Welcome to Lent. I pray that, through heartfelt devotion and overflowing zeal, you make it your holiest one yet. And if you could use any considerations to inspire you to make that leap, you’ll find plenty in this post. (In four words: The times demand it.) Please fast and pray especially hard for the suffering people of Ukraine. 

As we’re now within the very year that I had speculated (in a writing from 2018) might harbor the Warning, I should write an update to that post and explain why I am now even more convinced of the imminence of the Illumination of Conscience. That, I hope, will be my next post (subscribe with your email address here at DSDOConnor.com to be notified upon its release). For now, some words on the present crisis and the general prophetic picture are in order – though I’ll mostly save quoting the specific prophetic messages for the upcoming post.

Yet again, what was considered unthinkable mere months ago is now an unmistakable reality dominating even mainstream discourse. What was dismissed as “conspiracy” yesterday has today proved nothing but a “spoiler alert.” What was only weeks ago derided as “sensationalism” by the pundits supremely proud of the nonchalance of their pronunciations can now only be described as an understatement.

The leader of the country with the world’s largest nuclear arsenal just all but explicitly threatened nuclear war, insisting that if his takeover of Ukraine (and other countries doubtless to soon follow) is resisted by outside nations (and it will be resisted, at some point), that such a thing is precisely what will happen – in his own words, there will be:

 “...consequences you have never seen in your history.” – Vladimir Putin

These are the current words of the man who, less than 12 months ago – in a joint pronouncement with president Biden, no less! – said that nuclear war “cannot be won and must never be fought.”

I have no interest in attempting here to navigate the various narratives vying for our attention in this matter; I only seek to look plainly at what is transpiring and to consider its prophetic significance, regardless of whose geopolitical commentary ultimately winds up proving most accurate. 

“All will be humiliated, and peace will come only from Me.  And if you hear them say ‘peace’, it will not be true, but apparent.  Once I have purged everything, I will place my finger in a surprising way, and will give the true peace.  And then, all those who are humiliated will return to Me; and Germany will be Catholic – I have great designs upon her; England, Russia, and every place where blood was shed, will rise again to faith and will be incorporated into my Church.  There will be the great triumph and the union of peoples.  Therefore, pray – and it takes patience, because this will not be so soon, but it will take time.” –Jesus to the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta. October 16th, 1918. 

Putin’s words above were his superlatively ominous warning should anyone dare to get in his way. Words like this have never been spoken by a major nuclear superpower since the Cold War (were such grave threats even then ever publicly and explicitly spoken by the heads of Russia or the U.S.?). Even that comparison, however, does not do justice to the gravity of the present moment. There is nothing “cold” about the present war; it is entirely “hot.” Astute commentators have argued well that to call what we now have “Cold War II” would be a radical understatement. This is already World War III. Fiona Hill is a respected expert on Russia, and was recently interviewed by Politico. Although I do not agree with everything she says there, she concluded her remarks with a point whose prophetic significance she was doubtless unaware of:

” Putin’s opened up a door in Europe that we thought we’d closed after World War II.”

A door we thought was closed is in fact now open.

That is surely a valid summary of what confronts us. Our delusions of “peace and security” (1 Thessalonians 5:3) are about to be shattered. A bell has been rung, and honest experts who scrutinize the present situation realize that it cannot be un-rung. The demon that is World War may have been briefly cast out of the earth, only to have now returned, bringing “… seven other demons more wicked than itself… And the final condition of that man is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation.” (Matthew 12:45)

After World War I – declared “The Last War” by secular modernity’s twisted notion of a “prophet” (HG Wells) – we likewise deluded ourselves into supposing that such a thing could not possibly happen again on account of the inherent and obvious folly of total, global war; a folly illustrated horribly for all to see from 1914-1918. Then came 1939. After World War II, however, and anything but learning our lessons, we even more foolishly assumed that the “mutually assured destruction” of nuclear war precluded the possibility of another confrontation between the world’s military superpowers. 

Now, 2022 (1939’s spitting image) has shown us that the very notion of “Mutually Assured Destruction” is not preventative, but prescient. 

Observe the history of weaponry’s development and answer me this: when have the nations ever gone very long without using the weapons that they have? Moreover, unlike in ages past, every world superpower’s current head of state is a thug. There are no “good guys” left among their ranks.

“Now, just as My Coming upon earth was Our Decree, so is Our Decree the Kingdom of Our Will upon earth… It is true that the times are sad; the peoples themselves are tired, they see all the ways closed to them, they can find no way out even for the necessary natural means; the oppressions, the demands of the leaders are unbearable-just penalty, since they have elected as leaders godless men, of evil life, without a just right to be leaders, who deserved a prison more than the right of regime…Poor peoples, poor children of Mine-under the regime of men without pity, without heart, and without the grace to be able to act as guides for their subjects…The nations will continue to fight against one another-some by war, some by revolution, among themselves and against My Church.  They have a fire in their midst that devours them, that gives them no Peace, and they can give no Peace.  It is the fire of sin, and the fire of acting without God that gives them no Peace; and they will never make Peace if they do not call God into their midst, as regime and bond of Union and of Peace.  And I let them do, and I will make them touch with their own hands what it means to act without God… [but] We [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit], with Infinite Wisdom, will abound with Graces, with Light, with Helps, with surprising Means, so that [people] may let the Kingdom of My Will Reign in their midst.  Therefore, let Me do; when it is your Jesus that has told you this, that’s enough-it is as though already done.  All evils and all creatures together have no power and no right over Our Will, nor can they prevent a single Act of Our Will, wanted by Decrees of Our Wisdom.”

-Jesus to the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta

As we proceed more deeply into the Year of Astronomical Twilight, we should not be surprised to see matters such as these grow ever more grave. This is exactly what the prophecies said was coming. 

What did you expect?

So, “…look up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” (Luke 21:28)

Before offering, in my next post, my own speculations on why the Warning could easily be this year, let me consider one simple question for the “professional Catholic” scoffers. And in what follows in this post, I must be a bit stern, so forgive the tone if you find it unappealing. But the salvation of souls is at stake; for God is directing us to lifeboats as the Titanic sinks, while these scoffers are demanding that everyone stay on the deck and dance the night away.

What will it take for the scoffers to admit that we might just be in apocalyptic times?

For the last several decades especially – within the messages of Medjugorje, Fr. Stefano Gobbi, Garabandal, Akita, Kibeho, Pedro Regis, Gladys Quiroga, Alicja Lenczewska, Leandre Lachance, Elizabeth Kindelmann, Barnabas Nwoye, and so, so many others – Heaven has warned us that apocalyptic Chastisements (to be followed by the Era of Peace) are imminent. Anyone who reads these Heavenly messages can easily see a “prophetic consensus” emerge. Although the details naturally grow more precise as we move closer to the events, the essence of that consensus remains unchanged; it was summarized well by the theologian Fr. Edward O’Connor (see Page 458 here) over a decade ago, though even he was only summarizing what had long been known by those who followed the prophecies. 

Nevertheless, the scoffers scoffed. One popular career lay apologist (incidentally, she has since renounced the profession and now speaks against it) even had a hit piece against Fr. Gobbi prepared and ready to publish the very moment January 1st, 2000 came along – the date which supposedly heralded the refutation of Fr. Gobbi’s messages (in another upcoming post, I plan to argue that Fr. Gobbi’s messages are entirely correct and more important now than ever, although they were certainly misunderstood regarding what was said about that particular year.)

More recently, however – in just the last several years – the various Heavenly messages with which God has graced the Church have adopted an entirely new level of urgency and insisted upon a great degree of imminence of the long-prophesied events.

As I wrote in 2018:

“Now the prophetic consensus seems to hold that the world will — in the coming years — completely fall apart. A sort of “natural” chastisement; a consequence of our sins. … When this natural chastisement is at its worst (which will probably take another few years), God sends the Warning.”

The scoffers scoffed still more. “People have thought this before and have been wrong, you know!” was their mantra each time anyone (whose head was not buried miles deep in the spiritual sand) dared to openly ponder if the times may just have become apocalyptic. This knee-jerk dismissal was the scoffers’ sole rationalization for their thinly-veiled Deist position which essentially denounces the very charism of prophecy, even while paying some lip service to its theoretical possibility. Indeed, prophecy as a vague notion is somewhat tolerable to these folk in theory, so long as no prophecies are actually given. (A word to the wise: if the only argument against some proposition that a man can think of consists in complaining that people have presented that proposition before and had been wrong, then it is his position which is the weak one.) 

“These sensational predictions of global pandemic, famine, economic/social collapse, world war, and unprecedented natural disasters are highly unlikely,” they hypocritically pronounced – implying they themselves enjoyed the very prophetic insight that, in so many words, they deny the sheer possibility of. “What a distraction these private revelations are!” these “professional Catholics” patronizingly shouted at pious souls who were inspired to pray the Rosary, go to Confession, to fast, to read Scripture, to go to daily Mass, to evangelize; in a word, to strive to become saints – precisely because of these “distracting” private revelation’s urging them to be sanctified.

Meanwhile, the scoffers themselves displayed zeal only for flashy marketing campaigns and fundraising drives, compromise with and fixation upon worldly and secular themes, shallow academic pseudo-solutions to problems infinitely beyond the grasp of such methods, endless empty “dialogue,” desperate attempts to become liked and respected (or at least noticed) by the mainstream narrative generators, and glitzy conferences at 5 star hotels. 

Well, the next “few years” came along, and impeccably vindicated the prophetic consensus. God, we see, does not require the permission of the day’s professional Catholics to act.

First, 2019 came along. One alleged seer of many giving the same basic message – a certain Fr. Michel Rodrigue – told us that collapse was coming, so much so that he himself was not even to travel internationally after February 2020. He said that 2019’s Christmas would be the last normal one. He begged us to pray the Rosary, to get back to Confession, to consecrate ourselves to the Holy Family – and, yes, to prudently acquire 3 months’ worth of food if we could. 

As I wrote on February 6, 2020 (over a month before Covid was declared a pandemic and well before any Covid lockdowns existed outside of China), “…the long-prophesied events grow ever closer and the prophetic expectation reaches a veritable fever pitch…”

The scoffers scoffed. I and the many others proclaiming the same basic message were ridiculed for our “apocalypticism.” We were denounced as “fear mongering” (whereas you will have a hard time finding any writer whose message about the future is as hope-filled as the one I present). We were condemned by daring to consider that Heaven’s messages might just be worth heeding even before they are formally approved by the Church (recall that Kibeho – now an approved apparition – was only approved long after the genocide it sought to prevent took place), though we were also condemned for promoting the messages of approved revelations!

Then Spring 2020 burst forth, and vindicated all of what the scoffers had denounced. Nevertheless, the scoffers only scoffed ever more: “Once a vaccine comes we’ll be back to normal and all this apocalyptic nonsense will be put to rest!” The prophecies had something else to say. 

As I wrote in March 2020, summarizing their gist:

 “…here is one headline I recently saw, which I do indeed want to dispute: “This [Coronavirus] is the thing that this generation will remember.” No, it is not. Surely, this is a thing that will be remembered, but not the thing; not by a long shot. Though indeed tragic and unprecedented, the present trial is — in terms of temporal disarray — a mere inconvenience compared to what is coming soon.” 

Then 2021 arrived, and the vaccine did come. But it did nothing to end the Pandemic – that concluded, as all pandemics do, naturally – rather, the vaccine only caused matters to grow ever more apocalyptic, instituting a degree of worldwide totalitarianism never before seen, to the point of even completing the Infrastructure of the Antichrist.   

And here we are in 2022. Now that the pandemic already enabled the Infrastructure of the Antichrist to near completion, the nefarious powers that be are – right on cue – letting it fade into oblivion, and the next stage in the Chastisements has arrived: War, and the far more complete societal collapse that War will soon bring with it, and the even more severe persecution and Communist tyranny that this collapse will enable. All of this has been orchestrated in advance, of course. 

Here I must again draw attention to what I wrote recently; December of last year:

And here we are in March 2022, just shy of three months after that writing, with the excuse for the New Tyranny at the very doorstep. Am I claiming that Bill Gates orchestrated what is happening over in Europe now? No. But at the minimum, he’s clearly privy to inside information on the laying down of the Infrastructure of the Antichrist, and what I wrote in December stands: he put a “deadline” on Covid Tyranny knowing that the elite would soon be able to replace it with a new tyranny, even if he himself did not orchestrate that new tyranny.

All this, too, is exactly what the prophecies said. Namely, that the apocalyptic Chastisements would quickly follow one after the other, without intermission: that, after Pandemic, there would arrive War, Economic Collapse, Social Collapse, and Persecution  (then, the Warning, Reprieve, Refuges, Antichrist, Divine Chastisements, and Era of Peace). 

What are the odds – pray tell – that, according only to happenstance and not prophetic import, one clearly apocalyptic and unprecedented dynamic (Covid/Tyranny/2020/2021), itself foretold by the prophecies, would be immediately followed by another causally distinct, though equally clearly apocalyptic and unprecedented dynamic (War/Collapse/2022), also foretold by the prophecies?

Slim to none. 

Yet, it is exactly what we now see (though only the very beginnings – stay tuned and buckle your seat belt), and it is exactly what Heaven has warned us would happen. Yes, God is about to perform surgery on this world. Like any good surgeon, He does not lie to His patients about the difficulty of the procedure; saying it will only be a “pinch” when in fact it will be much more, or that we’ll be up and running the next day, when in fact months of difficult physical therapy will be needed. 

The backdrop of all this is the Great Apostasy, which – perhaps more than any other danger– the prophecies have been warning us about for the last several years. The prophecies have incessantly begged us to remain with the True Magisterium, and to reject anything that contradicts it or Sacred Scripture. They have warned that heresy, blasphemy, idolatry, sin, and error of all sorts would reach the very highest heights of the Church that Divine Providence could possibly allow them to reach. 

Now, we see LGBT ideology infecting every level of the Church, Cardinals bluntly stating that infallible Church Teaching is “false,” a “Synod of Synods” that appears poised to seek to overthrow Catholic Faith and Morals, an “ecumenism” that appears directed towards invalidating the Mass, and on the list goes. The scoffers issue their customary scoffing, assuring us that all of this Apostasy is actually just “dialogue, the spirit of Vatican II, synodality,” or whatever else. They meticulously argue that everything happening in the Vatican is just fine – nothing to see here – and that every opinion of Pope Francis is entirely correct, whereas they insist that the problem is only with these “racist, homophobic, mysognist, medieval” traditional  minded Catholics who are “too stupid and backward” to accept change.  

Thankfully, we still have good shepherds left who have not rejected their duty to guard against the wolves. Among them, Cardinal Muller:

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But don’t worry, all that is happening now was actually “unlikely” to happen … according to the scoffers. Just like they regard the other imminent Chastisements, the Warning, the reign of the Antichrist, and the Era of Peace as “unlikely,”  or even “impossible.” Just like, pre-2019, they regarded everything that 2020 and 2021 saw as “unlikely.” (… or “fabulist” or “sensational” or “conspiratorial” or “doom and gloom” or “fear mongering,” or whatever other unthinking catch phrase they use.)

Are you seeing a pattern?

One example is worth acknowledging, as his approach encapsulates what St. Peter warned us against in Scripture:

“... remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles. First of all you must understand this, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own passions and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming?…” (2 Peter 3). 

A Canadian “independent scholar” who contributes to a left-wing Catholic blog, he has – since May 2020 – devoted himself to writing a series of articles denouncing the “Marian Apocalypticism” of myself, Mark Mallett, Archbishop Vigano, Michael Matt, TFP, LifeSiteNews, Fr. Mark Goring, Bishop Joseph Strickland, Dr. Ralph Martin, and others. In one such hit piece, he assured his readers that St. Louis de Montfort’s prophecies of the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary can be “…simply brushed aside as private revelation or speculation that we should not worry ourselves too much about...” thereby alluding to the very closet-Deism that motivates the positions he shares with most other scoffers. To be sure, we should always be very discerning with private revelations (and never confuse even authentic ones for public revelation – see Part Three of Thy Will Be Done); but to suppose that one can simply categorically and glibly “brush aside” Heaven’s messages because they say what one does not want to hear is a sure way of inching one’s efforts into the camp of the Antichrist, even while superficially heeding Catholicism. This appears to be precisely what has happened in the case of the writings of the scholar in question (I of course do not know his heart and I make no judgment on that!). He openly praises the Great Reset (yes, he wrote an entire article dedicated to singing its praises), Covid mandate tyranny, heterodoxy in Catholic faith and morals, while demeaning tradition, orthodoxy, and Heaven’s messages (and attacking anyone who promotes any of it). And, with a type of blindness so absolute that only a scholar could suffer from it, it seems he cannot even see what has happened to himself. But the point here is not about him; he is only one example – one small pawn among what is now an army (within the Church) of scoffers which the devil has raised up – by appealing to their vain desire to be taken seriously by the worldly – to counter prophecy. 

Therefore, I already know the answer to my hypothetical question, “What will it take?” In other words, the question:

How many times do the prophets have to be right before the scoffers set aside their pride and take these prophets seriously?

Yes, I know the answer…

…It will, in tragically many cases at least, take the scoffer’s particular judgment. Not even the Warning itself will change all of them. Many of the professional Catholic scoffers will simply side with the secularists in seeking to dismiss that Great Event, too, even after it happens. Consider that the Pharisees themselves had their moment of enlightenment, upon Christ’s death on the Cross – only to shortly thereafter return to persecuting Christians. Today’s scoffers, denouncing Our Lord in their own way, will boast of the Titanic’s unsinkability even as it begins plunging into the depths of the abyss, while busily dialoguing on its deck chairs and laughing at those getting into lifeboats.

Until their deaths, many of these scoffers will continue to scoff. They’ve made an existential choice to scoff, come what may. They’ve decided that it’s just who they are. They’ve decided that any private revelation – which is what even The Warning itself will be … even once it happens! – can simply be “brushed aside.” Indeed, ordinary sinners who have not crafted sophisticated intellectual defense mechanisms against Heavenly interventions will fare much better during and after the Warning than will the Catholic Pharisees who know only how to smugly dismiss Jesus’ words today.

Therefore, my point in presenting the paragraphs above is not to try to convince the scoffers of anything (I know I won’t succeed in that), but only to exhort ordinary pious souls to stop listening to them. The scoffers do not fear God; they only fear risking appearing foolish in the eyes of the worldly, and a loss of profits for their “apostolates” (that is, their business endeavors), and as they regard seers and private revelation in general as competition, they will do what any other worldly business does – continue to attack the competition. 

Yes, it is time to take prophecy seriously. The primary aspect of prophecy, however, is not predicting details of the future. That is one small component of it which we should take seriously, but not allow to become our focus.

The primary aspect of prophecy, rather, is proclaiming God’s Will regarding our response to the times that God, from all eternity, has chosen for us to live in.

What He wills of us is what matters. All that really matters. Our marching orders here are clear. I’ve been fanatically devoting myself to trying to disseminate these marching orders for years now. Thy Will Be Done is, I believe, my most effective attempt yet, so I’ll again beg you to read that and promote it. 

Therefore, as you look ahead to what is coming, banish all fear. The absolute commitment to refuse to entertain fears is one of our clearest marching orders. Do also consider this: we have already endured two years of Chastisements. They were difficult, but you made it, didn’t you? The same God who carried you through them will carry you through what is yet to come. In fact, He will only increase His grace and Heavenly protection – not merely in proportion to the increase in the severity of the Chastisements, but rather, far exceeding their increase. Focus only on doing what He is asking you to do. Let this Lent be the most powerful one you have ever lived. Examine every crevice of your conscience and root out all sin, all vice, all doubt, all fear – all self will. Confess your sins more wholeheartedly than ever before and, upon receiving absolution, recommit yourself to pursue sanctity — and its crown, Living in the Divine Will — with more zeal than ever before in your life. Your reward will be great beyond comprehension, and you will aid in the salvation of countless souls more quickly and powerfully than you ever thought possible. 

Nothing but God’s Will can happen.

Jesus, I Trust in You.

Thy Will be Done.

Fiat.

We are approaching some extraordinary jubilee years in the Church! Well, strictly speaking, the next jubilee is “ordinary,” inasmuch as it occurs in the year 2025 and thus simply follows the pattern established long ago of holding a jubilee year each quarter century. But prophetically speaking – observing the Signs of the Times as Our Lord admonishes – it is shaping up to be as extraordinary as they come.

2025 A.D. will be the first Ordinary Jubilee since the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000. Its theme will be precisely what we need most right now: Hope. 

In the letter with which he first formally acknowledged the upcoming Jubilee, Pope Francis has asked us to prepare for it in the year before with… 

“… Prayer as the royal road to holiness, which enables us to be contemplative even in the midst of activity. In a word, may it be an intense year of prayer in which hearts are opened to receive the outpouring of God’s grace and to make the “Our Father,” the prayer Jesus taught us, the life programme of each of his disciples.”

Though I of course did not know that the Pope would exhort us to prepare for the coming Jubilee with these words, the exhortation he gives was nevertheless precisely my motive for writing Thy Will Be Done: The Greatest Prayer, the Christian’s Mission, and the World’s Penultimate Destiny.

That is, my aim with that book is to exhort each Christian to live his entire life in accordance with – and, even more so, flowing from and directed towards – the very theme contained within the indisputably climactic and supreme petition of the indisputably greatest and most exalted prayer:

THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN!

If, therefore, you are looking for a way to prepare for the coming Jubilee Year, you will not be surprised to hear my suggestion: heed the call presented in this book. 

Let the whole Our Father indeed, but especially those central eleven words therein – those words which are the greatest ever spoken and themselves constitute the pinnacle of prayer – become the very life and breath of your existence. May they never depart from your mind, your heart, or your lips. May they motivate you to pour yourself out like a libation for the coming of the Kingdom and live always in the Will of God. May they stand before you as a perennial reminder that God is ever close to you, that He is absolutely in charge, that His plan is utterly perfect, and that He will accomplish His designs, no matter what. And from that perennial reminder, may they likewise maintain in your heart an utterly invincible peace and trust that surpasses all understanding, “that your joy may be complete.” (John 15:11)

This is not my call. I am the least worthy man to be issuing any calls of my own. It is simply the fundamental call of Jesus in the Gospel, the deepest teaching of the Fathers of the Church, the primary admonishment of the Saints and Doctors of the Church, and the essence of the insights of the great Mystics and Private Revelations of the Church. My task in authoring that book was small, secondary, and subservient: I am essentially only compiling what the voices we must heed have taught.

Therefore, as in these days immediately following the Jubilee’s announcement, I would like to do everything I can to encourage heeding this book’s call for preparing for the coming Jubilee, I’m again decreasing the paperback’s price as much as I possibly can, to the point where I am not making a penny of royalties off it. As with last time I did this, I don’t know how long I can afford to keep the price this low, therefore soon would be a good time to purchase however many copies you think you may want for yourself and to distribute to others. (Note: if the lowered price isn’t showing up for you on Amazon, that is not my doing. I can submit price change requests, and that usually works, but I don’t have absolute control over it, and at the end of the day, Amazon does what it wants. No surprise there. If the price hasn’t decreased on your Amazon page, you might want to check back in a few days.) If you’d like to send the book to others, you can easily do that directly (even anonymously!) through Amazon; I walk you through how to do so in this post (just scroll down a bit).

I’ll reiterate what I said when I published this book less than 3 months ago: while I hope for every person on the planet to receive and read it, and certainly every Catholic, I especially desire each priest to hear this message. It is especially His priests that Jesus is asking to be proclaimers of the fulfillment of the Our Father prayer. As Jesus told Blessed Conchita – this fully approved mystic in her fully approved revelations – He desires to return to the earth in His priests. That is, in their sacred ministry, through which He will reign Eucharistically on earth, and through which He desires to even now reign Eucharistically in all souls willing to become Living Hosts:

(Jesus to Blessed Conchita. Page 136 of Thy Will Be Done.)

(Jesus to Blessed Conchita. Pages 274-275 of Thy Will Be Done.)

Pope Francis promulgated the letter quoted above on the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes (taking special note of that fact within the letter’s postscript). Here I must note another Papal Letter which I just learned about as I was reading the Magnificat daily Mass companion. Pope St. John Paul II prayed, at Lourdes in 2004:

“ Virgin of hope, dawn of a new era, we join in your song of praise to celebrate the Lord’s mercy, to proclaim the coming of the Kingdom and the full liberation of humanity”

–Pope St. John Paul II during his papal visit to Lourdes, August 15th, 2004 (Note: This is the day that, Jesus told the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta, could be called the “Feast of the Divine Will”)

This, dear brothers and sisters in Christ, is the promise. This is the prophecy. It will be fulfilled so long as God is God. Christ will Triumph, and all things will be restored in Him. The prayer that the saints have been praying more fervently than any other prayer, for 2,000 years, will be not go unanswered. But when it is answered is up to us. Believe it. Live it. Proclaim it. 

You have the remedy to the ills of those around you. That remedy is hope. Apply it.

Now, I do not know the future, but I doubt we have three years left to quietly and unhurriedly prepare for this Jubilee.

The very year we are now in may well witness radical changes the likes of which the world has never seen. (I plan to expound upon that possibility in an upcoming post.)

I do not doubt the prophetic nature of the Pope’s exhortation for us to prepare for the Jubilee by making the Our Father the “Life Program of Each Disciple,” but at the same time I do not think we can wait until 2024 to make that happen.

Let’s make it happen now. 

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We’ve almost completed our second year of Divine Boot Camp, by way of which God has prepared His faithful for the trials about to descend upon the world. Did you fight to the end and graduate with flying colors, or did you flunk out within the first days? (Or was it the noonday devil that got you?) It’s time for all of us to examine our consciences and ask ourselves precisely these questions. If, upon doing so, we realize that we haven’t exactly made the most of this training course which Providence has allowed, then we should hasten to re-train ourselves now in the very virtues we failed to adequately cultivate during these last two years. 

(The Preaching of the Antichrist. Luca Signorelli, circa 1500)

I’ve already written extensively on how the world’s response to Covid is and was nothing other than a laying down of the Infrastructure of the Antichrist – but, as God’s Will reigns supreme, and even the evil that transpires is contained within His permissive Will, we can just as clearly see the good which God desires to be brought out of the last two years of Covid tyranny which we’ve had to endure: namely, the preparation of the Faithful for what is about to arrive after Covid, and which will be far worse than anything we’ve witnessed yet. 

Moreover, it seems that what is coming next must be truly imminent, as even the mainstream narrative is coming close to admitting that the Covid Pandemic is over. We can therefore rest assured that the powers that be will stop at nothing to ensure they do not lose their death-grip on society. Indeed, they’ll provide for some other catastrophe’s prompt arrival (real or imagined) in order to prolong the supposed justification for the worldwide Communism we are now enduring. (Perhaps by starting a major war.)

Here, therefore, is an Examination of Conscience which we can undertake to assess how we’ve used this opportunity God has given us to train us for the times ahead. If, upon considering it, we realize that we are lacking in any of the virtues in which God is training us in order to prepare our hearts for the Great Chastisements, then right now is the time to acquire those virtues. Warp speed.

1)Did you turn off your discernment and decide to instead blindly “trust the science”?

“The Science”™ has spent the last two years supposedly proving the need for the very lockdowns, mandates, restrictions, and other operations of tyranny that have only wreaked havoc upon society, families, the Church, economies, and individual lives. As the prestigious Johns Hopkins just discovered (and as we all knew already), it was all for nothing. And although I am linking to yet another study here, what’s infinitely more important than even the generation of good studies is for us to recognize that we must stop seeking permission from “studies” and “the science” to do what is clearly right – what is clearly called for by common sense, reason, faith, or traditional wisdom. (see Appendix 3 in Resisting the Diabolical Quantum Leap) 

Pause to ponder this. The decisions to lock down nations were among the most widely destructive decisions ever made in history. And we now know they achieved absolutely nothing. These lockdowns were “justified” by the insistence that they would save millions of lives (they wouldn’t have been justifiable even if those insistences were accurate), but instead they saved no lives at all. Or, if they saved any lives at all, they certainly caused a far greater number of suicides (and other “deaths of despair,” e.g., drug overdoses, alcoholism-related deaths, etc.)

Do not hold your breath waiting for apologies from those who instituted and advocated for the lockdowns and other tyrannical measures. There will be none to speak of. There will only be ever more forceful insistence upon the government’s “right and duty” to be tyrannical, and ever more incessant calls from the mainstream narrative for it to step up the tyranny.

Soon, “the science” will only issue far more evil and false pronouncements. It will insist upon the Diabolical Quantum Leap and all the tenets thereof, and it will seek to completely undermine Christian and Catholic Faith and Morals. So if you have become accustomed to blind acceptance of “the science,” then you ought to waste no time eliminating this bad habit; or, rather, of exorcizing it from your soul like the demon it is. Cling to it much longer, and it will destroy you.

2) Did you stop going to Mass?

Our ancestors in the Faith gladly risked near certain death for the unfathomable privilege of attending Mass and receiving Communion. Did you stop doing so because a flu was going around? 

Soon, it will be much riskier to attend Mass. It won’t be just a bad flu going around and it won’t be just another “group activity” outlawed by mandates restricting gatherings – it will be deemed “hate speech,” and those who attend it will be treated as felons. It will, however, be just as essential as ever, and we will be in dire need of the graces of the Mass and the Eucharist to spiritually survive the times to come. 

If, however, fear of displeasing your local health department prevented you from going to Mass, then fear of imprisonment or execution certainly will. If fear of a flu prevented you from going to Mass, then fear of being bombed during a war certainly will.

Hasten, therefore, to redouble your courage and implore an outpouring of new graces from God into your heart. Remind yourself how utterly fleeting this life is, and how horribly we pervert its purpose when, in the futile effort to prolong its inescapable brevity, we detract from eternity; that blessed state we will have scarcely begun to enjoy after trillions of centuries have passed.

3) Did you unflinchingly criticize or even condemn everyone the mainstream’s inquisitors labeled as “conspiratorial” or “fringe” or “alt” or “a source of misinformation”?

No longer restricted to one nation or to one issue, the character assassination campaigns of the past two years have exhibited greater ferocity and universality than the world has ever known – not only of individuals, but of entire demographics. The very outlets most zealous in their “compassionate” blaming of every evil since The Fall on “systemic racism” and “white privilege” are hypocritically doing their absolute best to stir up as much hatred as possible against, for example, all so-called “conspiracy theorists” or “misinformation” promoters, and above all, these drippingly compassionate pundits insist upon the absolute detestation of the “unvaccinated.” They celebrate and gloat when we die, they openly advocate for our outright persecution, and they increasingly deny us our humanity, even though the unvaccinated are even less likely to transmit Covid than the vaccinated! But they defer to pseudoscientific conjectures, devoid of all reason, that unvaccinated people “cause mutations” in the virus and thus prolong the pandemic – as if history has never seen viral pandemics which ended without mass-vaccination programs with 95%+ inoculation rates. Alas, dwelling on this point would be pointless: the narrative writers will simply craft another pseudoscientific lie to leverage for the persecution of their opponents tomorrow. 

The point, rather, is that scapegoating and stirring up societal hatred against those who oppose the Antichrist will be among this Man of Sin’s most prized goals. As with any leader, he will want those he fights against to be antagonized by his own constituency. 

How quickly and credulously, these last two years, have you gobbled up all the propaganda that demonizes those who fail to immediately fall in line with “the experts”? Those who did so may soon find themselves calling out for the blood of the very Christians who will be revered as martyrs in the Church of the times yet to come. Pious-sounding excuses that this was all “prudent” and “for the common good” will ring hollow on Judgment Day, when those who condoned the persecutions of the martyrs will be found standing shoulder to shoulder with the very Pharisees who cried out for our Blessed Lord’s crucifixion. So judge no one, and condemn no one – and save your strong and public admonishment and rebuke for those who promote that which is destructive to the salvation of souls (heresy, blasphemy, sacrilege, mortal sin, etc.), not those who diverge from some of Pope Francis’ personal opinions, or who disagree with the mainstream narrative’s current anti-dogmas, or who neglect to fall in line with the virtue-signaling expectations of the corporate, academic, and entertainment elite.

4) Did you succumb to regarding the Pope as the incarnation of the Holy Spirit?

Pope Francis’ personal opinions are just as prone to error as anyone’s. While, as Catholics, we must respect the Pope as our spiritual father, and we can (and must) submit to the actual text of his actual Magisterial documents (e.g., Encyclicals), we should not necessarily submit to or agree with his opinions – regardless of how publicly or insistently he repeats them (e.g. in interviews, in books, on social media, in homilies, in impromptu remarks and speeches, and now in TV talk shows). Since the onset of the Pandemic, some of the Pope’s personal opinions have been particularly egregiously mistaken (e.g., his insistence that taking the vaccine is a “moral obligation,” his implicit endorsement of many aspects of Covid-tyranny, his cooperation with global elites pushing explicitly diabolical agendas). One thing God is doing with this Pontificate is training the remnant faithful to be more discerning: to not suppose that “but the Pope said so!” is sufficient to establish the truth of some assertion or the morality of some act.

Soon, however, the false prophet will arise, who will work in tandem with the Antichrist (the Beast). This Biblically-foretold false prophet may even wind up becoming an antipope (which means that many Catholics might just innocently, though erroneously, suppose he actually is truly the Pope). And he will make Pope Francis look like Archbishop Vigano in comparison. The false prophet will superficially respect Christianity and Catholicism, but he will flatly and blasphemously profane dogma after dogma, and he will urge the faithful to undertake many sacrilegious acts and to lend their full support to the Antichrist. 

Whoever is in the habit of uncritically accepting some proposition merely because the Pope agrees with it may soon find himself gobbling up a “gospel” straight from the pit of hell. Therefore, remember: stick with the Bible and The Catechism. Every. Single. Word. Of. Both. No Pope has any right to contradict either. True Magisterium cannot contradict True Magisterium. So as I’ve said many times before: if in doubt, stick with what is clearer. Clarity enjoys superiority to ambiguity in faith and morals, whereas mere recentness enjoys no special status over age.

“But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we preached to you, let him be accursed.” Galatians 1:8

5) Did you fail to stand up and be counted for fear of reprisals?

It matters not how insignificant you think you are: there are people looking to your example for encouragement. From the perspective of eternity – and as far as the standards of Judgment Day are concerned – it does not matter if you are a social media “influencer” with millions of followers, or an ordinary grandmother whose views are only known by a few other people. We answer only for what we choose to do with the sphere of influence Providence has provided us, not the magnitude of that sphere. If you cannot oppose – and publicly speak out against – the tyranny we have seen these last two years then what, pray tell, can you stand against?

Let me confess: Though I’ve long been critical of them, I’ve nevertheless also long hesitated to openly state that I have chosen to reject these Covid vaccines for myself. Doing so exposes me to all sorts of new attacks and accusations (which I already must endure a steady stream of), so I timidly remained quiet and carefully worded my posts, videos, etc., in such a way that, as much as I cautioned about the Covid vaccines, I never explicitly revealed my own vaccination status. In my last post, that changed, as I finally realized that I cannot keep this quiet any more – people may be struggling themselves and feel the need to know what choice I made for myself as they undertake their own discernment. So after much prayer, I decided to stand up and be counted, and announce for the world to see that I am not “vaccinated” for Covid and that I will not get “vaccinated” for Covid.

If you’ve cowered in your room for the last two years, strategically ensuring that no one can find out what you really believe about important matters, then it is time to man up. It is time to stand up and be counted. Each indeed may be called to do so in a different way, but in case any need some suggestions, I’ll offer some: start a blog, facebook page, twitter account, or youtube channel. Proclaim Christ therein. Proclaim His FULL truth: including those truths of His which are detested by the modern world: that He – Jesus Christ – is the only path to the Father, that He established one and only one Church (the Catholic Church), that any and all sexual activity outside of the valid marriage of one man and one woman is intrinsically and gravely evil, that abortion must be outlawed, etc. Proclaim that Jesus Christ, and all the Sacraments He instituted, are necessary and that you cannot and will not comply with any future mandates that seek to prevent you from receiving them. Proclaim His Kingdom. Be a Divine Will Missionary of Mercy. Pray outside of a Planned Parenthood. Oppose vaccine mandates. Oppose lockdowns. Oppose mask mandates. In a word, oppose Communism. Voting wisely is not enough. One bold witness to the truth – even if he is not a popular one with a following – is worth a thousand votes for the right candidate.

The famous adage, “Evil prevails only when good men are silent” is a quote I have seen being attributed to virtually every wise figure history has graced us with. But  whoever was actually first to say it doesn’t matter: it is clearly true. Silence means consent. Are you implicitly consenting to the present Dictatorship of Relativism and Culture of Death which have dominated the world for so many decades now, but have reached a pinnacle the last couple of years? Withdraw your consent. No more silence. STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. 

6)Did you cower in your room for fear of mandates and restrictions, and the penalties ostensibly affixed to their violation, even when violating them was clearly Willed by God?

Let me be the first to admit that I wish I was bolder in many ways during the last two years. As is so often the case (with this post’s Examination of Conscience and elsewhere), if I give advice, it’s precisely because I need to hear it! But I will share one brief story here of when I did not fail, in order to encourage you to do likewise when similar situations arise. 

In the early months of the Pandemic, my grandmother was in the nursing home, dying of Covid. (She was among the thousands of people that my Godless former governor, Andrew Cuomo, essentially murdered by seeding Coronavirus within the state’s senior care facilities.) At that time, visitors to nursing homes were “strictly prohibited” statewide. There was “no way” I could go visit my dying grandmother. Well, I went anyway. Here is the astoundingly complicated strategy I used: I picked up my keys, got in my car, drove to the nursing home, and walked in the door. Many of my relatives did so, and it was their example that inspired me to do likewise. No one stopped us. I was able to kneel by my grandmother’s bedside and pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet just minutes before she died. See what Jesus told St. Faustina about the enormous graces given to the dying when the Chaplet is recited at their bedsides; and then consider what would have been neglected if– cowering in fear of these evil and unlawful restrictions, abominable in the eyes of God, that dare attempt to deprive a dying soul of her inalienable right to be ministered to in her dying moments– I simply said, “Okay, I comply. I submit. I’ll be a good boy and sit in my room while my grandmother dies, because some incarnate-demon politician says that’s what I must do.”

So enough being a good boy sitting on the lap of mommy and daddy government. You are a child of God. A son or daughter of the King of All. Act like it. We are not in the Era of Peace yet. We are in the Time of War, and each of us is called to be a soldier for Christ the King. Proclaim His Name and do His Will, no matter the cost. Your reward will be great in Heaven.

Now, I am not here attempting to approve– for example – some teenager who, “fighting for his right to party,” decides to violate government restrictions so he can go clubbing. Whether or not prudence is found in policies that close clubs, or cancel concerts, or similarly curtail merely recreational activities, I would not advocate for risking criminal punishment simply so that you can carouse the way you like to. But when the government dares to try to prevent us from doing that which virtue demands, then failing to undertake these deeds is a sin of omission (which is a sin nonetheless), and no government may ever mandate sins of commission or omission.

If only we had the faintest clue of how powerfully God’s grace is present in our works of mercy, our worshiping at the Mass, our gathering with other faithful to pray outside of Mass, etc., then our consciences would be properly formed in accordance with this knowledge. Our consciences would then demand us to accomplish these and other deeds, and would never allow for their cessation merely because the government says so. 

If the relatively puny penalties that we were threatened with stopped us from being the Christians we are called to be these past two years, then the severe persecution that is about to arise will certainly compel us to apostatize. So remind yourself of what the Faith teaches on this point and strengthen your resolve to act accordingly:

“Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” (2 Timothy 3:12) “Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:10) “I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ…” (Philippians 3:8,9)

7) Are you a priest who stopped offering Mass?

Of course, almost every priest did stop offering the Mass to the faithful during the Spring 2020 lockdowns (sorry, live-streaming Mass does not count as offering the Mass to the faithful!). While I commend the priests who disobeyed the Godless directives to suspend the Mass – those who instead clandestinely offered it to the Faithful — I recognize that those are very few, and I intend no condemnation here of those priests who complied. Look, Spring 2020 really blindsided us – myself included. But now that we’ve had a chance for introspection, it is time for us to realize how very wrong that was, and to affix our resolve to never let it happen again – to never fail in the vocation God has called us to, no matter who says otherwise. It is especially saying Mass (with giving Communion to the Faithful at Mass) and hearing Confessions that are the absolute and inviolable duty of the priest. Similarly, the procreation and education of children is the absolute and inviolable duty of married Catholics. Imagine if the government – or the Church! – said “as of today, parents must not have more children. Don’t worry, we’re not requiring a specific mortal sin, you can use NFP, you don’t have to use contraception!” That would be diabolical and unlawful. Married Christians would have a duty to reject and disobey this Godless decree, no matter who says otherwise, and regardless of the fact that it doesn’t explicitly require a specific sin of commission. Similarly, priests must reject decrees which obstruct their own sacred and inviolable duties; namely, to administer the Sacraments and preach the Gospel.

There now exists a spiritual black hole that has just recently been torn in the fabric of the Universe itself. It was created in Spring 2020 (and contributed to in various places throughout the world in the two years that followed) by the cessation of the public sacrifice of the Mass. Just as, at the very beginning of these lockdowns, the biggest explosion ever witnessed was observed by scientists as a black hole exploded in another galaxy, so too that “spiritual black hole” will soon explode in the form of Great Chastisements never before seen in the history of the world. That, dear priests, is how utterly essential the Mass and the Sacraments are. As Padre Pio famously said (photo above), the world could sooner exist without the sun than without the Mass.  

In addition to this spiritual black hole, there is an ocean of blood in our world’s soil now (adding to that of aborted babies) which cries out to God for vengeance. It is the blood of those in hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, prisons, etc., who, for the last two years, were forced to die alone, without the Sacraments, because of the Antichristic decrees of health departments that barred visitors. God will avenge that blood, and His wrath will visit upon whoever is responsible for those souls having to die alone — unless they repent. Let us not add to that wrath. To minister to the sick and dying is not optional; it is indispensable to Christianity. Christ made it clear that to neglect doing so is to reject Him. (Matthew 25). So whom do we fear: man, or God?  

8) Has your zeal for the pro-life cause – and, in general, for the principles you had hitherto been convicted of – grown lukewarm? 

St. Jude’s admonition in Sacred Scripture is unambiguous: we must be found “Hating even the garment spotted by the flesh” (Jude 1:23). Now, if anything at all is spotted by the flesh, it is those medical products which, in their own development, benefitted from abortion (as all of the Covid vaccines available in most of the West indisputably did).  

For many years, sincere and zealously pro-life Catholics have long rejected any vaccines which in any way used the HEK cell line in their development. This stance was solidly grounded in not only reason and common sense, but also the Church’s Magisterium, which agreed that any use of the HEK cell line in a vaccine’s development causes it to become abortion-tainted (though it did not condemn the receiving of such a vaccine as formal cooperation in that evil). Did these very concerns suddenly and conveniently vanish for you when the Covid vaccines came around? Consider that in the year 2020, leftists were so diligent in their hatred of Donald Trump that they vowed not to get any Covid vaccine under his presidency. What (utterly misguided) boldness in their (ridiculous) convictions! But shouldn’t we be far more zealous than they in those Godly convictions we harbor as we take a principled stand against anything tainted by abortion? (Even if the Church allows us to not be so bold, as it does in the case of the Covid vaccines)

Here I am reminded of what I discuss each semester with my undergraduate philosophy students: Socrates’ rebuke of Crito, when the latter tried to convince him to unjustly escape from prison instead of nobly accepting the death penalty.

As Socrates said, and as we all must say:

“For I am and always have been one of those natures who must be guided by reason, whatever the reason may be which upon reflection appears to me to be the best; and now that this fortune has come upon me, I cannot put away the reasons which I have before given: the principles which I have hitherto honored and revered I still honor, and unless we can find other and better principles on the instant, I am certain not to agree with you; no, not even if the power of the multitude could inflict many more imprisonments, confiscations, deaths, frightening us like children with hobgoblin terrors… has the argument which was once good now proved to be talk for the sake of talking; in fact an amusement only, and altogether vanity?”

Shortly thereafter in the Platonic dialogue, Crito admits that Socrates is right – that neglecting the very principles (when the going gets tough) which we previously insisted upon (when doing so was less costly) reveals us as cowards and weaklings, and it renders all our prior convictions nothing but vanity. The dialogue ends with Socrates saying, “Then let me follow the intimations of the Will of God.” If this noble pagan could cheerfully approach his own execution simply on account of his own intimations of God’s Will, then how much more should we –  Christians with sanctifying grace and Divine Revelation– be utterly fixated on accomplishing God’s Will, no matter the cost?

That, therefore, is indeed what we must do: even in those cases where we lack a clear certainty of what God Wills for us, we must at least follow our intimations – that is, what indications we have sincerely come upon – of the Divine Will; we must not use a lack of certainty as an ostensible justification for failing to do what is most likely God’s Will.   

9) Did you cave on the vaccine?

As I said in my last post, I have no criticism for one who sincerely insists that his conscience allowed him to be vaccinated for Covid and who insists he has prudentially judged that doing so was called for in his situation (even if I disagree with his assessment). Perhaps, for example, he is an older priest who 1) doesn’t have much pre-Heaven time left anyway and needn’t be too concerned with long-term side effects, 2) would not be allowed to administer last rites to hospital patients without the vaccine, and 3) obviously needn’t be concerned about effects on fertility. That’s just one example, though. More generally, questioning an adult who has made that judgment for himself is not my place. But issuing a few related exhortations here is, I think, my place:

Have you gotten your children vaccinated against Covid?

That choice is one I will criticize. A small child has essentially a zero percent chance of dying from Covid. He or she is indisputably far more likely to be injured or even killed by an experimental mRNA Covid “vaccine.” To thus “vaccinate” a child against Covid under the pretense that doing so will help “end the pandemic” (it won’t – Omicron is what ended the Pandemic) is to use a child as a means for the alleged good of older people but in contradiction to the child’s own actual good. If you’re going to do that, then you should also advocate for a return to the child labor situation we had in the factories of this country in the 18th century. This is not to mention the ethical issues with the vaccines and the fact that we can’t possibly have any idea what its long term effects will be on someone just now starting the journey of life – particularly in terms of fertility. For a parent to nevertheless get his or her small child vaccinated for Covid merely because that’s what the mainstream narrative demands… is a dereliction of duty.

Soon, far graver evils will be “required” of parents with respect to their children. The government will insist that children be taught diabolical lies contrary to Faith and Morals (which is to some degree already happening in most, if not practically all, public schools), that they be subjected to procedures even more degrading of their dignity (even more degrading that is, than the already absurd and evil mandates that require children to wear masks all day in schools), and that they receive even more damaging medical interventions for non existent problems. If you caved to getting your child vaccinated for Covid, making him wear a mask all day, etc., then you better spare no expense in changing your heart now so that you do not wind up pushing your child straight into the arms of the Antichrist in the coming times.

Has your attachment (a great vice – one of the most spiritually destructive, in fact) to your hobbies, the businesses you prefer to patronize, your international travel plans, your job (there are always other ways to pay the bills), or your hometown (yes, moving is an option!), or the expectations of your relatives, caused you to get vaccinated? That is precisely the type of pressure that we should never cave to – especially when it is pressure to do something that we aren’t sure we are comfortable with in conscience. If in doubt, side with conscience, not with what the world demands. That’s a simple norm that should never be put in question. This Covid-mandate tyranny is giving us a great opportunity to grow in that very virtue; an occasion to train our tyranny-resisting muscles. But you’ve seriously weakened those muscles if you’ve caved to getting the vaccine even if you weren’t sure you were comfortable with it in conscience or even if you – in your own prudential judgment – did not deem the harm it allegedly protects against (something the vast majority of people have a 99.99%+ chance of surviving) as grave enough to justify the risks inherent to any experimental injection.

Soon, there will be another alleged threat, and another alleged universal “solution” to that threat – one relentlessly promoted by the powerful, heartily condoned by many of the “professional Catholics,” and duly adorned with a smattering of anti-graces (you’ll be allowed to keep your job, go to your favorite restaurants, travel as you please, etc.)  That solution will be far worse than these Covid vaccines. It will be the Mark of the Beast, or at least an even more immediate precursor to the Mark itself.

10) Did you enforce unjust decrees under the pretense that you were “just following orders” or “just doing your job”?

Two words: Nuremberg Trials.

One can certainly justify doing something pointless, silly, a “waste of time,” etc., if he was told to by his superior at work. I just finished a boatload of pointless paperwork that new regulations just started mandating of SUNY professors. But one can never justify enforcing injustice merely because he was told to do so.

For example: I am convinced that wearing a mask is pointless, ridiculous, harmful if prolonged, and should be avoided whenever possible. But wearing a mask is not in itself a sin, so if it’s the only way I can do what’s necessary for physical or spiritual survival (e.g., going grocery shopping or to Mass somewhere mask mandates are actively and strictly enforced — which isn’t most stores/Churches even here in New York and even with a “mask mandate” in effect in this state), then I’ll do so — though I manage to almost never wear one.

But to enforce mandates that others wear masks is an entirely different matter. That, I will not do, period. And I encourage you to likewise refuse to enforce Godless mandates, no matter your position. Are you a priest, or usher, or police officer, or teacher, or grocery store employee, etc., who has been told by your superior that you must enforce a mask mandate? Smile, nod, say “okay” when your boss tells you this (all that means is you heard what he said!), then simply refuse to enforce it. You are a child of God with a conscience that you must form, listen to, and act in accordance with. You are not a cog in the wheel of your place of employment with which your boss may do as he pleases – including if you are employed by the Church or the government. Do not be ashamed to have your own Holy Spirit-inspired boundaries. Have these boundaries, and refuse to cross them, no matter what. 

Soon, the Antichrist will seek to rally up his own diabolical army of sycophants to enforce his own mandates. Those who willingly (and even eagerly!) acquiesced to becoming mask police, vaccine-passport-checking police, social-distancing police, etc., are simply being prepared to become the Mark of the Beast police in the coming times. What a terrible fate: not only succumbing to the Antichrist, but even promulgating his tyranny. If you so readily enforce unjust mandates today, what makes you think you will have the strength to resist enforcing the Man of Sin’s mandates tomorrow?

11) In general: Did you obey man rather than God?

Obedience is a great virtue, and we must indeed obey when: I) Legitimate authority issues the directives, II) This authority issues directives contained within the confines of its jurisdiction, and III) The directives it gives do not entail sins of commission or omission. If I) or II) are not present, we needn’t obey, and if III) is not present, we mustn’t obey. 

“But Peter and the apostles answered, ‘We must obey God rather than men.’” – Acts 5:29

12) And for the last item in this examination of conscience, I’m going to throw a curveball:

On the flipside: Did you become so dogmatic about your “red-pilled” virtues and knowledge during this pandemic that you failed to be flexible in those things that God called you to be flexible about, and thus neglected to do what He was calling you to? Did you stop going to daily Mass because you couldn’t find one that would allow you to go maskless? Did you abandon works of mercy or other apostolates that you know God has called you to, because continuing them would have required being around insufficiently “red-pilled” people? Did you become so paranoid about government surveillance or certain “conspiracy theories” that your life’s overarching theme became preserving your safety and security instead of doing everything you can to pursue salvation and sanctification (for yourself and others)? Did you needlessly burn bridges with friends and family merely because they could not see through the mainstream narrative’s lies as well as you could?[[Do not misunderstand: I would never encourage one to compromise his principles merely to maintain relationships. Even for the closest of human bonds, Jesus does not speak well of that habit in the Gospel (Matthew 10:37), and indeed, any bridge that leads only to sin should be burned. But we should not suppose that the only bridges worth preserving are those solely with other people who are lock-step with us in the choice of which narrative they adhere to. People of good will are going to disagree on a number of points regarding Covid, vaccines, narratives, etc., and the mere existence of that disagreement (so long as it does not amount to another crossing boundaries and seeking to place unjust obligations on your shoulders) should not compel us to abandon those who are mistaken on some point.]] Have you dared to forget – even for one moment – that the essence of our calling as Christians remains unchanged no matter how twisted the times become, and that this call includes ensuring that our every thought, word, and deed, is one of pure love? Or have you erroneously supposed that the gravity of the times justifies adopting a demeanor that is devoid of grace – devoid of the 12 Fruits of the Holy Spirit, without which we cannot ever pretend to be doing God’s Will? Have you forgotten that God is just as absolutely in charge today as He ever has been, and that nothing happens apart from His Will? Remember as well that staying on the razor-thin straight and narrow way of Our Lord is never about choosing one worldly ideology (even if it is a mostly correct one), and simply charging full-speed-ahead in the direction it provides. The Way of the Lord, rather, is always a matter of discernment, it will never line up perfectly with any worldly movement or ideology, and we will fall off of that way if we become dogmatic about issues that do not call for dogmatism. 

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So, in conclusion…

Be on guard.

“Gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival.” (Luke 12)

If God has just put us through Boot Camp, He only did so because He knew it was necessary; because He knows that war is imminent and, without adequate training, His soldiers – His remnant faithful – would not be ready. Indeed, our training has not been in vain. It is about to be put to use. Waste no time brushing up on your training if you missed any sessions at boot camp.

And above all, remember that although I have in this post given much practical and detailed advice, heeding it will only work with God, and without Him it will fail spectacularly. All is grace, and we will only succeed (and are guaranteed to succeed) if we are living in Him. Therefore, I again conclude with the final page of Thy Will Be Done:

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Some Announcements:

• I was recently interviewed by Christine Watkins at Queen of Peace Media, Dr. Peter Howard at the Fulton Sheen Institute (part two here), and Ken Johnston with the “In His Sign” radio show. More interviews are coming soon, including one with Christine Bacon.
• The good people over at CatholicBridge.com have done what I’ve intended to do for months now: they’ve presented a cliff-notes version of the 33 points of my massive Resisting the Diabolical Quantum Leap post from last May. The more you hear nonsense on the news about “aliens,” “UFOs,” “AI paradigm shifts,” “animal personhood,” the “unification of religions,” etc., the  more important heeding that post becomes. (Note: I removed a few small items from that post which were really just announcements and which are no longer important)