{"id":27025,"date":"2017-04-11T17:14:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T23:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=27025"},"modified":"2017-04-17T21:57:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T01:57:31","slug":"the-great-unveiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-great-unveiling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Unveiling","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS<br \/>\n for April 11th, 2017<br \/>\n Tuesday of Holy Week<\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\">Liturgical texts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/041117.cfm\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-27022\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/thebrideofchrist-1024x954.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"438\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace;\">Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord has gone forth in fury\u2014<\/span><br \/>\n <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace;\">A violent whirlwind!<\/span><br \/>\n <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace;\">It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.<\/span><br \/>\n <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace;\">The anger of the Lord will not turn back<\/span><br \/>\n <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace;\">until He has executed and performed <br \/>\n the thoughts of His heart.<\/span><br \/>\n <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace;\"><i>In the latter days you will understand it perfectly<\/i>. <\/span><br \/>\n <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace;\">(Jeremiah 23:19-20)<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>JEREMIAH\u2019s <\/b>words are reminiscent of the prophet Daniel\u2019s, who said something similar after he too received visions of the \u201clatter days\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace;\">As for you, Daniel, keep secret the message and seal the book <em>until<\/em> the end time; many shall fall away and evil shall increase. (Daniel 12:4)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is as if, in the \u201cend time,\u201d God will reveal the <i>fullness<\/i> of His divine plan. Now, nothing new will be added to the Church\u2019s Public Revelation given to us through Christ in the \u201cdeposit of faith.\u201d But, as I wrote in <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-unfolding-splendour-of-truth\/\">The Unfolding Splendor of Truth<\/a>, <\/i>our understanding of it can certainly deepen and deepen. And this has been the key role of \u201cprivate revelation\u201d in our times, such as in the writings of St. Faustina or Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_27025_1('footnote_plugin_reference_27025_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_27025_1('footnote_plugin_reference_27025_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_27025_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_27025_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/turn-on-the-headlights\/\">Turn on the Headlights<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_27025_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_27025_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For example, in a powerful vision, St. Gertrude the Great (d. 1302) was allowed to rest her head near the wound in the Saviour\u2019s breast. As she listened to His beating Heart, she asked St. John, the beloved Apostle, how it was that he, whose head had reposed on the breast of the Savior at the Last Supper, kept complete silence about the throbbing of <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-27027\" style=\"margin: 1px 2px 1px 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/st.-Gertrude.jpg\" width=\"234\" height=\"290\" \/>the adorable Heart of his Master in his writings. She expressed regret to him that he had said nothing about it for our instruction. The Apostle\u00a0replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><i><b>My mission was to write for the Church, still in its infancy, something about the uncreated Word of God the Father, something which of itself alone would give exercise to every human intellect to the end of time, something that no one would ever succeed in fully understanding. As for the language of these blessed beats of the Heart of Jesus, it is reserved for the last ages when the world, grown old and become cold in the love of God, will need to be warmed again by the revelation of these mysteries.<\/b><\/i> \u2014<i>Legatus divinae pietatis<\/i>, IV, 305; \u201cRevelationes Gertrudianae\u201d, ed. Poitiers and Paris, 1877<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In his encyclical on &#8220;Reparation to the Sacred Heart,&#8221; Pope Pius XI wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><b>And thus, even against our will, the thought rises in the mind that now those days draw near of which Our Lord prophesied: \u201cAnd because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold.\u201d<\/b> (Matt. 24:12). \u2014POPE PIUS XI, <i>Miserentissimus Redemptor<\/i>, n. 17; May, 1928<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Those words were like a \u201cdivine cue\u201d that, six years later, sparked the \u201c<i>language of these blessed beats of the Heart of Jesus<\/i>\u201d in the revelations of Divine Mercy that Jesus gave to St. Faustina. With one heartbeat, Jesus warns, and with the other, He beckons:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><i><b>In the Old Covenant I sent prophets wielding thunderbolts to My people. Today I am sending you with My mercy to the people of the whole world. I do not want to punish aching mankind, but I desire to heal it, pressing it to My Merciful Heart. I use punishment when they themselves force Me to do so; My hand is reluctant to take hold of the sword of justice. Before the Day of Justice I am sending the Day of Mercy.<\/b><\/i> \u2014Jesus to St. Faustina, <em>Divine<\/em><i> Mercy in My Soul, <\/i>Diary, n. 1588<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In today\u2019s first reading, the prophet Isaiah, whom the Church Fathers say foretold of an \u201cera of peace\u201d on earth before the end of the world, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace;\">It is too little, he says, for you to be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and restore the survivors of Israel; I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth. (Ch 49)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is as if the Father is saying to the Son, \u201c<i>It is too little for You to only reconcile the relationship of My creatures with Me by Your Blood; rather, the entire world must be filled with your Truth, and all the coastlands know and worship the Divine Wisdom. In this way, your light will withdraw all creation from the darkness and restore the Divine Order in men. And then, will come the end.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace;\">And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the world as a witness to all nations, and then the end will come. (Matthew 24:14)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-27023\" style=\"margin: 2px 5px 2px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/veil-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"272\" height=\"181\" \/>Enter: the writings of Luisa Piccarreta on the Divine Will, which are as though \u201cthe other side of the coin\u201d to Divine Mercy. If Faustina\u2019s revelations prepare us for the end of this era, Luisa&#8217;s prepare us for the next. As Jesus said to Luisa:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><i><b>The time in which these writings will be made known is relative to and dependent on the disposition of souls who wish to receive so great a good, as well as on the effort of those who must apply themselves in being its trumpet-bearers by offering up the sacrifice of heralding in the new era of peace\u2026<\/b><\/i> \u2014<i>The Gift of Living in the Divine Will in the Writings of Luisa Piccarreta<\/i>, n. 1.11.6, Rev. Joseph Iannuzzi; this dissertation on Luisa\u2019s writings received the Vatican University\u2019s seals of approval as well as ecclesiastical approval<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #140652; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><b>\u2026at the \u201cend time\u201d the Lord\u2019s Spirit will renew the hearts of men, engraving a new law in them. He will gather and reconcile the scattered and divided peoples; he will transform the first creation, and God will dwell there with men in peace.<\/b><\/span> \u2014<i>Catechism of the Catholic Church<\/i>, n. 715<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All this is to say that we are privileged to live in such an extraordinary moment, foretold by\u00a0several prophets <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-27024\" style=\"margin: 1px 2px 1px 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bride-683x1024.jpg\" width=\"241\" height=\"361\" \/>thousands of years ago. The word \u201capocalypse\u201d comes from the Greek <i>apokalupsis, <\/i>which mean to &#8220;uncover&#8221; or &#8220;reveal.&#8221; In that light, the Apocalypse of St. John is not about doom and gloom, but the accomplishment <i>in time <\/i>of Jesus preparing for himself a holy Bride&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace;\">&#8230;that he might present to himself the church in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. (Ephesians 5:27)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We are beginning to understand, little by little, the purpose of this Great Storm that has descended upon our generation, this \u201cwhirlwind\u201d that the prophet Jeremiah spoke of. It is being permitted by God in order to purify the earth and establish the Kingdom of Christ to the coastlands: a time when His Word will be done \u201c<i>on earth as it is in Heaven.<\/i><i>\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In this regard, Jesus and Mary (the \u201cTwo Hearts\u201d who both said &#8220;yes&#8221; to the Father) reveal in their persons\u00a0a pattern of events or stages of the \u201clatter times.\u201d Jesus shows us the Way that the Church must follow in order to be purified\u2014the Way of the Cross. As my friend, the late Fr. George Kosicki wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><b>The Church will increase the reign of the Divine Savior by returning to the Upper Room by way of Calvary!<\/b> \u2014<i>The Spirit and the Bride say \u201cCome!\u201d<\/i>, page 95<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #140652; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><b>&#8230;when she will follow her Lord in his death and Resurrection.<\/b><\/span> \u2014<em>Catechism of the Catholic Church<\/em>, n. 677<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Jesus said to Peter in today\u2019s Gospel: <i>&#8220;Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, though you will follow later.\u201d <\/i>That is because salvation history is not yet complete until the Body of Christ is fully in union with the Head:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><b>For the mysteries of Jesus are not yet completely perfected and fulfilled. They are complete, indeed, in the person of Jesus, but not in us, who are his members, nor in the Church, which is his mystical body.<\/b> \u2014St. John Eudes, treatise \u201cOn the Kingdom of Jesus\u201d, <i>Liturgy of the Hours<\/i>, Vol IV, p 559<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In that regard, Mary is the symbol of this \u201cBride\u201d and her journey to perfection; she is &#8220;the image of the Church to come.\u201d <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_27025_1('footnote_plugin_reference_27025_1_2');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_27025_1('footnote_plugin_reference_27025_1_2');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_27025_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_27025_1_2\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">POPE BENEDICT XVI, <i>Spe Salvi<\/i>, n.50<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_27025_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_27025_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><b>Mary is totally dependent upon God and completely directed towards him, and at the side of her Son, she is the most perfect image of freedom and of the liberation of humanity and of the universe. It is to her as Mother and Model that the Church must look in order to understand in its completeness the meaning of her own mission.<\/b> \u2014POPE ST. JOHN PAUL II, <i>Redemptoris Mater<\/i>, n. 37<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What does our mission look like in these \u201cend times\u201d? When Mary said \u201cyes\u201d to God, her <i>fiat <\/i>brought the Holy Spirit down upon her and the reign of Jesus began in her womb. So too, as is now being more fully revealed in Luisa\u2019s writings, the Church must also give her assent, her \u201cyes\u201d, in order for a \u201cnew Pentecost\u201d to come so that Jesus will reign in His saints in what will be a \u201cperiod of peace\u201d on earth, or what the Church Fathers called a \u201csabbath rest\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><b>But when The Antichrist shall have devastated all things in this world, he will reign for three years and six months, and sit in the temple at Jerusalem; and then the Lord will come from Heaven in the clouds\u2026 sending this man and those who follow him into the lake of fire; but bringing in for the righteous the times of the kingdom, that is, the rest, the hallowed seventh day\u2026 These are to take place in the times of the kingdom, that is, upon the seventh day\u2026 the true Sabbath of the righteous.<\/b> \u2014St. Irenaeus of Lyons, Church Father (140\u2013202 A.D.); Adversus Haereses, Irenaeus of Lyons, V.33.3.4,<i> The Fathers of the Church<\/i>, CIMA Publishing Co.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><b>\u2026when His Son will come and destroy the time of the lawless one and judge the godless, and change the sun and the moon and the stars\u2014then He shall indeed rest on the seventh day\u2026 after giving rest to all things, I will make the beginning of the eighth day, that is, the beginning of another world.<\/b> \u2014<i>Letter of Barnabas<\/i> (70-79 A.D.), written by a second century Apostolic Father<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So in that regard, Jesus <i>really <\/i>is coming, <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_27025_1('footnote_plugin_reference_27025_1_3');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_27025_1('footnote_plugin_reference_27025_1_3');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_27025_1_3\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[3]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_27025_1_3\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/is-jesus-really-coming\/\"><i>Is Jesus Really Coming?<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_27025_1_3').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_27025_1_3', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> but not to reign in the flesh as He came 2000 years ago. Rather, to be definitively \u201cconceived\u201d in the Church so that, through her, Jesus may truly become a light to <i>all <\/i>the nations.<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><b><br \/>\n <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><b>[Mary] was commissioned to prepare the Bride by purifying our \u201cyes\u201d to be like hers, so that the whole Christ, Head and Body, could offer a total sacrifice of love to the Father. Her \u201cyes\u201d as the public person is now to be <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-27028\" style=\"margin: 2px 5px 2px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vrg-814x1024.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"256\" \/>offered by the Church as a corporate person. Mary now seeks our consecration to her so that she might prepare us and bring us to the docile \u201cyes\u201d of Jesus on the Cross. She needs our consecration and not just a vague devotion and piety. Rather, she needs our devotion and piety in the root meaning of the words, ie., \u201cdevotion\u201d as the giving of our vows (consecration) and \u201cpiety\u201d as the response of loving sons. To grasp this vision of God\u2019s plan to prepare his Bride for the \u201cnew age\u201d, we need a new wisdom. This new wisdom is especially available to those who have consecrated themselves to Mary, the Seat of Wisdom.<\/b> \u2014<i>The Spirit and the Bride Say \u201cCome!\u201d<\/i>, Fr. George Farrell &amp; Fr. George Kosicki, p. 75-76<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And so, as I have said before, it is not enough to simply \u201cknow\u201d these things. Rather, we need to internalize them <i><\/i>through <i>prayer <\/i>and <i>consecration <\/i>to this Woman. We have to enter Our Lady\u2019s school, which we do by \u201cprayer of the heart\u201d: by approaching the Mass with love and devotion, attention and awareness; by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/prayer-from-the-heart\/\">praying <i>from <\/i>the heart<\/a>, as we would speak to a friend; by loving God, seeking first His Kingdom, and serving Him in our neighbour. In these ways, the Kingdom of God will already begin to reign in you, and the transition from this era to the next will be one of joy and hope, even amidst suffering.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace;\">For the sake of the joy that lay before him he endured the cross&#8230; (Heb 12:2)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And for Jesus, there too was a refuge beneath the Cross.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><i><b>My Mother is Noah\u2019s Ark.<\/b> <\/i>\u2014Jesus to Elizabeth Kindelmann, <i>The Flame of Love<\/i>, p. 109; with the <i>Imprimatur<\/i> from Archbishop Charles Chaput<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As this Great Storm becomes more violent and fierce,<em> \u201cyou will understand it perfectly,\u201d<\/em> said Jeremiah. How? Our Lady is the Seat of Wisdom\u2014like that Mercy Seat that once crowned the \u201cark of the new covenant.\u201d It is <em>in\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>through<\/em> Mary \u201cfull of grace&#8221; that Jesus will give us the Wisdom to pass through this Storm as we take her to be the refuge that she is, by the Father&#8217;s will.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace;\">In you, O LORD, I take refuge\u2026 On you I depend from birth, <i>from my mother&#8217;s womb you are my strength.<\/i> (Today\u2019s Psalm)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">RELATED READING<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/is-the-veil-lifting\/\"><i>Is the Veil Lifting?<\/i><\/a> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-last-effort\/\"><i>The Last Effort<\/i><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-great-ark\/\"><i>The Great Ark<\/i><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/key-to-the-woman\/\"><i>Key to the Woman<\/i><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/is-jesus-really-coming\/\"><i>Is Jesus Really Coming?<\/i><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-middle-coming\/\"><i>The Middle Coming<\/i><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/prayer-from-the-heart\/\"><strong>Praying from the Heart<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Sorts Mill Goudy', serif; 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