As we begin 2024, let us pray that we enter this new year with great priestly fervor and with the Blessed Virgin Mary by our side.
My previous letters have focused on us, as priests, becoming more and more deeply Marian. Now, I want to focus on what it means to be Eucharistic priests. First, I am compelled to emphasize the grave responsibility each of us carries to the altar of Jesus Christ when we celebrate Mass. Sadly, we have seen how devastating it is to the Bride of Christ when her priestly sons willfully live abusive and sinful lives. Priests who fail to authentically live Christ’s call to the priesthood and who lose their sense of repentance bring desecration to the sacred altar of Jesus Christ and wreak havoc on the Church. If we fail to respond to Christ’s call to holiness and to forsake any sin in our lives, the consequences for us and the people we serve are dire; therefore, we must double down on our efforts and use this time of crisis in the Church as an opportunity to grow even closer to Christ in the Eucharist and to experience a more profound conversion of heart. I believe the only truly effective way for us to respond to our human inclination toward sin is to seek a deeper Eucharistic piety.
Using the phrase “Eucharistic piety” may feel off-putting and overly spiritualized, but I believe our challenge as priests of the 21st Century demands that we seek holiness, real holiness. Although simplistic, I recommend striving to know Jesus Christ and His Sacred Heart more intimately. I am reminded of the eleven faithful Apostles in contrast to the unfaithful one, Judas Iscariot. The Gospels do not share the details of how each of the eleven came to truly know Christ in a profound way, but they do tell us about the time they spent with Him. The few times Judas is mentioned, it seems clear that he is preoccupied with the purse and not with learning at the feet of the Master. I suspect that if we had the chance to speak with apostles Peter, James, John, Andrew or any of the others, they would share wonderful, never-recorded stories about their quality time with Jesus. As His 21st Century priests, we are called to continually deepen our relationship with Him and, as with any relationship, it will require effort and selflessly spending quality time in His Presence in Eucharistic Adoration.
Ultimately, we must be men of self-sacrifice to become truly Eucharistic priests. We must be men of real, day-to-day, draining and exhausting sacrifice. We must be willing to confront false messages no matter their origin – whether from the secular world or the Church. Most importantly, we must be willing to place our lives on His altar and to join Him in the most profound sacrifice of love the world has ever known.
In closing, I believe we can agree that, as priests, we have made the commitment to love, honor, and cherish the Church. This is a difficult task, and we often fail, but I can think of no better person to emulate than the beloved disciple, St. John. He was at the Last Supper where wine becomes Christ’s Precious Blood, and with Eucharistic piety, John remained with Christ at the foot of the Cross where he was spattered with Christ’s Precious Blood as He died. Like John, this is also where we must be, intimately sharing in Our Lord’s Precious Blood as we offer His Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity to the world.
Brothers, let us pray for each other that we may always authentically and humbly approach Our Lord in Eucharistic Adoration and at His altar each time we celebrate Holy Mass.
St. John the Evangelist, pray for us.
Bishop Joseph E. Strickland
Joseph Strickland
Bishop Joseph E. Strickland was named the fourth bishop of Tyler in September of 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI. Prior to being named bishop, he served a number of roles in the diocese, including vicar general, judicial vicar, and pastor of the Cathedral parish. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1985.
Saint Peter Canisius, Priest and Doctor of the Church
My Dear Brother Priests,
I pray that the last few remaining days of Advent are full of blessings as you transition from the joyful season of Advent to the glorious season of Christmas. Having been a pastor for many years, I know all too well the challenges you and the faithful will experience as you make the quick change from Advent to Christmas in the space of a few hours. It can be dizzying, but I always found it uplifting to see the same faithful souls return for another liturgy, and I enjoyed laughing with them as we all wondered, “now, which liturgical celebration are we here for this time?” Although the 4th week of Advent 2023 will be very short, let us pray that we are still prepared for the Nativity of the Lord.
In my previous letter, I made a plea to all priests to become Marian priests, but I suspect we each have different ideas about how to become a Marian priest, and many probably wonder what this means for our priestly journey. First, I believe it means that we must intentionally invite and include Mary in our daily journey so that we can eventually come to fully understand our role as priests. Our Lord understood the importance of His Mother’s constant presence in His life, and He shares the gift of her presence with us. Scripture makes this very clear. As Jesus spoke from His Cross to Mary and the beloved disciple, John, He speaks to us, His ordained priests. We are to dedicate our lives to serving others with His Mother by our side. Her role in our priestly lives opens a rich dimension of what it means to be a priest of Jesus Christ.
Additionally, a Marian priest must be aware of Mary’s presence at the altar when offering the sacrifice of the Mass. She was present when He breathed His last breath as He died on the cross,and she is with us every time the Mass is celebrated. Our Marian focus, as priests, helps us to stay connected to the supernatural truth we celebrate at the sacrificial altar of Jesus Christ. With her help, we can overcome the challenge of losing the sense of the sacred and the supernatural.
Lastly, priests who have a Marian focus are drawn closer to Christ, and as priests, the closer the better, for it is Christ who teaches us the true meaning of our priesthood. Priests sacrifice themselves and cling to the Church in service to God’s people, much like spouses sacrifice themselves and cling to each other for the good of the other. Our work is directed towards the salvation of souls. I must admit my focus, over the years, has not always been clear, but as my personal devotion to Mary has developed, the greatest blessings have been a heightened awareness of her presence at the altar and a more profound humility in the Real Presence of Jesus Christ – Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. I believe seeking to be Marian priests is simply entering more deeply into what our priesthood truly means.
My dear brothers, as we go forward, may we rest in Our Mother who is the advocate of priests. She will hold us close, and she will adopt us as her sons, as she did St. John. She will draw usinto the radiance of her Son and there, by the intercession of Our Mother’s Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, we will be a consoler of Christ’s Sacred Heart. As we His priests, in His presence, offer adoration and reparation for His Bride, the Church, there will be a renewal of holiness within our own lives and within His Church.
Mary, Mother of God, pray for us, your priestly sons.
Bishop Joseph E. Strickland
Joseph Strickland
Bishop Joseph E. Strickland was named the fourth bishop of Tyler in September of 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI. Prior to being named bishop, he served a number of roles in the diocese, including vicar general, judicial vicar, and pastor of the Cathedral parish. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1985.
As we begin a new liturgical year, I am compelled to reach out to as many of you as possible with a simple but profound request – to join me in an important renewal of our priestly lives. I urge you to share this letter with every brother priest you can, even if it means translating it into another language. My hope is that Catholic priests around the world have an opportunity to join me in this renewal.
You may ask, “Who are you to send such an audacious message along with the claim that it should be embraced by every priest in the Catholic Church?” I am simply a priest and bishop who is devoted to our Blessed Mother and her Son, Jesus Christ, and it is through this devotion that I implore you to develop an ever-deepening life in Our Mother and Our Lord. Allow our Mother Mary, who gives us the grace to come unto Him, to lead you to her Son in adoration. There, you will be showered by the light of His Eucharistic Face which will lead you straight to His Eucharistic Heart and, there too, you will be accompanied by His Mother and her Immaculate Heart.
I believe it is time that we become deeply Eucharistic and Marian priests, and that we set aside all the squabbles, confusion and temptations to shape Christ’s Bride according to the world’s will rather than the Will of God. I am reminded of the dream of St. John Bosco in which he sees the Barque of St. Peter in desperate condition with her only hope being a strong tether to the pillar of our Eucharistic Lord, and an equally strong tether to the pillar of His Mother and Our Mother, the Immaculate Virgin Mary. I encourage you to read St. John Bosco’s vision of the two pillars; it speaks of our time.
Brothers, my message is not about another program or some sweeping reform; it is about every priestly heart coming to know the Sacred Heart of Jesus in a transformative way, and the best way to His Sacred Heart is through His Mother’s Immaculate Heart.
While the call to renewal is not complicated nor sophisticated, it will require each of us to lay down our lives for our Lord, who laid down His life for us. Should a priestly brother balk at the call – pray for him, nudge him, implore him to become a Eucharistic and Marian priest.
I hope my heart will speak to your hearts so that we might move, together, ever closer to His Heart, the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ. It is there we find Truth.
Let us fall to our knees and pray, asking the Lord to guide us to a renewal of His Bride through His priests.
Bishop Emeritus Joseph E. Strickland
Joseph Strickland
Bishop Joseph E. Strickland was named the fourth bishop of Tyler in September of 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI. Prior to being named bishop, he served a number of roles in the diocese, including vicar general, judicial vicar, and pastor of the Cathedral parish. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1985.
It’s been a few weeks since our good bishop was taken and we are continuing to suffer “firsts.” The first Friday he was not there for Friday morning Mass and adoration, when the cathedra had already been stripped of his coat of arms and looked like it had been vandalized… that was hard.
Tomorrow is the first monthly potluck breakfast since Bishop Strickland was taken. The First Friday potluck began when Fr. Joe was pastor, but it faltered during covid. Celeste relaunched it in the Bishop’s honor last year. Tomorrow he will not be there to bless the food, move around from table to table, talking to everyone and making us laugh.
And the biggest and hardest first is still to come, when another bishop is assigned.
It’s inevitable that we all thought, even if just for a moment, “What’s keeping me in Tyler if the Bishop is gone?” We moved here for the Bishop, or rather, for the way the Bishop held up Christ clearly and without making our glorious Faith subservient to political nonsense. So are we staying or going?
We’ve drawn closer to each other, more like family as we weather this storm together. If community was rated on a scale of 1 to 10, we just skipped right over a few levels, gunning for a 10. Even that is hard, though. There’s a part of me that doesn’t want to get through this with grace, doesn’t want to find the good, as though it is somehow disloyal to the bishop to soldier on. If we can get along without him, does that somehow mean that he wasn’t vital to us? I felt the same way after my father died, not wanting to admit that my world could go on without him.
And yet, we have to honor the Bishop by trying to be as good at what we do as Bishop Strickland is at what he does. That’s why we’ve loved him: he set an example for us, showing us how to be the kind of Catholics we want to be: bold and brave and true. Indeed, if we don’t take this adversity as a spur to grow in virtue and prayer and joy, we dishonor the Bishop.
Perhaps there are some factions happier now that the Bishop is gone from Tyler. We can’t change that, but we can demonstrate what a difference a good bishop makes. Somehow in this time when up is down and good is evil, the witness of one humble bishop who won’t give up, has become something extraordinary. Anyone should be able to look at the laity of Tyler and see the reflection of our extraordinary bishop in us.
The three things I think are most critical to his legacy (and it is purely coincidental that they are A, B and C) are adoration, believing the best, and courage.
Adoration. In every diocese I’ve lived in before, Eucharistic Adoration was, at least publicly, a devotion of the laity. Rarely did I see a priest in adoration, except on Holy Thursday. When I did see a cleric in an Adoration chapel or at a Holy Hour, it was strangely exciting, like “Look! Our pastors are with us, we are not alone before the Lord!” It gave us assurance that our priests were Eucharistic, rather than worldly. Some priests have private chapels in their residences where they adore Jesus in seclusion, away from the eyes of the laity, but if they knew how significant it is to us, they might come to the public adoration chapels more often. Seeing a priest in adoration binds the laity to the priests in a completely unique way.
We watched Bishop Strickland in Adoration every week before Friday morning Mass, and at many events and conferences. It is likely the supernatural source of our fierce loyalty to him. Yes, we like how friendly and approachable he is, we admire his forthrightness and willingness to suffer blows for the truth, but perhaps what binds us most powerfully to him is that he led us in Adoration; we came before God like an arrowhead, with the Bishop at the point. To watch him kneel on hard marble for an hour without flinching was to cowboy up and quit making excuses.
The Bishop has his own Eucharistic chapel in his home, and had one in the Chancery office as well, but his willingness to humble himself before Jesus in front of us and as one of us, has reinvigorated my Eucharistic devotion. I’m named for a Eucharistic saint (Clare) and it was the Eucharist which brought me home to the Catholic Church; my adult life has been formed around the Eucharist. And yet, watching the bishop kneel before the Lord shakes me as though I’m encountering the Eucharist for the first time. It’s a heartrending picture of the Body of Christ.
Bishop Strickland brought a “tiny adoration” into each celebration of the Mass, at the elevation of the consecrated Host. He stood for long moments in adoration, and implicitly invited us into adoration by drawing out the moment. People attending Mass with the Bishop for the first time would always remark on that, and I never stopped being moved by it. The elevation was often so prolonged that a person could lose himself in the contemplation of Christ and forget where he was. This was one of the great gifts of attending Mass with our good bishop.
Believing the Best. Some people have criticized our bishop as being naïve. But I think it’s actually his willingness to believe the best about other people that is interpreted as naivete. He notably refuses to take offense at slights or even outright attacks, using humor and self-effacement to deflect anger.
The bishop’s openness to the potential holiness of every person colors his interactions, even on Twitter, where nastiness makes its home in the Comments sections. If you persistently see Christ in others, it’s impossible to demean or dismiss them. Mother Teresa notably practiced this attitude, and the Bishop is getting quite a good workout at it himself.
You only have to watch the video of his remarks at the USCCB meeting in November 2018 to see what I’m talking about. He was clearly correct to bring up the elephant in the room (homosexuality at the heart of the abuse scandals) and clearly the bishops were aligned to do nothing about it, and yet the Bishop’s manner is open and you can see he still believes the bishops can do the right thing.
I have noticed a laissez-faire attitude on the part of the bishop, a willingness to let things take their course, with respect for the rights and duties of laypeople. I’m familiar with several situations in which laypeople disagreed, and went to the bishop for support of one side or the other. While the bishop might be willing to share his opinion on some matters, he respected the lay people enough to allow them to come to their own decisions about affairs proper to the laity. In this way, he forced us to mature in our thinking and charity as adult Christians in community. He would not play the autocratic father who settles every squabble for the children. He believed the best of us, and expected us to take up our duties as baptized Christians.
The bishop is without guile, like Nathanael, but he’s no simpleton. He is, in fact, quite astute, the result of much reading and study taken into prayer. When Bishop Strickland infamously tweeted, “I believe Pope Francis is the Pope, but it is time for me to say that I reject his program of undermining the Deposit of Faith,” the phrasing indicated a process of thinking and considering. It was not said impetuously. His words, “it is time” show that he’d been wrestling with it for who knows how long, attempting, as we all have, to believe the best about the Pope. And then he couldn’t. That’s when courage came into play.
Courage. Does anyone really believe that May 12 tweet was casual on the part of the Bishop, that it didn’t cost him dearly in his soul? It is in the deepest part of the Catholic heart to love and honor the successor of Peter, the vicar of Christ on earth. It’s not in our Catholic nature to not love the Pope. This pope has done violence to our souls by forcing us to admit that there is something desperately wrong in Rome.
I believe Bishop Strickland knew the price he would pay for saying what he did, and had already accepted it before his fingers ever hit the keyboard. That is courage. It may be the thing we most admire about the Bishop, perhaps because it is the hardest to emulate. What do we stand to lose that compares to what the Bishop lost for the sake of truth? Where does our duty lie? We are all called to discern our proper place in the fight for Truth. The Bishop has gone ahead of us.
There will be a cost to speaking the Truth. We are already beginning to pay, with the loss of the Bishop, but we’re still early days. The Bishop is only part of the plan for which God brought us to Tyler. Courage will be demanded of us as we hold up the truth of Jesus Christ and His Church. This diocese, and indeed the world, is not going to fall back to some standard of normal without a crisis point. The fight is not going to pass us by. We must defend our Faith with the knowledge that there will be a cost, and we must have prayed our way to acceptance, the way Bishop Strickland did.
The Bishop could do nothing other than to hold up the truth of Christ, which is for the good of the sheep. We must now conduct ourselves as worthy of the price. We must be as open and approachable as our good bishop, believing the best of others, pressing ourselves to adore the Eucharist at every opportunity, and speaking the truth with courage and love.
We are the legacy of Bishop Strickland in Tyler, Texas. Let’s make it shine.
All the best insights about moving forward come from the kind witness of Fr. Steven Chabarria.
We begin today to pray for Bishop Strickland. In his humility and obedience, he leaves his position as Bishop of Tyler.
We also pray for all the bishops of the United States as they gather on November 13 – 17, 2023 at the USCCB Plenary Assembly.
The Catholic Faithful in Tyler Texas have been doing Novenas for Bishop Strickland regularly for the last couple of years. Join us from wherever you are to pray for America’s Bishop!
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Day 1
November 13th
Novena to St. Michael the Archangel
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
St. Michael the Archangel, I honor you as a powerful protector of the Church and guardian of my soul. Inspire me with your humility, courage and strength that I may reject sin and perfect my love for our Heavenly Father.
In your strength and humility, slay the evil and pride in my heart so that nothing will keep me from God.
St. Michael the Archangel, pray that I may be blessed by God with the zeal to live my life in accordance with Christ’s teachings.
St. Michael the Archangel, you are the prince of angels but in your humility you recognized that God is God and you are but His servant. Unlike satan, you were not overcome with pride but were steadfast in humility. Pray that I will have this same humility.
It is in the spirit of that humility that I ask for your intercession for Bishop Joseph Strickland. I pray for you to accompany and protect him as he lives out the mission given to him by God and the Church.
May Bishop be surrounded by all the Holy Angels. May they tend to him during this time of great loss. May they inspire, protect and strengthen him as he finds his way without his beloved Diocese of Tyler.
I pray for our Blessed Mother to comfort Bishop in this time of uncertainty. May she continue to assist him as he seeks the Will of God and continues to defend the true faith.
May a fire of love burn in the hearts of all the bishops of our country. May their hearts be ignited by the Holy Spirit and purified. May they be consumed with a burning desire to live only for Christ and fulfill their God given Apostolic mission.
May the bishops of our country be given the same courage as the first apostles were given; a willingness to lose everything for love of Jesus. May they even be willing to lose their lives to defend the Truth as handed down to them through the ages.
(Add your own intentions)
With grateful hearts, we thank you St Michael.
“Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.”
Amen.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us. Sacred heart of Jesus, have mercy on us. Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit
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“Please assure all those who join in this Novena that I will offer Mass for them.”
~ Bishop Joseph Strickland~
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Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Vouchsafe that I may praise thee, O sacred Virgin and ask of you the following; give Bishop Strickland strength against his enemies, and against the enemy of the whole human race. Give him strength humbly to pray to thee. Give Bishop strength to praise thee in prayer with all his powers, through the merits of thy most sacred nativity, which for the entire Christian world was a birth of joy, the hope and solace of its life.
When thou were born, O most holy Virgin, then was the world made light. Happy is thy stock, holy thy root, and blessed thy fruit, for thou alone as a virgin, filled with the Holy Spirit, did merit to conceive thy God, as a virgin to bear Thy God, as a virgin to bring Him forth, and after His birth to remain a virgin.
Have mercy therefore upon me a sinner, and give me aid, O Lady, so that just as thy nativity, glorious from the seed of Abraham, sprung from the tribe of Juda, illustrious from the stock of David, didst announce joy to the entire world, so may it fill me with true joy and cleanse me from every sin.
Pray for me, O Virgin most prudent, that the gladsome joys of thy most helpful nativity may put a cloak over all my sins. O holy Mother of God, flowering as the lily, pray to thy sweet Son for me, a wretched sinner and for my dear Bishop Strickland your faithful priest son.
Amen
We pray for the intentions of Bishop Strickland:
The Sanctity of Life from conception to natural death.
The Sanctity of Marriage as God established it between one man and one woman for life and being open to children.
The sanctity of the human person created male and female.
The sanctity of the Church as the Bride of Christ.
The sacred role of bishops as successors of the apostles and guardians of the deposit of faith.
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As much as the Catholics of Tyler would like to shield their beloved bishop from national notice, it’s a fait accompli. Bishop Joseph Strickland’s Tweets have attracted notice for some time, especially those that call out the evil actions of public figures who otherwise enjoy immunity from criticism. From November 2018, when Bishop Strickland prayed with the laity at the Baltimore Bishop’s Conference, befriending the faithful instead of demonizing them, we have loved him. In 2019, he stood and asserted, over the craven objections of many other bishops, that abortion was indeed the pre-eminent issue of our time.
He took the Blessed Sacrament to the streets when all was shut down in 2020. He was one of the few bishops who condemned the development of covid shots on aborted fetuses. He called out Hilary Clinton for labelling pro-lifers as Taliban.
Then when he accepted the invitation to support the prayerful procession in Los Angeles outside Dodger Stadium, where the drag queen porn ensemble was going to be honored, the deal was sealed. He became the national sign of a true-blue good shepherd, which so many Catholics long for, but do not have in their own dioceses.
Now, the action of the Vatican ordering an Apostolic Visitation has promoted Bishop Strickland even higher in the affection of the faithful. Years of frustration with poor Vatican teaching and the abandonment of the laity seem to have been distilled into a single widespread work of prayer for this one esteemed bishop. The Visitation is already concluded, but the resulting action is not yet known. You can join an organized vigil of prayer for Bishop Strickland, or pray a rosary on your own for his protection and for God’s perfect will to be done in him. It is certain that God has a plan for this loyal servant.
In addition to the many Catholic efforts across the Diocese of Tyler, we have been made aware that the Episcopal and Baptist communities of Tyler are also praying for him. Our good bishop, and indeed, the whole local church, is being cradled in prayer.
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Begins June 28th and ends on July 6th the Feast of St Maria Goretti
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St. Maria Goretti, your devotion to God and Mary was so strong that you were able to offer your life rather than lose your virginal purity. Help all of us, beset by so many temptations in this modern world, to imitate your youthful example. Intercede for us all, especially youth, that God may give us the courage and strength we need, to avoid anything that could offend Him or stain our souls. Obtain for us from our Lord victory in temptation, comfort in the sorrows of life and the grace which we sincerely ask of you (personal intentions).
Dear Heavenly Father, we pray for our Bishop, Joseph Strickland. May he always know the guidance of Your great love through the power of Your Most Holy Spirit.
Fill him with the Spirit of Courage to follow Christ and proclaim His truth as found in Scripture and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Fill him with the Spirit of Wisdom, that he may in confidence lead his flock through times of confusion, doubt, deception and fear.
Father, bless his apostolic ministry in Your Church. Protect and defend him as he stands in the person of Jesus Christ, offering his life for the sake of Your Holy Church.
We offer our prayer to You Father, and invoke our Blessed Mother’s intercession to Your Beloved Son on behalf of Bishop Joseph Strickland.
May we one day enjoy with you, St Maria Goretti, the everlasting glory of Heaven. Amen.
Our Father…
Hail Mary…
Glory be to the Father…
Sacred Heart of Jesus, be my Love!
Immaculate Heart of Mary, be my salvation!
St. Maria Goretti, Virgin and Martyr, pray for us!
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