Extraordinary Developments

I am utterly overwhelmed — in the best sense of the word — by how quickly and powerfully the Signs of the times are developing.

Just yesterday, we learned that the Supreme Court appears poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. This would mark the single most substantial legal victory for Truth and Justice in the history of this nation, and it will be remembered alongside other great victories like the Emancipation Proclamation.

When I published this video (below) last October, I did not in vain declare my belief that ending abortion, NOW, may well be the Last Chance for America. I really believed — and continue to believe — that succeeding in ending abortion can have a great impact on mitigating the Chastisements. Not, of course, that they can be entirely averted — the Chastisements are coming — but mitigation of the details of their scope/severity/duration is always possible by imploring the Divine Mercy. One of the best ways of doing that? Falling on our knees and repenting, as a nation, of our most heinous sins. Supreme among those sins today is, of course, abortion.

So now is our time to double our efforts in fighting abortion. First, let us fast and pray that the Supreme Court Justices remain bold in their decisions and do not cave to pressures (which will be tremendous on them) to preserve Roe v. Wade. Second, let us do everything we can to work to outlaw abortion once Roe v. Wade is gone. Not just gone here and there — in which case mothers will just drive to another state for abortions — but everywhere. All overturning this horrendous court decision does is make outlawing abortion legally possible — it won’t itself directly do anything. Quite the contrary, it will be the opening act in an enormous battle (one that our “Catholic” president will do his best to fight on the side of evil for), and all the faithful should engage in that battle with all their zeal.

On the Heaven’s Messages/ Prophecy side of things, matters are no less extraordinary. Just today, seemingly out of nowhere — precisely when it seemed all hope was lost for a Papal Moscow Trip due to the chaos of the Russia/Ukraine war– Pope Francis said “I am ready to meet Putin in Moscow“

Recall (see Point 1 from this post) that a Papal trip to Moscow may well be the clearest indication that The Warning is about to happen.

So I present to you today this brief post as an exhortation to “stay awake” (Matthew 24:24), for the Lord’s Coming in Grace may well be extremely near. Repent, pray, and say continually:

Jesus, I Trust in You.

Thy Will be Done

I give you my will; please give me Yours in return.

Let your Kingdom come!

Let your Will be done; on earth as It is in Heaven!

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Regarding my last post, I understand that many of my blog followers likely do not have a Twitter and will not get one. I completely understand and respect that decision! Here, therefore, I’d just like to share some of my Twitter posts that I’d like to draw attention to. If you are following me on Twitter, you’ve probably already seen these:

I’m now on Twitter: @DSDOConnor

Hello, Twitter.

Elon Musk is a bit of a crazy man. So please don’t trust him. On the other hand, he is preferable by leaps and bounds to the other global elites among whose ranks he numbers. Therefore, his taking over of Twitter today is, I think, a very good thing. My hope is that with him at the helm, he’ll – unlike Twitter’s previous operators – at least allow the truth to spread on the platform, and will put an end to the “woke”-inspired censorship that Twitter has been applying for so long now.

Accordingly, I’ve decided to finally get a Twitter account. Having a place to publicly post brief announcements will save me from the need to pester blog subscribers with emails about such things each time. 

If you have Twitter, I’d be honored if you’d “follow” my own Twitter account (@DSDOConnor) . I plan to use Twitter now for important announcements related to publications, speaking events, interviews, etc. 

My first tweet (April 25th, 2022) :

If you don’t have a Twitter, you’ll need to say a prayer and discern for yourself if now might likewise be a good time for you to join it. As with all tools, it is neither good nor bad, therefore whether using it is called for will depend upon the person, the intent, and the circumstances. But it’s certainly at least a potentially powerful way to proclaim the Truth – and God knows we need more people today publicly, strongly, clearly, and charitably proclaiming the Truth, since its most bedrock tenets are becoming increasingly rejected within mainstream discourse.

“The sheer truth, naked and simple, is the most powerful magnet to draw hearts and to dispose them to face any sacrifice for love of the truth and of the people who reveal this truth.  Who disposed the Martyrs to shed their blood?  The truth.  Who gave to many other Saints the strength to conduct a pure and unblemished life in the midst of so many battles?  The truth – and a naked, simple and disinterested truth.  … in these sad times, how hard it is to find someone who would manifest this naked truth, even among the clergy, the religious, and devout people! … they think to themselves that if they did so, they would lose their prestige, their being well liked, their nature would no longer find satisfaction, and they would go against their own interests.  But – oh, how they deceive themselves!  In fact, one who leaves everything for love of the truth will superabound in everything more profusely than others.  Therefore, as much as you can, do not neglect to manifest this naked and simple truth… “

-Jesus to the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta. 

With Hearts Burning Within You, Believe His Promises

In today’s Gospel Reading, Jesus appears – after His Resurrection – to two of His disciples as they walked the road to Emmaus.  These disciples did not realize it was Jesus, and this event moreover took place well before His Resurrection became known; only news of His death and burial had at that point spread among Christians. Accordingly, these disciples confided their distress to this traveler Whom they did not realize was Jesus, saying to Him, “… but we were hoping that [Jesus] would be the one to redeem Israel…” (Luke 24:21)

Emmaus

Notably, Jesus did not respond with affirming words assuring them that their despondency was acceptable or even understandable. Quite the opposite, He admonished them with a strong and well-placed rebuke:

“Oh, how foolish you are! How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke!” (Luke 24:25)

In the talks that one may hear in these days following Easter, it is unfortunately sometimes said that the Resurrection was utterly surprising and unexpected. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. The disciples’ unwillingness to believe, after His death, that Jesus would indeed rise from the dead was a testimony to their vices, not their virtues – vices, I hasten to add, which vanished like foam under a burning sun upon the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. 

Not only was the Resurrection of the Christ foretold by the very Old Testament prophecy that any faithful Jew should have been well versed in (as affirmed by St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:4 and itself found in Psalm 49:15, Isaiah 25:8, Ezekiel 37, Hosea 13:14, and many other places). Not only that. It was also promised by Jesus Himself, in utter clarity, well before His death. It was even promised by Him precisely when the disciples’ Faith should have been at its zenith; immediately after the Transfiguration, wherein He clearly displayed His Divinity:

“And as they were coming down the mountain, [Jesus] charged them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of man should have risen from the dead. So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what the rising from the dead meant.” (Mark 9:9,10)

Gee. Maybe “Rising from the dead” means rising from the dead!

The various vices of the disciples before Pentecost are included in the New Testament for our instruction. Peter looked down as he walked on the water and only then began to sink; this reminds us to keep our gaze firmly fixed on Jesus, no matter what storms are swirling about us. (Matthew 14). The disciples foolishly argued about who among them was the greatest (Luke 22); this reminds us that true exaltation is found only in humility. On the list goes.

The disciples’ initial unwillingness to take Jesus’ words at face value – to place absolute faith, trust, and hope in His promises no matter how grandiose or seemingly impossible from a human standpoint – was just another one of their vices which we must learn from and avoid. 

Jesus’ clearest promise in the whole Gospel, however, is found in the climax of the one and only prayer He taught: the Our Father. It is His promise that the Will of God shall reign on earth as in Heaven. Just as He meant exactly what He said when He promised He would “rise from the dead,” so too He meant exactly what He said when he prayed, prophesied, promised, and commanded us to pray:

 “Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.” (Matthew 6:10). 

This. Will. Happen. It is, moreover, a promise that has been reiterated by more prophecies, Popes, Fathers, mystics, and approved revelations than I can count. (See Part Five of Thy Will Be Done for a small sampling.) As we experience the continuation of the global Chastisements we are now enduring – but which are about to grow much more severe – we must, more than ever before, remind ourselves of this promise just as the disciples should have been reminding themselves, after Christ’s death, of His promise of Resurrection. For the Church must follow the life of her Head, therefore she too will endure her own Passion and enter into the tomb. But she will rise again, more glorious and triumphant than ever before. And I believe that your own eyes will see it. 

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After Jesus revealed to the disciples who were on their way to Emmaus who He was – by “breaking the bread” (that is, saying Mass and thus opening their eyes through the Eucharist) – He vanished out of their sight (Luke 24:31). Immediately, the two turned to each other with glances that doubtless pierced the soul of each, and said: 

“Were not our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?” (Luke 24: 32). 

Whoever you are, I am sure you have experienced a time in which your heart was burning within you upon contemplating God’s promises. Perhaps a powerful experience at Mass or Eucharistic Adoration; a Confession that illuminated your conscience as never before; a pilgrimage that reminded you of the nothingness of this life and the closeness of Eternity; reading a book that exposed you to whole new spiritual realms; a severe suffering or loss whose pain was palpably exceeded by an outpouring of Heavenly grace; or even just looking out upon the beauty of creation as the glorious sun sunk beneath the horizon’s pine covered green mountains to the tune of a gentle breeze and the warbling of birds. Whatever it was, recall it, and let your task this Easter be to enter back into the glory of this moment and reclaim the Divine Hope veiled by it, that you may then proclaim this Hope to the whole world.  

The Promise