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Prophecy & the New Year—The Warning & the War, Benedict XVI & Fr Michel

Much appears relatively tranquil as we enter the New Year, but lurking just beneath the surface of this superficial calm is yet another dramatic heating up of the prophetic arena. Indeed—and continuing with the theme of a woman in labor from my last post—Scripture assures us, of the close of this Era, “When people say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape. ” —1 Thessalonians 5:3.

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Things are heating up dramatically and extremely quickly in the arena of Prophecy and Signs of the Times. One such place we see extraordinary developments is in the fulfillment of the Garabandal Prophecies. If you need to be introduced to what these prophecies are and why their fulfillment appears imminent, please see this video I made recently with Mark Malllett and Christine Watkins.

February 2023:

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Update 1/4/2023: I’ve responded, here, to some questions people sent me about my decision to leave aside Fr. Michel’s prophecies

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Much appears relatively tranquil as we enter the New Year, but lurking just beneath the surface of this superficial calm is yet another dramatic heating up of the prophetic arena. Indeed—and continuing with the theme of a woman in labor from my last post—Scripture assures us, of the close of this Era, “When people say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape. ” —1 Thessalonians 5:3. Today we will cover:

1) The Warning (So it wasn’t 2022 — What about 2023 or 2024?)

2)Fr. Michel Rodrigue—Time to Leave His Messages Aside

3)The Death of Benedict XVI—a Katechon removed?

1) The Warning

In March of 2022, I wrote a post speculating about when the Warning could be, and I laid out several reasons why 2022 could make sense as the Year of the Warning. However, as I wrote in big, bold, red letters at the very top of that post, I wasnot predicting that the Warning would be in 2022:

And, as I wrote at the bottom of that post:

These final points remain a valid assessment of why we still have not seen the Warning. More important, however, is the fact that each of those reasons (and more) have only grown more potent since I gave them almost a year ago, and testify even more strongly now to the great imminence of the Warning.

Moreover, of the 16 reasons I gave in that post for why the Warning could be in 2022, at least 15 of them are still “in play.” That is, they did not “expire” upon the conclusion of 2022, but rather still support the likelihood that the Warning will be very soon. Here, I’d like to include just a few screenshots from that post that should be especially kept in mind today:

Warning: World War 3

From the post:

There is one thing that everyone, for many decades, has acknowledged is possible (perhaps even likely) and would be none other than the end of the world as we know it.

That one thing is Nuclear War.

Yet it is astounding how quickly men forget. As it has now been 11 months since Russia invaded Ukraine, most people (who are not directly affected by it) have allowed that war to become nothing other than background noise on the news. And this is not just about the worldly absorbed in their worldliness. This is also about many devout Catholics — and even supposedly shining voices among the remnant who comment on private revelation. They have not only let their guard down and drifted into the very drowsiness regarding the Signs of the Times that Jesus condemns in the Gospel; they have even taken this small window of relative societal normalcy as an opportunity to attack those who, like myself, continue to sound the alarm that the present Era is ending; dispensing, as always, of the usual slander that we are “doom and gloomers.”

Boy will they soon feel very silly.

Even if we leave aside all the other Signs of the Times that indicate the Era is coming to a close (The Great Reset Agenda, coming economic collapse and global famine, wars and rumors of wars growing in other areas [e.g. Serbia, North Korea, China/Taiwan, and too many more to list], persecution of the Faithful, “the next Pandemic,” etc.), we are still left with one unmistakable harbinger of the end of this age: World War 3.

For indeed, the likelihood of the Ukraine/Russia war generating an apocalyptic, era-ending global war has only steadily grown by the day—with America and the collective West helping to increase that likelihood by discouraging diplomacy and instead fomenting the continuation of the war. I am writing these words on January 2, 2023: just as news is spreading of Russia suffering its greatest loss of life yet in the war—at the hands of U.S.-supplied rockets, and within territory Russia claims as its own. The blast apparently happened precisely at midnight on New Year’s; clearly a deliberate attempt by Ukraine to give the bombing as much symbolic weight as possible.

Will future historians thus mark the moment 2023 began as the beginning of World War 3? Time will tell.

For our part, let us pray, pray, and pray still more to avert this war. I will yet again repeat my incessant refrain: although Chastisements must come, the details of their scope, severity, and duration, are not set in stone. Much can still be mitigated. As nuclear war would be a particularly terrible chastisement, let us continually implore the Divine Mercy that it may be avoided. Do not ever become a fatalist regarding the trials of the coming times. For the Era of Peace is coming—that is a fact. And even though Chastisements generally speaking must and will happen, there is no specific Chastisement that is absolutely necessary for the Era’s arrival; therefore we should always, without hesitation, pray for mitigation.

Nevertheless, do not forget the prophecies about Russia, noted in my 2022 post:

So as much as we must pray to avert a worsening of this situation, we should also remain aware of the fact that every bit it heats up does increase the likelihood that the Warning is very close.

The Date of “The Miracle”

“The Miracle” prophesied at Garabandal is a certain extraordinary sign that will be given within one year after the Warning. If, therefore, the date of the Miracle can be known, the Warning will (if this prophecy is true) occur in the 365 days preceding that moment. As I wrote in the post:

Some Garabandal experts insist that the Warning must be in an even year; apparently Mary Loli stated this in an interview. I do not know if this is accurate or not. But 2024 is certainly sensible for the Warning– particularly because the “Synod on Synodality” (likely the single biggest harbinger of the Warning) has had its final events postponed until 2024. More on the Synod below.

If the “even year” qualification is inaccurate, then this year–2023–would also make sense for the Warning. Looking at the situation in Ukraine alone; it does not seem likely that either side will compromise or surrender (with infinite money/arms from the U.S., why would Zelensky do so? And with what [admittedly little] I know about Putin, I doubt he would do so). Yet the status-quo is unsustainable. With the devastation we are seeing, it appears more likely that Putin will eventually get desperate and use nuclear weapons. When that happens, hello World War 3, goodbye life as we knew it, and welcome to the days immediately prior to the Warning.

2) Time to leave Fr. Michel aside

As I posted on Twitter the day Pope Benedict died:

I hope no one tries to massage this prophecy into something that somehow looks fulfilled. It wasn’t fulfilled; it failed. At least one of Fr. Michel’s prophecies is now objectively false. Therefore, we have little ground for now regarding any of his prophecies as accurate; knowing that at least one isn’t. Therefore, I think it is time to leave his prophecies aside. 

Admittedly, I still haven’t watched Fr. Michel’s videos. (Other than the one prophecy I posted on this blog, which he had directly emailed me, just about everything I know about his messages is from the word of others who have watched him and told me about him.) I never felt prompted to delve too deeply into Fr. Michel’s messages. But enough people have told me of his prophecy (that Francis would be martyred and Benedict would try to convene a conclave, only to himself then be martyred) that I’m sure it’s an accurate description of what he said, and I therefore have no plans to go and, for the first time, spend hours watching his videos just to verify that.

So do I regret having occasionally “platformed” Fr. Michel’s messages? (a couple posts on this blog over the last few years were about him [I have now removed them], and a video or two I did with Mark Mallett were about him; or at least drew from him.)

Absolutely not.

I always made it clear—with such repetition that it likely annoyed my regular readers—that I was not convinced of his authenticity, and merely felt that his messages were worth sharing for discernment’s sake. Forgive me for again quoting past posts, but I’m going to copy below just a few of the things I wrote about that very point in the past within various posts:

Indeed, I wrote an article once defending him against certain erroneous attacks. But I only did so to refute the attacks. Attacks, I hasten to add, which were replete with accusations that are just as flawed today as they were when they were written. I will gladly defend any man—and certainly any priest—against unjust attacks; regardless of whether or not he happens to be a seer dispensing of accurate prophecies! And as I noted at the top of that article even back then, Fr. Michel may “wind up being proven false,” and the particular details of his prophecies can “only be considered as ‘wait and see.'”:

But, most importantly, Fr. Michel’s message was not ultimately about the prophecies. What I’m told he always emphasized most was the spiritual aspect—Repentance, Rosary, Confession, and Consecration to the Holy Family. That emphasis did, in fact, bear tremendous good fruit across the world. That is what people are and will be left with, even as they (hopefully) leave aside his prophecies.

What, pray tell, is regrettable about any of that?

Are you, dear reader, one whose life was benefited by Fr. Michel’s preaching? (I have, for years, been inundated with correspondence from people who returned to the Faith, repented of their sins, became devout, started praying the Rosary, finally got back to Confession, etc., thanks to Fr. Michel)

Then do not let those fruits be discarded merely because his prophecies have failed! Keep  up the good work! Fr. Michel was and is a good and holy priest. The mere fact that (as I’ll explain below), he apparently struggled to discern the difference between his own meditations and God’s voice does not at all detract from the value of his spiritual exhortations.

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Of similar importance is what I noted on Twitter above: the general prophetic picture—what I often call the “prophetic consensus”—is entirely unaffected. That is, the reality and imminence of the Chastisements, the Warning, the Antichrist, Protection of the Remnant, the 3 Days of Darkness, the Era of Peace. Fr. Michel was just one of countless voices asserting it. His voice being removed from that chorus has no effect on it.

I am just one among millions of Catholics who were thoroughly convinced of that general picture long before Fr. Michel ever came to be known, and I remain just as convinced of it now that his prophecies should be discarded. I hope and pray you do, as well.

I should note, however, that, in this realm, I reserve *absolute certainty* for the conviction that, indeed, global Chastisements of various sorts are imminent (the Time of Mercy is closing, therefore the Divine Mercy must be proclaimed with more zeal than ever), but that Christ will Triumph over these Chastisements, and they will be followed the Era of Peace (that is, the Reign of the Divine Will, the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Eucharistic Reign, the Fulfillment of the Our Father, the Universal Coming of Christ in Grace, among other titles) before the End of Time; when alone, at the end of the world, Christ will come physically to command the General Resurrection and Final Judgment, and eternity will universally commence for each and all.

This is why the essence of my mission has long been (and always will remain), not proclaiming this or that particular prophecy, but rather proclaiming the Divine Mercy and the Divine Will. I am absolutely certain of the validity and dire urgency of these messages. I encourage you to likewise allow certainty in the validity of these two superlative missions to enter into your mind and heart, and to proceed in their undertaking accordingly.

Returning to the question of Fr. Michel, I confess that in one sense, I’m frankly relieved by this development. Some of the precise details his prophecies gave (particularly with respect to timing; i.e., the reprieve after the Warning for exactly X # of weeks, time of refuges for X # of years, etc.)  at times felt a bit stifling, and risked distracting us from the infinitely more important point, which is that—while the basics remain certain & unchangeable (e.g., there will indeed be imminent Global Chastisements, and the Era of Peace will indeed follow after them)—the details of what transpires can and will still be drastically altered by our response here and now. 

If, with Fr. Michel out of the picture, you’re looking for other living seers to give a solid grasp of the present times, I above all recommend Medjugorje (as I have since my pilgrimage there over 12 years ago – see my post on that from 2010). And while I continue to discern Gisella Cardia, I think her messages are very good and give a solid prophetic understanding of the present and coming times. As for seers who died within the last few decades, I above all recommend Fr. Stephano Gobbi (author of “the Blue Book.”)

I repeat: Even though Fr. Michel is a “Failed Prophet,” this does not mean he is or was a “False Prophet.” False Prophets — wolves in sheep’s clothing — are those who (even if their prophecies do come to pass!) contradict the Faith. Fr. Michel–an orthodox minded theologian, an exorcist, a founder and superior of a licit religious order, and, to this day, a holy priest in good standing–of course did no such thing. It is much more likely that he simply confused his own pious meditations for the voice of the Holy Spirit. This mistake, I hasten to add, is surprisingly more common than some might realize, even among very holy souls. The human intellect and imagination are astoundingly powerful things. This is why, with those private revelations of extreme importance, God always arranges circumstances such that the seer has extraordinary ecclesial oversight and excruciatingly rigorous spiritual direction: in order to completely rule out the possibility of confusing one’s own meditations with God’s voice. In the greatest private revelations–namely, those of Jesus to the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta–we see a scenario wherein the seer had more scrutiny from the her Church-appointed directors, confessors; from theologians and Bishops, etc., than ever has been seen before in Church History. The odds of her revelations being simply her own meditations are precisely zero percent.

Generally I advise avoiding placing too much conviction in the authenticity of a seer’s messages unless he or she is very transparent with the spiritual direction received: publicly giving the name of his/her priest spiritual director(s).; with this director himself willingly giving a public testimony to his belief that it is an authentically supernatural phenomenon. If a seer merely claims he or she is under priestly spiritual direction but gives insufficient detail to publicly identify the director himself, then I’ll gladly discern such a seer (it isn’t necessarily a deal breaker), but I’ll generally refrain from placing great conviction in that seer’s authenticity. Taking on trust that which is necessary to discern whether a seer is trustworthy is logically fallacious. And I do believe it is important for the director to be a priest — who also hears the seer’s confessions (i.e., this cannot be done remotely).  Priests are not guaranteed any special grace for discerning matters from afar (I know plenty of priests who promote bogus “seers” and condemn authentic seers; whereas many Church commissions on private revelations include lay experts), but priests — and priests alone — do have a special grace for spiritual direction; particularly that type which is needed in the case of an alleged seer. Multiple alleged seers have asked me to direct them, but I have always refused and advised them to find a Catholic priest, because I know I am not up to that task. I can analyze messages to assess Catholic orthodoxy, logical coherence, etc., and I can apply the Church’s norms for discernment (in proportion to what information is available to me), but I cannot personally spiritually direct a seer.

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In conclusion, Fr. Michel now joins the ranks of various other alleged seers I have kept an eye on and even quoted over the last decade and a half and who, despite what I remain convinced were good intentions, have had prophecies fail; e.g., Charlie Johnston, the “Locutions to the World” seer, and a couple others who now escape my memory. I leave their prophecies aside, but I do not regard them as “false prophets.” (There is, however, one “seer” I kept an eye on (back in 2011), and who had prophecies fail then, and who I do think is a fraud (perhaps even a “false prophet”); namely, “Maria Divine Mercy,” who wrote the “Book of Truth.”) Indeed, Fr. Michel was not the first alleged seer to have prophecies fail and he won’t be the last:

“Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail” —1 Corinthians 13:8.

Failed prophecies are part of the deal in the Age of the Church (though not in the inerrant public prophecy of Scripture). Don’t let them scare you away from prophecy in general. Prophecy is a charism of the Holy Spirit, and:

“Charisms are to be accepted with gratitude by the person who receives them and by all members of the Church as well.” —Catechism of the Catholic Church, §800

Accepting these Charisms isn’t optional; the whole Church must do so. Never throw out the baby with the bathwater. Keep discerning.

I, for one, am not going anywhere. I’ll continue to be right here discerning with you. I’m sure some other seers of the countless I’ve quoted will also turn out to be failed prophets. Even then, the prophetic consensus will not be put in question. And even more importantly, the essence of the mission–Proclaiming the Divine Mercy and the Divine Will — remains absolutely certain and more solid than bedrock. Let this mission be your anchor, and you will never be discouraged.

Pope Benedict XVI’s Death—A Katechon Removed?

I first want to give thanks for the extraordinary gift that Pope Benedict XVI is and was to the Church and the world. Before, during, and after his Papacy, he was a shining light of truth and love. I quoted him repeatedly in Thy Will Be Done because of the astounding teachings he gave, over many years, on the Divine Will; I encourage you to heed those teachings well.

Although he was retired upon his death and doing little of note externally speaking, Benedict passing to his eternal reward on New Year’s Eve was still a great loss for the Church. Let me explain why I believe that is so.

Some seers have indicated that Benedict was himself a “Katechon” of sorts. (That is, a “restrainer” holding back the public entrance of the “lawless one,” the Antichrist–cf. 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7.)

I do not doubt that. (Especially now that I am leaving aside Fr. Michel’s prophecy which said that St. Joseph/Year of St. Joseph was the Katechon; though that still might have some truth to it — as I’ve said, there can be multiple valid understandings of “Katechon”)

The Antichrist will above all seek to exalt himself in God’s Church–the Catholic Church — and he must and will do so by first bringing the Great Apostasy to its summit with a deluge of blasphemy, heresy, and all manner of evils in the Vatican; enabled by those clergy in Rome already within Satan’s grasp (quite a large number of them).

But put yourself, for a brief moment, in the shoes of one of these evil men plotting out the introduction of a whole new onslaught of evil–far beyond even what we have recently seen — at the Holy See. Such a man, perhaps wearing a red hat, would doubtless think to himself:

“How shall I introduce this slight change to the Mass rubrics that will invalidate the Consecration? How shall I draft this new canonical decree that homosexual marriages are good and valid and can be blessed? I think I can sneak this by Francis just fine; even if he knows about it, he may turn a blind eye to it. But I know that Benedict, even though he isn’t the reigning Pope anymore, is kept abreast of these matters. He still wields too much power. Once he catches wind of this, he could still appeal to his status as Pope “Emeritus”, denounce this in the strongest of terms, and no one would dare oppose him. I must, instead, wait patiently until he dies, while perfecting my nefarious plan in the shadows.”

And do you know where it appears most likely that these nefarious plans–doubtless, at this point, perfected–will be brought to fruition?

In the Synod of Synodality.

Which is ongoing now and poised to reach its completion in 2024… without the Katechon of Benedict XVI around to at least prevent complete devastation of the Faith through its final sessions.

I do not know if these minions of Satan will launch their plans immediately, now that Benedict is dead, or if they will wait until the 2024 culmination of the Synod. What is certain, however, is that they are at work, and we must be on guard. I plan to write more about the Synod soon; stay tuned.

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There is also something deeply symbolic–profoundly prophetic– about Benedict dying on New Year’s Eve. It is as if God was exhorting us, with the passing of Benedict and the simultaneous passing of the Year of Our Lord 2022, to say goodbye to the Era we have lived in for so long now.

As I’ve previously noted, I still recall a conversation I had 12 years ago, when I was a seminarian, with another seminarian (who is now a very holy priest). He, like myself, was very prophetically minded, and he relayed a sense that both John Paul II and Benedict XVI had to die before the real Apocalyptic Events started. To him, these two great men symbolized St. John the Baptist and St. Joseph. (Both of whom themselves had to die before Jesus could undergo His own passion and Resurrection. And recall that Pope Benedict’s Baptismal name is Joseph.)

It does feel very much like we, the Church on earth, have lost our John and our Joseph. But this much is certain: we have not lost, and never will lose, our Christ. For He has promised, “Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” (Matthew 28:20) He is absolutely in charge of everything, and the time will very soon arrive in which His Will shall Triumph, and “every knee will bow; every tongue confess, that Jesus Christ is Lord” (Philippians 2). Therefore, “Whatever comes through that gate”—the gate that is the upcoming months and years and the Trials that they will inevitably bring—remember that you are Christians. You must—you will—stand your ground:

You Don’t Have to Feel Ready to Be Ready

Announcement: There has been a delay in the posting of the recording of Episode 3 of my EWTN End Times miniseries with Fr. Chris Alar. So, in the meantime, I’ve posted a YouTube video containing some highlights from that episode here. Obviously I do not own the copyrights to this episode, so I’m only posting a fraction of its overall content (less than 1/3rd). You can also download the video file itself here. Hopefully the whole episode will be posted on the Divine Mercy channel or EWTN website soon!

Do you not feel ready for what is coming? Perhaps for World War III, the Warning, the Great Persecution, the Reign of the Antichrist, the 3 Days of Darkness and other Great Chastisements? Do you ever feel tempted to panic upon considering what will soon come upon the earth—what even Pope Francis himself just yesterday, in his homily for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, described as “omens of even greater destruction and desolation” than the war, famine, plague, etc., than we have been recently experiencing? 

Or did you just open up the news to learn that, at 4:19pm EST today, for the first time, same-sex “marriage” has been codified in America’s federal statutes; signed into law by our nation’s “Catholic” president—sent to his desk even with the support of dozens of Republican congressmen? And do you then pause to ponder that it is impossible for any nation to so blasphemously and formally rebel against the most basic truths of God’s Law without Divine Justice falling down upon it?

Well, you, dear Faithful soul, can be at peace. 

Humanly speaking, it’s impossible for us to be ready for any of this. Instead, we must – radically, blindly, and absolutely – trust Jesus. 

I did not feel ready to deliver a baby last month, either. But that’s exactly what happened, and all is well.

So hunker down for a brief story from a night last month like no other in my life, before I get to this post’s main exhortation!

Over the last several months of our preparation for the arrival of our fifth child, we of course (as all parents do!) had it “all figured out.” Once contractions hit 5 minutes apart, we would call the midwife, who would be at our home within 15 minutes of the call. (We always do home births — yes, they are quite safe in normal/healthy pregnancies; yes, they are entirely legal here; and yes, all the necessary medical/legal things are taken care of by the professional certified nurse midwives who come.)

According to our plan, and basing things off our previous experiences with the labors and deliveries of our other 4 children, we’d then have at least 6 hours until the delivery; plenty of time for this professional and her assistants to get set up, etc., but not so much time that they’d be stuck here all day waiting for the baby to arrive. Perfect!

Alas, “the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.”

Precisely when my wife and I both thought– based upon timing and intensity of contractions– that it was time to call (which we did right then), Regina suddenly announced:

“The baby is coming! I need to push!!”

I am a philosopher and a mechanical engineer. I am about as unqualified to serve as an “on-the-spot midwife” as anyone. (Although Socrates, himself the Father of Philosophy, allegorically called himself a “midwife”—though for truths in the mind.) The sum total of my knowledge on delivering a child was derived from quickly reading a one page printout the midwife gave me on “what to do if the baby arrives suddenly without the midwife there.”

The same midwife delivered our 3rd and 4th children, and both times she offered to have me be the one to actually deliver the baby (with her, of course, right there if anything went wrong; guiding me on what to do, etc.). Both times I chickened out and said: “No thanks, you go for it! I’ll just stay up here and hold my wife’s hand while you deal with the hard stuff!”

Well, this time I didn’t have a choice. I was the only person there (the only adult there – our children were fast asleep upstairs and wouldn’t have been awoken by a bomb going off; but they were thrilled to come downstairs the next morning to meet a new baby brother!)

Although that moment may well have been — objectively speaking in accordance with the external description of what was transpiring — the most intense of my life, I felt no anxiety, worry, or fear at all. Sure, my heart was pounding in my chest and my nerves were doubtless buzzing with more current than was being carried by the high voltage power lines down the street. But God’s grace —which always both meets and exceeds the needs of the moment – was far outweighing all that.

It was beyond obvious that, in that moment, God’s Will was that I deliver our son. This is absolutely certain, because at that moment there was no other reasonable option. And God always gives more than enough grace – far more than enough grace –  for us to do His Will. When, therefore, circumstances reveal some course of action to be His Will for us, we can always immediately proceed in that duty with invincible courage, perfect peace, and absolute trust:

“My daughter, I feel like giving to the creature the necessary Strength or, rather, an Overabundant Strength, only in the moment when she sets herself to do what I want-not before. Otherwise she would feel the Strength but still not do what I want, and I do not know how to give useless things.  How many, before doing an action, feel so helpless; but then as soon as they put themselves to work they feel Invested by a New Strength, a New Light.  I am the one who charged them, since I never lack the necessary Strength to do Good.  Rather, this need ties Me and forces Me, if necessary, to act together with them.”

Jesus to Luisa. May 15, 1938. 

The delivery was the smoothest yet of our five childbirths.

John Paul came out safely and looking great. (And he was the biggest of all our children, weighing 8 lbs, 3 oz., and measuring 21 in. long.) While I remembered and took care of the basics that need to be managed when delivering a baby, there really wasn’t all that much I had to do. The midwife was zipping over as all this was happening; she arrived shortly after the birth and took over from there; confirming that all was, indeed, well. 

Obviously it was my wife—not myself!—who had the infinitely more demanding task here. She too, however, has shared that despite being in that quintessentially frightening scenario of needing to give birth with no professional help, she felt great peace, trust, and inner tranquility (despite the great physical pain).  

I feel confident that the graces in the situation described above will prove analogous to how the devout remnant Faithful will fare during the imminent long-prophesied Great Events. 

Those who trust in Jesus, and are at least truly striving to do and live in His Will, are ready for what is coming–whether or not they feel ready. 

This is absolutely true, because—just as sanctity itself is not a product of our own effort, so too a readiness for apocalyptic events is entirely a matter of surrendering ourselves–our wills–to the only One Who oversees it all. But He has made it even easier than that for us, for He has handed over this power to His Mother, whom no one could ever fear approaching:

“My daughter courage, everything will serve to the triumph of my Will, if I strike it is because I want to restore health… I always love my children, my beloved creatures, I would eviscerate Myself in order not to see them stricken, so much so that in the deadly times to come, I have put them all in the hands of my Celestial Mother, to Her I have entrusted them, so that she holds them for Me under her secure mantle, I will give to Her all those that She will want, death itself won’t have power over those that will be in the custody of my Mother.” Now while he said this, my dear Jesus made me see with facts that the Sovereign Queen descended from Heaven with an indescribable Majesty, and a tenderness all Maternal, and turned in the midst of creatures, in all the nations and marked her dear children and those that should not be touched by the scourges, whomever my Celestial Mother touched, the scourges didn’t have power to touch the creatures. Sweet Jesus gave the right to his Mother to put in safety whom She pleased. How moving it was to see the Celestial Empress turn in all the parts of the world that she took between her Maternal hands, she assembled them to her breast, hid them under her mantle, so that not one evil might be able to harm those people that her Maternal goodness held in her custody, guarded and defended. Oh! If everyone might be able to see with how much love and tenderness the Celestial Queen did this office, they would cry from consolation and would love She who so very loves us.

Jesus to the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta. June 6, 1935

Stay close to her—consecrate yourself to her, pray the Rosary every day, and let her lead you to the Will of her Son (which she and she alone always did perfectly, and to which she always leads all who come to her)—and you are invincible. 

It is not without reason that Scripture compares the end of the present Era—and the dawning of the glorious one to follow it—to childbirth; both the pain that precedes it but also the joy that follows it. For just as a woman with child is excited to finally hold her baby (especially as pregnancy grows particularly cumbersome and difficult in the later months; which are analogous to the current times!), and therefore is eager for childbirth, notwithstanding the pain involved, so too should we be eager for the times ahead if we are trying to do what God is asking of us now. 

When people are saying, “Peace and security,” then sudden disaster comes upon them, like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you, brothers, are not in darkness, for that day to overtake you like a thief.

–1 Thessalonians 5

When a woman is in labor, she is in anguish because her hour has arrived; but when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the pain because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.

–John 16: 21

Jesus also compares what is coming to a birth in His revelations to Luisa; for just as the arrival of a baby is awaited with certainty when the mother is pregnant, so too is the arrival of the Glorious Era of peace a certainty: 

“…as to a family when they see that their mother is about to give birth to other little children.  The whole family celebrates, because the family becomes larger, and every time it increases by another little brother or little sister, they make feast and delight in the one newly arrived in their midst.  Such is the [whole] Creation…My daughter, when my Divine Will wants to pronounce Itself, It extends everywhere and makes Its echo and Its creative strength felt in all the things in which It reigns…the prayers done in my Divine Volition to obtain the advent of Its Kingdom upon earth hold a great empire over God.  God Himself cannot rid Himself of it, nor can He not grant it…and from prayer it changes into command… Therefore, it is not to be put in doubt that, sooner or later, one will see, descend from Heaven, that which, with decision, has been granted to him.  Therefore, continue the prayers in Our Fiat – prayers that move Heaven and earth, and even God Himself, if you love to see my Kingdom upon earth; and I will pray together with you in order to obtain the intent.  More so, since the ultimate purpose of Creation is precisely this – that Our Divine Will was to reign on earth as It does in Heaven.”

Jesus to the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta. January 26, 1930

Unfortunately there are some who, even though following the messages of the various living seers, nevertheless fret that they do not know more details about what is coming. They have an endless torrent of questions, to which they demand answers, thereby implicitly accusing Heaven of incompetence for not giving those answers to the seers. (Although there are always plenty of false “seers” who will give you all the details you want about the “future” – that is, their daydreams about it and/or what the devil says to them about it!)

Such people miss the point of prophecy—which is not to serve as a textbook telling the future’s details; but rather as an exhortation to empower our undertaking of God’s Will in the present. And while some such undertakings do indeed relate to various details of what is coming (hence these messages sometimes give some details pertaining to what will come), most remain unchanged regardless of how the more specific details of the coming months and years will transpire—where exactly battles will rage, precisely which foods will become scarce, just when currencies will collapse, how exactly the Warning will look/feel, which individual will be the Antichrist, etc., etc., etc.

It is, moreover, in our best interest to not know too many details of what is coming. If we did, we would be far too distracted by this knowledge. 

Imagine if I had known beforehand that I would have to deliver my child on my own. I would have spent countless hours learning & training myself to be prepared for every conceivable way the delivery could have transpired. I would have spent far more money than I can afford, accumulating various medical equipment that might come in handy. But in all those efforts, I would have doubtless neglected the present duties of my state in life.  

God, in His wisdom, led me away from spending too much time thinking about (and preparing for) the possibility of me solo-delivering the child— for He knew that this would be what would happen, and He knew that He’d take care of everything. 

It is the same with the present times. God is not answering all the questions you have about the future because He knows that He’s got it—and your role in it—under control.

He has every hair on your head numbered. Therefore, while prudent preparedness remains advisable, all that really matters is that you remain trusting in Him, seeking refuge in His Mercy & His Will. Then–and only then–will you be ready for what is coming; even if you feel anything but.

But it is essential that you do this now. You thereby join the “Remnant Faithful,” and you take Refuge in God, as today’s first reading at Mass alludes to. God knew that America would formally rebel against Him on this day—December 13th, 2022—and this (below) is from the first reading at Mass for today, wherein the Word of God laments the “rebellious, tyrannical” city which “accepts no correction” (today, that is certainly Washington, D.C., and all that is symbolized by that reference), warning that its “proud braggarts” will be removed, but a “Remnant” faithful protected in the Refuge that is the Lord, in preparation for the times during which the Faithful will finally “pasture and couch their flocks with none to disturb them,” that is, they will be blessed with the Era of Peace.

Those times are at hand.

“Stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” Luke 21:28

He’s Coming

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While praying my daily prayer after Mass this morning as I knelt before the Tabernacle, I heard the ambulances and fire trucks zipping by just outside. There was a palpable sense of urgency to their maneuvers—beyond the more customary wailing of the sirens that inevitably punctuate each quarter hour spent on a downtown city block in New York’s Capital. 

After reciting that prayer and departing from the Church, it was less than a minute into my Divine Will Missionary of Mercy walk that I came upon someone sprawled out on the side of the road in the gentle rain.

There were already plenty of EMTs at work, and it was obvious that material aid from me was not required, so instead of rushing over, I knelt down on the sidewalk opposite them and prayed for the person in need (as pedestrians walked by with eyes glued to their phones as if in a trance). The chest-compressions and the defibrillator, however, had no effect on him or her (from my vantage point, I could not tell if it was a man or a woman), and a blanket was soon brought out by another first responder and placed over what was no longer a person, but only a corpse.

As of my writing this, there are still no news reports of what happened there on the middle of the road in between the Masonic Temple and the Hilton Albany, so I know no details other than that a soul experienced its Particular Judgment on Lodge Street this morning—Jesus came into that person’s life. 

“He’s Coming” — That announcement has, for years and years, been the header image of this blog and of my YouTube channel. 

Why?

Because I cannot think of a briefer way of summarizing the prophetic call we must now announce to the world.  

As Our Lady said on September 27th of this year, to the alleged seer Gisella Cardia:

“My children, I ask you to go through the world’s streets to proclaim the Gospel: tell everyone that Jesus will soon return and that you must be prepared.”

“He’s coming,” so “be prepared.”

There it is. This is what we must tell everyone. 

That is also why I made the “Prepare to See Him” website (www.PrepareToSeeHim.org) over a decade ago, with the exhortation at the top of the page being Our Lady’s words at Medjugorje: “Prepare yourself to look at Jesus eye to eye.” (March 17, 1989)

Do not fret over how exactly an individual may interpret that basic exhortation. 

It is God’s Will that we announce it, and even if, in the course of a particular encounter with someone, you have no time or opportunity to explain the details of the exhortation’s meaning, you can rest assured that the Holy Spirit will powerfully work with it in that person’s heart. 

I emphasized this point so strongly in my October 1st webcast with Mark Mallett because it is so urgent that more of the Faithful issue this simple announcement. A brief clip from that webcast:

“He’s Coming,” so “be prepared,” is, moreover, about the most truthful, honest, and accurate thing you can tell people today:

  • He’s Coming soon when transpires the only thing you know with certainty your own future holds—your death.
  • He’s Coming at every single Mass you attend.
  • He’s Coming soon in the Warning.
  • He’s Coming in the innumerable “mini-Warnings”—the personal Illuminations of Conscience—being experienced constantly by souls across the world.
  • He’s Coming in the crosses—and we will all soon have to bear great ones—for His Will is veiled in each cross we receive perhaps more powerfully than any other time.
  • He’s Coming soon in the utter outpouring of graces, miracles, signs, and wonders that He and His Mother are about to work in the world.
  • He’s Coming by way of the Gift of Living in the Divine Will, the Gift He earnestly desires to give to all, through which He can and will reign in your soul now just as He will in Heaven.
  • He’s Coming soon in the Particular Judgments (the judgment each soul receives, immediately after death, at which one’s eternal destiny is determined) of the millions (or billions) who will soon die in the long-prophesied Chastisements.
  • He’s Coming, by virtue of the Universal Reign of His Will on earth as in Heaven, in the Era of Peace—the Triumphant Eucharistic Reign with the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
  • And of course, He’s Coming again physically—at the end of time, to command the General Resurrection and commence the Last Judgment, and conclude History (although this is nowhere near as imminent as what is written above!), and bring the Church Militant and Church Suffering into the Church Triumphant. 

Although wishing the past were different is silly, I must confess that I do wish I embarked upon today’s Divine Will Missionary of Mercy walk several minutes earlier than I did. Consider how very timely and perhaps eternity-altering the exhortation then would have been, had I said—to that soul who would have been mere moments away from passing on to the next life—the same thing I have said to countless others during these outings:

“God bless you!

[When asked about my Divine Mercy Image pin:] He’s coming soon, but He wants us to trust Him first. Can I give you this card? [Hand over a Divine Mercy holy card] Please venerate that image and keep it close. It will change your life.”

Consider how well that would have prepared this person for the conversation that Jesus reveals to St. Faustina He has with a dying soul:

As I incessantly repeat: The entire purpose of apocalyptic, end-times related considerations pertaining to the Chastisements that are soon coming upon the world is that these considerations inspire us to be more zealous in undertaking the mission that we, as Christians, should already be devoted to anyway. 

And that mission is to do your part to get as many souls as possible as ready as possible for the coming of Christ.

The vast majority of the time, this mission is best achieved through softening hearts by introducing God’s mercy into them with your own witness as you strive to Live in the Divine Will. 

This will prepare souls to be more likely to accept the Divine Mercy when Christ comes into their lives—through their own deaths, through the Warning, through some great cross, or however else. 

But as it is none other than death itself which entails one’s supreme meeting with Christ, we must acknowledge that it is quite likely that many, many people are about to die.

Let us fast and pray to avert this, but let us also not stick our heads in the sand and deny that nuclear war is appearing more likely by the day. Global leaders have now categorically rejected even attempting diplomacy to end the Russian/Ukrainian War, while the implicit—subtle but no less real—nuclear saber rattling increases. Regardless of how one views the credibility of Russian mainstream media, the nature of its reporting is nevertheless indicative of the peril of the times:

It is not, however, only about Russia. Tensions with North Korea have reached yet another high—and whatever Putin’s vices may be, they pale in comparison to Kim Jong-Un’s.

Our Lady’s most recent message at Medjugorje was more stark than any I can remember:

“Mankind has decided for death.”

Note the past tense, “has decided.” This, in contrast to earlier messages such as “Choose life and not death” (3/25/1996), “souls are sick and heading towards spiritual death” (12/25/2019), “I desire for the darkness, and the shadow of death which wants to encompass and mislead you, to be driven away.” (3/18/2014).

But it now seems we have crossed some sort of a threshold. Do not misunderstand: until a Chastisement has happened, it is always possible to mitigate it through prayer; but the Chastisements cannot now be entirely averted. It is far too late in the game for that, and man has spurned God too much. And whatever that threshold we have now passed forebodes, it likely includes innumerable souls soon meeting their maker.

And we should order our own lives in accordance with that likelihood.

Moving forward, I will not waste any more time lamenting I wasn’t on Lodge Street in Albany this morning several minutes earlier than I was.

Instead, I will take all such temptations to rue the past, and redirect them towards redoubling my resolve to more courageously, lovingly, and frequently proclaim the Divine Mercy to souls while there are still just a few moments left with the Door of Mercy open.

Please join me in stirring up that resolve in your heart.