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\"\"Mary of the Shroud,\u00a0<\/em>by Julian Lasbliez<\/span><\/p>\n

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EVERY\u00a0<\/strong>morning with the sunrise, I sense the presence and love of God for this poor world. I relive the words of Lamentations:<\/p>\n

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The Lord\u2019s acts of mercy are not exhausted,\u00a0his compassion is not spent; they are renewed each morning \u2014\u00a0great is your faithfulness! (3:22-23)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As the animals stir, the children rise, and the clatter of daily living fills our streets, shops, and places of work, there is the feeling that life will go on as it always has. And I am tempted to believe that maybe, just maybe the hundreds of thousands of words I’ve written here are reserved for another generation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But then Our Lady grabs me by the coattails and says, “We have work to do<\/em>.” Yes, it’s too late for me to go back to the status quo. My life has been forever changed since that unforgettable day<\/a> the Lord called me to this writing apostolate.\u00a0The Temptation to be Normal<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>has lost most of its pull, because I can see as plainly as the nose on my face that\u00a0all\u00a0<\/em>the things I have been warning about are coming to pass now in real time.<\/p>\n

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THE FORERUNNERS<\/p>\n

Ten years ago, a word came to me in prayer that we are in the time of\u00a0The Forerunners<\/a>. <\/em>That just as John the Baptist was a forerunner of Christ crying out, “Prepare the way of the Lord<\/em>,” so too, there are going to be forerunners of\u00a0Antichrist. <\/em>John came announcing that “every valley shall be filled and every mountain and \"\"hill shall be made low.”<\/em>\u00a0So too, the forerunners of Antichrist will prepare his way announcing an\u00a0anti-Gospel.<\/em> These words were just barely coming into view when I first wrote them:<\/p>\n

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The Antichrist’s paths are being “made straight” by forerunners who are removing obstacles to his “culture of death.” They will speak words that sound reasonable, sound tolerant and good. But they will be more of a twist of truth as opposed to its opposite.\u00a0The “valleys they fill and the mountains they make low”<\/strong> (cf. Luke 3:4)\u00a0are the differences between man and woman, mankind and animal kind, between one religion or another: everything is to be made uniform<\/a><\/em>. The winding roads of human suffering are to be straightened, made wide and easy by offering “solutions” to end all suffering. And the rough ways of dying to sin and self will be razed and paved over with a shiny and guiltless surface where sin does not exist and self-fulfillment is the ultimate destination.<\/strong> \u2014cf.\u00a0The Forerunners<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>February 13th, 2009<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It will be a “new age,” say these forerunners. Sixteen years ago, the Vatican released a document that also served as a forerunner to this hour. It spoke of a time coming when genders would be relativized, technology would merge flesh with computer chips, and Christianity would be edged out of a new world:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The New Age<\/em> which is dawning will be peopled by perfect, androgynous beings who are totally in command of the cosmic laws of nature. In this scenario, Christianity has to be eliminated and give way to a global religion and a new world order.<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2014\u201aJesus Christ, The Bearer of the Water of Life, <\/em>n. 4<\/a>, Pontifical Councils for Culture and Inter-religious Dialogue<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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THE GREAT STORM<\/p>\n

But our Mother was warning us for centuries, pleading for decades: a\u00a0Great Storm<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>would come upon humanity if<\/em> we did not turn back to her Son, Jesus Christ and the Divine Will that is the basis for a culture of love. As she said over 100 years ago at Fatima:<\/p>\n

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If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace<\/strong><\/em>. If not, [Russia] will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be\u00a0martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated<\/em>. <\/strong>\u2014Message of Fatima, www.vatican.va<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This “Storm” would not be divine in origin,\u00a0per se,<\/em>\u00a0but one of our own making.[1]<\/sup><\/a>cf.\u00a0Reaping the Whirlwind<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span>