{"id":5896,"date":"2017-01-25T00:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/the-great-ark\/"},"modified":"2019-02-23T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T22:10:06","slug":"the-great-ark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-great-ark\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Ark","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.studiobrien.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 471px; height: 373px;\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-images\/Look%20up-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>Look Up<\/em> by Michael D. O&#8217;Brien <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>If there is a Storm in our times, will God provide an &#8220;ark&#8221;? The answer is &#8220;Yes!&#8221; But perhaps never before have Christians\u00a0doubted this provision so much as\u00a0in our times as controversy over Pope Francis rages, and the rational minds of our post-modern era\u00a0must grapple with\u00a0the mystical. Nonetheless, here is the Ark Jesus\u00a0is providing for us at this hour. I\u00a0will also address &#8220;what to do&#8221; in the Ark in the days ahead.\u00a0First published May 11th, 2011.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>JESUS <\/strong>said that the period before His eventual return would be &#8220;<em>as it was in the days of Noah&#8230;&#8221; <\/em>That is, many would be oblivious to <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/the-eye-of-the-storm-part-ii\/\">the Storm<\/a> gathering around them: &#8220;<em>They did not know until the flood came and carried them all away<\/em>.&#8221; <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Matt 24:37-29<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> St. Paul indicated that the\u00a0coming of the &#8220;Day of the Lord&#8221; would be &#8220;like a thief in the night.&#8221; <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_2');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_2');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_2\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">1 These 5:2<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> This Storm, as the Church teaches, contains the <em>Passion of the Church<\/em>, who will follow her Head in her own passage\u00a0through a <em>corporate<\/em>\u00a0&#8220;death&#8221; and resurrection. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_3');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_3');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_3\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[3]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_3\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><em>Catechism of the Catholic Church<\/em>, n. 675<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_3').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_3', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> Just as many of the &#8220;leaders&#8221; of the temple and even the Apostles themselves seemed unaware, even to the last moment, that Jesus had to truly suffer\u00a0and die, so too many in the Church seem oblivious to the consistent prophetic warnings of the popes and the Blessed Mother\u2014warnings that announce and signal a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>&#8230;final confrontation between the Church and the anti-church, the Gospel and the anti-gospel, Christ and the anti-christ&#8230; it is a trial which the whole Church&#8230; must take up. <\/strong>\u2014 Cardinal Karol Wojtyla (SAINT JOHN PAUL II) at the Eucharistic Congress, Philadelphia, PA; August 13, 1976<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">But just as God provided an escape for a <em>remnant<\/em> in Noah&#8217;s day, so too in ours, there is\u00a0an &#8220;ark.&#8221;\u00a0But to protect from what? Not a flood of rain, but a <em>deluge of deception<\/em>. No one has spoken more clearly of this spiritual flood than the pontiffs\u00a0themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>There has never been a time when this watchfulness of the supreme pastor was not necessary to the Catholic body; for, owing to the efforts of the enemy of the human race,\u00a0there have never been lacking &#8220;<em>men speaking perverse things<\/em>&#8221; (<em>Acts<\/em> 20:30), &#8220;<em>vain talkers and seducers<\/em>&#8221; (Tit 1:10), &#8220;<em>erring and driving into error<\/em>&#8221; (2 <em>Tim<\/em> 3: 13). Still it must be confessed that the number of the enemies of the cross of Christ has in these last days increased exceedingly, who are striving, by arts, entirely new and full of subtlety, to destroy the vital energy of the Church, and, if they can, to overthrow utterly Christ&#8217;s kingdom itself. <\/strong>\u2014POPE PIUS X, <em>Pascendi Dominici Gregis, <\/em>Encyclical On the Doctrines of the Modernists, n. 1<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">PREPARING THE SPIRITUAL FLOOD<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This attempt to overthrow &#8220;Christ&#8217;s kingdom itself&#8221;\u2014the &#8220;woman&#8221; of Rev 12:1\u2014was foretold by St. John in the Apocalypse.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, mono; font-size: small;\">The serpent, however, spewed a torrent of water out of his mouth after the woman to sweep her away with the current. (Rev 12:15)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Satan will attempt to &#8220;sweep away&#8221; the Church by a flood that issues forth from his &#8220;mouth,&#8221; that is, through <em>false<\/em> <em>words<\/em>. As Jesus said, Satan&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8230;is a liar and the father of lies. (John 8:44)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">For the first thousand years\u00a0of the Church&#8217;s existence, her influence on the world was powerful, so much so,\u00a0that her moral authority was recognized (and feared) even among her enemies. Thus, Satan&#8217;s strategy was to reduce as much as possible the credibility of the Church by creating <em>scandal<\/em> and then <em>division<\/em>.\u00a0Three schisms, culminating in the &#8220;Protestant Reformation&#8221; in the 16th century, produced enough corruption, doubt,\u00a0and disillusionment, that the world was primed to receive an alternative vision to the Gospel\u2014an alternative, indeed, to God\u00a0Himself. Thus, at last, the &#8220;father of lies&#8221; spewed a torrent of lies <em>&#8220;out of his mouth after the woman to sweep her away with the current.&#8221;<\/em> He did so\u00a0through <em>errant <\/em>philosophy: deism, rationalism, utilitarianism, scientism, materialism, Marxism, etc. The birth of the so-called &#8220;Enlightenment&#8221; period unleashed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/persecution-spiritual-tsunami\/\"><em>Moral Tsunami<\/em><\/a> that began turning the moral order upside down\u00a0by uprooting both the natural law and the moral authority of the Church. I say &#8220;so-called&#8221; because it was anything <em>but<\/em>\u00a0&#8220;enlightenment&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace;\">&#8230;for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. (Rom 1:21)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">By 1907, Pope Pius X sounded an astonishing warning that the spiritual earthquake of <em>modernism <\/em>had unleashed a wave of apostasy<em>, <\/em>now <em>within<\/em> the Church:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>&#8230;the partisans of error are to be sought not only among the Church&#8217;s open enemies; they lie hid, a thing to be deeply deplored and feared, in her very bosom and heart, and are the more mischievous, the less conspicuously they appear. We allude, Venerable Brethren, to many who belong to the Catholic laity, nay, and this is far more lamentable, to the ranks of the priesthood itself, who, feigning a love for the Church, lacking the firm protection of philosophy and theology, nay more, thoroughly imbued with the poisonous <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/PopePiusX.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"274\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"2\" \/><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>doctrines taught by the enemies of the Church, and lost to all sense of modesty, vaunt themselves as reformers of the Church; and, forming more boldly into line of attack, assail all that is most sacred in the work of Christ, not sparing even the person of the Divine Redeemer, whom, with sacrilegious daring, they reduce to a simple, mere man&#8230; they put their designs for her ruin into operation not from without but from within; hence, the danger is present almost in the very veins and heart of the Church&#8230; having struck at this root of immortality, they proceed to disseminate poison through the whole tree, so that there is no part of Catholic truth from which they hold their hand, none that they do not strive to corrupt. <\/strong>\u2014POPE PIUS X, <em>Pascendi Dominici Gregis, <\/em>Encyclical On the Doctrines of the Modernists, n. 2-3<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Fast forward a century later, and we see the incredible damage that Pius X&#8217;s unheeded warning has brought\u2014from heretical seminaries\u00a0to experimental liturgies\u00a0to liberal theology\u2014the Church, particularly in the West, has been decimated by disobedience. Said Cardinal Ratzinger shortly before becoming Pope: It is&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u2026a boat about to sink, a boat taking in water on every side.<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> \u2014Cardinal Ratzinger, March 24, 2005, <em>Good Friday meditation on the Third Fall of Christ<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Some consider this outlook &#8220;dark and gloomy,&#8221; and it would be if we did not know the end of the story: that the Church will experience a <em>resurrection<\/em> after she passes through her own Passion:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>The more noteworthy of the prophecies bearing upon &#8220;latter times&#8221; seem to have one common end, to announce great calamities impending over mankind, the triumph of the Church, and the renovation of the world.<\/strong> \u2014<em>Catholic Encyclopedia<\/em>, Prophecy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/12473a.htm\">www.newadvent.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">But the final torrent from Satan&#8217;s mouth has yet to be fully issued, brothers and sisters, and it is for this, in part, that this writing apostolate was begun: to prepare you spiritually\u00a0by helping you to <em>board the Ark<\/em> before this final spiritual &#8220;flood&#8221; is released.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">THE SPIRITUAL TSUNAMI<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I have already written of\u00a0some of the dimensions of this spiritual deluge\u00a0in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/the-coming-counterfeit\/\">The Coming Counterfeit<\/a><\/em> by examining the Vatican&#8217;s <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 225px; height: 280px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/tsunami_wave_coming.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"2\" \/>document on the &#8220;New Age.&#8221;\u00a0 Indeed, Satan&#8217;s ultimate goal is to first destroy belief in God through materialistic atheism. However, he knows very well that man is\u00a0a &#8220;religious being&#8221; <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_4');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_4');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_4\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[4]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_4\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. <em>Catechism of the Catholic Church<\/em>, n. 28; <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/measuring-god\/\"><em>Measuring God<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_4').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_4', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> and that such a void cannot remain empty for very long. Thus, he will attempt to fill it himself. How?\u00a0By centralizing all the &#8220;<em>isms<\/em>&#8221; of the past five centuries into one: <em>Satanism.<\/em> <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_5');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_5');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_5\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[5]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_5\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. &#8220;<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ewtn.com\/vnews\/getstory.asp?number=112694\">Moral Relativism Paves the Way for Satanism<\/a>&#8220;<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_5').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_5', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> This will ultimately be achieved by giving his power to a &#8220;beast&#8221; who will provide false solutions to the revolutionary chaos that the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/the-seven-seals-of-revolution\/\">breaking of the Seals<\/a><\/em> will have wrought in the world. This New World Order will be irresistible, even to many Christians:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, mono; font-size: small;\">They worshiped the dragon because it gave its authority to the beast&#8230; (Rev 13:4)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">This, of course, will usher in the &#8220;final trial&#8221; in this era for the People of God: the Passion of the Church:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>If there is to be a persecution, perhaps it will be then; then, perhaps, when we are all of us in all parts of Christendom so divided, and so reduced, so full of schism, so close upon heresy. When we have cast ourselves upon the world and depend for protection upon it, and have given up our independence and our strength, then he [Antichrist] will burst upon us in fury as far as God allows him. Then suddenly the Roman Empire may break up, and Antichrist appear as a persecutor, and the barbarous nations around break in.<\/strong> \u2014Blessed John Henry Newman, <em>Sermon IV: The Persecution of Antichrist<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">It is then that Satan, who &#8220;<em>knows he has but a short time<\/em>,&#8221; <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_6');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_6');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_6\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[6]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_6\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Rev 12:12<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_6').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_6', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> will release the final torrent from his mouth\u2014a spiritual deception that will ultimately sweep away those who have refused the Gospel and instead bowed down to the god of this world, exchanging their baptismal seal for the beast&#8217;s mark.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, mono; font-size: small;\">Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false, so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.\u00a0 (2 Thess 2:11-12)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">THE CHURCH, AS ARK<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">When we speak here then of an &#8220;ark,&#8221; I am referring to the <em>spiritual protection <\/em>God will provide a soul, not necessarily physical protection from all suffering. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/JesusOnCross.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"245\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"2\" \/>Obviously, God will provide physical protection to preserve a remnant of the Church. But not every faithful Christian will escape persecution:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, mono; font-size: small;\">&#8216;No slave is greater than his master.&#8217; If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you&#8230; [The beast] was also allowed to wage war against the holy ones and conquer them (John 15:20; Rev 13:7)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Yet, how great will be the glory and reward awaiting the soul who is worthy to be persecuted for Jesus!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, mono; font-size: small;\">I consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed for us&#8230; Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven&#8230; Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven. (Rom 8:18; Matt 5:10-12)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Those souls who are martyred, says St. John, will reign with Christ for a &#8220;thousand years&#8221; during the era of peace. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_7');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_7');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_7\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[7]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_7\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/the-coming-resurrection\/\">The Coming Resurrection<\/a><\/em>; Rev 20:4<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_7').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_7', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> Thus, divine protection will belong to both those who survive and those who are martyred, so long as they persevere in faith\u00a0and trust in <em>God&#8217;s mercy.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><em>[Let] the greatest sinners place their trust in My mercy&#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..<\/em><\/strong>. \u2014<em>Divine Mercy in My Soul<\/em>, Diary,\u00a0Jesus to St. Faustina, n. 1146<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, mono; font-size: small;\">Because you have kept my message of endurance, I will keep you safe in the time of trial that is going to come to the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth. (Rev 3:10)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">God&#8217;s mercy is the\u00a0<em>door<\/em> to the Ark, opened to the one who is made just through the blood that gushed forth from His Sacred Heart:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, mono; font-size: small;\">Go into the ark, you and all your household, for you alone in this age have I found to be truly just. (Genesis 7:1)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">But how do we receive this mercy<em>, <\/em>and into what does this mercy bring us? The answer is <em>through<\/em> and <em>into<\/em> the <em>Church:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000066;\"><span class=\"text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">&#8230;all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> \u2014<em>Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC), <\/em>n. 846<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">In this regard, Noah&#8217;s Ark is clearly a &#8220;type&#8221; of the Church:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000066; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">The Church is &#8220;the world reconciled.&#8221; She is that bark which &#8220;in the full sail of the Lord&#8217;s cross, by the breath of the Holy Spirit, navigates safely in this world.&#8221; According to another image dear to the Church Fathers, she is prefigured by Noah&#8217;s ark, which alone saves from the flood<\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> \u2014<em>CCC<\/em>, n. 845<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>The Church is thy hope, the Church is thy salvation, the Church is thy refuge.<\/strong> \u2014St. John Chrysostom,\u00a0<i>Hom. de capto Euthropio<\/i>, n. 6.; cf.\u00a0<em>E Supremi,\u00a0<\/em>n. 9, <a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/pius-x\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_p-x_enc_04101903_e-supremi.html\">vatican.va<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">For it\u00a0is the Church whom Jesus commissioned to&#8221;proclaim&#8221;, &#8220;teach&#8221; and &#8220;baptize&#8221;, thus making disciples of those who would accept the good news. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_8');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_8');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_8\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[8]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_8\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Mark 16:15; Matt 28:19-20<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_8').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_8', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> It is the Church who was given<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/StPeter10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"328\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"2\" \/> the power to &#8220;forgive sins&#8221;. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_9');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_9');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_9\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[9]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_9\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">John 20:22-23<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_9').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_9', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> It is the Church who was given the grace to feed souls the &#8220;bread of life&#8221;. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_10');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_10');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_10\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[10]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_10\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Luke 22:19<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_10').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_10', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> It is the Church who was given the power to bind and loose, even excluding those from the Ark who refused\u00a0repentance. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_11');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_11');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_11\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[11]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_11\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. Mt 16:19; 18:17-18; 1 Cor 5:11-13<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_11').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_11', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> It is also the Church who was given the charism of infallibility, <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_12');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_12');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_12\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[12]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_12\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. <em>CCC<\/em> n. 890, 889<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_12').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_12', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> to be led &#8220;into all truth&#8221; through the advocacy of the Holy Spirit. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_13');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_13');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_13\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[13]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_13\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">John 16:13<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_13').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_13', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> It is this last point that I stress here since the attack upon the Church today is one against <em>truth <\/em>through the torrent of falsehood that has been released against her. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_14');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_14');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_14\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[14]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_14\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/the-last-two-eclipses\/\">The Last Two Eclipses<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_14').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_14', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> The Church is a safeguard against the deluge of heresies in our day that are eclipsing the very light of truth regarding the fundamentals of human existence.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">In seeking the deepest roots of the struggle between the &#8220;culture of life&#8221; and the &#8220;culture of death&#8221;\u2026 We have to go to the heart of the tragedy being experienced by modern man: the eclipse of the sense of God and of man\u2026\u00a0 [that] inevitably leads to a practical materialism, which breeds individualism, utilitarianism and hedonism.<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> \u2014POPE JOHN PAUL II,<em> Evangelium Vitae<\/em>, n.21, 23<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">MARY, AS ARK<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Remembering the Church&#8217;s teaching that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/key-to-the-woman\/\"> Mary is an\u00a0&#8220;image of the Church to come<\/a>,&#8221; <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_15');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_15');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_15\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[15]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_15\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Pope Benedict XVI, <em>Spe Salvi, <\/em>n. 50<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_15').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_15', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> then\u00a0she too is a &#8220;type&#8221; of Noah&#8217;s Ark. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_16');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_16');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_16\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[16]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_16\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/key-to-the-woman\/\"><em>The Key to the Woman<\/em><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_16').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_16', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script>\u00a0<\/a>As she promised to Sr. Lucia of Fatima:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em><strong>My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God. <\/strong><\/em>\u2014Second apparition, June 13, 1917, <em>The Revelation of the Two Hearts in Modern Times<\/em>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewtn.com\/library\/MARY\/FIRSTSAT.htm\"> www.ewtn.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Again, one of the promises\u00a0the Blessed Mother made known to St. Dominic for those who pray the Rosary is that it&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><em><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>\u2026will be a very powerful armor against hell; it will destroy vice, deliver from sin and dispel heresy. <\/strong><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.erosary.com\/rosary\/benefits\/fifteen-promises.htm\">\u2014erosary.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">This statement is a mirror image of Christ&#8217;s promise to the Church:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, mono; font-size: small;\">&#8230;you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. (Matt 16:18)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Just as the Church leads us constantly to &#8220;fix our eyes on Jesus&#8221;, <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Mary-baby-Jesus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"250\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"2\" \/>particularly through\u00a0the Holy Mass, so too the Rosary leads\u00a0us&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>&#8230;to contemplate the face of Christ in union with, and at the school of, his Most Holy Mother. To recite the Rosary is nothing other than to <em>contemplate with Mary the face of Christ<\/em>. <\/strong>\u2014SAINT JOHN PAUL II, <em>Rosarium Virginis Mariae<\/em>, n. 3<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">What the Church safeguards <em>sacramentally<\/em> and <em>authoritatively<\/em>, one could say Mary safeguards <em>personally <\/em>and <em>unerringly<\/em>.\u00a0Think of a mother cooking a meal for a large family, and then a mother nursing her baby. Both are nurturing acts that give life, while the second carries a\u00a0more intimate aspect.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><strong>My Mother is Noah&#8217;s Ark.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">\u2014Jesus to Elizabeth Kindelmann,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>The Flame of Love,\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">p. 109. Imprimatur Archbishop Charles Chaput<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">THE GREAT ARK<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Mary and the Church form one Great Ark. The exterior form is that of the Church: her bow is the <em>truth <\/em>that cuts through heresy; her anchor is the <em>deposit of faith<\/em> held by the chain of <em>Sacred Tradition<\/em>; her height is comprised of the planks of the <em>Sacraments<\/em>; her roof is the <em>infallible Magisterium<\/em>; and her door, again, the gateway of<em> Mercy. <\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Our Blessed Mother is like the interior of this Great Ark: her <em>obedience<\/em> is the internal beams and frame that hold the vessel together; her <em>virtues<\/em> the various floors within the Ark that bring order and structure; and the stores of food are the <em>graces<\/em> of which she is full. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_17');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_17');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_17\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[17]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_17\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Luke 1:28<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_17').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_17', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> By living in her spirit of obedience and holy virtue, the soul\u00a0is naturally led deeper into all the graces won through the merits of the Cross. Hence, the reason I urge you again to<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/the-great-gift\/\">consecrate yourself to Mary<\/a><\/em>. As Pope Pius XII said, this consecration &#8220;<em>tends essentially to union with Jesus, under the guidance of Mary.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">And of course, this Ark is ineffectual without the <em>power of the Holy <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/sails_001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"329\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"2\" \/>Spirit<\/em>, that Divine Wind to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/lift-your-sails-preparing-for-chastisement\/\">fill her sails<\/a>.&#8221; We see clearly that the Church was timid and impotent until Pentecost. Likewise, our Mother&#8217;s Immaculate womb was barren until the Holy Spirit overshadowed her. So this Ark, this refuge in our times, is truly the work of God, the fruit of the Cross, a visible sign and gift to mankind.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"text\"><span style=\"color: #000066; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: small;\"><strong>The Church in this world is the sacrament of salvation, the sign and the instrument of the communion of God and men.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> \u2014CCC, n. 780<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">BOARDING THE ARK<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The Ark has been given to safeguard the faith of those who wish to &#8220;sail&#8221; to the Safe Harbour of\u00a0Christ&#8217;s infinite mercy and love. How do I board this Ark? Through <em>baptism<\/em> and <em>faith<\/em> in the Gospel, one enters the Ark. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_18');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_18');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_18\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[18]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_18\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">part of the &#8220;initiation&#8221; into the Ark also involves the full outpouring of the Holy Spirit and partaking in the Bread of Life\u2014respectively, the Sacraments of Confirmation and the Holy Eucharist. cf. Acts 8:14-17; John 6:51<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_18').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_18', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> But one can also <em>leave<\/em> the saving protection of the Ark by closing oneself off to\u00a0the truth she teaches and the grace she offers not only for the forgiveness of sins, but for the sanctification of the soul. There are also those who may refuse the Ark altogether because of indoctrination and misinformation (see\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-ark-and-non-catholics\/\">The Ark and Non-Catholics<\/a><\/em>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Brothers and sisters, there is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-spiritual-tsunami\/\"><em>Spiritual Tsunami<\/em><\/a>\u00a0headed toward humanity, <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_19');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_19');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_19\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[19]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_19\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-spiritual-tsunami\/\">The Spiritual Tsunami<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_19').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_19', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script>\u00a0what Pope Benedict calls a &#8220;dictatorship of relativism&#8221; that may in fact culminate in a world dictator\u2014an Antichrist. This is the profound warning sounded by <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/why-arent-the-popes-shouting\/\">pope after pope<\/a>, in one form or another, throughout the last century:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>It must be observed in this regard that if there is no ultimate truth to guide and direct political activity, then ideas and convictions can easily be manipulated for reasons of power. As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism<\/strong>. \u2014SAINT JOHN PAUL II, <em>Centesimus annus, <\/em>n. 46<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>&#8230;there may be already in the world the \u201cSon of Perdition\u201d of whom the Apostle speaks.<\/strong> \u2014POPE ST. PIUS X, <em>E Supremi<\/em>, Encyclical On the Restoration of All Things in Christ, n. 3, 5; October 4th, 1903<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>These things in truth are so sad that you might say that such events foreshadow and portend the \u201cbeginning of sorrows,\u201d that is to say of those that shall be brought by the man of sin, \u201cwho is lifted up above all that is called God or is worshiped\u201c<\/strong>(2 Thes 2:4)<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014POPE PIUS X,\u00a0<em>Miserentissimus Redemptor<\/em>, Encyclical Letter on Reparation to the Sacred Heart, May 8th, 1928; www.vatican.va<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Only those who are &#8220;built on rock&#8221; will withstand this Storm, those who will listen to and obey Christ&#8217;s words. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_20');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_5896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_20');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_20\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[20]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_20\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. Matt 7:24-29<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_20').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_5896_1_20', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> And as Jesus said to His Apostles:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, mono; font-size: small;\">Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. (Luke 10:16)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">This is a warning to those Catholics who wish to create their own &#8220;ark,&#8221; picking and choosing the beams and planks that suit their <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/raft.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"205\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"2\" \/>tastes, obeying on this issue, but ignoring their bishop on that\u2014or even separating themselves from the &#8220;rock&#8221;, despite the faults and foibles of a pope. Beware, for such rafts will eventually sink\u00a0in high seas, and are no match for the coming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-spiritual-tsunami\/\"><em>Spiritual Tsunami<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0As Pope Pius X wrote in his encyclical on modernism, such &#8220;cafeteria Catholics&#8221; are souls who are &#8216;<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">lacking the firm <em>protection<\/em> of philosophy and theology,&#8217; unfolded in the sure teachings of Sacred Tradition. <\/span>Indeed, those consecrated to Mary will simply hear her repeat\u00a0the very same thing: &#8220;<em>Do whatever he tells you,&#8221; <\/em>and Jesus &#8220;tells us&#8221; through His Apostles and their successors the saving truth and means by which we will be saved in this life.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Whether we\u00a0are speaking here about the natural end of ones life, or the great battle in our times, the preparation is the same: enter the Ark that God has provided, and you will be safeguarded <em>within<\/em> the &#8220;woman&#8221; of Revelation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, mono; font-size: small;\">&#8230;the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she could fly to her place in the desert, where, far from the serpent, she was taken care of for a year, two years, and a half-year. The serpent, however, spewed a torrent of water out of his mouth after the woman to sweep her away with the current. But the earth helped the woman and opened its mouth and swallowed the flood that the dragon spewed out of its mouth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>May Jesus Christ, the author and finisher of our faith, be with you by His power; and may the Immaculate Virgin, the destroyer of all heresies, be with you by her prayers and aid.<\/strong> \u2014POPE PIUS X, <em>Pascendi Dominici Gregis, <\/em>Encyclical On the Doctrines of the Modernists, n. 58<\/span><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">RELATED READING<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Why we are speaking of the end of an era, not the end of the world: see\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/dear-holy-father-he-is-coming\/\">Dear Holy Father&#8230; He is Coming!<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-spiritual-tsunami\/\"><em>The Spiritual Tsunami<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-black-ship-part-i\/\"><em>The Black Ship &#8211; Part I<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-black-ship-part-ii\/\"><em>The Black Ship &#8211; Part II<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/donations\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-images\/Donateovalbtnonbeige.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"48\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">To receive a\u00a0booklet on\u00a0consecrating oneself\u00a0to Jesus through Mary, click the banner:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myconsecration.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-images\/Consecrationbann1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"89\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Some of you don&#8217;t know how to pray the Rosary, or find it too monotonous or tiring. 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<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/measuring-god\/\"><em>Measuring God<\/em><\/a><\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_5\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_5896_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_5');\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_plugin_link\" ><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>5<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">cf. &#8220;<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ewtn.com\/vnews\/getstory.asp?number=112694\">Moral Relativism Paves the Way for Satanism<\/a>&#8220;<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_6\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_5896_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_6');\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_plugin_link\" ><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>6<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Rev 12:12<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_7\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_5896_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_7');\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_plugin_link\" ><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>7<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">cf. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/the-coming-resurrection\/\">The Coming Resurrection<\/a><\/em>; Rev 20:4<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_8\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_5896_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_8');\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_plugin_link\" ><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>8<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Mark 16:15; Matt 28:19-20<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_9\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_5896_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_9');\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_plugin_link\" ><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>9<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">John 20:22-23<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_10\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_5896_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_10');\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_plugin_link\" ><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>10<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Luke 22:19<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_5896_1_11\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_5896_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_5896_1_11');\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_plugin_link\" ><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>11<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">cf. 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