Readers have asked me to clarify my point on the Eucharist from the last post, so that is what I will now do. First, I’ll note that I always hesitate before clicking “publish” on any post, like the last one, which summarizes prophetically relevant developments in the Church and the world, as I know that within mere minutes of doing so, more such things will transpire. Never was that truer than with my last post. Since publishing it just 48 hours ago:

1. News just came out that Sweden has developed an implantable vaccine passport microchip. Aside from the beast himself assuming power, nothing would be a clearer indication that the Mark of the Beast is imminent than such a chip becoming common. (Note: France24, the news site there linked, is entirely mainstream; according to them, 6,000 people have already received the chip implanted in their hands so that they can do what is required of them in relation to their ability to “buy and sell” certain goods/services. Ring any bells? Hint Revelation 13:16-17. “And [the Beast] causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
2. Putin just stepped up the ante in the war-foreboding saber-rattling. Just yesterday, His defense minister made the (likely fabricated) claim that the U.S. is preparing a “chemical attack.” Of course, it is probably Russia itself planning this attack, and once it happens, they’ll blame it on the U.S./NATO, and thereby justify a Ukrainian invasion. As the (excellent and level-headed) National Review wrote just today, “evidence is piling up that Vladimir Putin really does intend to invade Ukraine later this winter.”
3. Pope Francis, just today, met with Metropolitan Hilarion (the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate). The two “discussed specific dates and venues” for the Pope’s trip to Moscow, making it clear that this is actually going to happen.
4. The elite’s Omicron fear-mongering has drastically stepped up. Bill Gates just announced that he expects at least three months more Communist Covid Tyranny due to Omicron, and the politicians around the globe who are desperately clamoring for his campaign contributions will diligently submit. (Indeed, “Democracy” has now proven far more effective in enslaving the masses than Dictatorship ever did!) But someone like Gates would never put an implicit deadline on one Tyranny without already having another one in mind, though we can only speculate about what the elite have in store for us for late Winter/Spring 2022 as they put the finishing touches on the Infrastructure of the Antichrist.

In the arena of prophecy and signs of the times, everything is falling into place, just as foretold by Heaven’s messages, with an accuracy that is stunning to watch even for those who have carefully observed these things for many years. The long prophesied events are at hand. Repent. While you still can. Live in the Divine Will. Proclaim His Mercy. Trust Him and have no fear. He’s coming. This is incredibly exciting; therefore, do as Our Lord commands upon hearing such news! That is:

“Now when these things begin to take place, look up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

Luke 21:28

Let’s pause to consider how extraordinary point 3 above is. In 1965, when Conchita stated that a Papal trip to Moscow would immediately precede the Warning, the assertion itself was considered outlandish. No Pope has ever gone to Russia, much less its capital, Moscow. It just doesn’t happen. One would have considered himself practically safe, on that count alone (of supposing a Papal Moscow trip must precede the Warning), in concluding that the Warning would never happen! Now we have such a trip not only finally possible, but nearly certain to happen very soon. This is incredible. This alone should give all of the Warning scoffers great pause!

Now, on to the subject of the present post. A number of readers reached out to me requesting clarification, regarding my last post’s assertion, that if the words of consecration were changed to “this is Christ’s body,” that would render the Consecration (and thus the Mass and the Eucharist) invalid in such cases.

The Church (/the Pope) certainly has the right to make modifications to the Liturgy without these modifications being tantamount to invalidity. Whether or not these modifications are a good idea is another matter, but the Church/the Pope can certainly, for example, change the language of the Liturgy, the number of readings, who can do the readings, how old one must be to receive Communion, how long one must fast before receiving Communion, what collects/antiphons/prefaces are said, what vestments the priest wears, etc. But the Church has absolutely no authority to substantially change what Christ Himself has set down regarding the number, matter, and form of the Seven Sacraments.  Should anyone in the Church – even the Pope himself – attempt to do so, he would only render the Sacrament invalid. Both the matter and the form of each Sacrament are set in ontological stone, and will remain as they are until the end of time.

Let us examine some Magisterium from the Catechism of the 16th-Century Council of Trent (the “Roman Catechism”), which is just as binding in its doctrinal teachings now as it ever has been (Obviously, however, some Church disciplines have changed since its promulgation). I of course submit to and love the new Catechism also, but Trent deals with these matters with even more directness, which is why I’m using that Catechism here.

The Catechism goes on to insist “there are neither more nor less [than 7 Sacraments]…”  To claim there are any more, or fewer, than precisely 7 Sacraments would be heresy. To contradict either the “matter” or the “form” of any Sacrament would be heresy.

Every heresy is not true, never has been true, and never can be true, no matter who says otherwise. Now, our very salvation demands doctrinal orthodoxy regarding the Sacraments, but the supreme importance here regards the one sacrament we rightly call Blessed: the Eucharist. The same Catechism continues:

The Antichrist’s supreme attack, therefore, will be directed at this “eminently superior” Sacrament.

Before getting to the Eucharist, let us take a few other examples of the same dynamic:

First, the Sacrament of Penance (Confession). The form of this Sacrament are the words pronounced by the priest, “I absolve you…” and the matter of the Sacrament is the penitence (sorrow for his sins) of the one being absolved (Trent defines this as “quasi materia,” not to imply it isn’t truly the matter of the Sacrament, but only to point out that, in the case of this Sacrament, we aren’t dealing with physical matter). If either is absent, it is impossible for the absolution to be considered valid. Powerful as it is, Confession has no ability to effect the forgiveness of one who isn’t in any way sorry for his sins (hence the extreme importance of rejecting the heretical interpretation of Amoris Laetitia — the interpretation which is leading souls to hell by pretending that unrepentant adulterers may be validly absolved — as I explained in great length here in 2017  and here in 2018), and one has not actually received Absolution if all the priest says is “I pray that Christ forgives you of your sins…” (God, of course, is always free to directly forgive whomever He pleases; the point is merely that that particular absolution itself wouldn’t be a valid one.)

Second, the Sacrament of Holy Orders (Priesthood). The Form of the sacrament is the Bishop’s consecratory prayer, and the matter of the Sacrament is the Bishop’s laying on of hands upon a baptized male. This is why any ordination attempted by one who is not a valid Bishop is impossible, and why women’s ordination is also utterly impossible: as Pope St. John Paul II infallibly declared in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, the Church does not merely “refuse” to ordain women; rather, it is that the Church “has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and … this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church’s faithful.” This is the key to understanding the present matter; we are dealing with something that the Church has no authority or ability to do.

Third, the Sacrament of Matrimony. The Form of this Sacrament is the exchange of vows, and the matter of the Sacrament is one man and one woman each promising permanent faithfulness to the other (along with consummation). This is why forced marriage is impossible (marriages not made in freedom do not truly entail the exchange of vows and thus are invalid); the form is absent. This is also why marriage between two people of the same sex is impossible; the matter is absent.

Fourth, Baptism. The matter is water and the form is the words “I baptize you…” This is why the Vatican decided that Fr. Matthew Hood had to be “re” baptized: it was discovered that the Deacon invalidly baptized him as a baby, since he said “we” baptize you, instead of “I.”

Now, the Sacrament of the Eucharist also has a matter and form, and – as with any Sacrament – each is absolutely required for its validity. There is less ambiguity here than anywhere else: Christ laid it down with utter clarity in the Gospel. The priest must use wheat bread and wine, and he must say, “This is my body” (Matthew 26:26) just as Christ did at the Last Supper (which was the first Mass.) If the priest deliberately says anything that is not the words “This is my body,” then the Consecration is invalid, and therefore the Mass too is invalid. (I say “deliberately” because intention is key here – if, for example, the priest has a bit of a slip of the tongue and the word “body” sounds more like “boly,” we should not regard that as invalidating the consecration.)

In my last post, I speculated that a decree may soon come from the Vatican, changing the words of consecration – in the name of “Ecumenism” or “dialogue” – to “This is Christ’s body,” which would invalidate the Eucharist (and thus the Mass). But the Mass would be equally invalidated if, perhaps in deference to the “gluten free” phenomenon spreading across the globe, there was a decree mandating that corn flour be used for the host, or in deference to “fighting alcoholism,” mere grape juice were mandated to be used for the chalice. But I think a diabolical decree directed against the form (the words) is more likely, as it is precisely the type of thing that Modernists would love to do in the name of a false Ecumenism.

As the Catechism of the Council of Trent teaches:

As we can see, there is absolutely no leeway here.

The matter and form of the Eucharist are permanent and unchangeable. Any attempt at substantial changes made to either would invalidate the Sacrament. Be on guard against such a change, as it is may be coming soon. If and when it does, seek out Masses said by those faithful priests who refuse to change the words of Consecration to another form which would be invalid.

It is both wise and prophetic that, for over a year and a half now, Cardinal Sarah’s pinned “tweet” has been one reminding us to disregard unjust decrees:

In the times to come, which will only grow more confusing by the day, stick with those shepherds you can trust. I’ll give here a list of trustworthy Bishops, as I did back in February (though, obviously, I am not claiming that these are the only trustworthy ones! This is just a sampling.)

• Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
• Cardinal Robert Sarah
• Bishop Joseph Strickland
• Cardinal Gerhard Muller
• Cardinal Raymond Burke
• Archbishop Charles Chaput
• Archbishop Salvatore Corileone
• Bishop Ramon Arguelles
• Bishop Marc Aillet
• Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins
• Cardinal Rainer Woelki
• Bishop THOMAS Tobin
• Bishop Athanasius Schneider
• Cardinal Walter Brandmuller
• Bishop Thomas Paprocki

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The third year of the third decade of the third millennium is now only days away, and the Signs of the Times call for a summary of some of the presently most prophetically significant themes.

_{(Okay, since I know some are thinking this – yes, technically 2020 [not 2019] was the last year of the second decade, which would actually make 2021 the first year of the third decade, and 2022 the second year of the third decade. But most people consider the year ending in “zero” to be the first of the decade that follows, therefore under the common understanding, 2022 will indeed be the third year of the third decade of the third millennium!)}

Moscow and the Pope

In my last post, I discussed the Pope’s likely upcoming Moscow trip, and a  few posts ago, I noted Gisella Cardia’s prophecy about the Pope “weeping” due to coming events, once he “returns from a trip.” I had interpreted that in light of the Pope’s trip to Greece, but what I failed to note in my last post – and which many readers quickly pointed out! – was that it now it seems more accurate to interpret that message as a prescient indication of the Pope’s upcoming trip to Moscow (that trip was unannounced at the time of Gisella’s November 30th message). A recent development (just three days ago) seems to imply that an impending Papal voyage to Moscow is even more likely, since Putin’s invitation would be considered a prerequisite to the Pope going to Moscow:

Remember what the Garabandal visionary, Conchita, said:

(Source: http://www.1260.org/Mary/Apparitions_Garabandal/Garabandal_Apparitions_Communism_Conchita_en.htm )

These hostilities will immediately precede the Warning. This invites the question: what exactly are these “hostilities” in Europe?

“Hostilities in Europe”: Russia/Ukraine

I doubt I need to inform anyone who has recently checked the news about this. I hope and pray it does not happen, but it seems likely that Russia will soon invade Ukraine, which may well set off World War 3, or something quite like it. Let’s take a look at just a few entirely mainstream headlines, from just the past week, commenting on the situation:

This is not to mention the other brewing conflicts that do not bode well for international peace: China/Taiwan, Israel/Iran, Syria, the immigration crisis, etc. An imminent outbreak of global conflict is a constant theme in prophecy. One such alleged prophet is Fr. Michel Rodrigue.

Fr. Michel’s Messages

If Fr. Michel’s prophecies are inauthentic, then the very global circumstances which God’s permissive Will has allowed are doing a good job of pretending otherwise. By way of review:

• In 2019, Fr. Michel said that a purification was coming, we should stock up on 3 months of food/water/supplies, and that he himself was instructed by Heaven to not travel after February 2020. No one on the planet said anything, in those times, that proved to be more prophetic.
• In early 2020, Fr. Michel prophesied that “the great events of purification would begin” in Fall of that year (not that they would peak, much less complete). In Fall 2020, the Covid vaccines began to be administered. As we now stand, many Catholic dioceses ban “unvaccinated” faithful from Mass, many states and nations ban “unvaccinated” people from society, and increasingly, “unvaccinated” people are being treated as downright criminals, and will soon be thrown in prison (e.g., in Austria). It is now seeming that the Fall 2020 rollout of these Covid Vaccines was indeed none other than the beginning of the great events of purification, considering not only what we are already seeing with “vaccine passports,” but also what we likely will soon see with them. More on that below. (As is often the case with prophecy, accurately understanding its true nature only becomes possible in hindsight.)
• This year, Fr. Michel said that the Holy Year of St. Joseph corresponded to a year of special protection due to the increased intercession of this great Patriarch and Patron of the Universal Church. He likewise stated that the conclusion of this year (December 8th, 2021) would herald the next steps in the Chastisements due to the lifting of this “Katechon” of St. Joseph’s special year of protection. Within mere days of this Holy Year ending, the world –via “Omicron” – was thrown right back into the chaos of early 2020, while at the same time giving indications that things may be about to get much worse than they were even then. (More below)
• I should reiterate that, moving forward, Fr. Michel says, we will soon see total societal collapse, World War 3, the Warning, Global Chastisements, the rise of the Antichrist (with protection for the Faithful in “refuges”), and the Era of Peace to follow after the Three Days of Darkness which put an end to the Antichrist’s reign and renovate the earth.

I am no expert in Fr. Michel’s messages (I’ve watched very few of his videos/retreats – he is just one of many living alleged seers whom I think is worth discerning and keeping an eye on – so you are best off seeking further insight into him/his teachings from elsewhere), but there’s an outline of his more significant prophecies as I understand them. Let’s move on now to other considerations.

Omicron and Communism “Coming Again”

The other indication that the Warning is imminent – as I also discussed in my last post but will review again here – is that “Communism has come again.”

(Source: Ibid.)

It is beyond question that this is exactly what has happened, across the entire world, with the Covid Totalitarianism. Covid Tyranny even, at least in some ways, makes the Communism of the 20th Century look mild. Our individual humanity has been globally rejected in mainstream thought, and human beings are treated not as individuals with rights, but as mere “potential vectors of infection transmission,” and dealt with accordingly under the influence of Godless collectivist and utilitarian fallacious premises. We have been told not to gather with friends and family, not to go to Church; we’ve been forced to cover 2/3rds of our faces everywhere we go, hyperinflation and economic collapse is imminent, and on the list goes.

This. is. Communism. It has come again, and only those with their heads buried under mountains of sand can miss that fact and continue pretending all is well and all this tyranny is just “prudence.” This “Omicron variant,” which is evidently just a mild cold for almost everyone who gets it – vaccinated or unvaccinated –, has now reminded us that the tyranny will only escalate, and nothing but Divine Intervention will save us. Let’s, again, take a look at a few headlines from the past few days. As usual, I’m sticking with mainstream sources here so that none can reject what I here describe as “conspiracy theorist misinformation”:

Now, the powers that be might not lock us down again precisely as they did in early/mid 2020 – things rarely happen exactly the same way twice – but the dread and panic generated by headlines like these will (we can rest assured) be leveraged by the elite to justify an entirely new outpouring of Communist tyranny. This will likely happen through governments enacting even more severe persecution against their favorite scapegoat: the “unvaccinated,” who may well soon find themselves in home imprisonment across the globe, and the “conspiracy theorists” (i.e., whoever doesn’t believe every word of Dr. Fauci and the Omnipresent “Fact Checkers”), who may well soon find themselves barred from the internet.

Latin Mass restrictions as precursor to eradication of the Mass

Many prophecies from a number of reliable seers have long warned that directives will come from the Vatican which will render the Mass itself invalid. Indeed, among the Antichrist’s most zealous initiatives will be the eradication of the Holy Sacrifice, for he knows much better than we do the infinite power of the Eucharist. This is precisely why his minions have been working behind the scenes for the last two years now to make it difficult for faithful Catholics to attend Mass and receive Communion. But this is only the beginning of what he will do on a more universal and absolute scale once he explicitly assumes power.

Now, this is purely speculative (I know of no reliable prophecy specifically saying this), but I suspect that this recent Draconian clampdown on the Latin Mass may be the opening act of the efforts we will soon see to render the Consecration invalid. To be sure, the “Novus Ordo” is perfectly valid and – if celebrated correctly – can be perfectly reverent and holy. But it’s of course a much more flexible thing, whereas the Latin Mass, by nature, cannot be modified. Because it admits of no change– and therefore cannot have its words modified in order to render the Consecration invalid – it must be simply eradicated by those diabolical forces who wish to nullify the Holy Sacrifice throughout the Church.

Once the Latin Mass is gone, a new directive may well come from the Vatican – perhaps in the name of “Ecumenism” or “Dialogue” – requiring that the words “This is my body” be changed to “This is Christ’s body” or “behold the Body of Christ,” or something similar. This will render the consecration invalid, but it will be “required” of all priests (a directive, of course, that should be disobeyed – but, sadly, will almost universally be obeyed – the past two years have trained most Catholics very well in blind, unthinking obedience to tyrannical, unjust directives from men which should not be obeyed because they contradict directives from God), and the Mass will thus be essentially eradicated. I’m not sure what the Antichrist’s plan is for the Byzantine Liturgies, but I’m sure he’s working on something.

The “Synod on Synodality” and “the Synod of the Warning”

Another noted prophecy on the Warning holds that this great Event will happen along with a major Church “Synod.” For quite some time now, each of these (now recurring) Synods of the present Pontificate has inspired much speculation from prophecy-watchers as to whether it is the one which will herald the Warning. Obviously, each time so far, this has not been the case. But now, we are confronted with the “Synod on Synodality.” Unless there is a Synod on Synods on Synodality planned for after this one, (these days, who knows!), it’s difficult to imagine something more likely to be the Synod referred to in this prophecy than the present one. 

The relevant part of the interview reads:

INTERVIEWER: Mother Nieves Garcia, you have some information about the prophecy from Garabandal regarding the Synod that will precede The Warning. Can you tell us more about that? MOTHER NIEVES GARCIA: Yes, during the apparitions, the Virgin told Conchita that before the future events occur, a Synod will take place, and important Synod. Then Conchita told the story to her aunt. The aunt asked her: “Do you refer to Council?” (sic) Because that was the time of the Second Vatican Council. Conchita told her aunt, “No, the virgin didn’t say Council, she said Synod, and I think Synod is a small council.” It is impossible for a 12-year-old without any knowledge and culture to talk about Synod (sic) that didn’t exist and we didn’t know at that time…

Interview above

The Vatican bureaucracy’s shenanigans surrounding this “Synod on Synodality” are already turning it into a mockery of infallible Catholic teaching. For example, after briefly removing a link (from the Synod’s website) to a heretical Catholic group, New Ways Ministry, the Vatican quickly put it back up with a breathless apology to those offended:

Nevertheless, it’s still too early to say what will come of this “Synod on Synodality.” But as many in the Church’s hierarchy today seem to quite predictably follow the money, there is reason to suspect that this Synod will take the Synodal path laid down by the richest national Catholic Church (the German Church); a path that has only led to heresy after heresy after heresy. As Michael Warsaw (head of EWTN) wisely wrote upon the commencement of this Synod:

An authentically Catholic understanding of the purpose and scope of synodality and proper participation based on that end is crucial in order for the Church to steer clear of the very real perils that could be associated with it. Those perils are on public display via the deeply disturbing developments that continue to arise from the Church in Germany’s ill-considered “Synodal Path” process, which, under the guise of addressing clerical sexual abuse, has sought to change Catholic teaching on sexuality, the exercise of power and the nature of the sacraments….These agendas include endorsement of divorce, contraception and homosexual behavior; the ordination of women; the ending of mandatory celibacy for priests; and “democratizing” the Church’s hierarchical structure to strip away the authority of bishops and priests. Moreover, the ambitions of the German Synodal Path’s organizers extend far beyond Germany. It’s their fervent hope that immediately after their agendas are entrenched at the national level, they will be exported to the global Church via various mechanisms, beginning with the Synod on Synodality.

Michael Warsaw

Moreover, as we are already well into the midst of this Synod (this one is by design a particularly protracted process, extending from 2021 to 2023), there is no reason to suppose that the Warning must be delayed in order to correspond with the prophesied “Synod of the Warning.” This one is likely it. If that is true, we can infer that the Warning will likely come at some point before this Synod’s 2023 conclusion.

The Infrastructure of Antichrist: The Mark of Beast

Throughout the world, governments, corporations, and even Churches are now perfecting their “vaccine passport” infrastructure. None of these are the literal Mark of the Beast itself, of course, as the Beast isn’t yet in power, but once this infrastructure is sufficiently complete, there will be nothing to prevent leveraging it for the dissemination of the Mark itself. Let’s again review some recent headlines:

I recently noted that I’d have more to say about the Mark of the Beast. I indeed do, but I’ll again save that for a later post. Subscribe with your email address here at DSDOConnor.com to be kept in the loop.

As usual, I conclude with reminders of what we must do, lest this post be considered idle speculation. Do this, and you needn’t have any concern for the times ahead. These times are the envy of saints. Treat them as such. Engage in the mission. Save and sanctify souls. Hasten the Coming of the Kingdom. You are incredibly blessed to be alive today.

1. Live in the Divine Will.
2. Live in the Divine Will.
3. Live in the Divine Will.
4. Help others Live in the Divine Will.
5. Proclaim the Divine Mercy.

And heed the last page of the book, Thy Will Be Done:

 

The Warning is coming very soon. Just today, we saw an announcement regarding the single most significant sign of its imminence – the sign that “Warning watchers” have, for decades, been keeping an eye out for. The Pope just announced his willingness to go to Moscow. 

Before saying anything else, let me issue my usual exhortation: do you want to be as ready as possible for the Warning? Then Live in the Divine Will. Knowing about the Warning is much less important than being ready for it.

Now, this announcement of the trip isn’t merely an expression of willingness. According to Reuters, Pope Francis also said “a top Russian Orthodox official was expected in Rome next week to decide the time and location of the meeting.” So this will likely happen quite soon, extraordinary as it would be (no Pope has ever visited Russia, much less Moscow.). This is a huge sign of the imminence of the Warning, since the Garabandal visionary, Conchita, said:

“The Pope will go to Russia, to Moscow. As soon as he returns to the Vatican, the hostilities [which will immediately precede the Warning] will break out in different parts of Europe.”

Now, the other big sign of the imminence of the Warning is “Communism coming again,” which Conchita also said indicates when the Warning will be. That, of course,  is exactly what has happened the last two years with the world’s response to Coronavirus. So a Papal trip to Moscow is really all that remains, and that is evidently about to happen. 

When the Warning does come, we can rest assured that most of our overlords who run the mainstream narrative will hasten to immediately thereafter attempt to explain it away with an avalanche of pseudoscience. As I feel fairly confident about at least one type of argument they might use, I’d like to refute it, here and now, before they even proffer it, in hopes that if and when they do, people will remember this post. This post has been on my ‘to write” list for many years (I even began writing it several years ago); but I’m quite glad I procrastinated, as the fact that I am publishing it now– so very near to the occurrence of the Warning–will help it stay fresh in people’s memory once that Great Event transpires. 

So it is my hope that this post will spread far and wide; the more people who hear the refutation now, before The Warning, the better. For when a certain bad argument is refuted before it is even made, it is much less likely to gain a foothold than if it is only refuted afterwards! 

The Warning, we know from a number of prophecies, will be accompanied by some sort of celestial phenomena. Perhaps it is even what is described in St. Faustina’s Diary, wherein she describes the Cross being visible in the sky, with beams of light emanating from the nail holes. Or, perhaps it will be more like what the Garabandal visionaries described; something “like two stars colliding.” Whatever it is, it may be precisely this phenomena that will be leveraged by the secularists, after the Warning, to explain it away.

[[An aside: Some may then wonder, “Why would God allow such a phenomena if the worldly will simply use it to try to explain away the Warning?” The answer is that, so long as we are on this side of the grave, our free-will is so very respected by God that there will never be so many doors closed to the incredulity of the scoffers that it will ever be impossible for them to conjure up a reason to deny Christ’s intervention in the world. And, by scoffers, I am not merely referring to the secularists. I am also referring to those “professional Catholics” who now ridicule the Warning before its occurrence. For many of them will do the exact same thing even after it. Habits die hard. As Jesus said in the Gospel: “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables; so that they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand; lest they should turn again, and be forgiven.” (Mark 4:11,12) Difficult as it is for some to hear that, those are Christ’s words, not mine. It would not be challenging for God to utterly and immediately prove Himself and His interventions to every soul alive. He does not do so for a reason – because by doing so, all merit in Faith is removed, and the very purpose of this life – which is to merit, for Heaven, by Faith – is thereby thwarted. Even the Warning – the greatest act of mercy in history – will come with a “way out,” for those who are so stubborn in their self-wills that, even after its occurrence, they will only want to find a rationalization to remain mired in their favorite sins and errors. ]]

Therefore, as extraordinary as the Warning will be, we should not expect the various phenomena associated with it to do all the work for us in convincing the world of its authenticity. Remember that, even with the Warning, most people will, sadly, apostatize once the Antichrist makes his entrance shortly after. So we will have much work to do to strive to minimize, as much as possible, the ranks of those who will join the man of sin. Above all, we must evangelize like never before even now, before the Warning, to as much as possible prepare people for it, and we must be ready to evangelize like never before in history in the weeks following the Warning. But we should also have answers to those who will try to explain away the Warning.

Here’s the gist of what we’ll likely hear from the mainstream narrative in the days following the Warning. Obviously I have no crystal ball, so I’m speculating on these details – you won’t hear exactly this! – but you’ll likely hear fundamentally similar things – if not from deGrasse Tyson, then from someone like him.

(In case anyone is just skimming, I better here put this is in bold red type: the “article” below is not real!)

So there’s the gist of one method they might use to explain away the Warning. Now, let’s refute it.

First of all, this is a classic category fallacy. No one may ever tell you that a subjective appreciation of an event you experienced was actually without value due to an objective description (even if accurate!) of the externals associated with it. For example: suppose that, during a geometry lesson, you carefully follow each thing your teacher says when he is presenting the Pythagorean Theorem to you; so much so that you actually interiorly realize with absolute certainty – entirely on your own and outside of any need to trust your teacher – that the Pythagorean Theorem is true. That conviction you now have – indeed, a certain conviction – is in no way liable to being explained away by (let’s say) some neuroscientist who, analyzing the various brainwaves going on in your head at the time, argues that you were not in full possession of your mental faculties during that lesson and you should not trust any conclusions you came to. For, in fact, certainty is certainty is certainty. The end.

Indeed, the convictions you acquire during the Warning will of course be fundamentally different from mathematical truths, but they will be no less certain. You must never, ever, ever, allow anyone to tell you – no matter how many PhDs he has – that you must actually question or even reject something that you know, and that you know that you know. This scientist’s assessments in no way so much as touch upon the subjective disposition of certainty that you have in your God-given intellect; which is a spiritual reality made in the very Image of God and whose operations cannot possibly be explained by neuroscientific descriptions. 

Secondly, as I explained at great length here and therefore will not bore you with again – it is absolutely and fundamentally impossible for the actual content of thoughts/memories to be generated by any material phenomenon whatsoever. If it’s in your mind, there are only three possible ways it got there: 1) From your senses (which, by Divine Decree, are the only material realities that have direct access to the human mind/soul – indeed, the senses are our Five Perennial Miracles), 2) From your mind working on something it already knew (e.g. deducing things/logical thinking in general – or dreams, which, though often quite weird, only work off of things we already have in our minds), or 3) From God Himself. Absolutely nothing (in fact, not even the devil!), other than you and God, has direct access to your mind. Don’t ever question the contents of your mind on account of some wild theory that it may have just been “put there by an electromagnetic wave.” It is precisely these theories that will be part and parcel to rejecting the Warning in the days after its occurrence, which is one of the main reasons why I have for so long insisted so strongly on this point. What goes on in your mind during the Warning was put there by God. It is that simple. 

Thirdly, there is no cosmic ray we know of – nor is there any cosmic ray that is even theoretically possible – which is capable of affecting everyone on the earth, 1) To the exact same degree, and 2) At the exact same time. Yet, this is how the Warning will happen: all souls on earth will, simultaneously, experience it with the same degree of force. If the Warning could be explained away by some cosmic phenomenon, then it would have had to be an event that either 1) Only affected those living on the side of the earth facing the phenomenon at the given time, or 2) Only affected those throughout the earth over the course of 12 hours, wherein the earth had sufficient time to rotate enough to expose all people to the direction facing the cosmic event.

One may protest “but the cosmic ray was so high energy that it penetrated the entire earth and therefore was capable of hitting everyone’s brain at essentially the same moment.” This is not reasonable to assert. If the ray was of a sort as to be so unaffected by matter that it could pass through the entire earth – even thousands of miles of solid rock – then our own brains and glands would likewise be entirely unaffected by it. If, on the other hand, it was a type of ray that interacted more with solid matter, then it either would not make it through the earth, or would at least be drastically weakened (which would also drastically weaken its effects so much as to be entirely negligible) on the side of the earth not facing the cosmic event from which the rays proceeded.  Neither will be the case during the Warning. 

Perhaps in the coming days I’ll do more refutation of the refutation before the Warning. I certainly have more theories about arguments they’ll use to explain it away, and I’ve got refutations for those arguments also! But for now, these three points should be more than enough to reassure thoughtful people that the Warning cannot possibly be explained away by the pseudoscience that will be poured out in torrents in the days following it.

Addendum on “Planes Stopping Mid-air”:

One phenomena often discussed as happening along with the Warning is the notion of “everything freezing” or “time stopping.” I do not think this means what some people take it to mean. As I explained here, time doesn’t really exist, strictly speaking. So speaking of time “stopping” does not make sense. Motion can stop, whereupon “time,” which is nothing but the measure of motion, will seem to stop for the thing in question that is not moving. But not even that will need to literally happen during the Warning.

Upon the moment of the Warning, everyone’s awareness will be instantaneously elevated to the supernatural realm, wherein the notion of physical time is more or less meaningless. Just look at what people have said about near death experiences, and the sheer magnitude of what they can experience in a mere moment of earthly time. The Warning might “feel” like 15 minutes, but those 15 minutes might have nothing to do with how 15 minutes would be measured on earth (which merely means 1% of the earth’s daily rotation). Sure, “everything will stop,” but only in the sense that our spiritual awareness will be operating at an infinite “speed,” for “15 minutes,” in relation to all physical motions in the material universe. There will be no need for physical motion to literally stop, and then immediately resume its prior motion after the Warning. When people speak of “planes stopping midair” during the Warning, this is not a description of a physical phenomenon, but only a description of what the physical universe would look like in relation to the infinite dynamism of the spiritual realm. (Many scoffers even now dismiss the Warning precisely because they cannot fathom the notion of a plane stopping midair; I hope this paragraph puts that scoffing to rest as well.)

Shortly after the Warning, the Mark of the Beast will be instituted. I’ve got some more to say about that, but I’ll save that for a later post. Stay tuned and subscribe here at DSDOConnor.com with your email address if you’d like to be kept in the loop.