Long have I observed the signs of the times, ever mindful that immediately before the Chastisements arrive, we would need to see the Scriptural prophecy in 1 Thessalonians 5:3 fulfilled. Only this week have I felt the fulfillment might truly be at hand, for it appears we may this very moment be seeing precisely that:

“When people say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape. “

I will not here comment on the news of election fraud or the possibility that Trump could still win, for regardless of what transpires there, my present purpose is only to draw a simple conclusion from the fact that we are indeed seeing the world rejoice right now to a superlative degree. Or, rather, we are seeing about half of the population rejoice, and almost all of the nefarious elite throughout the globe in ecstasy because that one who (though no saint) largely stood in the way of their agenda seems to be on his way out. Lest anyone doubt that this is what we are observing, consider just a few snippets from the news of recent days: 

Compare this perverse worldwide party to the prevailing mood of the entire year 2020 up to this point, and you have a contrast so stark that it is difficult to imagine a more precise fulfillment of 1 Thessalonians 5:3 quoted above.

This contrast is not lost on the very ones now rejoicing. A recent headline on “Slate” put it this way:

Thus they juxtapose the “doomscrolling” (i.e. the jaded perusal of an endless stream of bad news that dominated 2020) with the “gleefreshing” they are now doing: repeatedly checking — by merely refreshing the page — the news to wallow in their giddiness at Trump apparently being defeated. The politicians on the left are no less giddy. Nancy Pelosi has proclaimed “the dawning of a new day of hope for America.” Hillary Clinton said “It’s a history-making ticket, a repudiation of Trump, and a new page for America.”

Amidst all this celebration, America and along with it almost the entire world continues unabated the greatest genocide in history through abortion. As I pointed out in my webcast with Mark Mallett in August (beginning at the 31 minute mark), and which Fr. Heilman noted last month, legal abortion began exactly 100 years ago in the USSR. (I should note, however, that in my research I found conflicted sources: some said it was October 1920, others November 1920; perhaps we are actually mere days away from the exact 100 year anniversary). And we can rest assured that God will not tolerate much more than a century of legal abortion — the gravest institutionalized evil in history — before commencing a historically unprecedented Divine Intervention.

Combine this already stark prophetic fulfillment with today’s release of the news [of course, we all long knew that “great news” relevant to Covid would be released immediately after the election] that the forthcoming Covid vaccine is allegedly “90% effective,” with major voices now saying that there is “light at the end of the tunnel” and that “by the spring we’ll be back to normal,” and you have right now a more resounding cry of “peace and security” than one can ever remember hearing coming forth from the mainstream.

The metrics themselves that measure this mood tell the same story. The stock market means very little in and of itself — it stands so many degrees removed from reality, being as it is a mere measure of a measure of a measure, as to be almost comical — but one thing it is useful for is gauging what the super rich elites think about reality, for it measures the degree to which they are confident that the diabolical status quo will continue on, endlessly inflating without effort or genuine value added their already immense riches. I have long felt that the Chastisements will hit immediately after the Dow Jones Industrial Average attains the long sought after 30,000 mark. As I write this post, it is almost there. Perhaps you will even be able to hold your breath and watch the collapse unfold before you after it reaches that mark.

Now, I hope I’m wrong.

I’d be the first to rejoice at any genuinely good news, and I sure don’t want Fr. Michel to be right about the purification beginning this Fall — I’d much rather we receive yet another extension of the Time of Mercy, as there is so much more I’d like to do to proclaim His Mercy before these Great Events arrive. But what I want does not matter. God’s Will — whether in accord with His wanted Will or His permissive Will — is what matters. And while it’s still very possible that Fr. Michel is wrong and while I’ll continue to hope and pray that he is wrong (I definitely am not cheering on the Chastisements, that is for sure!), it’s looking increasingly like he’s not wrong. But to demonstrate this, let me not bore you any longer with my own analysis; let me, instead, turn to what the prophecies are now saying:

“Hold to the true Magisterium of the Church of Our King and Lord Jesus Christ; do not go astray—evil is wearing sheep’s clothing in order to confuse you...

People of God, pray: the events will not delay, the mystery of iniquity will appear in the absence of the Katechon (cf. II Thess 2,3-4).” — St. Michael the Archangel to Luz de Maria. November 4, 2020

This message from Luz de Maria comes a mere few days after Archbishop Vigano’s famous letter to President Trump, in which he refers to the latter as this very Katechon who holds back the Antichrist: “In Sacred Scripture, Saint Paul speaks to us of “the one who opposes” the [Antichrist, the] manifestation of the mystery of iniquity, the kathèkon (2 Thess 2:6-7). In the religious sphere, this obstacle to evil is the Church, and in particular the papacy; in the political sphere, it is those who impede the establishment of the New World Order.“

Let me reiterate that Trump is obviously no saint. For whatever reason, however, the powers that be — with their malicious plans laying the Infrastructure of the Antichrist — could neither predict nor control Trump. Therefore his presidency managed to be the present time’s Katechon — the primary secular dimension of the force that “restrained” their dark agenda which had hitherto seen only success after success. With Trump out of the way, and a more “cooperative” politician in place as the (nominally, at least) most powerful individual in the world, it is unlikely that their plans will be delayed any further.

[Side note: Be careful. Archbishop Vigano is a mixed bag. For example, he goes too far in what he says about Pope Francis and he goes too far in opposing Vatican II itself (instead of rightly opposing the false spirit of Vatican II that has caused so much damage the last several decades). Stick with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Cardinal Burke, Cardinal Sarah, Cardinal Mueller, Archbishop Chaput, Bishop Schneider, Bishop Strickland, and other shepherds like them — none of whom agree with Vigano when it comes to these delicate issues. But let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater, either: Vigano clearly has some downright prophetic truths to share, and it appears this was one of them.]

So already we see two fulfillments that must occur before the Chastisements hit: the world proclaiming “peace and security,” and the removal of the Katechon that restrains the power of the Antichrist from assuming worldwide control.

But there is another Scriptural prophecy that must be fulfilled upon the initiation of the Chastisements — what Mark Mallett and I discussed in our last webcast: Judgment beginning with the household of God.

“For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?” – 1 Peter 4:17

This also happened to be the topic of my last post (“Rome Will be Destroyed”). After writing it, I had been hopeful — but not optimistic — that a retraction would be quickly issued wherein Pope Francis would apologize for and correct his error (that is, his error of endorsing homosexual civil unions — in blatant contradiction to clear Magisterial teaching, which remains binding on all Catholics):

Instead, more than a week after the scandal, the Vatican issued a “clarification” (a rather strange thing to call it, since what is already clear cannot be clarified) which contained no retraction or correction. That “clarification” came only a few days after the following message:

“…My daughter, many are wondering what else will happen, and they do not realize that everything will collapse: they have no longer respected the first commandment, they have not believed in the power of prayer and love, and they are confused and lost. … Shortly I will intervene; the great Thunder is about to arrive. … The sacraments will no longer be given and everything will change; the lies will be well orchestrated and will convince you to sin more and more. … do not be blind: only with the prayer coming out of your hearts will you be able to see the deception. …Pray for the Church, where the apostasy is to become official…” – Our Lord to Gisella Cardia. October 27th, 2020

It also comes two and a half years the following prophecy of Our Lady to Pedro Regis, which was given on the Feast of St. Peter in 2018:

“Dear children, love and defend the truth. You are the Lord’s, and He expects much from you. Bend your knees in prayer for the Church of My Jesus. The evil action of wicked men will bring great spiritual harm to My poor children. The realization of the Second Plan will be more painful. Stay with Jesus. He loves you and waits for you with Open Arms. Defend the Gospel of My Jesus without fear. Tell everyone that in God there is no half-truth. Remain faithful to the true Magisterium of the Church of My Jesus.” -Our Lady to Pedro Regis. June 29, 2018

As I was discussing this prophecy with some confidants when it was published, I wrote the following. I am including it as a direct screenshot from my inbox (with the only edit being personal emails redacted) so that you know I am not making this up:

The “shadow Magisterium” I mentioned in that email is the heresy taught by many Catholics, many priests, many Bishops, many conferences of Bishops — heresy permitted to run wild by Pope Francis; who himself occasionally even lends it direct help with errors like the one presently being considered. Thus, the popularity of the shadow Maigsterium serves, in the permissive Will of God, to enable the Great Sifting that we are now experiencing: the wheat (the remnant Faithful) staying with the true Magisterium; the chaff welcoming the shadow Magisterium.

Contrary to the so-called “rad trads” who accuse the “Vatican II Church” of heresy, this shadow Magisterium is not found within the actual text of any actual Magisterial documents (we can rest assured of the orthodoxy of these), but it’s nevertheless what undiscerning souls throughout the world are following — supposing that in so following, they may even be in line with Christ and His Church — as they tread the path to perdition in ever increasing numbers.

At this point I can only stand by this speculation above which I offered in 2018.

That message to Pedro Regis, quoted above, also was given the same week (June 26, 2018) the following message was given by Our Lady of Zaro to Angela:

“My children, I am here again today to ask for prayer for my beloved Church. … the Church runs grave dangers; the prince of this world is about to carry out the last of his most ignoble gestures – he wants to distance God’s people from truth and faith and wants to meddle with minds in order to usurp them and take them away.” At this point I had a vision. I saw the crown of Our Lady rolling down the steps and with it Pope Francis was also falling, as if pushed from behind. The steps were filled with blood and everything became dark. Outside on the dome there were large black birds beating against the windows of St. Peter’s. Then Mother started speaking again. “Dearly beloved children, his plan is about to be realized, but do not fear. Pray with the rosary in your hands and kneel before the tabernacle, there Jesus my son is alive and true, it is there that Jesus gives the graces for which you have sighed, it is there that Jesus awaits you….” – Our Lady of Zaro

We must face the fact that the Great Apostasy that we have always known would come will indeed happen with Pope Francis at the helm of the Church. But, my usual word of caution: do not succumb to schismatic attitudes regarding our holy father, Pope Francis. He is our Pope. His actual Magisterium remains trustworthy (not to mention, binding!) I am still convinced he is a good man who is not out to deliberately undermine the Faith; it seems, rather, that he has let emotion get the best of him and has publicly voiced a folly which will, in turn, cause the destruction of many souls — a result which is certainly not his intention.

But we all know already that Popes can be wrong (and often are wrong) when they voice their own personal opinions non-Magisterially. The fact that “doctrine has not changed” in such cases does not mean that error has somehow magically been absolved of its soul-destroying qualities. We cannot just glibly assert, “Don’t worry! Doctrine hasn’t changed, marriage is still only between one man and one woman, as Pope Francis himself even says, so all is well!” Such dismissals of the present crisis are non-sequiturs. For this isn’t about the fact that we’re still safe and sound, cozy within our invincible Doctrine. We already know that Doctrine will never change. This is about the fact that a public statement from the highest moral authority on earth is gravely erroneous and soul-destroying. If that isn’t a crisis of eschatological proportions, then nothing is.

Indeed, Judgment has now begun with the household of God.

Will you, dear member of the household with God, side with the true Magisterium, which teaches unambiguously “all Catholics are obliged to oppose the legal recognition of homosexual unions,” or will you side with the shadow Magisterium that says such unions should be endorsed? In truth, we should attenuate our complaints about “confusion.” There really isn’t any. The Bible is completely clear on this matter and on all the related matters that are bound up in the present strife between the Shadow and the True. The Catechism is completely clear on these matters. The difficulty lies not in knowing what is the right thing to do. The difficulty lies in willing it; in choosing it even when it makes you an outcast within the circles you hold most dear.

But, as usual, my aim is not presenting commentary, but rather providing exhortation to the Faithful to fulfill their calling to rise up and be the great saints prophesied for this age. Whether or not any of my eschatological speculations regarding present matters now in the news prove true is not particularly important — I offer all such speculation only because I think they are helpful in encouraging the Faithful to be more zealous in doing what they ought to be doing anyway. So let us return our attention to the same Scriptural passage with which this post began; or, rather, the very next verses:

“But you are not in darkness, brethren, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all sons of light and sons of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness. So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. “ 1 Thessalonians 5:4-5

So let us not sleep; let us rather be Sons of Light. Be Sons of Light by remaining in a state of grace, loving and forgiving all, believing everything that the Church teaches, going to confession, praying the Rosary, going to Mass and receiving the Eucharist as often as possible — every day if you can, praying and evangelizing like never before, striving to Live in the Divine Will and working to zealously proclaim the Kingdom.

Do these things and you needn’t have even the slightest fear about what is coming upon the world. Be completely and utterly at peace. Even more: be filled with such joy that you are so blessed to be alive right now, during the most exciting time in history, wherein God is preparing to fulfill the promise He made 2,000 years ago: that His Kingdom would come and His Will would be done on earth as It is in Heaven!

You, dear Sons and Daughters of Light, have indeed been chosen to help hasten the Coming of Christ’s Kingdom. So remember to be Sons of Light by opposing the Devil’s plans actively. Being a member of the Church Militant is not a matter of being on the defensive against the devil; it is about being on the offensive against him; destroying his works by God’s grace.

In May of this year, I wrote about how everything we are witnessing regarding the world’s response to Coronavirus is a point-by-point Devil’s Dress Rehearsal and laying out of the Infrastructure of the Antichrist. I just discovered that a renowned exorcist made exactly the same point in September. Therefore, while the devil is laying his diabolical infrastructure, let us lay an infinitely more powerful one: The Infrastructure of Christ’s Kingdom. Thankfully, this holy infrastructure is not only much stronger, but also much easier to lay down. Something so simple as a little holy card with the Divine Mercy image can do the trick and can snatch a soul out of the clutches of the devil.

To this end, we’ve finally finished mailing out the first round of requests of Evangelization Cards. Special thanks to my wife, Regina, who did almost all of the work involved in this. (Okay, she had TONS of help from the 6, 4, 2, and 0 year olds :-) ). Here is a shot of them hard at work getting ready a small fraction of the overall amount of card shipments we’ve sent out so far (I believe we’ve so far mailed out about 30,000-40,000 cards in the last 2 months — thanks again to C for her generosity in making this possible!)

Unfortunately I didn’t calculate the required postage correctly for all of them, and a number of packages were returned and I’m sure others still got lost in the mail, so feel free to place another request if, after this week, you still haven’t received your batch (or if you’ve already gone through them and need more!). We’re just about ready to start sending out more cards, so if you’d like a batch of these cards, feel free to fill out this form to place a request, and we’ll fulfill as many requests as we can. Here, again, is what the cards look like, front and back (they are the size of business cards):

I was deeply moved by the testimonies that so many of you included with your request. Know that you have inspired me greatly! Soon I hope to go through them and post some excerpts (anonymously) here, to likewise inspire others to proclaim Christ’s infinite Mercy.

Remember that the closer we come to the close of the Time of Mercy, the more superabundantly God will bless our efforts to proclaim His Name. So get to work! Let Our Lady be your Queen and Commander in this most noble conquest, and God will work marvels through you — marvels that will change the course of history.

“She will act as Queen amid Her children on earth; She will place at their disposal Her seas of graces, of sanctity, of power; She will put to flight all the enemies. She will raise Her children on Her lap, She will hide them within Her light, covering them with Her love, nourishing them with Her own hands, with the food of the Divine Will. What will this Mother and Queen not do in the midst of this Kingdom – Her children and Her people? She will give unheard-of graces, surprises never before seen, miracles that will shake Heaven and earth. We will give Her all the free field, that She may form for Us the Kingdom of Our Will upon earth. She will be the guide, the true model, and It will also be the Kingdom of the Celestial Sovereign Queen. Therefore, you too, pray together with Her, and in due time you will obtain the intent.”

-Jesus to the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta. July 14, 1935

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If we ever needed a reminder that the prophecies here quoted will indeed be fulfilled, we were given that reminder today; the very day after Pedro Regis’ message above. Pope Francis just endorsed legal same-sex unions (i.e. “gay civil unions”).

Pope Francis is not the Antichrist, nor is he the False Prophet. But boy is the confusion that he has long been allowing to run rampant laying the groundwork for the imminent public entrance of both.

In this particular case, however, Pope Francis is not merely allowing confusion or speaking ambiguously. No, here he is directly promoting grave error from his own lips. (In, I should add, a completely non-Magisterial context that is in no way binding on any Catholic). 

I am not joining certain Pope-rejectors with this post, and I am not advocating that any of my readers do so. Falling from grace on the Right (by, for example, succumbing to schism) is just as real a possibility as falling from grace on the Left (though the latter is admittedly an exponentially more common fate). I am not accusing the Pope of teaching heresy, nor am I rebelling against his authority. I am a Catholic, which means the Pope is my spiritual father. I obey the 4th Commandment, therefore I continue to honor the Pope and submit to his Magisterium. I always will render the Vicar of Christ this honor. But sometimes charity itself demands that even the Pope be called out, and this is such a time. (For me to fail to do so would be to dishonor Pope Francis’s own words when, as Pope, he admonished Catholics to criticize him publicly if that was needed. Well, now it is needed.)

In a talk I gave this past weekend, I strongly stressed my usual exhortation that I have been emphasizing for the last 5 years especially: in these perilous times, the straight and narrow way of Our Lord has become razor thin, but it is urgent that we remain on it. Are you confused as to what it is? Then ignore the news, ignore the social media, ignore the various Bishop’s opinions, and yes, even at times ignore Pope Francis’ personal opinions and various non-Magisterial teachings… and open up the Catechism and the Bible, read what they say, then submit. Period. There is no ambiguity at all in Church Teaching or Scriptural Teaching on homosexuality or any of the other “hot button” issues today. Do not, dear reader, think that you will be excused by God for succumbing to error on these serious matters under the charade of appealing to what this or that priest, Bishop, or even Pope is saying. You know better, and you know that you know better.

What we are seeing being fulfilled before our very eyes is exactly what we should have been expecting if the prophetic consensus of the last few decades is authentic — and I assure you that it is: a Great Apostasy wherein grave error reaches the very highest heights that Divine Providence could possibly allow it to reach (i.e. just shy of heresy being Magisterially taught), wherein the vast majority of the Faithful succumb… with Great Chastisements coinciding with this and immediately following this, and the Era of Peace to, in turn, follow them. 

Today (October 21, 2020, ironically enough the vigil of the Feast of Pope St. John Paul II, that heroic defender of orthodoxy) the razor-thin straight and narrow just became microscopic, and the ones who should be helping the faithful stay on it are the very ones prodding the Faithful along the path to perdition.

“How many executioners of souls there are in my Church!  There are executioners attached to interests, who make a slaughter of souls, and who, with their example, instead of rendering souls detached from all that is earth, engulf them even more…These are all slaughters of souls.  How much pain does my Heart not feel, in seeing that the very ones who were to help and sanctify souls, are the cause of their ruin.”

Jesus to the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta. May 18, 1923

There is nothing new about the fact that a number of Pope Francis’ personal opinions, which he has not Magisterially taught, are in error. For example, he is dead wrong on Our Lady. He says it is “foolishness” to refer to her as Co-Redemptrix… when, in fact, she is Co-Redemptrix (I solemnly assure you of that), and it is utterly urgent that the Church dogmatically recognize her as such. He often takes a dismissive attitude to private revelation. He clearly holds erroneous opinions on his own Magisterium, siding with the heretical interpretation of Amoris Laetitia promoted by (for example) the Bishops of Argentina, which allows for unrepentant adulterers to be validly absolved and licitly receive Communion. This list could be continued for some time.

But what is new is the fact that the present error being promoted by Pope Francis is gravely contrary to the most fundamental tenets of the natural law. No one — not even a non-Catholic, not even a non-Christian — can be excused from such an error, since the natural law is written by God on each of our hearts.  

And if the natural law teaches anything at all, then it surely teaches — universally, clearly, and absolutely — that God made us male and female, and that sexual relationships are only ever licit between members of the opposite sex. It is no use protesting “but Pope Francis is not directly approving of homosexual acts here; he’s simply saying that these homosexual relationships must be legally protected and helped.” That is nonsense. 

1. Formal cooperation with evil is itself always likewise evil (whereas material cooperation — e.g. paying your taxes even though your government does evil things — can sometimes be justified). 
2. Explicitly endorsing an act always constitutes formal cooperation with that act.
3. Granting an act legal blessings is itself an endorsement of that act.

It is one thing for a government to allow these grave contradictions of the natural law (as the U.S. did federally with Lawrence vs. Texas), it is infinitely more grave and inexcusable to endorse them. 

It is said that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” and indeed it would. Likewise, a pile of manure by any other name would smell as vile. How exactly does a homosexual “civil union” that is — in the substance of its civil benefits, by virtue of which its essence is defined and understood — identical to a legal marriage become any more worthy of our approval simply by giving it another name? Please tell me, Pope Francis: if homosexual civil unions are not approving of homosexuality, then what is? 

If we need legal homosexual unions under the pretense of treating homosexual persons with dignity, justice, and charity (and of course we must indeed treat them with dignity), then we likewise should give vouchers to alcoholics so they can purchase more Vodka (without which they will suffer), legalize all drugs so that addicts can more safely acquire the objects of their addiction, allow duels to be contractually regulated to keep them a bit less messy, legalize and regulate prostitution so that it can be amicably undertaken, and on the list goes. And let’s not forget that we must, then, also have civil unions for polygamists, pedophiles, incestuous couples, and those who prefer bestiality. We must ensure that “sex change operations” are covered by medical insurance. We must, in a word, ensure that every perversion under the sun is amiably regulated and blessed by a government institution dedicated to its service. 

Of course, that is all patently ridiculous. Insert any other sin, evil, or vice into the blank other than ones that are politically correct to endorse (i.e. homosexuality, transgenderism, abortion), and any sane person immediately realizes that legally endorsing them is itself an evil. 

But I do not want to drone on about this any longer; the coming days will doubtless provide endless commentary from every corner of the Catholic blogosphere. 

My aim here, as always, is not to present commentary. My aim is practical: to do my part to help my readers remain in God’s Grace — to help them remain on that razor thin straight and narrow; to help them prepare their souls for the unprecedented times about to break upon the Church and the world. You will be ready if you persevere to the end, come what may, in the Faith. If you succumb to the ways of the world — which will only be foisted upon you with ever greater aggression in the coming days — then your immortal soul is in grave danger. 

The fence is now being violently shaken, and very soon no one will remain sitting on it any longer. The wheat and the chaff will be separated, and if you do not choose your side with your whole heart right now, there is no knowing which side you will actually wind up on once this shaking becomes more violent still. 

1. Fr. Michel’s Prophecies

2. I do not promote “Blessed Grapes”

3. Against the “Mind Control” fears (e.g. Intellect/Will being controlled by, and new memories being implanted by 5G/injections/vaccines/whatever else) now terrorizing the faithful

4. On DNA

5. Bill Gates and other Conspiracy Theories

6. Please stay away from the messages of “Voice and Echo of the Divine Messengers” (mensajerosdivinos.org)

Fr. Michel:

I’m sorry to pester you with yet another announcement on this, but as we now stand on the cusp of the long awaited October 2020 (during which Fr. Michel says there will be “great” events, whereas during Fall 2020 in general Fr. Michel says the Chastisements — the Purification — will begin), I feel I should reiterate the same-old-same-old:

Please do NOT go doing anything imprudent on the pretense of “But Fr. Michel says _____.” As I’ve always said, I think we should take him seriously — but not assume his prophecies are authentic, much less necessarily fully accurate. I am not convinced one way or the other, though until the events themselves reveal whether Fr. Michel’s prophecies are authentic or not, I’ll gladly defend him against unjust criticisms in the meantime. Above all, even if refuges are real — and I think they are — do not adopt a “refuge mentality.” That is survivalism, which is a sin. Fr. Michel himself certainly has not advocated for this. All he’s saying is get 3 months of food — simple common sense says as much. The refuges are already built, he’s saying. Don’t go deciding you have to build one unless God has clearly told you to do so! Don’t stop paying your bills! Don’t stop doing your job! Keep doing everything God has already called you to do!! Don’t decide you need to now become a farmer or turn your whole yard into a chicken coup just so that you’re “ready” for what’s coming! (That won’t make you ready anyway, it will just clutter up your life and distract you from your calling if God hasn’t called you to do those things.) First of all, Fr. Michel himself is not contradicting any of this advice; secondly, we cannot be certain he is an authentic prophet anyway. 

Now that I’ve said that, let me say this: Don’t just assume Fr. Michel is wrong, either!! If the long-prophesied events do begin this Fall, then at that time, deciding to complain, “But Dr. ____ and Bishop ____ spoke against Fr. Michel!!” won’t do you any good. [Note: If a Bishop formally condemns an alleged private revelation; then, yes, that indeed must be obeyed! But that is not what has happened here. Two Bishops publicly — but still only personally — “disavowed” Fr. Michel’s prophecies since there had been some confusion/miscommunication that had caused some people to at first think those Bishops endorsed his prophecies.]  I am not convinced Fr. Michel’s prophecies are authentic; but they might be. And this much I can confidently say: immediately before the long-prophesied events hit (i.e. Chastisements, Warning, Antichrist), God will send the Church another prophet with another private revelation, giving more details on what is coming — due to the utter imminence of the events — than He has given before. That prophet, whoever he will be, will certainly be opposed by many big voices in the Church and many in the hierarchy. Is that prophet Fr. Michel? I don’t know. Discern that for yourself. But he might be.  

For those on the fence regarding the question of whether to take Fr. Michel seriously (not on the question of whether he’s a true prophet — you could say I’m also “on the fence” on that question), allow me to remind you that, in 2019 — in accordance with what he was allegedly prophetically shown — Fr. Michel said to be sure to get to Confession before 2020. I can only imagine how many souls were saved by taking that prophetically grounded admonition before they lost their chance to get to confession once the lockdowns hit in early 2020 — and, tragically, I can only imagine how many souls were lost by refusing to take that time-sensitive prophetic admonition. In 2019, Fr. Michel said that, come 2020, he was not to leave the continent. Hmm. People laughed at him then, just as they’re laughing at him now. In 2019, before anyone had heard of Coronavirus, Fr. Michel said to celebrate Christmas of that year well, as it would be the last normal one. Hmmm. (Today, not even the most optimistic voices out there are saying that we’ll be back to normal by Christmas of this year).  

So….NOW!… repent, go to confession, consecrate yourself, your family, and your home to the holy family, pray the Rosary every day, and remain in a State of Grace. 

(And get 3 months of food.)

Blessed Grapes: 

I have never promoted the practice of “Blessed Grapes,” nor do I promote it.

I do support some prudent physical preparation. Get 3 months of simple food (perhaps some 50 pound bags of white rice and a bunch of peanut butter, which is very cheap and easy, will last years and years and you can easily consume or donate later if nothing happens!), and get it now. That’s just common sense. But in my humble and fallible opinion, you’ll be just fine if you don’t decide to make time in your busy schedule to engage in a grape priestly blessing/rubbing routine. 

If the Church’s condemnation of the particular apparition (from which the “blessed grapes” practice originates) is overturned, then I’ll reconsider my hesitation with “blessed grapes.” It’s not as if there’s anything wrong with the practice. But in the meantime, I, for one, can’t say I plan to engage in this practice, and I certainly don’t have any part in promoting it.

Mind control, etc.

But “blessed grapes” is a relatively minor issue; if you really want to go rubbing grapes together, knock yourself out.

( I must now go into more detail regarding what I touched upon two posts ago in my “Mark of the Beast” article.

Update: I myself have MANY grave concerns about the forthcoming vaccine, 5G, microchips, Bill Gates’ initiatives, and all sorts of similar issues. My point is not to reject all such concerns or to argue that these things are safe and moral — far from it! My point here is merely to refute those particular concerns that are unfounded and even damaging to our Faith)

Here, however, is what you mustn’t ever do: you mustn’t ever allow any conspiracy theory or alleged private revelation to beguile you into supposing there is such a thing as literal “mind control” and that, correspondingly, you need be worried that some vaccine, microchip, 5G tower, or any other technology is going to “inject memories/thoughts into your mind,” determine your will and intellect and sublimate it into itself so as to cause your very beliefs themselves to change. 

I cannot overstate how much of an utter tragedy it is that so many of the Faithful today are rejecting their God given right to a deep and invincible interior trust and peace and an absolute absence of all fear for the sake of fretting about this or that vaccine-related conspiracy theory, or whatever else. 

These “mind control” assertions are — theologically, philosophically, logically, scientifically, and technologically — bankrupt and absurd. But they are much worse than merely erroneous; they are incredibly spiritually dangerous. And oh how ironic it is to succumb to these incredibly spiritually dangerous premises under the pretense of avoiding spiritual danger!!

(An aside: some people who speak of “mind control” don’t literally mean “mind control” at all; they are instead  simply using the term figuratively as a reference to the powerful effects of propaganda, brainwashing, programs of psychological conditioning — perhaps supplemented by psychotropic physiological initiatives, groupthink, mob mentality, and on the list goes with many similar things. These are legitimate concerns and I am not addressing them in this article. In this article, I am addressing those who are saying that absolutely literal full-blown “mind control” — the overriding subversion of intellect/memory/will to an external technological source of direction — is now happening or about to happen through coronavirus vaccines, 5G towers, or whatever else. Some also may protest, “but what about hypnosis!” First of all, I am not convinced there is such a thing — I am inclined to regard it as a placebo effect only operative in those who want it to work and, in some way, even if somewhat subconsciously, decide to play along; though I haven’t researched the matter enough to speak confidently on it. But even if there is such a thing as legitimate hypnosis, then its effects are certainly wrought, not by human effort, but by the intercession of demons. This is one reason why it is essential that you never, for any reason, submit to “hypnosis.” Not even for the best of intents — e.g. overcoming addiction.)

Many commentators have recently written well, regarding the present distress surrounding the world’s response to Coronavirus, that fear is the name of the game: that many of the nefarious elite who operate behind the scenes are hoping to use this as their golden opportunity to instill dread fear in the hearts of people throughout the world so that they will more readily submit to the even more evil plans that are about to be unveiled and foisted upon us.

And that analysis, I think, is absolutely correct. 

But how ironic it is that the same people who sometimes are the ones to accurately assess this very danger are themselves some of the primary promoters of it!! For they are the ones seeding a type of fear in the hearts of the Faithful that their Faith is actually an absolute safeguard against (if only the Faithful let it be just that!), by arguing that technology will soon do (or is now doing) what no technology will ever be able to do, and which not even the Devil himself can do! 

Indeed, the devil — and evil men who heed his direction — much prefers us to overestimate his power. If the greatest trick the devil ever pulled on the world is convincing the worldly that he doesn’t exist, then the greatest trick he pulls on the devout Faithful is beguiling them into supposing his power is vastly greater than it actually is. And this is doubly true with the nefarious plots behind certain modern technologies.

As Jesus says to Luisa:

“… the devil is the most cowardly creature that can exist, and a contrary act, a contempt, a prayer, are enough to make him flee.  In fact, these acts render him even more cowardly than he is, and in order not to bear that confusion, as soon as he sees the soul resolute in not wanting to pay attention to his cowardice, he flees terrified.” March 25, 1908

Just as the devil wants us to vastly overestimate his power, so too he wants us to vastly overestimate the power of those men who operate under his influence.

Now, the very moment you reject the fact that your Intellect, Memory, and Will are essentially spiritual powers of your soul that exist on an infinitely higher plane than any technology could ever touch because God Himself has endowed the soul with this integrity… your Faith itself has just undergone a type of death.

I know well the attempts at refutations of these facts. Yes, these spiritual powers of your soul each have corresponding neurochemical phenomena that follow them — and neurochemical phenomena that can sometimes trigger, but not generate and direct, thoughts/memories/etc. (consider how much a certain smell can trigger a certain memory; but it does not follow that the simple chemical that constitutes the smell is itself the cause of the memory or gives to your mind the substance of that memory itself!) Yes, the operation of these spiritual powers in the material plane can be seriously inhibited or distorted by neurochemical phenomena (e.g. dementia, drug abuse, brain damage, etc.). But these spiritual powers themselves can never be directed and controlled by any neurochemical phenomena, because intellect/memory/will/mind are absolutely not themselves neurochemical phenomena! To say they are is, as I noted in a previous post, to assert materialism, which is essentially atheism. When we succumb to conspiracy theories that implicitly suppose that they are neurochemical phenomena, it is not an exaggeration to say that our Faith has, indeed, died in some respect.

The reason is clear and straightforward: Faith is an act of the Will commanding the Intellect to submit to a truth known in the Memory.

This three-linked chain that Faith is cannot survive without each of its links. And do you realize what you’ve just done if you, for example, entertain the possibility that your memories might not be your memories?

Your Faith just underwent a death in that very act of so entertaining. A drop of poison poisons the whole cup. You’ve just questioned God’s goodness by undermining the God-given power that memory enjoys, in its ability to serve as a legitimate foundation for bonafide Supernatural Faith. 

You really think it’s possible for new memories to be injected into your mind by technology? Then how, dear soul pondering this, do you know that your existing memories — upon which your necessary-for-salvation Faith in Christ is now built — aren’t already themselves the result of some lie technologically injected into your mind?

Because you don’t recall that having happened?  Well that is a logically useless attempt. If technology can have direct access to your memory and put new memories in your mind, then for all you know your existing memories are just lies injected into you — including Christianity itself and all the tenets thereof — and all the memories you lack are lacking not because they pertain to events that didn’t happen, but merely because they were likewise technologically extracted from you. Or is your defense the supposition that the technology will soon be here, but “isn’t there just yet”? That is equally logically useless. For all you know, under your memory-integrity-questioning premises, that knowledge of the present state of affairs is itself just another false memory injected into your mind.

In a word: if it is even possible for memory to be categorically untrusted under any scenario, then your memory even now must not be trusted. But in order to have Faith, and thereby attain salvation, you must trust your memory. Therefore, the Faithful who desire to attain salvation must not so much as entertain the possibility that memory might ever lose its inherent God-given sovereignty.

Of course, science fiction and psychological thrillers have already explored these topics related to “what if our memories aren’t actually our memories” somewhat interestingly. And that seems to be exactly the problem with even the Christian conspiracy theorists pushing these ideas: they’ve spent far too little time with textbook in hand, learning the science and far too much time plopped down on a couch with remote control in hand watching the science fiction. Some of these conspiracy theorists even openly appeal to the Matrix, as if the absurdities posited in that admittedly entertaining movie give the grounds for a proper philosophical anthropology (that is, a proper understanding of human nature).

I am not seeking to tranquilize you and encourage you to suppose you can safely sign up for whatever technological ploy is coming down the pipeline for the world. It may well be the Mark of the Beast. Whatever you do, do NOT EVER get a chip implanted into your right hand or forehead. Death would be preferable. In fact, please don’t get any chip implanted into you anywhere. 

My entire motivation for presenting this argument is to confirm and strengthen my readers in the Faith, for what lies ahead. For I am convinced that among the greatest means of diabolical control we will see soon arising in the world is not merely what technology itself can do to us… but, as I said, the fear that comes with what people think technology might do to us; a fear which the powers that be will take full advantage of by appealing to their technological prowess and flaunting their false marvels. Your defense against these diabolical ploys will not be found in how deeply you’ve dug into the viral conspiracy theories. Your defense against these diabolical ploys, rather, will be your Faith in Christ. 

Without that Faith — which cannot exist unless it is built upon your spiritual powers of intellect, memory, and will –, the devil and the world will tear you apart like warm bread.

With that Faith, and with that alone, you are truly invincible.

So, Do Not Fear!

This admonition is among the most repeated throughout Scripture, Magisterium, Sacred Tradition, and Private Revelation. It is absolutely certain. You, dear soul who loves God, must NEVER fear.

And yet, if “mind control” really were a possibility, then here is what you absolutely must do: BE TERRIFIED. Yes, you must be scared out of your wits and stop at nothing to flee from any exposure to it.

There is no use responding, “No, even then I will not fear, because Jesus loves me!”

Well and good. Jesus does indeed love you. He also loves everyone on the face of the planet and everyone who has ever lived; many of whom are now being tormented in hell and will continue to be for all eternity.

God’s love for you is only one side of the coin regarding why you must never fear: the other side is that you love Him back.

But love is an act of the will. If mind control is possible through technology to such an extent that it could sublimate your will into itself, then perhaps you will stop loving God. If you will perhaps stop loving God (and, speaking for myself, I know with absolute certainty that I never will — and I think that most of my readers could honestly say the same of themselves), then hope, faith, and trust, in a sense, just died in your heart even now.

Because if this “mind control” is possible, then you must IMMEDIATELY leave aside those virtues, get in your car, drive as far away from human civilization as physically possible, dig as deep a hole as you can, crawn into it, cover it with concrete, and wait to die.

I am not joking.

Our eternal fate is forever, and what does alter or could alter our eternal fate infinitely outweighs any worldly consideration. Everything about your temporal life on earth is an utter nothing compared to the possibility of losing your salvation. Thanks be to God, the truth is that salvation is always within the reach of your free will. But if an injection, a microchip, 5G, or whatever else, could possibly control your mind, then it can equally so cause you to lose your salvation, and absolutely nothing could possibly be anywhere near as important as, this very moment, getting as far away from that possibility as as physical possibility itself allows. So, yes, if you so much as think that this is possible and have even one morsel of prudence, you truly must immediately go into the middle of nowhere and wait to die at least an apostasy-free death.

And yet, this is obviously absurd advice. Therefore whatever would cause this advice to become good advice must, itself, be an utter absurdity. Therefore, “mind control” is an utter absurdity. 

The Scientific and Technological Absurdity of the “Mind Control” Claims

Most importantly, these “mind control” claims are theologically bankrupt. But they are also scientifically bankrupt.

We must bear in mind the general logical axiom that for one thing to direct and control another it must be at least as great a thing. For example, if you want to develop a genuinely self-driving car, you cannot just jam a screwdriver somewhere in the engine. That could, at best, have a few damaging effects or a few predictable effects (e.g. holding the throttle in place so that the car just goes forward at a constant speed and direction). Instead, you must develop a system of both software and hardware that bears within itself an “understanding” of the various mechanisms that execute the car’s motion. This self-driving system must — and will — bear within itself a “grasp” of the design of the throttle, transmission, brakes, steering pinion, etc. In a word, the automatic driving system will itself be of a superior order of design than the mechanics of the car themselves that execute the driving actions and take their orders from that system.

Let us therefore leave aside, for a moment, the fact that intellect, memory, and will are spiritual powers and that no technology could possibly have direct access to them. Let us even go so far as to pretend, for a moment, along with the atheists, that the mind really is just neurochemistry and that whatever has access to the neurochemical phenomena within our brains thereby has access to our minds. And let us furthermore only consider what straightforward logical, scientific, and technological considerations teach us. Even in this scenario, we have absolutely no grounds in fretting about “mind control”!

So let us, for now, consider neurochemistry itself and what technology can and cannot do from a purely scientific perspective.

Any neurologist worth his salt will openly admit that the absolute best and most cutting edge science out there has scarcely even begun to fathom the incredibly complex operations of the human brain and nervous system in general. 

As Jesus tells Luisa, the greatest human learnedness on earth stands utterly awestruck and dumbfounded before the complexity and astronomical degree of design in even the least work of God’s (e.g. the smallest and most simple plant).

But for a technology to control something, the science undergirding the technology must already exist (which is not to mention that technology is always at least decades behind science). And for the science undergirding a specific technology to exist, the science itself must first be well understood

And yet, we are nowhere near even beginning to well understand the science that would itself be necessary to, in turn, lend the necessary principles to the engineers so that they could actually construct anything capable of any sort of neurochemical control. Yes, plenty of technologies can have certain neurochemical effects; but even the most advanced of them are infinitely far away from being capable of neurochemical control. 

Unfortunately, a common misnomer makes properly understanding this dynamic difficult. We tend to colloquially refer to medicine as “healing” the body. But that is far from true. No medicine — natural or synthetic — on the face of the planet is capable of healing the human body. The human body heals itself, and, at best, a given medicine removes an impediment to that process being successfully undertaken. For a medicine to actually heal a body, it would have to be designed to a standard equal to or greater than the human body itself. No medicine comes even close to such a level. Instead, medicines are simple “dumb” chemicals that interact with whatever bodily system needs to have its impediment to health removed. Antibiotics don’t heal the body, for example; they simply kill the bacteria that is preventing the body from healing itself. Antihistamines don’t heal the damage caused by an allergic reaction, they simply block the body from continuing to overreact to an allergen. Tylenol doesn’t heal your headache, it just numbs the pain a bit so you can get on with life until your body deals with whatever is causing the headache on its own. Chemotherapy doesn’t heal a cancer ridden body; it simply destroys things in its path in hopes that it will destroy the cancer without destroying the rest of the body! A similar situation exists for all medicines.

It is particularly important to remember here that there is nothing quasi-magical about “natural remedies.” They, too, are “dumb chemicals” when compared to the astronomical complexity of the human body (or any sentient body), which we know from our Faith is the pinnacle of God’s physical creation, and medicinal plants too can only “heal the body” by — just like any synthetic medicine — removing an impediment to the body’s health. There is no use arguing against this by saying “but God put medicinal plants on earth to heal us!” First of all, He did not originally intend that. His original design included no medicines at all — synthetic or natural; healing properties of plants are at most secondary intentions in God’s design of them. Natural things were originally intended simply to delight and serve us, not to heal us, for healing was never supposed to be necessary. This is why, in the Era to come, we will not need medicine; neither natural nor synthetic, for we will not grow unhealthy to begin with. Secondly, the more we grow in our scientific understanding of how these natural remedies work (and I am not denying that many of them do work!), the more we realize that, indeed, these remedies — just like their synthetic counterparts — only “heal” by removing impediments to the body healing itself (e.g., many medicinal plants have been found to have antibiotic effects). Incidentally, antibiotics themselves — the quintessential “synthetic/artificial/western” medicine, trace their origin to the simple growth of mold on a cantaloupe in Illinois (I’m not joking!). Indeed, there is no such thing as a fully synthetic medicine, anyway. 

Just as a given medicine can have either disastrous or beneficial effects on the body in general, so too can all sorts of chemicals/technologies/injections/etc. have disastrous or beneficial effects on neurochemical phenomena. But for these things to have any hope of actually controlling and directing neurochemical phenomena, they themselves — in accordance with the aforementioned inescapable logical axiom — would have to bear within their structure a degree of design equal to or greater than the design of the structure of what they seek to control — human neurochemistry!

Now, scientists and engineers, understand well enough the more basic thermodynamic principles of combustion. Consequently, they have been able to discover the Laws of Thermodynamics and  use these laws to design an internal combustion engine. But all of the advancements of science in neurochemistry amount to nothing more than a child, upon jumping as high as he can, striving to touch the moon, perhaps even shouting to his parents that he almost reached it. Human technology is nowhere near and never will be anywhere near understanding human neurochemistry to the point of actually exceeding it so as to control it. (Even this is not to mention the logical paradox intrinsic to the materialists’ approach: if human reason is just an epiphenomenon of neurochemistry, then it can never rise above neurochemistry, therefore any attempt to fully understand said neurochemistry is, by definition, impossible, as no effect can be greater than its cause). 

Waste not your time shouting “but Elon Musk says this will happen!” Elon — and there are many like him — is a little boy desperately hoping to keep his name in the news with sci-fi fountain-of-youth pseudoscience dressed up as real science, in hopes of keeping his company’s stock prices continually artificially inflated far beyond his company’s actual worth. Elon, and others like him, saying that something will happen is a great way of knowing it won’t happen. Real scientists, rightly, do not take him seriously. Of course, he may well wind up being behind an imminent push for a microchip. That microchip may well wind up being the Mark of the Beast, and, again, you must prefer death to getting it implanted into you. But even this does not change anything I’ve said above.

On DNA: It is NOT the essence of the person, and even if it were changed by a vaccine or anything else, this change could not “control your mind” or give you new memories or force you to do something.

Concerns that an injection could control your mind by “changing your DNA,” thereby also allegedly giving you new memories (or removing existing ones) and sublimating the operation of your intellect and will to some nefarious agenda are concerns that are themselves sometimes built upon a certain tenet of the heresy of scientism and materialism. The tenet is this: that DNA is the Essence of the Person.

While the faithful who succumb to this mindset do not usually explicitly say that “DNA is the essence of the person,” that is indeed often the unstated premise undergirding their concerns.

And it is absolutely not true. Unfortunately, many of the Faithful who rightly oppose human genetic modification (as I do!), wrongly do so on the grounds that you are, essentially, defined by your DNA and a modification of DNA is tantamount to a modification of the human essence. Similarly, many of the Faithful who rightly oppose human cloning (as I do!), wrongly do so on the grounds that this would somehow recreate the cloned person, generating spiritual existential crises. False. If you were cloned, this would just entail an entirely different person with no significant connection to you; it would just be as if you had an identical twin separated at birth. No personal identity crisis would ensue. 

Indeed, this is all nonsense. “Your DNA is your essence” is only a reasonable assertion if there is no such thing as a spiritual soul wherein the essence of the person truly lies. And, of course, only atheists should be caught making such an assertion; so it is so very sad to see so many of the Faithful making it. DNA is not the essence of life. The soul is. Now, we must not mess with our DNA for the same reason we must not, for example, foolishly try to attach a 3rd arm to our body in order to increase our productivity. God made us as we are and we mustn’t suppose that our ideas are better than His. But if your DNA were to be modified, it wouldn’t make you a different person at all. It would just mess up your body (and perhaps kill you). Your DNA is already degenerating as you age — as you read this article — in other words, it is being  modified by the mere fact that time is passing; yet you remain the exact same person. If that were not so, you should get re-baptized and confirmed every few months, re-marry your spouse every few months, etc., “just to be safe,” in case your DNA changing had made you a new person. That, too, is obviously absurd. 

Consider as well that identical twins have the exact same DNA — down to the molecule — and yet they are completely different people. One could even wind up in hell while the other winds up in Heaven. 

The long and short of this is that you need not stay awake late at night agonizing over the thought that somehow some material phenomena (an injection, 5G, or whatever else) is going to be forced into you that is going to modify your DNA and thus modify who you are. That won’t happen because it can’t happen. Your DNA is not some sort of magical portal through which physical processes have direct access to your spiritual soul. It’s a molecule that functions as a cellular blueprint for protein synthesis. That’s all. Yes, it’s utterly tragic when it is damaged — look at what happens to people exposed to DNA-damaging radiation — but even such a tragedy could never constitute any sort of existential personal crisis.

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So much more could be (and maybe should be) said about about these matters now terrorizing some of the Faithful, but I think I’ll stop now. I am aware that even more attempts at refutations of what I’ve said here exist, but I’ve already refuted those attempts as well, and I will post all of that here to this blog in the future if doing so becomes necessary — if this epidemic continues growing; that is, this epidemic of dread fear among the Faithful that their minds are going to be controlled by technology. 

Bill Gates and Conspiracy Theories

Unfortunately, in some circles, any and every conspiracy theory will be uncritically accepted and presented as fact so long as Bill Gates is named the primary antagonist. Now, clearly, the man is up to no good and is doing some evil things. So there’s no need to email me a bunch of articles indicating that; I acknowledge it readily. I just want to caution people against arbitrarily believing any conspiracy theory about him just because it’s about him. Often such theories have little or no evidence, no credible sources, and are even contradicted by the known facts. Promoting exciting sounding conspiracy theories is a great way to become popular online and get lots of clicks and video views in these confusing and frightful times, and many once trustworthy people have succumbed to this dishonest strategy. 

Be on the lookout for it and remember that, in the times to come, remaining on the straight and narrow path of Truth will not be a matter of going full-speed-ahead in any one predetermined direction (whether that direction is “pro conspiracy theory” or “anti conspiracy theory…. “Right wing” or “left wing” … “pro pope Francis” or “anti Pope Francis”… and on the list goes. In a word: seek not assurance in tribes and subcultures.) Many so-called “conspiracy theories” are true, and we must be open to that. We mustn’t succumb to a “conspiracy against conspiracy.” Many are also false, and we mustn’t uncritically accept what is presented merely because it aligns with a given narrative we happen to endorse.

Your key to remaining on the straight and narrow path of Truth in these grave times will be found — not in “figuring out” current events by your cunning and research — but by the following, in order of importance:

• Remaining in a state of grace so that sin does not darken your intellect, and striving above all to become a saint, live in and proclaim the Divine Will, and proclaim the Divine Mercy, with time God has given you, instead of spending that time trying to figure out every issue of the day that could readily be ignored without detriment
• Being solidly grounded in Scripture
• Remaining absolutely grounded in the true Magisterium of the Church. When confused, consult the Catechism and high level Magisterium (e.g. the actual text of Encyclicals, Council Documents).
• Heeding the prophetic consensus
• Remaining skeptical of all the claims of the world and the worldly — whether they are “pro conspiracy” or “anti conspiracy,” “right wing” or “left wing,” “mainstream” or “alternative,” etc., and spending an equal amount of time reading the best arguments from the best sources on both sides of any potentially contentious issue, instead of focusing only on reading what you want to hear. (Okay, I’ll admit: we must be especially skeptical of claims coming from the “left wing” and from the narrative-promoting mainstream media outlets.)

“Voice and Echo of the Divine Messengers:” Please stay away from these messages

My general policy, even regarding revelations I suspect may be false (of which there are many), is to heed the Scriptural exhortation of St. Gamaliel (yes, he’s a saint!), in the Book of Acts Chapter 5, wherein he admonishes against opposing something that may possibly be from Heaven; for, if it is not of God, it will die on its own, but if it is from God, then, in opposing it, you are guilty of something too horrendous to imagine — directly opposing God Himself. 

But unfortunately I must for a brief moment deviate from that policy, as for a long time now I have steadily been getting emails about the “Voice and Echo of the Divine Messengers” website that compiles numerous messages to a certain “Friar Elias” and other alleged seers…. and these messages contain extremely damaging teachings.

Remember that there are many, many, many false prophets and false revelations; today more than ever.

These particular messages contain heresy (in particular, they are new age and syncretistic).

Please also remember that no private revelation has so much as the slightest right to contradict the least teaching of the Catholic Faith. Know your Scripture. Know your Catechism. Remain absolutely grounded in these, no matter what, and you’ll be protected from harm by false messages.

I will present below, not a comprehensive evaluation of any sort, but just a few examples. I stumbled upon these messages randomly after just a few minutes of perusing the website; I can only imagine how much heresy one might find on the site if he were to actually read it all. Indeed, the website presents a front page that looks great and pious and holy; scratch the surface and the problems quickly arise:

“It does not matter if the path is apparently different, because some will be more open to follow the steps of Mohammed; others of Buddha, others of Christ, others of Mary, but all can be united, in spirit, in the Purpose of God for humanity, which is only one: Love and Unity to reach Him.”

https://www.mensajerosdivinos.org/en/mensaje-de-san-jose/monday-january-18-2016

Yes, it does matter if the path is different — it matters infinitely. It is Church Dogma that outside of the Catholic Church there is no salvation. This does not mean all non Catholics go to hell — I suspect most non Catholics throughout history and even today are not subjectively culpable for not being Catholic — but this does not change the fact that, objectively speaking, the Catholic Church is the One True Church and it is objectively necessary for salvation. “Following the steps of” Mohammed or Buddha are not, as this message falsely teaches, legitimate alternatives to Christianity for those who “are more open to” these Pagan religions. It is also absurd to contrast the following of Mary to following Christ, as if one may choose between those two options. Mary is the ultimate servant of Christ her Lord, and following her is always going to lead one to Christ, and to Christ alone — not Buddha, not Muhammed. 

“It was on the great star of Andromeda that God placed His great aspiration for this humanity and for others. Andromeda is the regent of your Solar System and others. It was there, in that part of the universe, where the Creator Fathers once came to sow the Plan of God in the material universe through a Divine Project, which first was to emerge and manifest in the Great Star of Andromeda. Those who arrived there were beings from the mental universe, beings very enlightened in Science and in Divine Wisdom. Thus, the Archangels sent the Hellel, so that they could gestate this Project of God in that part of the universe. This is what My Celestial Church is showing you today through its main portal.”

https://www.mensajerosdivinos.org/en/aparicion-de-cristo/saturday-august-15-2020

The new age absurdity of this message speaks for itself (and it seems like there are many other messages like it on the site), so I’ll say little about it other than to point out how heretical it is to refer to “Creator Fathers.” God, The Father, is The Creator. There are not multiple “Creator Fathers.” That is a brand of polytheism, which is about as opposed to Christianity as you can possibly get. 

“I Am here as the Lord of the Religions today, to synthesize the best, the most evolutionary, the good from each one of them. Today I come to weave with My own Hands, through religions, the last necklace of Light which will unite each one of them in a single path where someday they will meet one another to realize, at last, that the only religion is the Love of God, the Love of the Source, which brings infinite wisdom, understanding and comprehension.”

https://www.mensajerosdivinos.org/en/mensaje-de-cristo-jesus/saturday-february-3-2018

I will readily grant that all major world religions have “rays of truth” within them; in fact, as a Comparative Religion professor, teaching about these rays of truth is part of my job. But to speak of a “synthesis” of the most “evolutionary” of religions is unquestionably full blown syncretism (a heresy)

Through religions, I sent impulses to the world so that, as human beings grew and evolved mentally, emotionally and in soul, the impulses would be able to become more expansive, clearer, more direct. Through Krishna, they were led to an awakening of a simple degree of love, a love for life, for the elements, for energies. They were led to a broader perception of existence, and I began to create a path of return to My Heart. 

https://www.mensajerosdivinos.org/en/mensaje-de-san-jose/tuesday-june-2-2020

This messages teaches that God Himself acted “through Krishna.” Now, Krishna is a Pagan “god” in Hinduism. Here is what infallible and inerrant Sacred Scripture says about that: that the “gods” of the Pagans are actually demons (cf. Psalm 96:5, or 95:5 in the Douay Rheims) and that “what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.” – 1 Corinthians 10. The notion that God Himself acted “through Krishna” — implying we are referring to His ordained Will here and not merely His permissive will — is not only heretical, it is blasphemous.

“There have been previous humanities that transgressed Creation and hurt themselves. You are the fifth and final race.”

https://www.mensajerosdivinos.org/en/mensaje-de-cristo-jesus/thursday-september-3-2020

This is flatly contrary to both Scripture and Church Dogma (See the Book of Genesis and Humani Generis paragraph 37, respectively); from both of which we know that Adam and Eve were the absolute first human beings, and all of us without exception, to this very day, are their descendants. There is one and only one humanity; not five.