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THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS
for Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
Memorial of St. Irenaeus
Liturgical texts here<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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LOOKING <\/strong>over his shoulder at the past 2000 years, and then, the times directly ahead, John Paul II made a profound statement:<\/p>\n

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The world at the approach of a new millennium, for which the whole Church is preparing, is like a field ready for the harvest.<\/span><\/strong> \u2014POPE JOHN PAUL II, World Youth Day, homily, August 15th, 1993<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

At that same event at World Youth Day in Denver, Colorado, he spoke of the profound confusion between good and evil, right and wrong\u2014and this\u00a0before<\/em> the Supreme Courts and other rogue government leaders would redefine the meaning of marriage and nature of human sexuality, the very foundations <\/em>of society. He prophetically compared the war between the culture of life and the culture of death to the “woman clothed in the sun” and the “dragon” battling in Revelation 12. That is to say that, the world-wide system <\/em>that Pope Leo XIII warned was coming, John Paul II said was now here:<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2026that which is their ultimate purpose forces itself into view\u2014namely, the utter overthrow of that whole religious and political order of the world which the Christian teaching has produced, and the substitution of a new state of things in accordance with their ideas, of which the foundations and laws shall be drawn from mere naturalism.<\/span><\/strong> \u2014POPE LEO XIII, Humanum Genus<\/em>, Encyclical on Freemasonry, n.10, April 20th, 1884<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Few, it seems, understand what these papal prophets are saying: namely, that the “beast” of Revelation is rising.<\/p>\n

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Indeed, the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants, the prophets. (Today’s first reading)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But both popes, among several others, also foresaw the end of this “Storm”: that the earth would be purified and that the Church would enjoy a “new springtime” and “coming new and divine holiness.”\u00a0[1]<\/sup><\/a>cf. The Popes, and the Dawning Era<\/a><\/em> and The Coming New and Divine Holiness<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span>