All Are Welcome

Hello everyone and welcome to The Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and exposed. I’m Michael Voris.

There is a BIG misdirection going on in the Church these days .. and the flashpoint for it is the issue of homosexuality.

This past weekend we traveled to New York City for the whole Pride celebrations going on – including, most importantly the clever handling of the situation by the Church of Nice and all its legion of supporters. You know, you can’t talk about homosexuality in the Church of Nice because its mean to say anything.

We’re going to be examining this particular issue in depth this week. We went to some parishes that have quite the reputation for being “welcoming” to everyone. We interviewed various Catholics, both on and off camera who attend these parishes so we could get a flavor of EXACTLY how Catholic teaching is being promoted or not.

So the first place we visited was St. Francis of Assisi parish on 31st street. Now this parish had put out flyers and pasted on to its website that the regular 5:15pm Saturday Vigil Mass would be a “Pre-Pride Parade” Mass.

St. Francis of Assisi parish bills itself quite prominently as the parish where – “All Are Welcome”.

Mike: And here's a noteworthy point, just moments before Mass began, as I walked up the front steps, a gentleman who was an usher, it appeared to be because he had a name tag on, stepped in front of me and said,”Michael Voris you're not welcome in here, we don't want you coming in here”. And I said to him,”You can't stop me coming in here, I'm a practicing Catohlic and I can go to Mass.” Now, that has a special ring of irony to it because not moments later we all stood up and sang this song that they passed out in the flyer, our opening hymn, “All are Welcome”.

The Mass began with an announcement that the Mass was for the homosexual Pride celebrations going on all over the city all weekend. It was being held in conjunction with that. Not surprising to hear that announced from the sanctuary since it was pasted all over the internet and billboards for weeks before.

It proceeded without any great display of debauchery or the like. In fact it was somewhat tame as far as the billing before hand.

But that’s just the point. See – there is no need for raucous Masses and gay flags hanging from the rafters and so forth because in many Catholic parishes all around the country, the world for that fact, active homosexuality has become normalized and its just accepted that sodomy is nothing more than just one more item on a long list of things that the Church needs to dump.

It’s just no big deal for the people sitting in the pews. They just discard the Church’s teaching and move on with their lives – as the Vatican ITSELF has reported in the run up to the October Synod.

We talked with a number of people outside the Church immediately following Mass who were quite open about the rejection of Church teaching.

Jason: The way I understand it, I am a gay man myself, you know, if God creates this, God creates me as a gay man, that's not, God does not make mistakes, so then we have to understand through the lens of the Law, being Love, being the fulfillment of the Law, so that is how I understand it so I mean honestly the Church is wrong in that the Church has gotten things wrong before.

Then our discussion turned to the phrase – the very ambiguous misleading phrase plastered all over the Church – “All Are Welcome”.

Mike: When you say, when you say all are welcome, do you mean all are welcome to come in or all are welcome to receive the Eucharist? That's kind of an ambiguous phrase you don't really know much from it.

Jason: All are welcome to come in and it's their, between them and God who can receive the Eucharist.

And here’s the problem .. the phrase is used to deliberately confuse people. The Catholic Church never says a person seeking truth isn’t welcome. Of course they are. But if they reject that truth, they are not welcome to commit sacrilege by reception of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.

Whatever it is, committing adultery, killing children in the womb, whatever, they're just welcome to come up and receive Holy Communion?

So there is this deliberate confusion being sewn about the Church’s teaching. Priests and bishops who either support this or don’t fight it by setting the record straight with CLEAR teaching are aware of this.

They know the vast majority of Catholics simply don’t give a hoot about the teachings and leaders let them remain in their stubbornness of heart or willful ignorance – take your pick.

Because many priests are aware that most people in the pews reject many Church teachings, they can phrase themselves and parse their words in such a way as to give a green light to the heretical state of heart, without actually coming out and saying it point blank.

They know that the people sitting there are hearing their words thru a certain filter, a filter of rejecting the Church and accepting their sin – and they therefore can speak in somewhat veiled language, but still get their point across.

For example – at this pre-pride Mass at St. Francis of Assisi – the priest wrapped up his homily by saying the following – quote –

“Jesus was not asking Peter whether he loved Jesus more than other Christians, but if he loved Jesus AND all the other, more than those things that for so long had made Peter feel secure .. perhaps even his ideas. And what if these things applied to us? Include things such as preconceptions, hardheartedness, and prejudice. If it includes these things, and then Jesus turns to us and asks a simple question: do you love Me more than these?"

Considering that this was a pre-Pride Mass, that the parish has a deserved reputation for “welcoming” active homosexuals without ever counseling them that the lifestyle is sinful and they shouldn’t receive Holy Communion until they have turned from the sin – considering all these things and others – it is quite clear what the priest meant in his homily.

Those who oppose the sin of homosexuality are suffering under preconceptions, are hard- hearted and prejudice. We could never tolerate such things as Catholics.

See .. in these parishes, there is no need for naked men to be prancing around and rainbow flags to be hanging from the rafters or any other massive displays of pro-sodomy thoughts or actions.

Many many of the parishioners and the priests already except in their hearts all of what those symbols stand for, as they easily and without bother just dismiss the Church’s teaching and place their souls in eternal jeopardy.

The acceptance of the sin of sodomy and the sin of rejecting the Church’s teaching is now the norm in huge numbers of Catholic parishes. It’s either openly promoted, promoted with a wink and nod or just ignored so as not to ruffle any feathers and disrupt the weekly collection.

And if you say ANY of this out loud .. you are, how did Father put it, suffering from pre- conceptions, are hard hearted and are prejudice. THAT doesn’t sound like very welcoming language from the Church of Nice now does it.

Mike: And then at the end of Mass as I was walking out, one of the parishioners, flanked by two of the priests, two of the Franciscans here, said to me, “Michael Voris, we don't like you here, we don't care what you have to say.”

YouTube link to episode is here.

It should be of interest that this parish is where the traditional Catholics who are members of Holy Innocents Parish are likely going to be slated to go when they close that parish.

I prayered and fasted before I moved from NY to the south. I felt The Lord showing me Manhattan would be the real new Ground zero for nuclear exchange next time. I believe this messianic rabbi who wrote the Harbinger is not too far from the truth. I truly believe NY is Babylon. The priest down here in a southern parish told us in his homily how mockingly the gays were of him in his collar near the Empire State Building on 34th street. He saw it coming too. Sad. I say Lord come quick. Let’s end this horror of a planet without Christ.

3 posted on 07/01/2014 10:44:01 PM PDT by johngrace (I am a 1 John 4! Christian- declared at every Sunday Mass , Divine Mercy and Rosary prayers!)

What is holding back any future attacks on NYC is simply another country, which has “bombs in the basement”, and now has been taking action against Hamas to clean out the rats nest, Israel.

May God send good and holy Christian missionaries to NYC and to the rest of the western world.

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