I (Joan Lyons) was born and baptized in 1963 in  IL, USA.  In the mid 70s my dad investigated the problems of the Church since V2.  In 1976 he found that the Novus Ordo service we had been attending for years, was not really a mass. My mother, could not accept this and continued going to the Novus Ordo.  I absorbed the written information my father had provided, and I too realized that what had taken place in the Church was the ultimate deception – a wolf in sheep’s clothing, and so I stopped attending the false Novus Ordo mass. 

My dad searched for a traditional priest and found a man who called himself Fr. Titus.  We went to one of his Tridentine masses, but dad later found that he was not even a priest. 

When I made the break from the Novus Ordo mass, I knew it would be hard.  Our family has literally been divided.  My mother and my brothers and sisters and their families all still accept JP2 as pope, each with a different twist – one attends the Pius X Society, another the Opus Dei, and 2 others are vanilla Novus Ordos.  There is no doubt in my mind that our last true pope was Pius XII and that we are living in the interim now awaiting the election of our next true pope. 

My dad found Fr. Lucian in 1982 at that time I attended my 1st “real” Mass and made my 1st “real” communion.  I thank God for that.  My parents instructed me using the Baltimore Catechism.  I was 19 before I memorized the Apostle’s Creed.  I began saying the daily rosary and Way of the Cross. 

In 1984 I met Bobby Lyons, who is now my husband.  I thought there was hope when he told me of his Marist Brother training.  I put our relationship in the hands of Our Lady, telling her that if Bobby converted it meant that he was the one I would marry.  As it turned out that is what happened.  We were married by Fr. Lucian in 1985.  I was then re-confirmed in 1987, taking the name of AnneCatherine, one of the visionaries who saw what is happening today in the Church.  Fr. Lucian brings us the sacraments 2-3 times per year and in between we faithfully use our Goffine on Sundays, pray the Rosary and struggle with home-schooling our children. 

Sincerely in the hearts of Jesus and Mary, 
Joan Lyons