Let
women be raised up in the Catholic Church
A message from Mother Mary, Saturday, April 2, 2005.
I am indeed Mary, your Mother, and I come on the eve of the pope’s
passing. Yet I come at 11:00 at night [Eastern standard time] to symbolize
that this is indeed the 11th hour for the Catholic Church. It is the
hour, when this church must make a choice to either go up or down, because
it can no longer remain lukewarm to the reality of Christ.
I am aware that many Catholics around the world are in mourning over
the passing of their beloved pope. My Mother’s heart would reach
out to these many people and comfort them in this dark hour, this hour
of fear, uncertainty, grief and sorrow. Yet you must understand that
the compassion I feel as an ascended being is not human compassion,
is not human sympathy. I am not here to console without helping people
to change.
I am here to provide divine compassion, which is aimed at raising people
above the state of consciousness in which they feel sorrow. And thus
I come to quicken, I come to awaken those who have ears to hear, those
who are willing to hear the true message of what the Mother of God wants
to say about the Catholic Church, wants to say to Catholics in this
dark hour, this crucial hour that will be a turning point for the Catholic
Church.
And whether it be a turning point for good or a turning point for darkness
remains to be seen. And the outcome will be determined not by who is
elected pope, not by one person or even a group of cardinals in Rome;
it will be determined by a critical mass of Catholics around the world
and what they choose to do based on the opportunity presented to them
at this time.
How can I give people the truth?
And so I come to give you a small sense of comeasurement of the difficulty
I face, and that other members of the Ascended Host face, when we seek
to enlighten humankind. I would like you to take a little journey with
me in your imagination. I would like you to imagine that you are up
here in Heaven, looking down upon Earth and considering the state of
consciousness of most Catholics around the world.
Most Catholics today realize, at some level of their beings, that times
have changed, that society has changed. And in many ways, the times
have run away from many of the customs, the traditions and the beliefs
in the Church which they consider to be the true church of Christ.
Many of these Catholics have grown up with questions about God and about
Christ that were never answered by official doctrines. Some have sought
answers elsewhere, while some have simply stopped asking the questions.
Many feel a sense of loyalty to the outer church and feel that in order
to remain loyal to the Church, they should close their minds to any
considerations that cannot be explained by doctrine. It is as if these
people feel that being loyal to the outer doctrine is more important
than knowing the inner truth.
Yet if you would look at the example set by my beloved Jesus, you would
see a person who had committed his entire life to the truth and who
was not willing to compromise the truth in order to please human beings
or please his own outer consciousness and ego. And this is the example
that you should follow, so that you will not let your own ego or any
human being or institution stand between you and the discovery of the
truth, the truth of Christ that will make you free from all human limitations
and shackles.
And so the question that is faced by most Catholics today is the same
question that has been faced by human beings throughout the ages, “Do
you want the truth or do you want to remain in the state of illusion,
confusion and darkness?” This is the question that Jesus asked
– spoken and unspoken – of every person he met 2,000 years
ago. They were all faced with the necessity to either accept the truth
embodied by Jesus or to reject that truth.
Will you accept the truth of Christ?
And so the question remains today, “Will you accept the truth
of Christ, or will you reject that truth?” And so I ask you to
consider that I, Mary, have been working in various ways with Catholics
for a very long time. You have seen apparitions, you have heard messages,
you have seen tears flowing from statues, and you have seen various
forms of miracles performed by the sun. Yet I would like you to consider
why I have appeared in such ways and why I have often given messages
that are very simple, almost to the point of being simplistic.
The reason for this is that so many Catholics have closed their minds
to anything beyond the official doctrine of the outer church. And therefore,
you might consider how I, Mary, could possibly awaken people. How could
I possibly awaken Catholics to the truth that would make them free?
And the sad fact is that I have very limited options for awakening Catholics,
because many of them are afraid to find a truth that might be beyond
the outer doctrine. Their first and foremost concern is not to know
the truth that will make them free. Their first and foremost concern
is that any idea they come across must conform to the outer doctrine
of the outer church.
And thus, how could I possibly appear in a way that did not conform
to the standards set by the outer church? And how could I possibly say
anything in one of these apparitions, that are approved by the Church,
if what I said did not conform to the doctrine of the Church? You see,
I am a spiritual being and I know the truth of Christ and the reality
of God. I have a great longing to impart that truth and reality to all
who revere me, be they Catholic or not. Yet how could I pass on that
truth if all you want to hear is what conforms to an outer doctrine,
especially if that doctrine is not completely aligned with the truth?
The role of the Messiah
Consider why Jesus called the scribes and the Pharisees hypocrites and
why it was precisely these people who attempted to silence him by killing
his physical body. The reason is simple. These people did not want the
truth. They were afraid of the truth. They wanted a Messiah, but they
wanted that Messiah to conform to the outer doctrines of their religion.
And yet the Messiah is sent by God to set them free from their illusions,
so if their doctrines are out of alignment with the truth of God, then
what is the Messiah to do? Is he to give them the truth or is he to
conform to their doctrines and thus keep them trapped in error and illusion?
You see, my beloved, Jesus did not want to compromise the truth and
that is why he challenged the scribes and the Pharisees and the lawyers
who had taken away the key of knowledge, the key of knowledge that the
kingdom of God is within you and that the key to salvation is not an
outer religion but to go within and obtain a higher state of consciousness.
And so, precisely because Jesus did what he was sent by God to do, namely
challenge people’s illusions, he was persecuted or ignored. And
in the end he was condemned to death and crucified.
This is the tragedy of the ages, that those who are trapped in illusion
are in a catch-22, where their beliefs are lies, yet they have been
programmed with a fear of questioning the lies that they have come to
believe. And so their fear prevents them from questioning the lies,
and if they are not willing to question the lies, how can they possibly
receive the truth that will set them free from those lies? And thus
people are in a catch-22 from which even a representative of God, even
the Son of God sent into embodiment, even the Word made flesh, cannot
awaken them—unless they have ears to hear a truth that goes beyond
the outer doctrine that keeps them trapped in illusion.
The Church must change or die
And so you see, planet Earth has turned a corner. Time and spiritual
cycles have moved on, and if you will be honest with yourself, you will
know, somewhere deep in your being, that time has moved on, that cycles
have changed, that things cannot remain the same—not even in the
Catholic Church.
And so you should know that I, Mary, would like to see this Church change
with the times and become a living, vibrant church that can meet the
spiritual needs of many seekers in this age. Yet the church cannot and
will not change unless a critical mass of Catholics decide that they
will no longer remain blindly loyal to the outer church and the outer
doctrines. Instead, they will raise their loyalty to a higher level,
and they will seek the truth of Christ and be loyal to that truth and
that truth only.
And this then is the movement that must come from below, because if
you are willing to look at history, you will see that revolutionary
change has rarely, if ever, been brought from above. It has only come
about through a pressure from below that eventually made those in leadership
positions realize that they either had to change or lose their positions.
And thus, you will see that even the Catholic Church has a hierarchy
that is dedicated to the preservation of the outer church and their
own positions in that church. They are truly in the same position as
those in the Jewish religion who felt threatened by Jesus, when he brought
a truth that was higher than the outer doctrine of the old religion.
And thus, the question is simple. You know from the scriptures that
2,000 years ago the leaders of the Jewish religion chose to kill the
living Christ rather than to accept him as the Savior and the Messiah.
And so the question today is whether the leadership of the Catholic
Church will be willing to accept the living Christ or whether they will
attempt to kill him and his true teachings given in this age.
And that living Christ is not only the Christ of Jesus speaking through
the same messenger that I am using to bring this message. It is truly
the living Christ within many people around the world, including many
people who are working within the Catholic Church and who are seeking
to reform it because they know it must either be reformed or it will
die.
A realistic assessment of the papacy
And thus I come to give you a loving but realistic assessment of the
papacy of John Paul II. Let there be no doubt that this pope is deeply
loved by me. Yet let there be no doubt that he is no more loved than
any one of you. Let there be no doubt that Pope Paul II was a pope with
a great love for the Church and a great love for the mission of Christ,
as he understood that mission. This pope was truly a more spiritual,
a more mystical pope than many you have seen throughout the centuries.
He was far less concerned about the politics and the power plays of
the outer religion than he was concerned with the spirit of the Christian
religion.
Yet, that being said, I must tell you with true realism that this pope
found it difficult to transfer his mystical longing to the outer Church.
He was not able, he was not willing, to take the daring step of transforming
the Church according to his inner vision. The pope had many good reasons
for thinking that the Church could not, or was not yet ready, to be
transformed. Yet I must tell you that these reasons did not spring from
the Christ mind but sprang from the collective consciousness of Catholics,
a consciousness that has been built and reinforced for almost 2,000
years.
This consciousness deeply affected the pope throughout his life, and
it affected him to such a degree that he was not able to look beyond
it. And thus, you will see that in many ways this pope attempted to
carry on a tradition that many Catholics have realized had become outdated
before he even took office. And I must tell you that the outer life
of this pope, and especially his illness over these past months, was
an illustration of, an expression of, the state of the Catholic Church
as a whole. What you see here is a pope who was greatly loved by many
Catholics, and he was loved because he was an honorable pope, an honorable
person. And thus, in a way, he came to represent the good in the Catholic
Church, the potential of the Catholic Church.
And that is why many people did not want to see him go. And in a way
this was why he was not willing to go, why he was not willing to give
up his office, even when it became obvious to everyone that he was no
longer physically or mentally able to fulfill that office. And so he
hung on to his position to the very end, which symbolizes that so many
Catholics are holding on to the old ways, the old traditions, to the
very end. And what you saw in the life of the pope is that he was not
willing to change but that he kept sticking to the old ways, until he
passed from the screen of life into the illusion that people call death.
And so the question is, “Will the Church continue to hold on to
the old ways until it dies, or will it be willing to be reborn in the
Spirit, so that it can become new in Christ, so that it can become a
new church in Christ?”
The most important issue facing the Church
Now, I am fully aware that there are many issues facing the Catholic
Church in this critical time. Yet I would like to point out one issue
to you that, in my assessment, is the most important issue facing the
Catholic Church today. And that issue issue is the role of women in
the Church and the role of women in society.
This Messenger recently had the experience of visiting a place, where
it is claimed that I have appeared for some time and where I supposedly
speak through a person and gives messages. He asked politely if the
people overseeing this place were willing to have him leave a stack
of booklets with my Miracle
Rosary. At first he was told yes, but then, when these people started
looking at my Miracle Rosary, they noticed one sentence in the very
beginning, where it says, “Our Father-Mother God.” And these
people could not accept that God is Mother because according to Catholic
tradition God is seen only as Father.
And so these people used this one expression to reject the rosary that
I have given from my heart. Not only is this an illustration of the
state of consciousness of many Catholics and how impossible it is for
me to enlighten these people and help them come up higher in consciousness,
but it is also an expression of how many of the Catholic doctrines and
traditions are illogical, even to the point of being in direct opposition
to what is stated in the Bible. For does not the Bible say,
I am Alpha and
Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and
which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. Revelation
1:8)
And is not “Omega”
the feminine aspect? And so the Bible says that God is Alpha and Omega.
Does this not prove that God has an Omega aspect, that God has a feminine
aspect? And thus, who is the Catholic Church to deny this and thereby
deny the Mother of God, the feminine aspect of God, the very Mother
flame itself?
This is a tragedy, and it has been a tragedy now for almost 2,000 years,
during which the orthodox Christian churches have denied the reality
of God as Mother, have denied the divine feminine, and have denied the
rightful role of women that was defined by Jesus in his relationship
to me and to my beloved Mary
Magdalene. Jesus came to raise up women and to free them from the
yoke of blame that had been put upon them for thousands of years by
making them responsible for the fall of man.
And so what we see in this time is that there is a great need for a
reform in the Catholic Church concerning the role of women. Yet that
need can only be met if there is a recognition of the fact that God
has a masculine and a feminine aspect, that God is both Father and Mother.
Can the Church survive?
And so what exactly will this mean for the Church? It will mean that
certain Church doctrines and certain ingrained aspects of Church culture
will have to be challenged. First of all, the Church must stop blaming
women for the Fall. It was a small step in the right direction, when
the church exonerated Mary Magdalene and recognized the fact that she
was not a prostitute and that, in fact, earlier Church fathers had turned
her into a prostitute for political reasons.
And this shows that the Church has, in some incidences, been willing
to deal with the past and correct the errors that had crept into the
faith for political reasons. Yet, this one instance is only a drop in
the bucket of what is needed in order to reform the Church and turn
it into a viable organization that has a chance of surviving in this
new millennium.
And there are so many more aspects of doctrine and culture that must
be reformed. And I must tell you that unless the role of women in the
Church is truly brought into alignment with the reality of Christ, there
is very little chance that the Church will survive for another century.
In fact, the Church might see its demise in less than 25 years, unless
the role of women is completely changed and brought into alignment with
the reality of God.
One might say that the current condition of the Catholic Church is the
expression of a male-dominated culture, a male-dominated organization,
that has created certain problems over these past many centuries. These
problems were not created because men are incapable of running a spiritual
organization. But they were created because a male-dominated culture
causes men to become unbalanced. These men will deny the feminine aspect
of their own nature, and thus they will become too rigid and too fanatical,
and they will be unable to create an organization that can change with
the times.
And thus, it is absolutely necessary that the proper balance between
masculine and feminine qualities is restored in the Church. And it is
highly unlikely at this point that the Church could be restored by men
alone. Therefore, I tell you, it is the true desire of myself and Jesus
that the Catholic Church be reformed in allowing women greater influence
in the Church. The first step should be that Catholic
priests be allowed to marry. This will restore balance to the life
of the priests, who are unbalanced without the company of a woman.
And this extreme unbalance is what you have seen outpictured in the
systematic and widespread sexual abuse of children that has been going
on for decades. And this misuse has been exposed in the United States,
but I can assure you that it is taking place all over the world in Catholic
congregations. It would be folly, it would be arrogance, to assume that
this is only an American problem. So far it has only be exposed in the
United States, because the United States is in certain ways more honest
than many other nations. Yet this problem cannot be swept under the
rug forever.
Women in the priesthood
And so I tell you that there is an absolute necessity to allow priests
to marry. And yet there is an equally great necessity to allow women
into the priesthood. And this is obviously a step that will meet immense
resistance, not only from the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, but
from many Catholics themselves. Yet I tell you that unless this step
is taken, and taken within the next few years, I see no future for the
Catholic Church. The Church will continue to fall behind the times,
until its membership dwindles to the point where it becomes an insignificant
force in the world.
I must even tell you that unless proper balance between male and female,
masculine and feminine, is restored in the Church, I foresee various
disasters that will actually destroy the Church. This will happen from
the inside out in terms of inner turmoil and conflict. And it will happen
from outer events, such as the lawsuits that have led to the bankruptcy
of many congregations in the United States and could spread to the rest
of the world.
I am well aware that the many Catholics who are grieving over the pope
would like to hear a more comforting message. But if you will be willing
to go within your souls, and listen to what your souls are telling you
in your hearts, you will realize that my message is actually supremely
comforting. Because I am not simply giving you soft words that make
you feel better at the moment yet do absolutely nothing to change the
organization. Instead, my message is a message of hope and comfort for
those who are willing to realize the stark reality that the Church must
change or die.
So the question is simple, “Do you want temporary comfort and
a long-term discomfort of seeing the Church that you love shrink into
oblivion? Or do you want to use this dark hour as the birth of a new
opportunity, a new cycle of growth and change, that can change the Catholic
Church into a modern organization?”
Use my rosaries to reform the Church
So I tell you, truly, this is the eleventh hour. It is the hour of choice,
because when the midnight hour strikes twelve and ushers in the year
2012, it will either signal that the Church has begun a process of fundamental,
of foundational, reform, or that it has resisted change and thereby
entered a period of irreversible decay. I must tell you that these next
seven years are crucial for the Catholic Church, as they are crucial
for the entire planet. And I must also tell you that unless a far greater
number begin to use my rosaries
as a tool for reforming not only the world, but also the Catholic Church,
then I see very little hope that the Church will be able and willing
to transform itself.
Therefore, if you are a Catholic, or if you have concerns for the Catholic
Church, I encourage you to spread my rosaries to as many people as you
can. Give them whatever explanation you find appropriate. But use the
rosaries yourself and bear witness to the transforming power they have
in your own life.
I must tell you that I need those who are in the Catholic Church, or
who care about the Catholic Church, to have open minds to the reality
of the message I am speaking here. Because truly, I am using a messenger
who does not come from a Catholic background precisely because he is
not hampered by fear and tradition, whereby he would have been unwilling
to let me speak through him the truth that must be spoken in this hour.
Will you deny my Living Word?
Surely, I am aware that many Catholics will use various excuses to refuse
this messenger and to refuse my message given through him. Yet I must
tell you that this is truly the message of Mary, the Mother of God,
Mary, the Mother of Jesus. I am come in this age, not only to reform
the Catholic Church, I am come in this age to reform Christianity and
to restore the Divine Feminine to her rightful role as the polarity
of the Divine Masculine.
I am come to restore balance to the human race and to all who are true
spiritual seekers on this planet. Because, truly, such people will be
able to see that the threat of war that has been hanging over this planet
for thousands of years is the offspring of an unbalanced masculine consciousness
that wants to dominate all through power. Therefore, it sees only one
way to attain and maintain that power, namely, to kill all those who
oppose it. And this complete disrespect for the value of life can only
come from a perversion of the Father flame and a complete ignoring of
the Mother flame.
It is therefore an extreme unbalance. And the only way to prevent a
large-scale war, is a very quick restoration of the true balance between
the masculine and feminine polarities, not only in individuals, but
in society as a whole. But yet that restoration must start within the
individual. It must start by millions of spiritual seekers who seek
to restore that balance between the divine masculine and the divine
feminine in their own beings.
And I tell you that if you will read between the lines in my rosaries,
you will see that each and every one of them is designed to restore
the balance between the masculine and feminine forces in your beings,
in society and on the planet as a whole. And therefore, these rosaries
are the key to the golden age that could be born, that is longing to
be born, but cannot yet be born because too many people are not willing
to let the Christ be born in their hearts.
Truly, as Jesus
said recently, there is not yet room in the inn for the Christ to
be born in the hearts of so many people on this Earth. And unless that
changes, and more people are willing to look beyond traditional doctrines,
to look beyond fear and let the Christ be born in their hearts, unless
they are willing to let the Christ restore balance in the masculine
and feminine polarities in their beings, then truly the golden age cannot
be born until the Earth has gone through more severe birth pains than
you can possibly accept with your outer minds.
And so I come again, not with a message of doom and gloom, but with
a message of realism. It is an hour of choice. Will you choose to let
the truth take you higher, or you will choose to cling to traditional
doctrines, many of which are based on illusions that spring from imbalance?
This is the choice to be made, not only by Catholics but by all spiritual
people around the world.
Yet it is my hope that, as the Catholic Church enters a new phase of
its history, many Catholics will rise up and demand reform in the Church.
And it is my hope that many people will ask that some of those reforms
be directed at restoring the role of women to its rightful place, whereby
women can be seen as fully equal with men. Thereby, the discrimination
against women, upheld by the Catholic Church for so many centuries,
can finally come to an end, and the Church can be an instrument for
the reverence of the Divine Feminine that Jesus and some of his disciples
expressed 2,000 years ago.
This reverence has been written out of history by those who had a political
agenda of raising up men by putting down women. This must stop! And
I, Mary, am not a feminist in the human sense of the word, but I am
the original feminist in the divine sense of the word. Yet only those
who are willing to reach for the mind of Christ will know the difference,
the difference between truth and error, between light and darkness,
between life and death.
The full fire of my Being
Therefore, I come now with the full fire of the Being that I AM, a Being
of such Light and Love that none of my apparitions have shown the full
fire of who I AM. And therefore, I stand before all people in the world,
in the fullness of my fire and I say, “Recognize the power of
the Mother of God, and recognize that she is the coequal of the Father
of God! Yet she also knows her place as the polarity that balances the
Father without tearing down his authority as the force of self-transcendence.”
And thus, I say, “Awaken to the reality that God is both Father
and Mother, and therefore you have both masculine and feminine aspects
in your own soul. And the key to salvation is to restore balance between
the two, for truly only by restoring balance can you put on the wedding
garment. And only those who wear the wedding garment will be admitted
to the wedding feast. All others will be bound hand and foot by their
illusions. And they will be cast into the outer darkness, created by
the darkness in their own minds, a darkness that springs from imbalance,
the imbalance that will not allow them to let the Christ be born in
their hearts.”
And thus, I say, “Be willing to reach for balance, put on the
wedding garment and enter the kingdom of God within you!”
In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit and the Divine Mother,
it is done. It is finished. It is sealed, for the mouth of the Lord,
the I AM THAT I AM Mother Mary, has spoken it. Amen.
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