Our Lady of the Roses, Mary, Help of Mothers,
The Testimonial of Father Robert Skurla
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This most remarkable sermon on the Bayside Apparitions, delivered at a Holy Hour on Palm Sunday, April 4, 1982 in St. Peter's Cathedral, Scranton, Pennsylvania by Father Robert Skurla, an Eastern rite priest serving at the time in the area, forced some mainstream U.S. Catholic newspapers to take notice of Bayside. An article in the Our Sunday Visitor characterized Fr. Skurla "as a priest of certain stature . . . who has since become the chaplain of the International Blue Army.... The added authority of his position, in fact, gave his words an impact that carried them far beyond the reach of that diocese." |
Would you believe, children and grownups, would you believe that in the year 1982, Jesus is sentenced to be
crucified again, this time through His Mystical Body, the Church - my friends, of which Church you and I
are members of. But cancer - you know what cancer is; we hear the word so much. Cancer has set into
the Church through Satan, who has entered the Church. Satan has entered the Church! Through the
instrumentality of modernism and secular humanism and communism, the devil has influenced many of the
changes in our One Holy,Catholic and Apostolic Church.
Now here we are at the Sixth Station once again. Here comes Jesus. Here comes Jesus
down that road carrying that cross once more with His face bathed in sweat and blood. In the actual events
portrayed in the Gospels, at the sixth Station, where we saw Veronica express her innermost feelings,
we must keep in mind that the religion of that day, for Veronica, was the Jewish religion, to which
Veronica belonged. She belonged to that religion. Veronica's church leaders, the priests and the
high priests, had already decided and judged to crucify Jesus; and by helping Jesus, and by wiping
His face with a towel, she had to defy what her priests were doing.
Most of us, or too many of us, follow the leader. You and I both, we have been correctly trained
- to a point, correctly trained to obey our priests and bishops. And we should, and definitely we
should. The Blessed Mother has been begging, with tears in her eyes, for you people to pray for us
priests and bishops, and the cardinals. It's because we have failed that they have so much difficulty.
Today, we have been caught up in the modes of modernism, with the mainstream of Catholics going along
with the changes. As I talk to Catholics like yourselves, lately - I find that, like myself, they are very
confused. Is there anywhere we can turn to with some kind of certainty to find the answers to todays dilemma?
Some of the changes are causing serious damage to the Catholic Church. In the name of progress, bishops and
priests and laymen go along with changes which are harmful to Jesus Christ's Mystical Body, the Church.
In these times, is there anyone among us in our area, in this country, the good old U.S.A., is there anyone
among us brave enough to speak out? One of your priests should be here telling you about this, but I'm afraid
they might be afraid to get a smaller parish. And am I not a a subject of your bishop. The Blessed Mother,
I feel, has urged, not only asked me, to give this message to you.
If Veronica of the Gospels had not wiped the face of Jesus with the towel, He would have been crucified
anyway, because Jesus was destined by Divine will to be so crucified for our sins, yours and mine.
But Veronica changed her own destiny by her free will. God doesn't interfere with free will. She changed
her own destiny, not Jesus'. And by her little act of kindness by stepping out, being different from the crowd . . .
she stepped out from the crowd and went over and wiped the face of Jesus. And the Mystical Body, who
is our Lord, He needs people like you to come out of the crowd and wipe His face. The beautiful act of
love on the part of Veronica! And, no matter what you and I will do now in these days, 1982, the damage
in the Church, which is permitted by God and foretold in the Bible, will happen. But you and I, we can
change our own destiny by becoming another Veronica.
It must be very difficult for you lay people, because I have been a priest over twenty-five years and many things
have happened [recently] that threaten what I was taught about the Church and what I believed in my
heart about the Church to be truth about it. And I, too, like you, look around and ask myself: "I
wonder what Jesus and Mary are thinking about all of these changes?"
Well, as fate would have it. Divine Providence has supplied us with solutions. These solutions come from
a very concerned Jesus and Mary. But, remember, the devil would do anything to keep this information
from you. History has recognized another Veronica - Veronica Lueken, a simple housewife like
many of you, like many of you, to whom Jesus and Mary have appeared for over ten years. For the most
part, the devil has kept this information from most of us. Ah, but wouldn't the devil like to prevent me from
going on, and keep my mouth shut!
Jesus and Mary have appeared [to Veronica] on the evening of all major feasts of the Catholic Church.
Having to go against popular opinion of Church leaders and the mainstream, Veronica of Long Island
has been willing to accept all the crosses involved to be the voice box, the transmitter, to transmit
the messages from Jesus and Mary to Her children. Now, if there are chastisements and punishments
coming to the earth and [the] people in it, from Our Lord, do you think that Jesus and Mary would sit
back and let these things happen, without warning us?
I myself - and I speak for myself and no one else - I myself have studied these messages
for almost ten years and I found in them the peace and the light and the information that a twentieth
century Catholic needs in these troubled times. In these most difficult times, Jesus and Our
Heavenly Mother have warned us of the days ahead. She is giving us all the information that we
need to help us pull through the coming chastisement, which has already been sanctioned by
the Heavenly Father, and is on its way.
So I think, children, there is nothing to be giggling and laughing about. These things
are serious, and they should be looked into. Our Mother Mary has spoken out on this
issue. And you say: "Why Father? Why are these things going to happen to young
people and old people? What did we do wrong?". Mainly, without going into a
long discourse,abortions! The terrible crime of abortion! Our Mother Mary has spoken
out on this issue in a message of December 28, 1974.
She appeared to Veronica and showed her a scene where babies were dumped in the
garbage. There was a mixture of little tiny heads and little tiny arms and little
tiny legs; and Mary said: "Yes. My child, murder; this is not a pretty sight.
All who even share in a slight measure of responsibility for the murder of the
unborn shall send themselves into the abyss. Repent now for your murders. "
For Her apparitions in the Unlted States at Bayside, Our Lady wants to be
known as Our Lady of the Roses, Mary, Help of Mothers. And you, mothers, know that There's no better title for American mothers: Our Lady of the Roses, Mary, Help of Mothers. Mary and Jesus have spoken out
on the very issues that seem to confuse most of us: Abortion is murder. Men will not dress as women,
and women will not dress as men. Women should not wear slacks or jeans in Church. You should not laugh in Church. Jesus has said that no woman will enter the ministry and will not minister in any way.
Now I couldn't say that and you couldn't say it, but Jesus said it, and He had a right to say it.
On homosexuality, He said: "All who take part in it or condone it shall be destroyed."
Rock music has been consecrated to Satan.
Padre Pio, my very good friend who I pray to all the time, Padre Pio appeared on
April 5, 1975 at Bayside, New York and said:" The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is
being celebrated in a manner that is not approved and pleasing to Almighty God;"
not that it's not valid, but it is not pleasing to Almighty God. Kneel for Communion.
We say in the Scriptures: " At the Name of Jesus every knee should bend."
Then why do we stand for Holy Communion, when we have Jesus in person? Do not accept
Holy Communion in the hand! Do not lose faith in the Mass. However, whether your priest
is a saint or whether your priest is a sinner, Jesus will come to you. The Mass is
valid. Why? Because Jesus says it is! But, even more important than all these things,
and the reason why I'm talking the way I am, is that Mary says: People, Pray the
Rosary! Pray the Rosary! The hand of the Blessed Mother - She's having a difficult
time holding the hand of God back: "My Son's hand has now been withdrawn and
the tribulation is coming upon mankind." She can't stop it anymore.
And Jesus has also said: "My Mother has set Herself to hold off a Just
chastisement upon mankind for many years, but very few listened to Her. "
And Jesus says: "Your time has run out. Her warnings have gone by unaccepted,
unnoticed and rejected, even by My clergy. Do not speculate on dates. If you are
not ready now you'll never be. The tribulation is at hand. My voice cries out to you
all now to be prepared."
Prayer now is the only means, with actions, for saving souls in our country,
U.S.A., and your fellow citizens where Jesus is saying: " Prayer is the
only means to save souls in your country and your fellow citizens, for destruction
is about to come upon you. Pray, My children. for strength. It will take great courage
to remain in the Catholic Church in the days ahead, but your courage shall be the cross and the
knowledge of the truth. Remember, do not become a worshipper of the creature.
but of the Creator; for the creature is the world and the world is Satan. The
Creator is your God and His world is the Kingdom of Paradise. This choice will be
yours." Each and everyone of us, man, woman and child. will have to make our
decision. No man shall be lost unless he is lost of his own free will.
Jesus said: "My children, you will read and reread the messages from Heaven
given through My Mother to you. Read them well. You will receive great knowledge,
and you will be able to know the day, the hour of the tribulation." The end
of my quote for Jesus.
People today are confused. People need somewhere to turn. Our leaders have been led
astray, and here we are obliged to obey them; but not when what our leaders ask
contradicts what God has said. We should rather fear God and not man. God has given
us another Veronica, but the devil stepped in and caused enormous confusion about the
measages; and, as of now the Church has not approved the apparitions that I'm talking
about. I don't ask you to go there, but Jesus has asked you in the messages. And I'm
asking you to read the messages and pray over them.
All my confusion as a priest, a Catholic priest, and all my doubts were eliminated when
I read the instructions of Jesus and Mary. Fatima has been called a reaffirmation of
the Gospels. I say that the messages of Jesus and Mary on Long Island do not, nor could
they ever contradict what is contained in the Gospels. The messages are in perfect harmony
with all the things that I believe in and was taught about the Catholic Church.
I was in communion with your priests all along, and we always agreed on everything.
I went to be a priest twenty-five years ago because I was impressed with the beauties
of the Catholic Church; but Satan has entered into the Church and changed it so
much [that] it has lost much of its beauty and it is not attracting our young men
into the priesthood. And If I was living [as a youngster] today, I doubt If I would go.
It's not the same Church.
The messages of Bayside restored my confidence in the Church once
more, and once again I am proud to be . . . because things haven't that much changed; we're trying to
change, but Christ never changes.
The messages of Bayside restored my confidence in the Catholic Church once more. I will
stake my reputation, if that means anything, on the doctrine contained in the mesaages.
The doctrine is the same as I was trained in over the years.
I want to go on record as personally accepting the messages until proven otherwise by
our good, kind, loving Holy Father. But to accept the messages today, on Palm Sunday
1982, it requires an exceptional amount of grace, similar to the amount of grace that
it took in courage for Veronica to step out of the crowd and wipe the face of Jesus.
I don't expect everybody to have that kind of grace, but I know that when the Warning
comes, more people will believe In these things. Similar to that given to Veronica
in the Gospels, you have to be strong in the faith, deep in your convictions, and
brave.
So I say, yes, we're told traditionally to meditate on the Passion as portrayed
by the four Evangelists. Yes, read the Passion; but I ask you with all the love in my heart,
read the messages. And if you read messages that purport to be messages
from Jesus and Mary, don't you have a right to know what They are saying,
especially when They are saying very serious things about what's coming?
May the Blessed Mother and Our Lord inspire you to have a very good Holy Week.
And don't just sit passively by, but place yourselves on the road to Calvary, right
next to Jesus and say: "Jesus, what can I do in 1982 to help?" Meditate
on the Passion of Our Lord. The Blessed Mother says we don't meditate on the
Passion enough.
Stick with your Church, your pastor and your priest, because the Blessed Mother
is telling you in these messages:"Stay with your Church." Don't give up.
You may disagree with the priest, or one of the priests, if you have more; but She
says that when the priest makes the Consecration, Our Lord will not hold that against
you: that bread and wine will change into the Body and Blood of Jesus, and Our Lord will
come to you. And you need that strength you will get from the Holy Eucharist.
So, pray for your bishops, cardinals and priests - really pray. And may Our Blessed
Lord be with all of us, and may God bless us; and the Blessed Mother bless us that we have the
grace to do Gods will in this life, and that we may be found worthy of His Heavenly Kingdom.
I Thank You....