Mass attendance dwindling in the United States

"Sign of a church collapsing":

Mass attendance dwindling in the United States...

"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

USA Today reported on November 8, 2004:

The "most damaging changes in Catholic life is the precipitous decline in Mass attendance. It's the sign of a church collapsing," says Catholic University sociologist William D'Antonio, co-author of statistical studies of American Catholics.

Nationally, attendance slid from 44% in 1987 to 37% in 1999. D'Antonio predicts it will be 33% in 2005.

"Each generation starts with a lower attendance rating. People don't grow into attending Mass," he says.

The article also quotes from David Gibson:

"The Catholic world was once marked by stability," Gibson says, "Now all it is marked by is change." - ("Church struggles with change: Analysis shows dwindling parishes can't be blamed on abuse scandal", USA Today, November 8, 2004, p. 1D)

"Pastors, those who have in their care Our sheep, you must stop now these changes that you seek in novelty, for they are destroying the young souls and scattering Our sheep.
"I repeat, My children, the great Council in Rome of Vatican II, the promises were great, but satan sat among you and he played you like the chess board.” – Our Lady of the Roses, August 5, 1976

"My children, long ago I warned you from Fatima, I warned you through many voice-boxes throughout your world that the time will come when you will embark upon a stormy sea, and it shall be bishop against bishop and cardinal against cardinal, and satan shall set himself in your midst." - Our Lady of the Roses, November 20, 1976

"How I warned and warned that satan would enter into the highest realms of the hierarchy in Rome. The Third Secret, My child, is that satan would enter into My Son's Church." - Our Lady of the Roses, May 13, 1978

"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

"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

Directives from Heaven...

D63 - The Third Secret PDF
D127 - Vatican II   PDF
D129 - THIRD SECRET EXPLAINED: PART 1 - 666 in Rome   PDF
D130 - THIRD SECRET EXPLAINED: PART 2 - Satan entered the Church in 1972   PDF
D131 - THIRD SECRET EXPLAINED: PART 3 - Satan entered the highest realms of the hierarchy   PDF
D132 - THIRD SECRET EXPLAINED: PART 4 - There shall be bishop against bishop and cardinal against cardinal, as satan has set himself in their midst.   PDF
D133 - THIRD SECRET EXPLAINED: PART 5 - The Apocalypse / Revelations PDF
D161 - The Great Apostasy PDF
D211 - Changes, Part 1 PDF
D212 - Changes, Part 2 PDF

Articles...

Statistical decline of the Catholic Church since Vatican II
http://www.tldm.org/news6/statistics.htm

The laity must come forward and restore the Church to its former glory
http://www.tldm.org/news5/laity.htm

Fatimagate
http://www.tldm.org/FatimaGate.htm

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