Delivered From Darkness

There probably isn’t a more fearful Sunday in the year than this Last Sunday after Pentecost.  When our Lord speaks of the abomination of desolation being established in our holy place, his terrible prophecies fill us with dread—more so this year than ever, as the Bergoglian church is on the brink of abandoning completely the faith and sacraments of the Catholic Faith, replacing everything with some bizarre semi-Satanic notion of synodality and the freedom to defy openly the laws of God.  If ever our Holy City of Rome has been in danger of rejecting Almighty God entirely, it is now.  The words of our Lord carry a lot more weight this year as we recognize more and more the imminent fulfillment of the great tribulation he prophesied.

We have some hope left, however.  Divine Providence has seen fit to use us human beings as his tool to slow down what seemed to be these unstoppable events.  While we should refrain from placing too much hope in votes, elections, majorities and cabinet appointments, reassuring though they may be, we can certainly allow ourselves a certain renewed optimism in the reprieve they grant us.  We can even interpret today’s Epistle of St. Paul to the Colossians as encouraging in this respect, a veritable recipe for success, which if we follow carefully, might be enough to avert the divine wrath and restore the world to a true Christian peace.  We should read and re-read St. Paul’s words, replacing in our minds the Colossians with ourselves and our own world today.  Even in heaven St. Paul continues, with all the other saints, to pray for us, to desire that we might be filled with the knowledge of God’s will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

It is this gift of wisdom coming from the Holy Ghost that will allow us to understand and to know what God’s will for us actually is.  With this wisdom we must choose, each of us individually, to increase our knowledge of God, to be strengthened with his power, to be patient and longsuffering, joyful, giving thanks unto the Father, especially this week as we celebrate Thanksgiving.  On that day, let us for a brief moment forget about turkeys and stuffing, Black Friday and all the commercial folderol that goes with it, and concentrate on giving thanks to Almighty God.  Without him, the election would have been lost.  Without him, we could look forward to four years of existential failure as the rest of the world prepares for a war the Democrats would have been incapable of stopping.  And most importantly of all, without God our souls would never have been redeemed from hell.  So give thanks “unto the Father, which (in so many ways) hath made us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, who hath delivered us from the power of darkness.”

And having given thanks, let us resolve to do all we can to respond to God’s loving mercy by keeping the faith and obeying his commandments.  Remember: it is not Man who will save us from spiritual death and destruction.  It always was and evermore shall be our Lord Jesus Christ who alone can fill that role of Saviour, Redeemer, and Shepherd of our souls.  So while we look to all the exciting developments in Washington, we must keep reminding ourselves that what goes on in the souls of the children of darkness continues unabated, and perhaps even with renewed vigor in the face of their election defeat.  Keep your faith in God!  Allow yourselves to be “translated into the kingdom of his dear Son!”