Ny korontana lehibe

Rehefa nolavina ny lalàna voajanahary sy ny andraikitra napetrany,
io dia manokatra be ny lalana
ny relativisme etika amin'ny ambaratonga tsirairay
and to totalitarianism an'ny Fanjakana
eo amin'ny sehatra politika.
—POPE BENEDICT XVI, Mpihaino Jeneraly, 16 Jona 2010
L'Osservatore Romano, Fanontana anglisy, 23 Jona 2010

Mahatsiaro aho fa tsy maintsy mamonjy an'izao tontolo izao i Etazonia…
—Servant of God Maria Esperanza
Ny Tetezana mankany An-danitra: Resadresaka nifanaovana tamin'i Maria Esperanza tao Betania,
by Michael H. Brown, p. 43

Abraham, the father of faith, is by his faith the rock that holds back chaos,
the onrushing primordial flood of destruction, and thus sustains creation.
Simon, the first to confess Jesus as the Christ…
now becomes by virtue of his Abrahamic faith, which is renewed in Christ,
the rock that stands against the impure tide of unbelief
and its destruction of man.
—POPE BENEDICT XVI (Cardinal Ratzinger)
Nantsoina ho amin'ny fiombonambe, ny fahazoana ny fiangonana ankehitriny, Adrian Walker, Tr., P. 55-56

ERY are essentially two things holding back a tide of chaos from engulfing the world. One is political in nature, the other spiritual. First, the political…

NY FETRA POLITIKA

There is a tendency at times for my American friends to see the universe revolving around their country. But if what is written in Babylona miafina is true, then America and the Western nations are indeed key actors at the end of this age. For St. John speaks of not only how the world is intoxicated with the wealth, perversity, and consumerism of Babylon, but when its system finally collapses, it ushers in a brief period of the kingdom of Satan, a “beast.”

The Bokin'ny Apokalypsy tafiditra ao anatin'ireo fahotana lehibe nataon'i Babylona - ny tandindon'ny tanàna lehibe tsy manandevo eran'izao tontolo izao - ny fifanakalozana amin'ny vatana sy fanahy ary mitondra azy ireo ho entam-barotra (Cf. Rev 18: 13). Amin'ity toe-javatra ity, ny olan'ny zava-mahadomelina dia manaloka ny lohany ihany koa, ary miaraka amin'ny fitomboan'ny heriny dia manitatra ny tentiny horita manerana an'izao tontolo izao - fanehoana tsara ny famoretana ny mamôna izay mamily ny olombelona. Tsy misy fahafinaretana mety ho ampy, ary ny fihoaram-pefy amin'ny famamoana dia lasa herisetra manasaraka ny faritra iray manontolo - ary izany rehetra izany dia noho ny tsy fahatakarana mahafaty ny fahalalahana izay manimba ny fahalalahan'ny olombelona ary manimba azy io amin'ny farany. —POPE BENEDICT XVI, Amin'ny fiarahabana ny Noely, 20 Desambra 2010; http://www.vatican.va/

Since the election of 2016, there is something about the American news that is riveting. Why? Because we are watching the battle for America’s soul, and really, the entire Western world’s.

The U.S. dollar has been the “currency of trade” throughout the world. America’s economic and military might, the commodity of oil, and her demand for goods has played a key role in the prosperity, poverty, wars, and political landscapes that have shaped vast portions of the rest of the world in one way or another, particularly over the past century. The “imperialism” of the West has brought both oppression and democracy, darkness and light. It is true that at this moment—setting aside the controversial personality of President Donald Trump—the last defence of true democracy and authentic freedom of speech and religion in the world is the present administration of the United States (though Russia has made surprising but mixed strides in defending the above: see Russia… Ny fandosiranay?).

I need to let that sentence sink in for a moment.

The reason is that Europe has buried its Christian identity, despite the warnings of the last three popes. Its fatally low birthrate and open border policies have virtually crushed its Christian heritage. In North America, Canada has entered a post-Christian era under its current leadership while Mexico descends into further criminal lawlessness. The Islamic Jihad in Africa and the Middle East continues to displace and empty those lands of Christian families and clergy. And most notably, China is quietly, stealthily rising as a military and technological superpower as it enters into a new era of social experimentation, Christian persecution, and enforced atheism upon its helpless population.

There is arguably no real candidate left to hold the balance of freedom in the world (as we know it) than America. But her present stability is as fragile as a house of cards. The debt of the United States continues to soar, pushing it to the brink of bankruptcy, even as its GDP and job force grows. Economists have been warning for years now that a catastrophic collapse is coming when credit catches up to cash reserve.^[1]cf. 2014 sy ny Rising Beast

But far more significant is the rise of a “Kominisma vaovao” in the United States—unthinkable only ten years ago. The babyboomer’s grandchildren—who have been fed revisionist history, leftist propaganda, and the new religion of “tolerance” that tolerates nothing but its own ideas—are beginning to welcome Marxist ideology to fill the vacuum where Capitalism has failed. Indeed, the youth who are the future are always the target:

Thus the Communist ideal wins over many of the better minded members of the community. These in turn become the apostles of the movement among the younger intelligentsia who are still too immature to recognize the intrinsic errors of the system… When religion is banished from the school, from education and from public life, when the representatives of Christianity and its sacred rites are held up to ridicule, are we not really fostering the materialism which is the fertile soil of Communism? — PAPA PIUS XI, Divinis Redemptoris, n. 78, 15 78

Why do you think St. John Paul II began World Youth Days? To counter the attack on the family and its children.

Moreover, much was set in motion by former presidents to undermine Christianity, particularly with the overturning of the natural law. As Johnathan Last stated after the redefinition of marriage there:

… Ny fanapahan-kevitry ny [Fitsarana Tampony] tamin'ny herinandro lasa dia tsy vitan'ny lalàm-panorenana, fa taorian'ny-lalàna. Midika izany fa tsy miaina ao anatin'ny rafitry ny lalàna intsony isika, fa eo ambanin'ny rafitra iray fehezin'ny sitrapon'ny olona. —Editoriale, Jonathan V. Farany, Ny Standard Weekly, Jolay 1st, 2015

That is, a time of ny fandikan-dalàna.^[2]cf. Ny ora tsy fanarahan-dalàna That’s precisely the warning Pope Benedict gave over and over again until at last comparing ny fotoantsika to the collapse of the Roman Empire:

Ny fanaparitahana ireo fotokevitra lehibe momba ny lalàna sy ireo fihetsika ara-pitondrantena fototra nanohana azy ireo dia namaky ny tohodrano izay niaro izany fiaraha-monina milamina izany eo amin'ny vahoaka. Milentika eran'izao tontolo izao ny masoandro. Ny loza voajanahary matetika dia nampitombo ny fahatsapana ny tsy fandriam-pahalemana. Tsy nisy hery hita maso afaka nampiato ny fihenan'ity. Vao mainka nihamafy ny fiantsoana ny herin'Andriamanitra: ny fitalahoana mba ho avy izy hiaro ny olony amin'ireo fandrahonana rehetra ireo... For all its new hopes and possibilities, our world is at the same time troubled by the sense that moral consensus is collapsing... In reality, this makes reason blind to what is essential. To resist this eclipse of reason and to preserve its capacity for seeing the essential, for seeing God and man, for seeing what is good and what is true, is the common interest that must unite all people of good will. The very future of the world is at stake. —POPE BENEDICT XVI, Address to the Roman Curia, December 20th, 2010; katolika.org

It can be said that the political “left” has rapidly become synonymous with anti-gospel ideologies that promote not only abortion on demand, assisted-suicide, gender ideology, gay “marriage”, etc. but now socialism, Communism, and the unabashed suppression of freedom of religion and speech—even encouraging “incivility” to hampihatra it. Lori Kalner survived Hitler’s regime and had this to say to an America that is now being torn apart along an ideological divide:

Vitsy sisa isika sisa hampitandrina anao. Reko fa misy Katolika 69 tapitrisa any Amerika ary Kristiana evanjelika 70 tapitrisa. Aiza ny feonao? Aiza ny hatezeranao? Aiza ny filana sy ny vatonao? Mifidy mifototra amin'ny fampanantenan-tena sy toekarena poakaty ataon'ny mpanala zaza? Sa mifidy araka ny Baiboly? …I have experienced the signs of the politics of Death in my youth. I see them again now… —wicatholicmusings.blogspot.com

Servant of God Maria Esperanza felt that the United States “must save the world.” But now, it must save itself.

The American republic is really an extension of the Roman Empire, which never totally collapsed. But if and when it does collapse, that may be when “the beast” rises to reign.

Tsy omeko ho lany ny fanjakana romana. Lavitra azy izany: ny empira romana dia mitoetra mandraka androany… Ary satria ny tandroka, na fanjakana, dia mbola misy, raha ny zava-misy, noho izany tsy mbola hitantsika ny faran'ny fanjakana romana. —Kardinaly Sambatra John Henry Newman (1801-1890), Ny fotoanan'ny antikristy, Toriteny 1

Fa rehefa nianjera io renivohitr'izao tontolo izao io, ary nanomboka nanjary làlana… iza no misalasala fa tonga amin'ny raharahan'ny olombelona sy izao tontolo izao ny farany? —Lactantius, Rain'ny fiangonana, Institiota masina, Boky faha-25, Ch. XNUMX, "Ny amin'ny fotoana farany sy ny tanànan'ny Roma ”; Fanamarihana: Lactantius goes on to say that the collapse of the Roman Empire is not the end of the world, but marks the beginning of a “thousand year” reign of Christ in His Church, followed by the consummation of all things.

ILAY FETY ARA-PANAHY

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed… (2 Thessalonians 2:7-8)

The times and seasons, we do not know. But the signs of the times we tsy maintsy. St. Paul VI saw them clearly:

Misy fitaintainanana lehibe amin'izao fotoana izao eto amin'izao tontolo izao sy ato am-piangonana, ary izay ny resahina dia ny finoana. Mitranga izany izao rehefa averiko ao am-poko ilay fehezanteny manjavozavo nataon'i Jesosy ao amin'ny Evanjelin'i Masindahy Luke: 'Rehefa hiverina ny Zanak'olona, mbola hahita finoana ety an-tany ihany ve izy?'… Novakiako indraindray ny andalan-tsoratra evanjelin'ny farany fotoana ary manamarina aho fa, amin'izao fotoana izao, misy famantarana an'io farany io mipoitra. —POPE ST. PAOLY VI, Ilay tsiambaratelo Paul VI, Jean Guitton, p. 152-153, Fanondroana (7), p. IX.

The late pontiff places the collapse of faith in God as one of the key signs of the “end times.” For it is Christ’s Church—the “salt and light” of the world—who are to stem the tied of evil.

Antsoina hatrany ny Fiangonana hanao ny zavatra nangatahin'Andriamanitra tamin'i Abrahama, izany dia ny hahitana fa ampy ny olo-marina ampy hamongorana ny faharatsiana sy ny fanimbana. — PAPA BENEDICT XVI, Fahazavan'izao tontolo izao, resaka nifanaovana tamin'i Peter Seewald, p. 166

As mentioned at the start, Pope Benedict saw Simon Peter as the first or prime “rock” that plugs the dam of iniquity.

Two things can be said at this hour of the present pontificate. As I revealed in Papa Francis On… he has certainly taught every major tenet of the faith and the moral law. At the same time, the appointment of several progressive advisors, the handing over of Church powers to Communist China,^[3]cf. The Pope Doesn’t Understand China the ambiguities present in Amoris Laetitia and the exploitation of these, not only by individuals but entire bishop’s conferences,^[4]cf. Ny fanoherana famindram-po has led to a certain crisis of fahatokiana in the Holy Father. Moreover, the sexual abuse scandals and cover-ups that continue to rock the Church and that have begun to engulf Francis himself, are pushing the Church toward schism.

Avelan'Andriamanitra hisy faharatsiana lehibe hamely ny Eglizy: ho avy tampoka ary tsy ampoizina ny mpivadi-pinoana sy mpampijaly; hiditra ao am-piangonana izy ireo raha matory ny eveka, ny pretra ary ny mompera. —Bartholomew Holzhauser (1613-1658 AD); Ibid. p.30

Tandremo hitahiry ny finoanao, satria amin'ny ho avy dia hisaraka amin'i Roma ny Fiangonana any Etazonia. — St. Leopold, Antikristy sy ny fotoam-pifarana, Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi, St. Andrew's Productions, P. 31

In a word, both democracy and the Church have lost the confidence of a large portion of the populace. It is the fertile soil for a revolution… a Revolisiona Manerantany. This is the Great Chaos the world is poised to pass through….

Amin'ny fanadihadiana farany, ny fanasitranana dia tsy azo atao raha tsy amin'ny finoana lalina ny fitiavan'Andriamanitra mampihavana. Ny fanamafisana io finoana io, ny famelomana azy ary hampamirapiratra azy no lahasa lehibe indrindra ato am-piangonana amin'izao ora izao….. —POPE BENEDICT XVI, lahateny ho an'ny Curia Romanina, 20 Desambra 2010

Freedom’s flame may be extinguished for a time… but not hope:

I will free this world darkened by hatred and contaminated by the sulfurous and steaming lava of Satan. The air which gave life to souls has become suffocating and deadly. No dying soul should be damned. My Flame of Love is already lighting up. You know, my little one, the elect will have to fight against the Prince of Darkness. It will be a terrible storm. Rather, it will be a hurricane which will want to destroy the faith and confidence of even the elect. In this terrible turmoil currently brewing up, you will see the brightness of my Flame of Love illuminating Heaven and earth by the effusion of its effect of grace I am passing on to souls in this dark night. —from the approved revelations of Our Lady to Elizabeth Kindelmann, Ny afon'ny fitiavana ny fon'i Maria tsy masiaka: Ny diaben'ny fanahy (Toerana mody 2994-2997)

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↑1	cf. 2014 sy ny Rising Beast
↑2	cf. Ny ora tsy fanarahan-dalàna
↑3	cf. The Pope Doesn’t Understand China
↑4	cf. Ny fanoherana famindram-po