Pay Attention to the Signs of the Times! Pray to Persevere.

Matthew 24 offers a sobering picture of our era, perhaps of every era since they are all filled with both environmental, cultural, and spiritual challenges. We would do well to behave as if we were in the end times because, in the hour of death, we all are all in the end times. 

And when he was sitting on mount Olivet, the disciples came to him privately, saying: Tell us when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the consummation of the world?

4And Jesus answering, said to them: Take heed that no man seduce you:

5For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ: and they will seduce many.

CNS photo Paul Haring

Do you ever wonder what's coming next? It starts with a totalitarian demagogue....

It starts with a totalitarian demagogue who uses vile rhetoric to identify an enemy of the people.

Wherein Topsy and Tuptim discuss Chapter 3 of the Synod Working Document and Expose the Dissenting Bishop Behind It

Bishop Erwin Kräutler, primary
author of synod working doc.

It's such a beautiful afternoon that Tupsy and Tuptim meet at the pool with some of their grandchildren and stake out a picnic table under the trees to study chapter 3 of  the Instrumentum Laboris for the Amazon synod. Topsy opens her cooler and takes out water bottles, a plastic container filled with apple slices, and a big bag of chips. She puts them them at the end of the table. And piles a stack of towels on the bench.

Topsy: The kids will be running back and forth for snacks. This will make it easy for them while we study the document. I decided not to bring any of the little ones so we wouldn't have to worry about doing lifeguard duty.

Tuptim: Great day to be outside. Not too hot and not too humid. (Looking up) Thanks, Lord!

Topsy: Amen to that! Oh...before we start I've been doing some research on the bishop behind the working document. It's always helpful to know the players. Do you remember the controversy over Always Our Children here in the U.S. about homosexuality?

Signs of the Times

Coney Island then...

...Coney Island now.

Are You Ready?

Can you read the signs of the times? 

Evil Has Consequences and We Can See Them in the "Signs of the Times"

By Fr. Tom Collins

I see the "signs of the times" reflecting our current situation. For example, as Church leaders began to proclaim the "gospel of tolerance", we saw a new disease in our midst - AIDS. The AIDS virus should be, according to their thinking, a welcome evolutionary breakthrough. What the AIDS virus does is knock out the body's immune system, thus making it "tolerant" of any infectious organism that wants to kill it. The AIDS virus leads the body to react in a way that asserts that one organism is just as good as any other organism. So an infectious bacteria cell has as much "right" to live in the human body as does a cell of that body.

Also, cancer is just a mass of body cells that grows at its own accelerated rate, rather than at a rate in harmony with the rest of the body. In a similar manner, progressive theologians do not want to promote the integral and organic development of Church doctrine, but push for the accelerated acceptance of their cancerous agendas by members of the Mystical Body of Christ. In particular,
this "sign of the times" is evident in the dramatic rise of breast cancer.

As our society has embraced the idea that the womb, which should be nurturing new life, should be the place where new life is brutally butchered, so also female breast tissue, which God intends to be used to nurture new life, is becoming a two-edged sword of death. For we are witnessing how the breasts are being used ever more flagrantly through immodesty to seduce souls into lust and eternal perdition. Likewise, as a secondary effect of the widespread use of contraception and abortion, they also have become the nurturing ground for malignant cancers.

I pray that through the prayers of Our Blessed Mother, Mary, we may recover a clear and reverent appreciation of the sacredness of all that has been entrusted to our care.