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If you are a subscriber to The Now Word, be sure that emails to you are “whitelisted” by your internet provider by allowing email from “markmallett.com”. Also, check your junk or spam folder if emails are ending up there and be sure to mark them as “not” junk or spam.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n THERE<\/strong> is something happening that we have to pay attention to, something the Lord is doing, or one could say, allowing. And that is the stripping of His Bride, Mother Church, of her worldly and stained garments, until she stands naked before Him.<\/p>\n The prophet Hosea writes…<\/p>\n Accuse your mother, accuse! for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove her prostitution from her face, her adultery from between her breasts, or I will strip her naked, leaving her as on the day of her birth… For she said, \u201cI will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.\u201d Therefore, I will hedge in her way with thorns and erect a wall The Lord, in His ineffable love for her, is drawing His Bride into the desert to be denuded of every love that is not rooted in Him. Hence, these are the worst and best of times for which we were born. There is a saying that goes “Those who choose to be married to the spirit of the world in this age, will be divorced in the next.”\u00a0<\/em>Hence, the Lord is sifting humanity like wheat from the tares in order to draw a People to Himself, to be pure, holy and spotless. As Hosea wrote, “They will be called, ‘Children of the living God.'” Recall The Prophecy at Rome<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>where Jesus says,\u00a0<\/p>\n I will lead you into the desert\u2026 I\u00a0will strip you of<\/span>\u00a0everything that you are depending on now, so you depend just on me… <\/span>And when you have nothing but Me,<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>you will have everything…<\/strong> \u2014<\/span><\/em>given at Rome, St. Peter’s Square, Pentecost Monday of May, 1975 (from Ralph Martin)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n As I was writing this, an invitation arrived in my email to come to Ohio to speak at a conference. But I replied that our government forbids those such as me, who have rejected the experimental gene therapy (even though I’ve had COVID, and am immune) from travelling on bus, train, or plane. In fact, I am not allowed in gyms, restaurants, liquor stores, theatres, etc. either. I have also been banned or blocked on several social media platforms for merely discussing the science and data. Far more tragic, I have received numerous letters from doctors, nurses, pilots, soldiers and other professionals, who have been fired or dismissed for the same reasons \u2014 people with families, mortgages, obligations and dreams… all of those shattered now by the spectre of a new global tyranny advancing in the name of “health.” Never has the poverty of being abandoned <\/em>been felt so keenly around the world as our bishops have remained almost completely silent if not complicit \u2014 leaving their flock to the wolves.[1]<\/sup><\/a>cf.\u00a0Dear Shepherds… Where Are You?<\/em><\/a>, Open Letter to the Catholic Bishops<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span>\n
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against her, so that she cannot find her paths…\u00a0Now I will lay bare her shame in full view of her lovers, and no one can deliver her out of my hand… Therefore, I will allure her now; I will lead her into the wilderness and speak persuasively to her. Then I will give her the vineyards she had, and the valley of Achor as a door of hope. (Hos 2:4-17)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n