Your Support in This Battle

We have reached a new turning point in this present battle. Where the Now Word is going, and the need for your support…

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Mark Mallett

Oh, you’re still here. Well, I’m glad you’ve been waiting. Well, some of you at least.

I had to come back in the studio and fire everything up again because I’ve taken the summer to discern where are we going with Countdown to the Kingdom and where’s the now word going. And I really truly needed just some time to reflect and speak with my spiritual director and discern and pray. And so my sense is that the Lord, he’s wanting to continue these apostolates.

And it was a word of wait. Just wait. Wait for me to speak. As opposed to I have nothing more to say.

And I think with the events of this past week in the United States, we’ve hit another turning point in the world. Something major has happened. And many of you can sense it. In fact, there’s many people I’ve talked to who have never even heard of Charlie Kirk who were weeping and mourning over what happened. If anything, a now word that came to me was this was proof of the mystical body of Christ, of how we can feel the wound and the pain in the body of Christ of something like this.

I mean, I hope that many of you have been feeling that wound and that pain for the Nigerian families in Nigeria, in that region, thousands of them who are being driven from their homes and murdered at the hands of Islamic jihadists. And this has been going on for several years. In fact, one bishop in the Middle East said that the Middle East is being emptied out right now of Christianity, and these are ancient communities. So we’re beginning to feel it, I think, now in North America.

And I think that is what people may not be able to put into words. But my sense is that Charlie Kirk may be the first of a new era of martyrs on North American soil. I pray not. I pray not. I pray that we would find peace and the ability to talk again. But the polarization that’s out there is stunning.

In fact, the hatred, I call it the roar of the dragon that we’re seeing in Revelation 12, that dragon who stood before the woman clothed in the sun, ready to devour the child that she’s giving birth to. And this child symbolizes not only Jesus, but the whole body of Christ, not just the head, but the body that Our Lady and the Church are laboring to give birth to. And that dragon stands there hating life, hating and despising it and wanting to destroy it.

And that’s exactly what we saw in Charlie Kirk. Whether you agree or not with all of his political views, one thing Charlie did do on campus up until his last minutes was proclaim the need to follow Jesus. His wife was a Catholic, a daily mass goer. There’s photos of Charlie praying in the Catholic Church, and he was to meet with Bishop Barron on his podcast around this time. And so he seemed to be a man, too, on his journey toward the fullness of truth, which is found in the Catholic faith. And not everybody watching that would agree that, but I’d be willing to defend that to my very last breath.

And that’s one of the things I’m feeling called to continue to do with the Now Word, is to expound on the fullness of our Catholic faith. And it’s one thing I have a hard time finding. I find many elements in the church who do wonderful things. They proclaim the truth really well in apologetics, or they proclaim the truth well in defending aspects of the liturgy or they defend certain aspects of Mary, but then they reject the charismatic or they reject the papacy or they reject this or that element. And they’re not in the fullness of our Catholic faith. They are, even though they’re faithful Catholics and practicing Catholics, somewhat still cafeteria Catholics. We have this definition of a cafeteria Catholic as one who uses birth control, as one who might divorce and remarry. They’re the cafeteria Catholics.

But no, I’m finding right now there’s cafeteria Catholics who utterly reject aspects of our Catholic faith that are magisterial, that are biblical. And so that’s one of the things in the now word is I have sensed the Lord saying, I want the fullness of the Catholic faith loved and embraced. And that goes right back to my testimony over 30 years ago and how the Lord, I was almost on the verge of wanting to leave the Catholic Church, and the Lord called me back and said, stay and be light to your brothers. So part of that light that I’m still feeling compelled to proclaim to you is the fullness of the faith.

Now, I realize I’ve been stereotyped as kind of an end times kind of prophet, kind of whatever. I don’t call myself a prophet, but that’s what I’ve been die-cast as. And it is what it is. But you know what? For me, I’ve just looked at the signs of the times. I studied what the popes were saying over the past century and more. I looked at the fact that there’s these approved apparitions in what they’re saying. And I looked at what the scripture says, do not despise prophecy, but test everything, retain what is good. So for me, part of the fullness of our faith is examining what is said in private revelation. No, not living my life by it, but discerning it and doing exactly what St. Paul said, retain what is good.

I don’t see how this gets beyond the grasp of even some of our bishops. One bishop told me he didn’t want me to come to his archdiocese because he says, you know, private revelation is not an approach we want to take. That’s cafeteria Catholicism, because this is part of our catechism. So anyway, that’s just kind of an example of where I want to go. I want to talk more about the liturgy in the days ahead.

We’re seeing a beautiful kind of movement towards of the youth. Again, this is really significant, what we’re seeing right now among the youth, not only with Charlie Kirk on campuses. But what we’re seeing in the Catholic Church is youth are craving a more authentic, deeper, mystical liturgy. Part of the issue with this, though, is some of them are being drawn towards toxic traditionalism, which outright rejects Vatican II, rejects the current popes, is schismatic in its very heart. Now, I love beautiful liturgy. I love it all. The smells, the bells, the cassocks, the incense, bring it on. That’s what I say. But we can’t reject the flow of the Holy Spirit who evoked a council. So rather than throw the baby out with the bath water, we have to go back to that council and say, what was the good that the Holy Spirit was leading the council fathers, the bishops around the entire world to bring us? And what were the revolutionaries trying to bring us and then decipher between those two and then bring about a true renewal. Unfortunately, the revolutionaries and their modernism has prevailed.

But what we have now is a mindset of people throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Again, the fullness of the Catholic faith. God is bringing us. We are going to be in the new era of peace to come fully and totally charismatic. Catholic, rather, which means being charismatic. We’ll be operating in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, which are in the Bible. It’s in the Bible, and it’s approved by the magisterium of the church. It’s in the catechism of the Catholic Church. We’re going to be fully Marian. We’re going to be fully papists. We’re going to be fully contemplative, fully active, and fully prophetic. And so these are the things that God is doing right now in our midst.

And believe it or not, there’s a purification that has to happen in the whole church in this regard. We’re becoming fragmented in Catholicism. It’s a very dangerous development. And it’s dividing us. And the whole world is going down this road. We can see it in the United States, the way the left hates the right. And the right, the dialogue there, the bitterness is terrible. It’s bursting forth now in violence. But it’s not just there. It’s here in Canada. We see the same thing in all over the world. The hatreds between people. And this is what Jesus talked about in the Gospels. The love of many in those end times will grow cold. Father against son. Mother against daughter. Brother against brother. We’re watching it unfold.

And so the now word is here to help you to navigate through this. and Countdown of the Kingdom by giving a voice to our Mother, which is ultimately why I joined Countdown of the Kingdom, why I agreed to become part of that project, which has been successful in many ways. In other ways, we’re having to tweak it. But ultimately, I felt I wanted to give our blessed mom a place for her voice to be found and properly discerned in a proper context. And we’ve tried to do that in Countdown.

I’ve talked to my colleague, Professor Daniel O’Connor, who just welcomed their sixth baby into the world. Congratulations, Daniel, and to you and your wife and your family. You’re beginning a new semester with your professorship at a college teaching religious studies. But Daniel reached out to me this week and said, I want to get back to webcast with you. And we’ve been trying all year, but it’s just the way things have been.

So in closing, I want to say to you, and I don’t think I’ve ever done a webcast actually coming on the camera and asking for your support. But we’re at a point now where my readership and the viewership, we exploded during COVID. There were people all over the world seeking answers. People could sense there was something weird going on. And they reached out to Countdown. They reached out to me in the now word, and they were reading and discerning these things. And it brought back many people to the church. The number of letters we’ve received of people going through really dramatic conversions, coming back to the faith has been beautiful.

But you know what? In this relative calm, it’s kind of like after 9-11. People filled the churches, but then slowly again the church is emptied. We’ve seen our videos go from having over a quarter million views in some cases to now just a handful, a few thousand people watching. And maybe that’s because of me. Maybe it’s just because people, they just don’t want to listen to me. And you know what? I would not be surprised if that was the answer, that people found me, who I am, my own weakness, a stumbling block. I would understand that, and I would accept that.

But I think there’s something else to it. I just think that in this time, we just seem to need a shaking. Dare I say humanity almost needs suffering to continually turn its eyes back to God and maybe this is part of the mystery of the cross why Jesus didn’t come and remove suffering not yet he will but not yet instead he said the cross now becomes the means by which you will be sanctified. The cross. You and I still seem to need the cross. I know I need the cross. Somehow suffering realigns my eyes and helps me to fix my eyes back on the Savior.

And sure enough, after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, we’re hearing people are going to church for the first time. I heard today on the news people saying, I’m picking up my Bible and reading a Bible for the first time. How do I read it? What am I supposed to do? So what an opportunity I see right now among the young people. There is, as I wrote in 2007, we’re creating a great vacuum among them. And now we can see that radical Marxist ideology has filled the minds of college students all over the world. The majority of them, I would say, they have been brainwashed. They have been radicalized in some cases like this assassin. But when I see the amount of hatred, even if these people don’t resort to violence, the amount of hatred and vitriol toward people with traditional Christian views, even the natural law that is held through cultures throughout the world, their hatred of it, you realize that a great vacuum has been filled by a godless anti-gospel, exactly what John Paul II warned about, that we are now in the final confrontation between the anti-gospel and the gospel.

But now with this instance with Charlie Kirk, what are we seeing? We’re seeing an opportunity now for the youth who are going, wow, this left-wing ideology, there’s something wrong with it. And they’re starting to see that. But where are we as a church to answer that. Is it just going to be evangelicals in America who are going to answer that call? And believe me, I love my fellow evangelicals. I love their love for the Word of God, their love for Jesus, their raw proclamation of the gospel, their evangelization, as Charlie Kirk has been doing.

But we as Catholics have even more to give. We have the sacraments. We have the body and blood of Jesus Christ who said, My flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my body and drinks my blood is eternal life. I was on Amazon the other day and I saw that you could buy kits, big packages of pre-packaged wafers and grape juice. I’m thinking, man, oh man, the world doesn’t understand yet the message that we as Catholics have held for 2,000 years, that Jesus is present in the Eucharist. This is why we just canonized St. Carlos Acutis. This is another great marker in this hour where God is saying, I want the world to turn again and see that I am there. I promised you, Jesus said, that I will be with you until the end of the ages. And he meant it literally in the Holy Eucharist. We as Catholics have so much to offer, which is why my heart is breaking when I see the central message in some ways still coming out of the Vatican is climate change and eco-spirituality and UN sustainability and development goals. This is not the gospel. I mean, we have a social gospel that tells us to care for creation and we’re poisoning it and we’re wrecking it. Yeah, but our goal is to save souls. We can learn something from Charlie Kirk today, who’s telling us, who is saying in his videos, my most important goal on these campuses is to save souls. That was his ultimate goal, which is why I believe Charlie Kirk is genuinely a martyr of the faith.

Well, with that, I want to ask for your support for this ministry. it has waned in the last year. We have watched the support dwindle down. It has in part to do with inflation. It has in part to do, I think, with the dynamics of many things going on. But, you know, I talked to my web server and I said, look, what can we do to minimize the cost of my server? And do you know if I did absolutely nothing? Because of the traffic that we have coming to Countdown to the Kingdom and the Now Word today, it cost me a bare minimum $1,000 just to keep the websites running because we’ve had to upgrade the servers. We’ve been attacked by China. We’ve been hacked several times, so we had to upgrade our security. It’s around $1,000 just to keep these websites running. They said we could maybe knock off $100 in this one area, and that was it.

I have an employee. We’re paying her salary. She processes donations and still my book she sends out, shipping and all these things. Colette has been such a support to Leah and I, a real gift to us. But we’re keeping our staff at a bare minimum. One of the reasons is that I can’t afford to hire more staff. I would love to bring on more staff. But the truth is, Unlike some apostolates who they can have a benefactor come along and say, you know what, I believe in what you’re doing. What do you need? You know, here’s the resources you need. We’ve never really had that. God has kept this apostolate in some ways small. It’s just a small little apostolate. It is what it is.

But I want to thank those of you who over the years have been consistent supporters who have understood what I’m doing. And may I even say understood the difficulty of the now word. So many times I have wanted to run away from this apostolate of talking about the end times. But I realized it’s my vanity. It’s my ego. I don’t want to be cast as this end time dooms gloom prophet and all this stuff. You know, the other day I looked at some thumbnails of some interviews I did on the internet. And it’s, are we in the end times? And there were flames behind me. My eye was wide eyed thumbnail of me. And I was like, oh, my Lord. But that’s my vanity. I have to let go of that. It is what it is. I’m confident with what I’m doing because I’m just going to the church. I’ve had priests write me, priests donating to me and saying, I trust you because you always go to the magisterium. You quote the popes. You back up everything you say with church teaching. That’s why we’re listening to you.

And that’s why I’m leaving these websites up. They’re a treasure for me. They’re a resource for me. Sometimes I think I’ve got to find a quote and I’ll go to my website and search on the search engine. And there it is with the website that it came from, the article or the magisterial document. That’s why I want to leave those websites up. But it costs me at least $1,000 a month just to do that.

So we do need your support. I have bills to pay and I actually do feed my wife. So we need to do these things. And I’ll say this much. If not a single penny comes in from my appeal today, I will keep doing this until we can’t anymore. Until we have to turn off these lights for good.

I thank you for your love, for your prayers, your support, your trust in me. And believe me, I take that serious. My spiritual director said to me a couple years ago, he said, Mark, people, they have invested in you and they trust in you. And so you need to keep staying close to the heart of our Lord and listening and being faithful to that. And I really took those words to heart. And I am grateful. I’m grateful for your trust and support. But like you, I’m a student at the Master’s feet. You and I sit together at the feet of Jesus. You don’t sit at my feet. You sit at Jesus’ feet. That’s where I am, and that’s where I want you to be. And in the days and the months ahead, God willing, I can continue to share the words that the Savior puts on my heart that you can discern. And that we can continue to go through these difficult times as we head closer and closer to the passion, death, and yet resurrection of the church. As the Catechism says, we will follow in our Lord’s footsteps. But we’re heading toward resurrection. It’s a glorious, beautiful time to be alive. What opportunities are before us.

And I pray that if God leads your heart, you will partner with me, help me financially, but especially by your prayers. My wife, Lea, who’s a backbone for me in this ministry, a beautiful partner and friend, sends her love and her prayers for all of you as well. God bless you, and I will see you soon.

So grateful for your prayers and support.
Thank you!

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