{"id":28282,"date":"2016-11-25T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=21768"},"modified":"2018-10-04T13:31:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T19:31:18","slug":"the-counter-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-counter-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Counter-Revolution","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"St. Maximillian Kolbe<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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I concluded\u00a0<\/em>Trajectory<\/a>\u00a0saying that we are being prepared for a new evangelization. This is what we must pre-occupy ourselves with\u2014not building bunkers and storing food. There is a “restoration” coming. Our Lady speaks of it, as well as the popes (see <\/em>The Popes, and the Dawning Era<\/a>). So do not dwell on the labour pains, but the birth to come. The purification of the world is but a small part of the masterplan unfolding, even if it is to emerge\u00a0from the blood of martyrs…<\/em><\/p>\n

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IT <\/b> is the hour of the Counter-Revolution <\/i>to begin.<\/i> The hour when each of us, according to the graces, faith, and gifts accorded us by the Holy Spirit are being called forth into this present darkness as flames of love <\/i>and light. <\/i>For, as Pope Benedict once said:<\/p>\n

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We cannot calmly accept the rest of humanity falling back again into paganism.<\/b> \u2014Cardinal Ratzinger (POPE BENEDICT XVI), The New Evangelization, Building the Civilization of Love<\/i>; Address to Catechists and Religion Teachers, December 12, 2000<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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…you shall not stand by idly when your neighbor\u2019s life is at stake. (cf. Lev 19:16)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It is the hour when we must strike our courage and do our part to bring about the restoration of all things in Christ.<\/p>\n

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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\u2026 my words [are] a prayer that the energies of the good might regain their vigor. So you could say the triumph of God, the triumph of Mary, are quiet, they are real nonetheless.<\/b> \u2014POPE BENEDICT XVI, Light of the World<\/i>, p. 166, A Conversation With Peter Seewald<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It is the hour when, more than anything else, the beauty <\/i>of our faith must shine again…<\/p>\n

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THE DARK CLOAK<\/p>\n

This present darkness can aptly be described as an ugliness<\/i>. It is an ugliness that has covered everything like a sullied black cloak, from art and literature, to music and theatre, to how we speak to one another on forums, in debates, on television and social media. Art has become \"\"abstract and bizarre; best-selling books are obsessed with crime and the occult; movies are transfixed on lust, violence, and apocalyptic gloom; television on meaningless, shallow \u201creality\u201d shows; our communication has become impertinent and demeaning; and popular music is often harsh and heavy, electronic and edgy, idolizing the flesh. So pervasive is this ugliness that even the Liturgy has been sullied with a loss of the sense of wonder and transcendence once encapsulated in the signs and symbols and music that in many places have been all but destroyed. Last, it is an ugliness that \"\"seeks to even deform nature itself\u2014the natural color of vegetables and fruits, the shape and features of animals, the function of plants and soil, and yes\u2014to even mutilate the image of God in which we are created, male <\/i>and female.<\/i>[1]<\/sup><\/a>cf.\u00a0Human Sexuality and Freedom<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span>