The Time of Divisions

Satan is strong and is fighting
to draw all the more hearts to himself.
He wants war and hatred.
—Our Lady to Marija on October 25th, 2020 (with Nihil Obstat)

The devil wants to have full domination over the earth.
He wants to destroy.
—Our Lady to Gladys Herminia Quiroga of Argentina,
approved on May 22nd, 2016
by Bishop Hector Sabatino Cardelli

He even wants to destroy the faith
and confidence of the elect.
—from the approved revelations of
Our Lady to Elizabeth Kindelmann (1913-1985)
The Spiritual Diary (Kindle Locations 2994-2997)

…the evil one wants to draw you into a war.
Saint Michael the Archangel
allegedly to Manuela Strack, February 17, 2026

or on YouTube

Great divisions are exploding throughout the world. The news cycle is almost entirely dominated now by a deepening hatred that is possessing nations, neighbours, and families. It’s spilling out into violence and war, mass shootings and murder, hatred and verbal attacks that is impacting us all. Social media has become a pit fight; reveling in another’s misery has become entertainment; even podcasters, claiming to be Christians, regularly drop the f-bomb on their adversaries. Who can read St. Paul’s letter to Timothy today and not seriously reflect on the hour in which we seem to be living?

…in the last days there will come times of stress. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. (2 Timothy 3:1-5)

BBC Headline, September 2024

Many don’t know that volcanoes are multiplying around the world; it’s as though the earth has begun to mirror the explosive hatred of a humanity that has lost sight of its origin and meaning, and therefore its dignity.

…the earth has begun to show mankind the depth of his sins… the earth is responding according to them. —Jesus to Jennifer, July 20th, 2005, March 8, 20025; cf. Mountains Will Awaken

Even the Barque of Peter has begun to creak and groan under the divisions that are tearing at her hull. It seems we are more preoccupied with problems with the liturgy, or Vatican II, or climate change, or the Pope’s shortcomings than we are in seeking out the lost with the Gospel. Who is proclaiming with simplicity and power the name of Jesus and His saving message to the world? Without this torch of Divine Mercy, the message of salvation, the world is being plunged into spiritual darkness with increasingly grave consequences:

…in vast areas of the world the faith is in danger of dying out like a flame which no longer has fuel. —Letter of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to All the Bishops of the World, March 12, 2009; Catholic Online

In the place of the true Faith have arisen false ideologies and idols, Marxism in particular, just as Jesus warned:

Many false prophets will arise and deceive many; and because of the increase of evildoing, the love of many will grow cold. (Matthew 24:11-12)

The fruit of this social chill is division. As a result, said Servant of God Bishop Fulton Sheen:

The world is rapidly being divided into two camps, the comradeship of anti-Christ and the brotherhood of Christ. The lines between these two are being drawn. How long the battle will be we know not; whether swords will have to be unsheathed we know not; whether blood will have to be shed we know not; whether it will be an armed conflict we know not. But in a conflict between truth and darkness, truth cannot lose. —Venerable Bishop Fulton John Sheen, D.D. (1895-1979), televion series

We have to pay attention to these signs, for division was one of them that Jesus said would come at the end of the age:

Let both grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.’” (Matthew 13:24-30)

This is the time in which you are living. —Saint Michael the Archangel, allegedly to Manuela Strack, February 17, 2026

This division will, above all, run through the Church. A great “apostasy” would come, said St. Paul.^[1]cf. 2 Thess 2:3 But it seems to me that it is occurring in the softest of ways. In 1990, Pope John Paul II seemingly prophesied the situation of the Church today — a Church which has lost sight of its mission to save souls:

[Some in the Church are] on the one hand promoting such “values of the kingdom” as peace, justice, freedom, brotherhood, etc., while on the other hand fostering dialogue between peoples, cultures and religions, so that through a mutual enrichment they might help the world to be renewed and to journey ever closer toward the kingdom…. [but] they are silent about Christ… according to them, Christ cannot be understood by those who lack Christian faith, whereas different peoples, cultures and religions are capable of finding common ground in the one divine reality, by whatever name it is called. For the same reason they put great stress on the mystery of creation, which is reflected in the diversity of cultures and beliefs, but they keep silent about the mystery of redemption. Furthermore, the kingdom, as they understand it, ends up either leaving very little room for the Church or undervaluing the Church in reaction to a presumed “ecclesiocentrism” of the past, and because they consider the Church herself only a sign, for that matter a sign not without ambiguity.

This is not the kingdom of God as we know it from Revelation. The kingdom cannot be detached either from Christ or from the Church. —Redemptoris Missio, n. 17

The Call to the New Evangelization

In that same encyclical, St. John Paul II exhorted you and I, the Body of Christ, saying:

I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization and to the mission ad gentes.^[2]to the nations No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples. —Redemptoris Missio, n. 3

Evangelizing with my family

John Paul II’s call to this “new evangelization” back then was thunder in my soul. I tried in multiple ways to respond to that call — from my first music ministry One Voice, to recording the Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet and albums of worship and penitence, to traveling throughout North America and abroad to minister in churches… and to this present writing apostolate. And yet, the words of St. Paul convict me more than ever:

I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingly power: proclaim the word; be persistent whether it is convenient or inconvenient; convince, reprimand, encourage through all patience and teaching. (2 Timothy 4:1-2)

…woe to me if I do not preach it! (1 Corinthians 9:16)

Do we even know what it means to “preach the Gospel” anymore? Do Catholics even know what the “message of salvation is”? Could we repeat it in a grocery store, or park, or on the subway to some soul whom the Holy Spirit has brought before us? More than that, is the message we are charged to share with others reflected in our words and actions, in person or on social media?

Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope, but do it with gentleness and reverence, keeping your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who defame your good conduct in Christ may themselves be put to shame. (1 Peter 3:15-16)

We are called in this current atmosphere of division to be a “sign of contradiction”^[3]cf. Luke 2:34 to all this hatred — to be a sign of love, and peace, and hope.

In my next reflection, I want to share the basic explanation that we ought to know and always be ready to proclaim in our own words to others, as the Spirit leads…