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\"\"ON THE FEAST OF OUR LADY OF LOURDES<\/p>\n

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THERE\u00a0<\/b>are two ways to approach the times now unfolding: as victims or protagonists, as bystanders or leaders. We have to choose. Because there is no more middle ground. There is no more place for the lukewarm. There is no more waffling on the project of our holiness or of our witness. Either we are all in for Christ \u2014 or we will be taken in by the spirit of the world.<\/p>\n

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A TIME TO WEEP<\/p>\n

Is it not true that, already, vast portions of humanity have been drawn into at least the first stages of The Strong Delusion<\/em><\/a> that St. Paul spoke of? Brainwashed by a politically correct culture<\/a>, lulled into a false sense of security by a mostly silent clergy<\/a>, and breathlessly corralled into a system<\/a> that is daily purging<\/a> the truth, rewriting history, and evacuating freedom of speech, religion, thought and movement by the hour. And yet, who is resisting? Who is sounding the alarm? Who are the shepherds rising to defend their flocks, the Sacraments and the freedom to not only worship Christ in the public square but to proclaim His Gospel to the nations?<\/p>\n

My Lord and my God… I saw all this so clearly about eight years ago as I drove to meet a priest for the Sacrament of Confession. Suddenly, I saw in my heart how everything would be “lost” and driven into the silence of the tomb. When I got back home, I wrote it down:[1]<\/sup><\/a>see Weep, O Children of Men!<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span>