The Coming Effect of Grace

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Every year at this time, there is the predictable lament that the “meaning of Christmas” has been lost. No doubt, it’s been heavily commercialized, whether by corporations, Hollywood, or the music industry. As such, Christians might be tempted to heap scorn upon the culture, venting our indignation and dismay at how Christmas has been hijacked. 

And yet, whether people understand this Christian Feast or not, they still benefit from the effects of this time as Christmas Day draws near. It’s like the minutes before dawn, when the first light begins to scatter the darkness, transforming the horizon’s gloomy clouds into burning embers that herald the coming of the Sun. Even if one were so engaged and caught up in his own affairs that he was completely oblivious to the sunrise, he would still benefit from all the effects of the light and heat of the Sun’s rays.Continue reading →

The Red Night

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Outside my front door on The Red Night; Northern Alberta, Canada

 

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From the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Mexico, from Japan to northern India, and across nearly the entire inhabited northern hemisphere — one of the most widespread auroral events in living memory occurred on November 11, 2025. A coronal mass ejection from the Sun and subsequent G5 geomagnetic storm (the highest level on NOAA’s space weather scale) spread across the night skies, blanketing all of Europe, Russia, and North America in a crimson red light, clearly visible to the eye, even in Louisiana and parts of China. Continue reading →

The Baptist and the Two Witnesses

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Elijah Taken Up in a Chariot of Fire, by Giuseppe Angeli, c. 1740


As the prophet Elijah is taken up
to heaven in a fiery chariot,
he bestows his cloak on the prophet Elisha,
his young disciple.
Elisha in his boldness has asked
for a “double portion”
of Elijah’s spirit. (cf. 2 Kings 2:9-11)

In our times, every disciple of Jesus
is called to bear prophetic witness
against the culture of death,
be it a small piece of the cloak or a large one. 
—Michael D. O’Brien

 

I was praying before the Blessed Sacrament in my spiritual director’s private chapel when words, seemingly outside of myself, rose up in my heart:

I am giving you the ministry of John the Baptist. 

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How Will It All End?

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Your divine commandments are broken,
your Gospel is thrown aside,
torrents of iniquity flood the whole earth
carrying away even your servants.
The whole land is desolate,
ungodliness reigns supreme,
your sanctuary is desecrated
and the abomination of desolation
has even contaminated the holy place.

God of Justice, God of Vengeance,
will you let everything, then, go the same way?
Will everything come to the same end
as Sodom and Gomorrah?
Will you never break your silence?
Will you tolerate all this for ever?
Is it not true that your will must be done
on earth as it is in heaven?
Is it not true that your kingdom must come?
Did you not give to some souls, dear to you,
a vision of the future renewal
of the Church? 
—St. Louis de Montfort,
Prayer for Missionaries, n. 5
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The Iron Rod

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First published April 25th, 2023…

 

Reading the words of Jesus to Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta, you begin to understand that the coming of the Kingdom of the Divine Will, as we pray each day in the Our Father, is the single greatest objective of Heaven. “I want to raise the creature back to her origin,” Jesus said to Luisa, “…that my Will be known, loved, and done on earth as It is in Heaven.” [1]Vol. 19, June 6, 1926 Jesus even says that the glory of the Angels and Saints in Heaven “will not be complete if my Will does not have Its complete triumph on earth.”

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Footnotes

Footnotes
↑1 Vol. 19, June 6, 1926

The Time of No Room

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I am reading the latest Michael D. O’Brien novel about a letter found in the future Era of Peace. The letter was written and then buried at the time of the collapse of civilization, a time that essentially describes our present era. This one particular line jumped off the page as I read it…Continue reading →