It’s been a nasty time for many people out here (including me) since I last was able to sit down and actually write.
I apologize for the long, and completely unplanned absence. Part of it is dealing with old war wounds. The rest is external causes, which I blame the scum in government for.
Since the middle of May when I last published here, Western Canada has been on fire. I’ll be blunt: nearly all of them have been caused by arson. The few that actually happened by natural means could be counted on one hand.
British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, the Northern Territories and Manitoba have been set upon by organized, paid arsonists. The money spent on them very likely came from the same people currently running the government using Justin Trudeau as a mask.
These arsons have caused widespread misery, injury, death and displacement right across the country; Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes have suffered them too.
I’m finished the security contract I was doing this month, and home for the foreseeable future. Over the next three months at least, I have the time to write weekly again, and spend as much time at home with Sarah and the baby as I can.
I am going to publish an article to finish off from the last article in May. But it’s going to be somewhat different than what I planned, due in part to the length of time that has passed, and because the events about to take place in the Autumn demand I press on with a new set of articles.
Time. We all feel pressed for time. Don’t seem to have enough…?
We all have been experiencing a strange new sense that time is going by very fast. It has. You’re not imagining the sensation, and no, it’s not just because you’re getting older and it’s supposed to be like that.
In Traditional Catholicism, time is not relative, nor is it altogether objective. It is firmly under the control of Almighty God, and no other. He is speeding up our sense of the passage of time.
So there’s no time to waste! I will get this new article uploaded before the weekend begins, so that I can introduce the next set of articles.
From here on in, a lot of the articles will be paywalled. I think the people out there that have taken the time to shell out money deserve a return on their investment; it’s only fair, and they’ve been more than patient.
In the meantime …
I had decided back in May that I would leave an article on one of my other blogs, thinking that it wasn’t relatable to where I was going with the framework I’m writing under here. But a lot of things have happened since May to change my mind. So, after uploading this, I’ll publish it here anyway for free.
When it was written ten months ago (Oct 13th 2022), apparitionism was going around Catholic circles like a bad flu. People were getting downright silly about prophecies, real, fake and in between. After encountering someone’s concerted effort to gloss over all the bad stuff from Pope Benedict XVI’s past and blend him in carefully into their grand vision of Marian prophecy and end times eschatology, and I was having none of that.
I wrote a short, and rather terse explanation of the two kinds of false prophecy. Perhaps too terse, and too short: there were people that still were confused about what I meant concerning the saints and especially the Virgin Mary.
I thought that with the good example I gave from the Old Testament as a framework, that it would be sufficient for readers to understand that spirits from heaven (and now including saints in the New Testament period) can come down to earth and bring false prophecies or false messages when it suits God’s purpose, and He gives His permission, without sinning, and without in any way diminishing their virtue or state.
To put it another way, if St Mary comes to earth to visit three shepherd children in Portugal and talk to them, she does so only with God’s permission and by His consent. If the messages she conveys to them are in any way intended as a false message, that too is also with God’s permission and His consent. Otherwise, it won’t happen.
So, what I was introducing to the reader of this article was to take into consideration, based on the precedent I gave from the Old Testament story of the prophet Micaiah, that the Messages of the Apparition of Fatima very likely contain both a true message to the Faithful, and a false message: to the children of the kingdom of darkness in this world who masquerade as Catholics (or wear them as hats).
A FAITHFUL Catholic can discern, from FAITH, the message meant for them with the use of a little reason, and by meditating for a little on the matter, form and intention of any message that was conveyed.
When you do this, the message of the First Saturdays devotion request immediately can be recognized as orthodox and very Catholic. The others are directed elsewhere, and for someone else. And those messages, based upon the matter, form and intention that can be observed, through FAITH, from what was said, did NOT come out of the mouth of a denizen of Sheol.
They were intentionally directed at their itching ears.
Not yours.
At least, not faithful Catholic ears.
See you again, soon.