{"id":28283,"date":"2023-10-17T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=21586"},"modified":"2026-03-01T21:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:16:18","slug":"a-time-to-weep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/a-time-to-weep\/","title":{"rendered":"A Time to Weep","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-53825\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Rocket-Launcher.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Rocket-Launcher.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Rocket-Launcher-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Rocket-Launcher-1024x658.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Rocket-Launcher-768x494.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">A Flaming Sword<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>1917:<\/u><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><b>&#8230;at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendour that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: <i>\u2018Penance, Penance, Penance!\u2019<\/i><\/b>\u2014Sr. Lucia of Fatima, July 13th, 1917<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><u>1937:<\/u><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><b>I saw the Lord Jesus, like a king in great majesty, looking down upon our earth with great severity; but because of His Mother\u2019s intercession He prolonged the time of His mercy\u2026the Lord answered me, <i>\u201cI am prolonging the time of mercy for the sake of [sinners]. But woe to them if they do not recognize this time of My visitation.\u201d<\/i><\/b> \u2014St. Faustina, <i>Divine Mercy in My Soul<\/i>, Diary, n. 126I, 1160<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><u>1965:<\/u><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><b>Although the world of today has a very vivid awareness of its unity and of how one man depends on another in needful solidarity, it is most grievously torn into opposing camps by conflicting forces. For political, social, economic, racial and ideological disputes still continue bitterly, and with them the peril of a war which would reduce everything to ashes.<\/b> \u2014Second Vatican Council, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, <i>Gaudium et Spes<\/i>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/archive\/hist_councils\/ii_vatican_council\/documents\/vat-ii_cons_19651207_gaudium-et-spes_en.html\">vatican.va<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><u>2000:<\/u><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><b>The angel with the flaming sword on the left of the Mother of God recalls similar images in the Book of Revelation. This represents the threat of judgment which looms over the world. Today the prospect that the world might be reduced to ashes by a sea of fire no longer seems pure fantasy: man himself, with his inventions, has forged the flaming sword.<\/b>\u2014Cardinal Ratzinger (POPE BENEDICT XVI) The Message of Fatima, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/roman_curia\/congregations\/cfaith\/documents\/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000626_message-fatima_en.html\">www.vatican.va<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><u>2002:<\/u><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><b>Today I willingly entrust to the power of this prayer [the Rosary]\u2026 the cause of peace in the world and the cause of the family.<\/b> \u2014POPE ST. JOHN PAUL II,<a href=\"https:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/john-paul-ii\/en\/apost_letters\/2002\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_apl_20021016_rosarium-virginis-mariae.html\"><i> Rosarium Virginis Mariae<\/i><\/a>, n. 39;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><u>2003:<\/u><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><b>There will be no peace on earth while the oppression of peoples, injustices, and economic imbalances, which still exist, endure.<\/b> \u2014POPE ST. JOHN PAUL II, Ash Wednesday Mass, 2003<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><u>2005:<\/u><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><b>\u2026the threat of judgment also concerns us, the Church in Europe, Europe and the West in general\u2026 Light can also be taken away from us and we do well to let this warning ring out with its full seriousness in our hearts\u2026<\/b> \u2014POPE BENEDICT XVI, Opening Homily, Synod of Bishops,October 2nd, 2005, Rome.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><u>2007:<\/u><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><b>&#8230;the danger of an increase in the number of countries possessing nuclear weapons causes well-founded apprehension in every responsible person.<\/b> \u2014POPE BENEDICT XVI, December 11th, 2007; USA Today<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><u>2013:<\/u><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><b>Weapons and violence do not lead to peace, war leads to more war.<\/b> \u2014POPE FRANCIS, September 1, 2013; france24.com<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><u>2014:<\/u><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><b>War is madness\u2026 even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a Third\u00a0War, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction\u2026 Humanity needs to weep, and <i>this is the time to weep<\/i>.<\/b> \u2014POPE FRANCIS, September 13th, 2015; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-29190890\">BBC.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2015-2016:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><em>Pope Francis declares a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/opening-wide-the-doors-of-mercy\/\">Jubilee of Mercy<\/a>.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><em><strong>Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>\u2014Jesus to St. Faustina;\u00a0<em>Divine Mercy in My Soul, Diary,\u00a0<\/em>n. 300<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><em><strong>&#8230;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&#8230;<\/strong><\/em> \u2014Jesus to St. Faustina,\u00a0<em>Divine Mercy in My Soul,\u00a0<\/em>Diary, n. 1146<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2017:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>The winds of war are blowing in our world and an outdated model of development continues to produce human, societal and environmental decline.<\/strong> \u2014POPE FRANCIS, <em>Urbi et Orbi<\/em>, December 25th, 2017; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/pope-laments-winds-war-blowing-around-world-113713632.html\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Yahoo.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>&#8230;no war is just. The only just thing is peace.<\/strong> \u2014POPE FRANCIS, from\u00a0<em>Politique et Soci\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em>, an interview with\u00a0Dominique Wolton; cf.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/news\/2017\/09\/03\/pope-says-marriage-can-only-be-between-a-man-and-a-woman-and-we-cannot-change-it\/\">catholicherald.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2018:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>I think we are at the very limit. I am really afraid of this. One accident is enough to precipitate things.<\/strong> \u2014POPE FRANCIS, aboard flight to Chile and Peru, Reuters, January 15th, 2018; <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/pope-warns-world-one-step-away-nuclear-war-115741315.html\">yahoo.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2020:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>&#8220;War brings only death and destruction&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0there is a \u201cterrible air of tension&#8230; I call upon all parties to fan the flame of dialogue and self-control, and to banish the shadow of enmity.&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014POPE FRANCIS, Angelus, Vatican City, January 5th, 2020; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2020-01\/pope-francis-appeal-against-war-iran-usa.html\">vaticannews.va<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2020:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>We need to break with the present climate of distrust. At present, we are witnessing an erosion of multilateralism, which is all the more serious in light of the development of new forms of military technology, such as lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) which irreversibly alter the nature of warfare, detaching it further from human agency&#8230;<\/strong> \u2014POPE FRANCIS, Address to the United Nations, September 25th, 2020; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/in-un-message-pope-francis-decries-abortion-and-family-breakdown-91621\">catholicnewsagency.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2022:<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>I would like to appeal to those with political responsibility to examine their consciences seriously before God, who is the God of peace and not of war; who is the Father of all, not just of some, who wants us to be brothers and not enemies&#8230; May the Queen of Peace preserve the world from the madness of war.<\/strong> \u2014POPE FRANCIS, General Audience, February 23rd, 2022; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/audiences\/2022\/documents\/20220223-udienza-generale.html\">vatican.va<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2022:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>The madness is on all sides because war is madness &#8230;some are thinking of nuclear weapons \u2014 which is madness.<\/strong> \u2014POPE FRANCIS, <a href=\"https:\/\/catholicnews.com\/pope-calls-for-end-to-horror-madness-on-anniversary-of-war-in-ukraine\/\">General Audience<\/a>, August 24th; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/pope-says-ukraine-subjected-savageness-monstrosities-torture-2022-09-21\/\">General Audience<\/a>, Sept. 21st<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2023:<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>The whole world is at war and self-destruction, we must stop in time!<\/strong> \u2014POPE FRANCIS, press conference aboard the papal plane on the return flight to Rome from South Sudan, February 5th, 2023; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2023-02\/pope-entire-world-is-at-war-and-in-self-destruction.html\">vaticannews.va<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>And let it be understood that terrorism and war do not lead to any resolutions, but only to the death and suffering of so many innocent people. War is a defeat!<\/strong> \u2014POPE FRANCIS, October 8, 2023; <a href=\"https:\/\/melbournecatholic.org\/news\/war-is-a-defeat-pope-and-jerusalems-christian-leaders-pray-for-peace\">melbournecatholic.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2026<\/span>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>A diplomacy that promotes dialogue and seeks consensus among all parties is being replaced by a diplomacy based on force, by either individuals or groups of allies. War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading.\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014POPE LEO XIV, January 9, 2026;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7345087\/pope-leo-war-diplomacy-vatican-venezuela-trump-russia-ukraine\/\"><em>TIME<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Peace is no longer sought as a gift and a desirable good in itself. Instead, peace is sought through weapons as a condition for asserting one\u2019s own dominion. This gravely threatens the rule of law, which is the foundation of all peaceful civil coexistence.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014POPE LEO XIV, January 9, 2026;\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/vatican-dispatch\/2026\/01\/09\/pope-leo-ambassadors-war-peace\/\">America Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Faced with the possibility of a tragedy of immense proportions, I make a heartfelt appeal to all the parties involved to assume the moral responsibility of halting the spiral of violence before it becomes an irreparable abyss.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014POPE LEO XIV, March 1, 2026,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiv\/en\/angelus\/2026\/documents\/20260301-angelus.html\">Angelus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><em><strong>My dearly children beloved, my heart is torn by grief and my tears bathe the earth. Children, again blood and pain will tear my poor heart; the rumbling of wars that were distant are now at the gates. Everything that I had been announcing for a long time will come to pass; now the time has come.\u00a0Children, pray and do not fall into the temptation of thinking that God has forgotten you; each one of you is precious in His eyes. Children, each of you has been paid for dearly, my son Jesus died for each one of you and loves you immensely, but unfortunately man, more and more, wants to take His place.\u00a0Dearly beloved children<\/strong><\/em><strong> (Mother was crying as she was speaking)<\/strong><em><strong>, you will experience momentous times, you will live in lament and pain; pray, children, make your life a continuous prayer. My children, the weapon for facing these moments of darkness and pain and for ensuring that all of this is mitigated, is prayer, and staying before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament: it is there that you will draw the greatest strength!<\/strong><\/em> \u2014Our Lady of Zaro allegedly to Angela; Ischia, Italy; April 8th, 2017 (translation by Peter Bannister)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>First published Nov. 11th, 2015; updated today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">RELATED READING<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-seven-seals-of-revolution\/\">The Seven Seals of Revolution<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-hour-of-the-sword\/\"><i>The Hour of the Sword<\/i><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/sheathing-the-sword\/\"><i>Sheathing the Sword<\/i><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/opening-wide-the-doors-of-mercy\/\"><i>Opening Wide the Doors of Mercy<\/i><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-progression-of-man\/\"><i><b>The Progression of Man<\/b><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-great-culling\/\"><i><b>The Great Culling<\/b><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/what-if\/\"><i><b>What If?<\/b><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/store.markmallett.com\/donate\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Donateovalbtnonbeige.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"48\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Flaming Sword &nbsp; 1917: &#8230;at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendour that Our Lady [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[28,479,1007,1008,1266],"class_list":["post-28283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","category-signs","tag-revelation","tag-war","tag-nuclear","tag-sword","tag-seal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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