Bishop Strickland Warns of ‘Crescendo of Apostasy’ by Vatican Forces Against Catholic Liturgy, Doctrine | The Gateway Pundit

Pricey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Jesus Christ is the fullness of the revelation of supernatural reality that guides humanity to our everlasting future. He’s the cornerstone on which our lives have to be constructed as a result of, as He reveals supernatural reality to us absolutely and utterly, He reveals who we’re and that for which we have been created. Jesus commissioned His Apostles to share His supernatural reality with the world, and that is additionally our mission. If we acknowledge and embrace this mission, bringing this reality to humanity, then we should acknowledge that, after almost 2,000 years, we have now solely simply begun. When Christ prayed “that every one could also be one,” He prayed that every one humanity is likely to be unified in Him, thus bringing them additionally into unity with His Father and His Holy Spirit – one God in Three Individuals.

The complete Judeo-Christian story (which begins with the supernatural reality revealed and recorded within the Hebrew Scriptures, the Previous Testomony) is the story of God revealing supernatural reality to these created in His picture and likeness. The earliest books of the Bible provide quite a few theophanies – manifestations of God’s supernatural presence – however Jesus Christ is past a theophany. He IS God amongst us, Emmanuel. It’s essential that we observe how Jesus got here to us: He got here in profound humility. The humility of Jesus Christ is just not solely a profound manifestation of His goodness; His humility is the blueprint for the way we who’re created by God ought to embrace the supernatural reality He has revealed to us. Jesus tells us that we should “grow to be like kids” if we want to comply with Him and to dwell the supernatural reality He manifests.

As a way to incorporate the supernatural reality that’s Jesus Christ into our human actuality, He knew that we wanted a automobile, a vessel, that may information us. Thus, Christ established His Church, which is made manifest on the earth because the Catholic Church. All through Christian historical past, many have tried to return to Christ in a pure and unique approach, but when on this laudable need for purification we depart His Church, then we have now actually misplaced our approach.

The last word goal of the Church that Jesus Christ established is the salvation of souls. This fulfills the divine mandate with which this letter begins: that it’s our mission to carry Jesus Christ, Reality Incarnate, to humanity because the revelation of supernatural reality. We see additionally that His Church is crucial because the instrument that Christ has ordained to information humanity within the supernatural reality that He reveals.

It’s of the utmost significance that humanity embrace Jesus Christ and His Church. Nonetheless, the large problem of that is seen clearly in these occasions as His chosen vessel, the Church, which is plagued with human weak point and sinfulness, struggles towards the One Who has introduced her into being: God’s Divine Son. The Church is holy, but composed of sinful human beings, and though guided by supernatural reality, she usually will get slowed down in and even corrupted by issues of this pure world. The picture of the statue within the E book of Daniel involves thoughts; the statue with toes partly of clay and partly of iron is an apt picture of the Church. She has the iron of supernatural reality, however she additionally has the delicate pottery of the world, which frequently falls to mud. In our time, it seems that the overwhelming presence of fragile clay within the Church threatens to obliterate the supernatural reality that’s her coronary heart and soul. Christ has promised us that the Church is not going to be obliterated by the powers of Hell, however we should make it our every day option to dwell the supernatural reality that’s Jesus Christ.

It’s crucial that we additionally acknowledge that this tendency for the Church to be dominated by the delicate clay of this world – to the detriment of her true mission to construct supernatural religion – has been gaining momentum for greater than a century. A couple of papacy is severely implicated within the lack of supernatural religion needed so as to push again towards the tidal wave of apostasy. The Oath towards Modernism promulgated by Pope St. Pius X in 1910 was the very best papal try and oppose the dominance of “fragile clay,” and since his demise, help for this has weakened, till it has now been all however discarded, like so many different features of this intention that didn’t promote a cozier relationship with the world.

As devastating as all of that is to the mission of the Bride of Christ – the salvation of souls – we face a good better problem to this mission in our time. Too many prelates not solely exhibit an absence of supernatural religion on their half, however they’re additionally “hell-bent” on eliminating each vestige of supernatural religion from the Church. This has been constructing momentum over many many years, however we should open our eyes to the crescendo of apostasy that we at the moment are witnessing.

Whether or not in liturgy, doctrine, or easy on a regular basis piety of Catholics, too many prelates and highly effective forces within the Vatican are doing their greatest to dismantle each vestige of supernatural religion, in addition to any understanding of the supernatural reality that Jesus Christ has revealed to us.

One indication of the blitzkrieg towards supernatural religion that has been evident on this time is that when purportedly supernatural manifestations of God’s presence seem amongst us, they’re ignored or instantly declared false with none actual investigation by the shepherds. The Church prior to now has acted as a safeguard, as is her sacred duty, towards any alleged supernatural manifestations that parade as reality however which will as an alternative be the work of Devil and his minions. Nonetheless, we now discover ourselves in a state of affairs the place some (if not many) of the shepherds within the Church, upon the prevalence of a doable supernatural work of their diocese, would try to right away shut it down or proclaim it as false with no investigation, within the worry that it would shine a light-weight into the darkness, particularly after they themselves are “bottom-dwellers” and, subsequently, dwellers on this darkness.

In these occasions, God has not left us alone. All through the historical past of the Church, He has manifested Himself by way of supernatural works exterior the boundaries of this bodily world to remind us that He’s current amongst us, and these supernatural works haven’t ceased. Moreover, within the darkness that has now infiltrated His Church, He continues to ship, as He did of outdated, warnings and admonitions by way of the mouths of “modern-day prophets and saints” to name His folks again to Himself.

We should, nonetheless, with due diligence and supernatural religion, pray, discern, and be ever on guard towards that which parades pretty much as good however is certainly an evil deception. We, after all, have seemed, and nonetheless look, to the Church and her shepherds to maintain us secure from evil deceptions and to level us to what’s good, however what can we do on this time when most of the shepherds who’re charged with guarding the flock at the moment are in league with the wolves?

In a time akin to this, it’s of the utmost significance that we stroll near Christ, that we abide in His Sacred Coronary heart, and that we sit usually with Him in order that we’d come to know Him nicely. After all, what’s most essential of all is that we worthily partake of Him as usually as doable – Physique and Blood, Soul and Divinity – within the Holy Eucharist. Perception in the actual, supernatural presence of Christ within the Eucharist is the center and soul of our religion.

Could the best manifestation of supernatural reality, the Holy Eucharist, present us the power we’d like for the persevering with journey of Christ’s disciples within the twenty-first century. Allow us to be invigorated by our Eucharistic religion in order that supernatural reality is de facto current amongst us, and should His Physique and Blood, Soul and Divinity nourish us and information us deeper and deeper into His Sacred Coronary heart – the Coronary heart of supernatural reality.

Bishop Joseph E. Strickland

Bishop Emeritus of Tyler