they will feed on rich grass on the mountains of Israel. 15 I myself will feed my sheep and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Sovereign Lord. 16 I will seek the lost and bring back the strays; I will bandage the injured and strengthen the sick, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them—with judgment!

17 “‘As for you, my sheep, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to judge between one sheep and another, between rams and goats. 18 Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must trample the rest of your pastures with your feet? When you drink clean water, must you muddy the rest of the water by trampling it with your feet? 19 As for my sheep, they must eat what you trampled with your feet and drink what you have muddied with your feet!

20 “‘Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says to them: Look, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 21 Because you push with your side and your shoulder, and thrust your horns at all the weak sheep until you scatter them abroad,g]">[g] 22 I will save my sheep; they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.

23 “‘I will set one shepherd over them, and he will feed them—namely, my servant David.h]">[h] He will feed them and will be their shepherd. 24 I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David will be princei]">[i] among them; I, the Lord, have spoken!

25 “‘I will make a covenant of peace with them and will rid the land of wild beasts, so that they can live securelyj]">[j] in the wilderness and even sleep in the woods.k]">[k] 26 I will turn them and the regions around my hill into a blessing. I will make showers come down in their season; they will be showers that bring blessing.l]">[l] 27 The trees of the field will yield their fruit and the earth will yield its crops. They will live securely on their land; they will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hand of those who enslaved them. 28 They will no longer be prey for the nations, and the wild beasts will not devour them. They will live securely, and no one will make them afraid. 29 I will prepare for them a healthym]">[m] planting. They will no longer be victimsn]">[n] of famine in the land and will no longer bear the insults of the nations. 30 Then they will know that I, the Lord their God, am with them,o]">[o] and that they are my people, the house of Israel, declares the Sovereign Lord.p]">[p] 31 And you, my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are my people,q]">[q] and I am your God, declares the Sovereign Lord.’”

 

There was once a Sheep Farmer who had two sons and seeing that Winter was falling sent them both to the High Pastures to guard his flocks from wolves.
Some while passed and the farmer climbed the mountains to see his how his shepherd sons had fared. Upon arrival he found wolves attacking the flocks. One son had gone to battle with his crook and staff and with loud cries drove the foul creatures off. The other with head bowed knelt at a distance.

After the wolves had been driven off the father approached his kneeling son and asked why he had not joined his younger brother in fighting off the wolves. 'Because' , the eldest son replied upon rising, 'I knew the God of Israel could defend our flock with a mighty hand much more powerful than our own!'

'Not so!' said the angry father. For God has given us hearts to pray and hands to do His will. With heart on fire with prayer you should still have withstood the wolves!'

 

In either case they're coming for us anyway, rather we choose to speak out or not. We might as well go down fighting.

 

Agreed 100%, Padraig.

 

One of the comments on the video mentioned the "Dicastery of Persecution". It seems that's not a fiction anymore, even if it's not an "official" part of the church's "too big to fail" bureaucracy of the fraternal.

5:44 "But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you:
5:45 That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust."

And don't forget the wise words of the angry father mentioned above ~

 

Scripture teaches us that to those to whom much has been given much will be asked.

Luke 12:48
But he that knew not and committed things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

What is asked of a layperson is asked is not that of a Bishop. Cardinals for instance were red to denote their readiness to shed their blood for the Faith as did those in whose footsteps they stand the Apostles.

After a Pope is Elected he goes into a little robing room where he puts on white before going out to greet the people. It is know as the room of tears. Why ? Because Popes have often cried there knowing the responsibility they are about to take on.

We as laypeople, we are not Shepherds and so are not called to fight off the wolves. Well at least not usually. But we know from the Life of Mary that the Passion of her Son was never far from her thoughts and neither should it ever be far from ours.

These whole times we pass through grow thicker and thicker with the shadow of the Cross. So now we know that as our Shepherds like hirelings run away abandoning we poor sheep to the wolves , or worse ever becoming wolves themselves our time has come and we must step up to mark. We must shed our own blood for those who had a duty of care and failed to do so. Our blood , instead of theirs must be shed in Reparation.

Let us embrace this great honour and go out to meet the holocaust to come with joy. The Wedding Feast of the Lamb.

Let us show them how it is done. How true Christians do not ever cut and run.
Not ever.

 

Amen to that!

 

The start of our Martrydom at the moment and it is a really, really big Cross. Is to obedient to the Shepherds set over us. Men we know now that the world is so open , through the internet, to be evil, heretical, perverts, self seeking, scandalous and often truly vile individuals of the very worst sort. Lets be quite honest about this. And it it can be real agony to have them in charge.

But Christ set up the one true Church in Hierarchical fashion. They are to be obeyed in all Spiritual things apart from those that go against the Laws of God.

This is a true , true Martyrdom. I must say it makes me feel really , really, really stupid and helpless. I hate this feeling. But there you are. If Jesus demands this obedience..and He has... I give it. But I know who and what I am dealing with both in the Vatican and the wider Episcopacy. I am not stupid. Lie as they might. But if Jesus asks for my obedience I give it. Although it just about kills me. For I know who and what I am dealing with here.

But still I give it.

As Padre Pio and just about every saint that went before did. But I have no illusions. No illusions at all.

 

One thing kills me about this. To be taken as someone who is completely stupid and fooled by their lies. They are not even good at telling lies.