The Red Night

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.

I live in Canada, where the aurora borealis (“northern lights”) is a familiar spectacle. But this is the first time in nearly six decades that I personally have ever witnessed the color red, or even seen them literally blanket the entire sky from the northern to southern horizons. 

My ministry team was gathering at our home that evening to discern God’s will and direction and to affirm our “yes” to His calling. As people arrived at our home, they called us out to the front yard. What you see in these photos, though enhanced by the camera, was exactly what we saw. All of us commented on how the celestial rays, which spread from a pinpoint directly above the house, looked exactly like the rays of Divine Mercy that poured from Christ’s heart in a vision to St. Faustina. 

Now, I am not saying this was a supernatural event. There is a purely natural explanation, as noted above. Indeed, over the years I have received numerous photos from readers who believe they are seeing something supernatural in them — an angel, the Blessed Mother, a divine light… when in fact, 99% of the time, it is a lens flare, overexposure, camera movement, etc. Water stains, tree knots, and burned toast sometimes produce a likeness of Jesus or Mary, but that doesn’t mean they are supernatural in origin.

And yet, whether it’s the Star of Bethlehem or the eclipse over Calvary — even though they may be naturally occurring events, they can also be precisely timed by Divine Providence, in the omniscience of God.

In truth, I was not going to write about that November night at all, feeling quite reticent to attach any significance to it beyond what it was. But from that evening on, I have felt an interior prodding that what happened may indeed bear significance, given all that has unfolded since, as I’ll explain at the end. But let’s first recall that significant red night that happened nearly 90 years ago…

 

The First Red Night

On the Vatican’s website is the account of Sr. Lúcia dos Santos, OCD, of Fatima, Portugal. She is one of three seers whom Our Lady appeared to in 1917, granting them visions and warnings of the imminent peril of a wayward humanity. The visions, which included a brief but terrifying window into Hell,^[1]cf. Hell is For Real were confirmed by a public miracle, witnessed by tens of thousands gathered in a field, the “miracle of the sun” (see Debunking the Sun Miracle Skeptics). 

Thirteen days before the Bolshevik revolution broke out in Moscow, giving birth to Communism there, Our Lady appeared to the Fatima children, warning that Russia was poised to “spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church,” and calling us to repentance.^[2]The Message of Fatima, vatican.va

In our rationalism, and in the face of the rising power of dictatorships, God shows us the humility of the Mother, who appears to little children and speaks to them of the essentials: faith, hope, love, penance. —POPE BENEDICT XVI, Light of the World, A Conversation with Peter Seewald, p. 164

In fact, the Blessed Virgin was only echoing another pope who, decades earlier, unequivocally warned of the errors of Marxism, Socialism, Communism, rationalism, atheism, etc. and their existential threat to the Church and the world:

Now, from the disturbing errors which We have described, the greatest dangers to States are to be feared. For, the fear of God and reverence for divine laws being taken away… and the popular passions urged on to lawlessness, with no restraint save that of punishment, a change and overthrow of all things will necessarily follow. Yea, this change and overthrow is deliberately planned and put forward by many associations of communists and socialists; and to their undertakings the sect of Freemasons is not hostile, but greatly favours their designs, and holds in common with them their chief opinions. And if these men do not at once and everywhere endeavour to carry out their extreme views, it is not to be attributed to their teaching and their will, but to the virtue of that divine religion which cannot be destroyed; and also because the sounder part of men, refusing to be enslaved to secret societies, vigorously resist their insane attempts. —POPE LEO XIII, Humanum Genus, Encyclical on Freemasonry (1884), n. 27

Of note, Leo XIII was warning that the “restraint” of evil was lifting, resulting in “lawlessness” (see Removing the Restrainer). This eerily mirrored 2 Thessalonians 2:3, where St. Paul foretold of a time when “the apostasy comes first and the lawless one [that is, the Antichrist, will be] revealed.” That the Pope felt we were witnessing the beginning of the apostasy is in little doubt, as Christianity was clearly being displaced by these Enlightenment ideologies. Said Pope Leo:

…to bring back after a lapse of eighteen centuries the manners and customs of the pagans, is signal folly and audacious impiety. —Humanum Genus, Encyclical on Freemasonry (1884), n. 24; cf. The New Paganism

Indeed, witchcraft, the occult, satanism, eco-spirituality, and unbridled sexuality suggest this New Paganism is in full bloom today. And thus, Our Lady’s message to the seers of Fatima had tried to warn us. She said,

You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war (WWI) is going to end: but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one (WWII) will break out during the Pontificate of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that he is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father. —Message of Fatima, vatican.va

Mark Fellows recounts what happened two decades later when an “unknown light” blanketed a great portion of the world, primarily centred over Europe.  

The blood-red sky lasted for many hours, and was seen around half of the world at the same vivid intensity. Lucia and the Sisters watched the pulsating, violently hued inferno from Tuy [Spain]. Of all the descriptions of that night, the most precise one had been prophesied over 20 years ago by the beautiful Lady at Cova da Iria. A ‘night illumined by an unknown light’, the Virgin told Lucia, would be ‘the great sign given by God that He is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and the Holy Father…’ … Within two months of the great sign, Hitler’s armies invaded Austria. As the Blessed Virgin had prophesied, the Second World War began ‘in the reign of Pius XI’. —Fatima in Twilight [Niagara Falls: Marmion Publications, 2003], pp. 101-102; cited in The Devil’s Final Battle, p. 15, footnote 53; cf. “A Night Illumined by an Unknown Light“

Herman Carvalho of Clinton Corners, New York, was seven years old at that time.

Far away as far as my eyes could see, I saw something coming up from the ground. It went up to the sky and was going up. But then I didn’t look anymore and I started to play.” About a half an hour later, while the Carvalhos ate dinner together, they heard people outside crying. “We went to the terrace, and we were going to ask the people why they were crying,” he said. Looking out over the surrounding olive trees to the other end of the landscape, they saw the sky burn a vibrant red. “It was as red as red can be … like in flames,” he said. The rest of the sky was completely dark. “I remember my father saying, ‘If this falls on top of us, we all die,'” he said. “It was scary, and I never saw that again in my life.” — “‘A Strange and Unknown Light'”, divinemercy.org

While the media and most astronomers explained the strange light that night as aurora borealis, Sr. Lucia was less certain saying, “in the form in which it appeared, it could not possibly have been an aurora borealis. Be that as it may,” she wrote to her bishop, “God made use of this to make me understand that His justice was about to strike the guilty nations.”^[3]Third Memoir to her Bishop written on August 31, 1941. True, the aurora borealis is not an “unknown light,” but the result of geomagnetic storms. But as Lucia and the historical facts appear to bear out, this was the light Our Lady seemingly referred to. 

While it is not known if St. Faustina witnessed the strange light that night, her prophetic habit that day, as recorded in her diary, seemed to align with Sr. Lucia’s:

I saw the anger of God hanging heavy over Poland. And now I see that if God were to visit our country with the greatest chastisements, that would still be great mercy because, for such grave transgressions, He could punish us with eternal annihilation. I was paralyzed with fear when the Lord lifted the veil a little for me. Now I see clearly that chosen souls keep the world in existence to fulfill the measure [of justice]. —January 25, 1938, Divine Mercy in My Soul, Diary, n. 1533

Indeed, when Pope Benedict XVI visited Fatima in 2010, he prayed that the following years would hasten the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart prophesied there. He later explained that this triumph…

…is equivalent in meaning to our praying for the coming of God’s Kingdom… The point was rather that the power of evil is restrained again and again, that again and again the power of God himself is shown in the Mother’s power and keeps it alive. The Church is always called upon to do what God asked of Abraham, which is to see to it that there are enough righteous men to repress evil and destruction. —Light of the World, p. 166, A Conversation With Peter Seewald (Ignatius Press)

 

The New Red Night

But today, we must soberly reflect on whether there are enough righteous souls to hold back the tides of Justice. 

Let us not forget that we are living in a “time of mercy,” as heralded at both Fatima and through St. Faustina. The “door of mercy,” as Jesus told her, will eventually close.

Write: before I come as a just Judge, I first open wide the door of My mercy. He who refuses to pass through the door of My mercy must pass through the door of My justice... —Divine Mercy in My Soul, Diary of St. Faustina, n. 1146

Consider a recent message of Jesus to Sulema Gomez, who resides in Quebec, Canada. While she is an El Salvadorian, one remarkable feature of Sulema’s locutions is that she delivers them orally in fluent, literary French – a language which, outside of the ecstasies in which the messages are received, she can only speak to a rudimentary level. 

Do not be afraid, I am with you. Do not be afraid of Me. Never forget that it was I who chose you, as you are, from the middle of the world. I need you, for the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Do not be afraid to give Me your “yes”; that is what I need, and the rest is the Holy Spirit who will do it in you.

I need to go and find My lost sheep before the door is closed. Be prepared, because it will all start at any moment. You will be surprised by the sequence of events. All prophecies must be fulfilled. I have warned you to give you time to prepare. Alas, not all our children have believed our words. —cf. Countdown to the Kingdom, October 18, 2025

That was but a few weeks before The Red Night that covered a vast majority of the world. In fact, on that very day, President Donald Trump boasted:

Today, my Administration is proudly upholding this hard-won legacy of Peace Through Strength.  —November 11, 2025; whithouse.gov

Now, Jesus allegedly says, “You will be surprised by the sequence of events. All prophecies will be fulfilled.” Two things come to mind, the first being that St. Paul warned:

When people are saying, “Peace and security,” then sudden disaster comes upon them, like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. (1 Thessalonians 5:3)

Second, perhaps we will also be surprised if events actually unfold exactly as St. John witnessed them in Revelation 6, with the opening of the seals. The second seal speaks of what seems the sudden eruption of a global chaos heralded by a red horse:

Another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given power to take peace away from the earth, so that people would slaughter one another. And he was given a huge sword. (Revelation 6:4)

Ironically, the crimson skies on November 11th (11/11) coincided with Remembrance Day celebrations marking the end of WWI — and the sea of blood that spilled in Europe with as many as 22 million perishing in that war.

In another recent message to Sulema, Our Lady allegedly says:

Pray for all those who will perish in the days to come, when events will begin one after the other. However, do not be afraid — you who have believed and put our words into practice — great will be your reward. —cf. Countdown to the Kingdom, October 24, 2025

These are sobering prophetic words. While some will out-of-hand dismiss such prophetic warnings as perhaps false or exaggerated, consider that NATO chief Mark Rutte warned this week that war with Russia ‘is at our door’ and that European allies are facing a conflict on the scale ‘our grandparents and great-grandparents endured’.^[4]December 11, 2025, Daily Mail This is a war that will no doubt involve North America as well. 

Here again, we recall Pope Leo XIII’s warnings regarding the conspiracies of the Freemasons, who eventually adopted the motto: Ordo ab chaos — “Order out of Chaos.” Again, Pope Leo spoke of the Masonic goal as “a change and overthrow of all things.” Today, these globalists gleefully call it “The Great Reset” from which they will “Build Back Better.” It seems to me that the second and following seals of Revelation 6 — economic collapse, famine, civil breakdown, pandemics, violence, and persecution culminating in the “Warning” or “Illumination of Conscience” (sixth seal) — are man-made catastrophes (see Brace For Impact), at worst. At best, they are this generation reaping the blood we have sown through war, abortion, and euthanasia. 

When they sow the wind, they shall reap the whirlwind. (Hos 8:7)

To herald these times, Jesus said in the Gospel of Luke: “There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on earth nations will be in dismay….” ^[5]Luke 21:25 Whether or not The Red Night of November 11th was a “sign” of impending justice, or merely a memorable solar display; or whether Comet 3I/Atlas, that’s whizzing by the earth right now and its strange behavior and light, are an omen… we know for certain that the “signs of the times” are unmistakable. 

Then another sign appeared in the sky; it was a huge red dragon…[it] stood before the woman about to give birth, to devour her child when she gave birth. (Revelation 12:3-4)

…the Church has always had the duty of scrutinizing the signs of the times and of interpreting them in the light of the Gospel. —Vatican II, Gaudium et Spes, §4

 

 

 

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