Save Our Church was
founded in the Summer of 2002, when a number of the faithful serving the
Cleveland Ohio Diocese, realized they could no longer afford to merely
complain about the increasing abuse of the liturgy by priests and about
the increasing challenges to Catholic theological and moral teachings
coming from the religious and the clergy in this Diocese. When
FutureChurch chose to use the moral scandal among the priesthood to
further their agenda for Women's ordination, a married priesthood and to
attack the hierarchical structure of the Church, and not only ignore the
cause of this crisis, but continue to promote the acceptance of
homosexual and lesbian relationships and abortion, the true nature of
this group could no longer be denied.
Save Our Church is an organization of Catholic men and women
who love and revere the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and who
acknowledge the authority of the Magisterium. We are responding to our
Bishop who has asked repeatedly for lay involvement in respect to the
present moral and spiritual crisis in the Church. We will endeavor to
refute groups as FutureChurch, its parent organization Call to Action,
Voice of the Faithful or any other group espousing anti-Catholic
positions and to help reestablish the Holy Tradition of Faith within the
Church in the Cleveland Diocese.
We have been active in literature distribution in our parishes and in
Prayer/Protests at the sites of FutureChurch meetings.
Save Our Church recognizes three vital offensive weapons given
us by Heaven which if used together will overthrow any error within the
Church. These are the authoritative teachings of the Church, the
Scriptural and Early Church Support of these teachings, and the
publicly significant and well authenticated illuminations and
corrective interpretations of Heaven given in our own day which the
Catechism of the Church itself calls the "authentic calls of Christ
and the Saints to the Church." We recognize that the cause of so
much division and error in the Church is a direct result of serious
failure to honor and use all three of these divine instruments as
Heaven intended them to be used. That failure has simply been the
result of a serious lack of holy and divine love within us for those
around us!
Those authoritative teachings of the Church are faithfully
expressed in the Catechism of the Church - many Catholics have been led
into error simply because they do not know what the Church teaches! For
many Catholics who are no longer certain of the teaching authority of
the Church, the Scriptures will speak with additional authority
to those being led astray. Heaven's final armament in its arsenal is
its own direct revelations powerfully authenticated by the
undeniably miraculous phenomena that have always accompanied them. This
is designed by Heaven to penetrate the hearts even of those whose
confidence in the Church and even in Scripture has been shaken. When all
these three witness to truth are used in harmony then we have
what would amount to an effect of a super weapon.
Finally we can no longer depend on the spiritual leaders in the
Church to tell us how this battle with error and evil is to be fought or
wait for them to "approve" our discernments. In many ways we who are now
called to battle are like the band that the Lord Himself assembled
around Gideon after the "approved" armies of Israel and all their
"approved" means had been defeated by the enemy.
Gideon did not get any official "approval" for the
apparition/revelation he got from the Angel of the Lord! He and the 300
men who followed him discerned the truth themselves just as every
Catholic is called to discern "the authentic calls of Christ and the
Saints to the Church" FOR HIMSELF! That is the authentic teaching of the
Church! The Catechism (par.67) plainly says that while the Magisterium
is to "guide" us in discernment, "the sensus fidelium [the
faithful!] knows how to discern and welcome in[to the Church] these
revelations." Jesus said it this way, "My sheep hear My voice and
they follow Me!"
Besides the seven apparitions/revelations "approved" there are three
other such publicly significant revelations we are going to make a major
part of our arsenal against the error we see coming from both the right
and the left in the Church.: Our Ladies' revelations to Ida Peerdemen
of Amsterdam, 1945-1984 (approved locally by the Bishop);
Dictated revelations of our Lord and Our Lady to Maria Valtorta,
1943-1950 The Poem of the Man-God, (ordered to be published by
Pope Pius XII in 1948 and enjoying the approval of several Bishops and
Cardinals); and Garabandal, 1961-1965. Since Medjugorje is
inextricably linked to The Poem of the Man-God by the testimony
of at least two of the visionaries that are emphatic about Our Ladies'
declaration that the work is "All True! Dictated by Jesus!", that site
and its messages are also an inseparable part of our offensive against
Satan who is often playing on both sides in the present division in the
Church. (For more information on these three offensive weapons Heaven
has given us, please go to "Fireproofing Your Faith."
We welcome all faithful Catholics who, if they have not already
discerned these revelations to be authentic calls of Christ to His
Church, are at least open to them, to prayerfully consider joining with
us either as a committed Member or as a Supporter in this
ever increasing battle. Those of you who have supported us in the past
and are unable to see our position or simply are afraid of the criticism
and the increasing opposition we will certainly get, please know you and
your decision to leave our circle will be respected. Each must do only
what his faith allows him.
Thank you for visiting us. Please spend some time with us and
consider what your part might be in this effort.
Updated: 03-04-07
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