These Last Days News - April 3,
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David Bereit, Co-Founder of 40 Days for Life, Has Become a Catholic...
"My child and My children, you are all My children. I judge you not by color or race, and I do not judge you by your creed; however, should the knowledge of the One True Church be given to you, and the way to Heaven along the narrow road be given to you, you will follow it or you will be rejected." - Our Lady, August 21, 1985
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Gloria.tv reported on April 1, 2018:
David Bereit, co-founder of 40 Days for Life, entered the Catholic Church at this year’s Easter Vigil.
He is not totally new to the Catholic Church having attended Mass every Sunday for 28 years since the second date with his later wife in January 1990.
Bereit entered a conversion program in autumn after what he describes on Facebook as a profound experience in Eucharistic Adoration last September.
The conversion took place in the St Mary of the Immaculate Conception parish in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Arlington diocese. Bereit is a former presbyterian.
In 2007 he joined three others to begin a national effort called 40 Days for Life that focuses on prayer and fasting, constant prayerful vigil outside abortion clinics and community outreach.
This effort has led to campaigns in hundreds of cities in dozens of countries, over 13,000 lives saved from abortions and the conversion of 154 abortion workers.
The following announcement is from Bereit's Facebook page:
"Behold, I make all things new." -Revelations 21:5
After years of prayer, discernment, and a whole lot of wrestling with God, I was received into full communion with the Catholic Church at last night's Easter Vigil, with Margaret as my sponsor, Patrick altar serving, and Claire in attendance, along with Margaret's mom, Helen, and other dear friends.
When my mother was alive, she always told my brother and me, "It doesn't matter what color the person you marry is, just make sure you both share the same faith." Margaret and I have always had far more aspects of our faith in Christ in common rather than our differences (our second date, on January 21, 1990, was to attend Mass at St. Mary's Catholic Center at Texas A&M, and we've attended Mass together weekly for all 28 years since) yet I've always had a longing to be more unified in our church affiliation.
With that said, I struggled with many questions, misconceptions, and hangups along the way. I have endeavored to continually learn and grow through prayer, studying Scripture, theology, and church history, reading, and seeking wise counsel. Throughout my life I have also been surrounded by many amazing Catholic Christians whose faithful, loving witness has continually inspired and attracted me — most notably the beautiful example lived out by my incredible wife and wonderful children.
This journey has deepened my appreciation for a wonderful Christian upbringing, my years of experiences within the Presbyterian Church, the time I was involved with Evangelical ministries while in college, and the blessing of getting to work and pray alongside the many different parts of the Body of Christ in my 15+ years of pro-life work.
Following a profound experience during an hour of Adoration last September, I attended RCIA classes over the last few months. Lent took on far more meaning than usual for me, as I prayed and fasted more intensely than ever with a focused desire to continue growing closer to Christ. Now I am filled with joy, and am at complete peace, about this next step in my life-long journey of faith.
This news may come as a surprise — both to those who assumed I already was Catholic, and to those who thought I never would be — however, nothing changes about my love and appreciation for, and desire to serve, the entire Body of Christ.
Thank you to everyone whose prayers, encouragement and support have helped me so much along the way.
Have a blessed Easter. Jesus Christ, our Savior, is risen today. Alleluia!!
OPENED THE DOORS
"My children, the way has been given you. I am the way; I am the light. If you cast Me out of your life, you enter into darkness. And the prince of darkness is satan, the corrupter of souls, the master of deceit, the ruler of your world now! You have opened the doors to My Church, allowing all manner of evil to enter upon it. You have been deluded by error, and the rulers have given themselves to wantonness. Pastors, I say unto you: you are scattering My sheep. And I say unto you that I shall come and cast you out of My House." - Jesus, December 7, 1976"You have been given by your baptism entrance into the only true religion upon earth, the Roman Catholic Church under My Son, Jesus. Though man in his arrogance and pride has forgotten His role and His rule, you must carry it forward. Retain the Faith and the truth in the hearts of mankind." - Our Lady of the Roses, September 7, 1978
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The following is taken from the booklet, "Faith and common sense", + Imprimatur: Most Reverend John F. Whealon, Archbishop of Hartford:
After Christ left this world, His Church did spring
into action, fully prepared to carry on His work. This Church was not something
vague in character. Christ said precisely what He wanted it to be. His Church
was to be built upon the Apostles. It would continue down to the end of time in
the same way, ruled by the successors of the Apostles. That is perhaps the
clearest thing of all.
He also intended it to be one Church, not a number of
churches. The Church He had in mind was to be for all men. It would work for
their sanctification and salvation. These qualities were so clearly built into
the Church that they were marks setting off the true Church of Christ from all
other institutions claiming the name. Catholics say that these marks are unity,
catholicity, holiness and apostolicity.
When we examine the early Church as it appears in the
time of the Apostles, we find that it had all these qualities. One Church and
only one is in existence today which clearly shows the same four marks. This is
the Catholic Church.
Around the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome are
inscribed the words, “Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church.”
Those words are as true of the present Pope as they were of St. Peter. The Pope
is the successor of Peter, and he has the same authority as the Prince of the
Apostles once had.
That is a truth which can be amply proved by the facts. No other religious
society can trace its heritage back through the centuries to St. Peter.
Pope Paul VI, the present Bishop of Rome [Note: Paul
VI was Pope at
the time this article was written], is a successor of St. Peter. Year by
year the succession can be traced back to the time of the great Apostle himself.
Some of the Popes lived for only a few years or months; some have had very long
terms of office. Some of them have been great leaders in world affairs; some
relatively obscure. But they are all known to history.
Today in the Catholic Church the Pope holds the
fullness of power the same as Peter did in the early Church. He is not like a
democratically-elected president whose power depends on the consent of the
governed. Like Peter he has been made the shepherd of the flock by the Lord, and
he has the same absolute power as Peter.
Under him in the administration of the Church are the Bishops and priests. Their
power comes from God, as once the power of the Twelve came from Christ. St. Paul
said to the presbyters of Ephesus, “Take heed to yourselves and to the whole
flock in which the Holy Spirit has placed you as bishops to rule the Church of
God” (Acts 20:28).
There is no doubt that the Catholic Church today is
apostolic in the line of succession of its Bishops and the Pope, and that it
possesses an authority which was once given to the Apostles.
UNITY OF RULE, BELIEF, RITUAL
St. Paul told the Ephesians to remember that they
had “one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism” (Eph. 4:5). The Catholic Church does have
that unity of rule, belief and ritual.
All Catholics everywhere recognize the authority of the
Pope, the Vicar of Christ. He is the representative of the Lord, and presents
the final judgments or decision on matters of faith and morals. Catholics do not
accept the official pronouncements of the Pope only when they agree with them.
They accept them at all times because they recognize his authority.
All Catholics believe the same faith. There is no
difference in the essential doctrines which various priests teach. One Bishop
does not have his own truths about religion which are different from the beliefs
of another Bishop. Both are explaining the doctrine of the Catholic Church, not
their own ideas about doctrines. The manner of preaching may be different; the
doctrine is the same throughout the world. There is “one faith” in the Catholic
Church.
So also there is but one “Baptism.” The term embraces
all those essential rites which the Catholic Church practices. The most
important rite of the Catholic Church is the Mass. The Mass is the re-enactment
of the Last Supper, as was commanded by Christ. All Catholics are obliged to
attend Mass every Sunday and on the important religious festivals of the year.
This obligation is world-wide. So is the Mass. Our soldiers serving in foreign
countries are always at home when they go into the Catholic churches of those
nations; they find the Mass essentially as they knew it in the United States.
The Mass is celebrated in every Catholic church throughout the world and
consists of the same essential rite of the consecration of the bread and wine
into the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.
The seven sacraments–Baptism, Confirmation, the
Eucharist, Penance, Matrimony, Holy Orders and the Anointing of the Sick–are the
same throughout the world. They are administered in the same way in all places.
Every Catholic is obliged to make use of them at appropriate times; there are no
national differences.
THE MARK OF HOLINESS
Not only does the Catholic Church have that mark of
unity which Christ wished His Church to have; it also has the mark of holiness.
Christ instituted His Church to make men holy and to bring them to heaven. The
Catholic Church does just that. None of its teaching ever leads men away from
God; none ever twists human nature into some frightening form. All its practices
and teachings tend to make men better.
Moreover, the Catholic Church provides men with the
means to become better. It does not simply offer the “consolation of religion.”
It does something about man’s ceaseless struggle to become better. To those who
are conscious of sinfulness, it does not merely say, “Repent in the secret of
your heart and try to do your best in the future.” It says, “Go to the sacrament
of Penance; have your sins forgiven, and receive the grace which that sacrament
provides to help you avoid these sins for the future.” At the bedside of those
seriously ill, the Catholic priest does not merely exhort the Catholic to be
sorry for his sins and cast himself upon the mercy of God. The Catholic Church
has a rite, the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick which forgives sins and
brings the spiritual and physical help which men need in grave sickness.
“Is any one among you sick?” asks St. James. “Let him
bring in the presbyters of the Church, and let them pray over him, anointing him
with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick
man, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he be in sins, they shall be
forgiven him” (James 5:14-16). That is what the Catholic Church does for her
members.
Finally, the Catholic Church is world-wide. That is a
fact today as it has been a fact for all these centuries past. The membership of
the Catholic Church consists of people of all nations, from every part of the
world.
That is not an accident or the result of good salesmanship. It is the result of
the very nature of the Church of Christ. He sent His Apostles to make disciples
of all nations. The doctrine and practices which He left them were of such a
nature that they appeal to all nations. There has never been a nation which
found the doctrine of the Catholic Church contradictory to its own culture or
thought.
When Pere Marquette journeyed down the Mississippi,
preaching the Gospel, he found Indians who were anxious to listen to the story
of the death of Christ upon the Cross. They were baptized and accepted
Christianity wholeheartedly. When St. Francis Xavier reached Japan, he found the
natives eager to hear the message. So firm were they in their faith that for two
centuries during persecution they held on to that faith despite martyrdom. The
Catholic Church is an ancient faith in Japan today, not a recent development.
So it has been everywhere. The Catholic Church has not
been the product of one culture or one nation. Catholicism followed the Spanish
armies into this country, and the Spanish armies were defeated. It has little to
do with the English colonization of the eastern seaboard. Yet today the Catholic
Church is the largest single religious body in the United States and a native
part of our culture. The Catholic Church is universal in its appeal. That is why
it is called “Catholic,” for catholic means universal.
THE TRUE CHURCH OF CHRIST
These are the qualities which mark out the Catholic
Church today as the one religious organization in the world which is identical
with the Church which Jesus Christ founded. It is one, holy, catholic and
apostolic, just as was the Church in the time of the first Apostles.
These four marks point out the Catholic Church as the
true Church of Christ in another way. Only God can work a miracle. Now these
four qualities in a society are obviously miraculous.
Take unity, for example. We have erected a society called the United Nations to
make something of that unity. But it seems the more nations we have in it, the
less unity there is.
Political parties meet in convention to draw up a
“platform” of action. But the platform cannot be too definite. There have to be
compromises in deference to sharply conflicting views. The more divergent the
factions in the party, the less agreement can be reached. All things human show
the same tendency to disintegrate under the pressure of expansion.
The truths held by all Catholics are numerous and
detailed; sometimes they are involved. For example, all Catholics believe in
transubstantiation. Transubstantiation is the term applied to the change of the
whole substance of bread into the Body of Christ and the change of the whole substance
of wine into the substance of the Blood of Christ, the appearance of bread and
wine remaining. That is a very definite belief, though a rather involved one. It
is not the kind of truth people would come to know and believe on their own. All
Catholics hold it with equal belief and with complete acceptance.
So it is with many other points of Catholic belief. The
unity of the Catholic Church is something which is not matched anywhere else in
the world. It is not that the Catholic Church is a little more united than other
societies. It is that the Catholic Church is unified in a way which no other
society was ever united. The ordinary laws of sociology do not apply here. That
is what we mean by a miracle. Such unity cannot be explained on any natural
basis.
Take the case of the Church’s apostolic tradition. It
is just not reasonable that a society which has lived so vigorously as the
Catholic Church should not have burned itself out by this time. Every other
society which was in existence when Christ founded His Church–the Roman Empire,
nation of the Gauls, the great universities of Greece–has passed away. Groups
have broken off from the Catholic Church during its almost two thousand years of
existence. They have followed the curve of disintegration which governs all
natural societies. They have waxed strong for a while, grown old and they have
passed away.
As the man in the Gospel who was born blind said after
receiving his sight, “If this man were not from God, he could do nothing” (John
9:33). If the Catholic Church were not from God, it could not continue to
possess, as the Catholic Church does, the four marks which Christ’s True Church
must possess–apostolicity, catholicity, unity and holiness. Any church may claim
these symbols of authenticity and authority. But only one may truly possess them.
"You have been given by your baptism entrance into the only true religion upon earth, the Roman Catholic Church under My Son, Jesus. Though man in his arrogance and pride has forgotten His role and His rule, you must carry it forward. Retain the Faith and the truth in the hearts of mankind." - Our Lady of the Roses, September 7, 1978
"I gave you a simple plan with the construction of My House, My Church, upon earth. But now you want to reform it, until you will split My House asunder with many denominations, many new denominations. I ask that My Church be universal, apostolic, and the saver of souls. However, there are rules to be followed, doctrines to remain unchanged." - Jesus, September 7, 1978
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STANDARDS OF HIS GOD
"Many questions arise, My child, about My Son's House. There is only one true foundation-that is the House of My Son with Peter as the first ruler and head, and now your Vicar, Paul VI. All others have protested against the law and rule and broken away. They must be returned to the fold. However, My children, you are proceeding along a path of delusion. You will not bring these souls back to My Son's House by changing to meet their standards. Man must change to meet the standards of his God!" - Our Lady, December 6, 1974JUSTIFIED RULINGS
"You must understand that none shall come to the Eternal Father except through My Son. You ask, My child, of the thousands of lives upon earth, those who do not accept My Son, what has become and what will become of them? If they have received the knowledge of My Son and reject Him willfully, they cannot be saved. Of course, My child, the Eternal Father is all-merciful; We cannot condemn, He cannot condemn the innocent of heart. However, there are rules of Heaven, too, justified rulings, that none shall see the Beatific Vision unless they come through My Son.” - Our Lady, May 29, 1976ONLY TRUE RELIGION
"O My children, I will not go into a long discourse now with you about charity and love for your neighbor, but you must understand: you cannot judge your neighbor. You must pray for them. However, you cannot become weak and permissive. You must stand forth as bearers of the light, carriers of the truth. You have been given by your baptism entrance into the only true religion upon earth, the Roman Catholic Church under My Son, Jesus. Though man in his arrogance and pride has forgotten His role and His rule, you must carry it forward. Retain the Faith and the truth in the hearts of mankind." - Our Lady, September 7, 1978YOUR BIRTHRIGHT
"As in the past, rejection has been the start of a fallen man. Sin has become a way of life with many. You live in a delusion if you believe that you can offend the Eternal Father and then gain eternal life in the Kingdom. No, I say to you: many are called, but few are chosen.
"Ask and you shall receive, believe and you will be given the way. But you must merit the Kingdom. Your birthright was a start, but you must make your way to the Kingdom. Others may gain these graces for you by prayer and acts of sacrifice, but you will accept or reject the key." - Jesus, May 26, 1976ONE TRUE CHURCH
"My child and My children, you are all My children. I judge you not by color or race, and I do not judge you by your creed; however, should the knowledge of the One True Church be given to you, and the way to Heaven along the narrow road be given to you, you will follow it or you will be rejected." - Our Lady, August 21, 1985RELIGION OF THE CROSS
"There is only one religion that can save your country and all of the countries of the world: the religion of the cross and My Son's sacrifice upon that cross." - Our Lady, November 25, 1978SEPARATED BRETHREN
"O My children, pray much! We do not want to see a division in My Son's House. The Roman Catholic Church must remain one! But this does not mean, as the church of man states, that you will bring all manner of heretics and separated brethren in. No, My children, that is an error, a delusion from satan. You cannot change My Son's House and bring them in and change for them! They must change and come back to the original rule given by My Son and those who were with Him in the building of the foundation.
"I repeat, My child and My children: separated brethren must change. They have protested in the past; they have taken themselves away from the truth and the one true Church. They must reject the errors they have made in the past and come back and start again. They cannot bring their errors into My Son's House.
"You are opening the doors now for all manner of heretics, separated brethren. They do not come to unite in good spirit and heart; they come to take over. They seek to change you, O pastors, who are being deluded. And what do I see in My Son's House but separated brethren upon His pulpit! Even from the temples, the synagogues of satan, upon His pulpit! And for what?
"And who are My pastors now that have joined in this plan of destruction? Who ordained some of them? Not legitimate hands. They come to destroy. They come in like rats, burrowing, undermining My Son's Church! Do you think you are not watched? Are you above your Creator that you think you can deceive the world permanently? No, I say unto you! You are being given your time, for you who have given yourselves to satan are now exposing your true nature to the world." - Our Lady, March 18, 1977ESTABLISHED BY JESUS CHRIST
"There are many deceptions taking place among you, and one being the falsification of the manner of the salvation of souls. When I was upon earth, I established the rules and I gave you My Church, My House. However, now I watch as many have gone forward with itching ears and novelty, and they are setting upon the world a new religion." - Jesus, May 20, 1978WILL STAND
"Do not be deluded, My children, by the agents of satan among you in human form who preach doctrines of devils. The truth has been given to mankind through the ages. The Holy Roman Catholic Church of My Son will stand. The members shall be reduced to few. Only a remnant, My child, shall carry the banner Faithful and True. But the gates of hell shall fight a heavy battle against My Son's Church, but they shall not succeed." - Our Lady, May 14, 1977ONLY SANCTIFIED HOUSE
"Your children are wandering into the web of satan, going farther from the House of My Son. The truth is being removed from their hearts. They are setting among themselves groups. They shall not remove from their lives vows of My Son. As the only sanctified House upon earth, their souls will be destroyed when they are not given the Bread of living life. This Bread will only be obtained in the sanctified House of My Son. Satan seeks to remove the tabernacle from among you." - Our Lady, August 5, 1973
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"As disciples of the latter days, My children, much shall be asked of you, but I assure you: all that you give in faith and charity shall be returned to you threefold." - Jesus, June 1, 1978
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