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Letter to the Promoters of Our Lady of the Roses“To all workers in the shop: Listen to Me, My children. If you do not listen to Me I cannot protect you. You will meet with a satanic attack. Two will not return. Satan is at war against all who have joined My Son in these days of sinful man—666. The battle for souls rages. Do not fall into satan’s web. I will guide you all, always.” (apparition of Our Lady to Veronica Lueken, October 18, 1990)
There are few things more demoralizing than people who use God and religion as a
co-conspirator to defraud or manipulate people. Such is the case with the St.
Michael World Apostolate, or as we will call it by its acronym, the SMWA. The
SMWA has betrayed Our Lady of the Roses and the Mission of the Shrine by
elevating their personal ambitions and animosities over obedience to Our Lady of
the Roses.
It must be emphasized that no one truly represents Our Lady of the Roses Shrine,
except Our Lady Herself, in all Her immaculate perfection. All of us, in our
wounded and weakened human nature, barely live the message, and at best feebly
represent Our Lady’s Shrine. Furthermore, the true authority over Our Lady’s
Shrine rests with the Bishop of Brooklyn, a successor of the Apostles, and not
with a mere layman. Everyone else is merely a steward, with a divine trust to
spread the message, awaiting the time when his Excellency receives his sign and
then believes.
The antics of the SMWA, I am sure, has the Bishop of Brooklyn and many clergy
justly alarmed and scratching their heads in bewilderment. How can it be that
the SMWA leadership, as well as many followers of Our Lady of the Roses, have
rationalized blatant violations of God’s law, which the Catholic Church and Our
Lady of the Roses so clearly condemn?
Lies, distortions and intimidation
A lengthy trail of Clintonesque lies, distortions, and intimidation has been the
hallmark of the SMWA. The list grows ever longer of SMWA actions that have
brought scandal and derision to Our Lady’s Mission. Unfortunately, there seems
to be no genuine regret, or even acknowledgment, of any wrongdoing on the part
of the SMWA.
I wish to make an appeal to the “faithful and true” devotees of Our Lady of the
Roses to disassociate themselves from the immoral, disobedient and shameful
leadership of the SMWA. You have no obligation to sinful man, but you all have
an obligation to uphold the moral teachings of the Catholic Church. Some
well-meaning promoters of Our Lady of the Roses have become accessories to the
immoral offenses of the SMWA, especially by their silence, and well as by their
defense of objectively evil actions.
Our Lady’s Mission is not to promote a clique or social club, but to restore the
Catholic Church to her former glory. Insofar as a person violates God’s
Commandments, he becomes part of the problem that Our Lady came to remedy.
We all make mistakes, but don’t kid yourself: if you find yourself in any way
justifying the thefts, lies, and slanders perpetrated by the SMWA, you have
chosen man over God, sinful human respect over obedience to the Commandments of
God. You have not been faithful, and are no longer acting as a morally upright
Catholic. To err is human; to remain obstinate in sin is diabolical.
I find the SMWA leadership so morally adrift and their words and actions so
reprehensible as to consider them the antithesis to Our Lady of the Roses'
message, which portrays so beautifully and clearly our individual call to
holiness. There are several laments from Proverbs that seem particularly
appropriate when considering the misdeeds of the SMWA:
“There are six things the Lord hates… a lying tongue” (Proverbs 6:16-17)
“Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord” (Proverbs 12:22)
“The false witness will not go unpunished, no one who utters lies will go free.”
(Proverbs 19:5)
Some may brush aside this letter with the self-righteous “we are being
persecuted” phrase. Many in the Bayside ranks are presently suffering just
punishment on account of their silence or active complicity in sins and offenses
that would make nonbelievers blush for shame.
My gratitude towards Our Lady of the Roses compels me to speak out concerning
the delusion that has overcome many well-meaning and, at one time, fervent
promoters of Our Lady’s messages. Not only do I speak out for the sake of those
who believe in the message, but also for the sake of his Excellency, Bishop
Thomas Daily, who will receive a copy of this letter so that he may have for his
records a testimony to the validity of Our Lady’s message that sought to prevent
this present SMWA disaster at every turn, but alas, sinful man failed to
cooperate and obey.
The clash that occurred several years ago between Michael Mangan and his
followers against Our Lady of the Roses Shrine was actually predicted by Our
Lady in an apparition years before this sad situation materialized:
“To all workers in the shop: Listen to Me, My children. If you do not listen to
Me I cannot protect you. You will meet with a satanic attack. Two will not
return. Satan is at war against all who have joined My Son in these days of
sinful man—666. The battle for souls rages. Do not fall into satan’s web. I will
guide you all, always.” (apparition of Our Lady to Veronica Lueken, October 18,
1990)
Her message was quite clear: (1) there was an approaching onslaught from the
devil; (2) the deception would encompass all the workers; (3) the solution was
to “listen to Me” (Our Lady) rather than others (Michael) and to prepare
prayerfully for the attack. This apparition might well be called the “Third
Secret” of the workers; it too was hidden away, ignored, and the predicted
onslaught came.
Certainly Michael is not without faults, as he is a mere man. But when an
individual sets himself up to manipulate and lie to others, to aggrandize
himself at the expense of others, this is wrong; it is a sin. Many of the
Bayside followers have great interest in the locutions from Our Lady, but here
are some that have been suppressed, because these messages from Our Lady have
not been self-serving to the agenda of the SMWA:
(1) In 1989, when the workers moved to their new house, Michael decided on his
own to rearrange the weekly schedule, severely limiting the free-time of the
volunteers. He told the workers that he had conferred with Veronica and Arthur
about these changes, and had received her approval. But lo and behold! A worker
called Veronica and discovered that Arthur and Veronica did not know anything
about these changes, that Michael had not conferred with them at all. Veronica
was quite upset about this, and told Michael that things were to remain the
same. In confirmation of Veronica’s decision, within a few days Our Lady gave a
locution for the benefit of the workers, protecting their liberty from Michael’s
interference. Michael had blatantly lied to all the workers. Our Lady defended
the other workers from Michael’s deceit.
(2) One of the workers transcribed the vigil message of October 2, 1989 and
included Veronica’s description at the end of the vigil tape message. Upon a
proofreading of this message (after an edit by Michael Mangan), the worker asked
why this description was removed by Michael. Michael replied that it wasn’t
necessary. Appalled at Michael’s cavalier attitude to strike out an entire
paragraph from Our Lady’s message at a whim, that worker wrote to Veronica. Our
Lady told Veronica in locution the description was to remain. Michael, again,
had erred in judgment. Our Lady, again, corrected Michael.
(3) In 1992, one of the workers continued to question Michael why he would not
work on the early messages, requested since 1985. To defend his non-response to
Our Lady’s request, Michael said, “After all, it took 6 years to do Occulations
from Heaven.”
What a disappointing response! This same worker (and others) offered to work
overtime on this project. They were refused by Michael. By this time, this
worker had serious doubts as to Michael’s commitment to obeying Our Lady’s
message.
Sensing a threat to his authority, Michael attempted to coerce this worker to
discontinue his attempts to fulfill Our Lady’s requests, and accused the worker
of “disobedience.” That worker replied, “I will not apologize for Our Lady’s
words,” and pointed out to Michael that his attitude was quite similar to those
bishops who knew of the Fatima message regarding the consecration of Russia, but
obstinately refused to obey Our Lady.
At this point, Michael had made up his mind: to misinform Veronica of what had
transpired, and remove the worker under false pretenses. And so it happened.
Because of Michael’s distortion of the facts of the situation, the worker was
removed without being able to tell Veronica and Arthur his side of the story.
At the next vigil, Our Lady repeated Her ignored plea that the Shrine reprint
the back messages. Michael, again, had erred in judgment. Our Lady, again,
corrected Michael.
(4) Now we come to the time that Veronica was on her deathbed. Michael asked
Veronica if Our Lady had spoken to her. Veronica told Michael: “You will be
scourged!” Mrs. Ann Ferguson confirmed that these words referred to Michael and
not Veronica. Mrs. Ferguson explained that had this message referred to
Veronica, Veronica would have said, “I will be scourged.” We may recall that Our
Lord endured His scourging on account of mankind’s sins of pride. Michael,
again, erred in judgment.
These actions betray the SMWA’s deliberate decision to flout the Church’s moral
teachings and arrogate to themselves a “right” to invent a set of values that
bear no resemblance to the teachings of Christ or His Church. The above
incidents are just a sampling. Certainly these incidents are scandalous in
themselves, but they only constitute pieces to an overall picture of
manipulation, deception, and love of power.
Again, these events are also to inform his Excellency that these actions are
primarily the product of one man’s perverted will, and in no way can be
attributed to Veronica or to the Our Lady of the Roses message. This is
important because these incidents have cast a pall over the Mission, and have
brought immense scandal and ridicule to the cause, and must be renounced as
contrary to Our Lady’s message.
Other SMWA misdeeds include:
1. Michael Mangan forbade Our Lady of the Roses pilgrims from attending Pope
John Paul II’s 1995 Mass in Central Park, New York. One family flew from
California and was told not to go to Central Park, and so they remained in their
hotel room, watching the event on TV (yes, believe it or not, this really
happened!);
2. Michael stopped producing the publication, Directives from Heaven for four
years, contrary to the express directions in Our Lady of the Roses message;
3. Michael arbitrarily decided to tell Our Lady of the Roses believers that the
worldwide Warning was going to occur in 1997, even though the Our Lady of the
Roses' message specifically states many times that no dates will be given.
Michael’s actions were erroneous and caused immense damage to the credibility to
Our Lady of the Roses Shrine when the event did not occur. The error was
entirely due to Michael Mangan and the SMWA, and cannot be attributed to
Veronica or Our Lady of the Roses message which never gave such a date;
4. Michael attempted to coerce Maureen Ferguson to write a letter siding with
the SMWA and condemning her own mother, Ann Ferguson (Veronica’s personal
secretary);
5. stealing of Shrine mailing list (and leaving Shrine with an outdated list);
6. sabotaging printing equipment;
7. lying to pilgrims when questioned about the whereabouts of the original
Shrine statue. SMWA concocted the story that the statue was in for repairs.
Actually, they were buying a replica (the original Shrine statue was then in the
custody of Veronica’s husband, Arthur). Most people were deceived;
8. attempted to take over the radio stations of These Last Days Ministries;
9. used stolen money to influence the Flushing Meadows Parks officials in his
favor;
10. attempted to take over Our Lady of the Roses corporation, in which a court
case ensued and the SMWA lost;
11. consuming vast economic resources of the supporters of Our Lady of the Roses
in a court battle that would not have occurred, had the SMWA listened and obeyed
the October 18, 1990 message of Our Lady directed to them;
12. changing of vigil dates for the prayer vigils (some vigils are no longer on
the Eve of the feast days, as per Our Lady’s express instructions);
13. Ann Ferguson has testified that several times Veronica called her on the
phone, crying, because of the verbal ill-treatment she had received from Michael
while on the phone with him.
The SMWA has expended so much energy and time trying to portray their actions in
a favorable light that they have lost their ability to humbly and objectively
acknowledge their misdeeds and disobedience to Our Lady of the Roses.
Consider that for four years the SMWA leadership did not publish any new
directives, in spite of the fact the command from heaven was that a new one was
to be produced ever two weeks.
Our Lady’s mission is far too important and precious to put up with leaders that
more closely resemble self-centered politicians than servants of God and their
neighbor.
As Catholics we are not to abdicate our personal responsibility, turn a blind
eye to evil and go into “autopilot” mode, slavishly surrendering our allegiance
to a mere prideful man. This, folks, is the stuff cults thrive on, and shame on
anyone who has been silent or complicit in the SMWA’s efforts to dismantle Our
Lady of the Roses Shrine.
Some have said, and others will say, “God will take care of the situation.” But
it is our responsibility and the purpose of our very existence to defend God and
His laws. One cannot remain a neutral observer to a morally offensive situation,
especially when you have the power to change events.
A copy of this letter will be sent to his Excellency Bishop Thomas V. Daily, to
assure him that there is at least one Bayside believer that rejects Michael
Mangan as being representative of the Our Lady of the Roses message, and to
assure his Excellency that I recognize many of the events listed above as grave
sins against Catholic morality, actions that are intrinsically evil. In other
words, these actions cannot be justified for any reason whatsoever; and,
contrary to what the SMWA leadership has falsely asserted, the end never
justifies using sinful means to arrive at that end. Also, I assert that the
Bishop’s apostolic authority is God-given, and that Michael and his group will
have to answer to that authority one day.
It would appear that now is a decisive moment for the SMWA members to make
restitution to the reputations they have slandered, and to make restitution for
the financial damage that they have inflicted on Our Lady of the Roses Shrine
and These Last Days Radio program.
I also wish to assure his Excellency that I prayerfully await the day when he
takes over the reins of Our Lady of the Roses Shrine, as many lay people have
amply demonstrated their unworthiness and insensibility to multiple and major
offenses against Catholic morality; they have failed to uphold God’s law. You,
your Excellency, are the only one competent and divinely authorized to remedy
the situation that sinful man has brought about.
Our Lady’s workers
"Obedience, My child, obedience--how sad that the true meaning has met with distortion. Satan has used the rule of obedience to bring about the destruction of souls. There is, My child, only one majesty Who commands your obedience. This is the Father--the Father, the most high God in Heaven, the Kingdom of light. You must not honor man before your God. You must not sell your soul to man! For you, therefore, are selling your soul to the devil." - Our Lady, December 6, 1974
Articles:
A terrible Bayside prophecy about the fulltime Shrine workers: "You will meet
with a satanic attack ... two will not return"
http://www.nuestrasenoradelasrosas.org/news1/Faithful&True-two-will-not-return.pdf
History and context for
Our Lady's October 18, 1990 warning to the fulltime New York Shrine workers
http://www.nuestrasenoradelasrosas.org/news1/Faithful&True-background-for-October-18-1990-warning.pdf
The convergence of three Bayside prophecies: SMWA attacks TLDM
http://www.nuestrasenoradelasrosas.org/news1/Faithful&True-convergence-of-three-Bayside-prophecies.pdf
The demonic and the birth of the SMWA
http://www.nuestrasenoradelasrosas.org/news1/Faithful&True-The-demonic-and-the-birth-of-SMWA.pdf
Truthtellers and liars
http://www.nuestrasenoradelasrosas.org/news1/Faithful&True-Truthtellers-liars.pdf
My brother in the Bayside Mission, Bill Dykes
http://www.nuestrasenoradelasrosas.org/news1/Faithful&True-BillDykes-death.pdf
SMWA's Betrayal of Our Lady of the Roses Mission
http://www.nuestrasenoradelasrosas.org/news1/SMWA-betrayal.html
Why TLDM continues to spread Directives from Heaven throughout the world
http://www.nuestrasenoradelasrosas.org/news1/Why-TLDM-spreads-directives.html
"My memories of Veronica Lueken," by Ann Ferguson
http://www.tldm.org/News4/MemoriesOfVeronica.htm