From the prophet Isaiah [8:23-9:3] we have the words of hope, a Messianic hope:

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; on those who live in a land of deep shadow a light has shone.

These words touch on what happened to the tribes who lived in the north of Israel, the lands of Zebulun and Naphtali. These were the tribes who were the first to be taken into exile by the Assyrians in the 8th Century BC. At times today, we too feel there is an attempt to drag us all into exile! [Watch video about what is happening in Brazil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtBHamID9-E&ab_channel=Redacted]

In the Gospel of Matt chapter 4:12-23, Jesus begins the Messianic age by going to Galilee, which was the land of Zebulun and Naphtali, to call his first Apostles to become the leaders of the tribes of a new Israel. He is going to bring all the tribes back from exile into freedom, the freedom of God’s grace that overturns the exile of sin and death.

Our Lord has ever since been present to the world in and through the Church for over 2000 years and throughout that history there have been times of darkness and times of hope. Yet the universal Church has always been called to serve the mission of Christ by calling, challenging and teaching all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

January is a month when we pray for Unity among Christians, be they divided from the Church by schism or heresy. It has been over 500 years since the Protestant Revolt destroyed Christendom and devastated Catholic life and culture in England. Anti-Catholic secular forces grew out of the Protestant revolt and gave rise to the French Revolution in 1789 and the Kulture Kampf of Germany in the 19th Century, culminating in the rise of a godless Russia in 1917. Now we live in a Europe where this godlessness now attacks marriage, family, liberty and gender.

Yet, a light has shone in all this darkness. For in 1917 we were given the apparition of the Blessed Virgin at Fatima which warned of the rise of Russian Communism, the end of World War I and the coming of a greater war, World War II, if humanity did not repent and change it’s ways. But if sin and godlessness continued then there will come a War that would begin in the Church and then would envelope the World. There was also before this time the famous vision of Pope Leo XIII in which he saw demons descending unto Rome and heard that Satan was given 100 years to try to destroy the Church. In response Pope Leo XIII wrote the Prayer to St Michael and sent it out to all the churches in the world to be prayed after every Mass. Until 1970 that was always done but few do it today!

Whenever that 100 year clock began ticking, we are seeing more incursions of our true enemy as he entices human beings to enter a new dark age of secularism where not only God is hated and rejected but the very nature of man and woman made in the image of God is hated and rejected. Indeed, Pope Francis speaks of us now living in a darkness that is World War III but it is a war waged by Globalist Elites against Common Humanity. But Pope Francis is also presiding over a War that is unfolding inside the Church too.

Indeed, if the watchword in England during World War II was ‘careless talk costs lives’, today, the watchword of this so called ‘World War III’ seems to be ‘ignorance will cost you your liberty and yes even your life!’ The watch word of the War in the Church is ‘ignorance of the faith will lead to the great deception and apostasy.’ No wonder there is the rising up of a Resistance inside the Church and among Common humanity. We also see huge protests around the world against the new tyranny of Globalist owned States ranging from UK, France, Austria, Germany and now Brazil which of course the Mass Media refuses to cover for they are also owned and controlled by these Globalist owned States.

Shining on all of this we have the light of the awesome visions given to St Faustina. Awesome because Jesus said to her that the devotion to his Divine Mercy would be the final call before his Divine Judgement on the earth and that her message would pave the way for his second coming.

The Angelic salutation of Gabriel that announced the Gospel to the Virgin Mary was, “Do not be afraid!” And this angelic salutation was Pope John Paul II’s first words as pope. If anybody knew what fear could do, this Pope did. He lived through the Nazi terror when his friends would be snatched off the streets and shot and when the Nazis hunted down priests. He then lived through the Communist terror when many a priest was sent to the Gulag. He faced down these State sponsored terrorism and repeated time and again, “Do not be afraid!”

When one reads Pope John Paul’s warning about the rise of the culture of death, little did we realise how far and how deep this would take a grip on our governmental, medical and civic institutions. Yes, we knew about the evils of abortion, IVF, Sterilisation, contraception and euthanasia, but little did we realise that a full-on implementation of a totalitarian culture of control unto death would arise:

a culture of control unto Death made now visible by Parliament’s promotion and NHS servile sending of abortion pills into the home; such that it now brings about a phenomenon called abuse abortions of women by spouses, family members and relatives;

a culture of control unto Death made visible with the promotion in Parliament of assisted suicide that will soon make parents discover that their children or spouses have signed their death warrants;

a culture of control unto Death made visible on the back of two years of the State using the techniques of behavioural psychology to spread a hyper fear of Covid, a Pandemic terror, to close down the social and economic life of the nation, to break down the physical and mental health of the young and the old and to set about dividing citizens so one would hate and wish violence on the other!

a culture of control unto Death made possible by a psych ops through the Mass Media using fear to bring about compliance through the enforcing of face cloths, false tests and experimental serums;

a culture of control unto Death made visible in the total silence and the total absence in the pastoral fields of medicine by absent and invisible GPs that shows their corruption by Big Pharma, as they no longer recognize the duty of care laid down by the Hippocratic oath and the Nuremberg Code.

Today we see a rise in excess deaths [called, if you can believe it: Sudden Adult Death Syndrome [SADs]] and World Economic Forum [WEF] elites asking for only pilots who had not taken the serum to fly their planes! No wonder UK Media tries to avoid any discussion about the massive rise in these excess deaths, as they line up on runways to attend another conference in Davos on Green issues using safely piloted aircraft!

The rise in the use of black triangle drugs such as nirmatrelvir, retonavir, remdesivir, haloperidol etc on elderly or seriously ill patients be it in hospitals or nursing homes is a major concern. But today as many fear to go into hospital in the UK, we must also be careful not to stand too near a hospital, as the State police may approach you and ask “what are you thinking? Are you praying?” And if you do say, “Yes, I am.” Then they will arrest you! So, we now live in a country and a Health Service that are taking on all the trappings of a Police State with patients speaking of being trapped in a Covid ward and a Thought Police arresting you for thought crime! Welcome to George Orwell’s dystopian political nightmare of ‘1984’ and Aldus Huxley’s nightmare of medical tyranny called ‘Brave New World’!

Describing the Culture of Death, it is salutary at this time to recall the words of Pope John Paul II in Evangelium Vitae:

The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a person who has in no way requested it and who has never consented to it. The height of arbitrariness and injustice is reached when certain people, such as physicians or legislators, arrogate to themselves the power to decide who ought to live and who ought to die. Once again we find ourselves before the temptation of Eden: to become like God who "knows good and evil" (cf. Gen 3:5). God alone has the power over life and death: "It is I who bring both death and life" (Dt 32:39; cf. 2 Kg 5:7; 1 Sam 2:6). But he only exercises this power in accordance with a plan of wisdom and love. When man usurps this power, being enslaved by a foolish and selfish way of thinking, he inevitably uses it for injustice and death. Thus the life of the person who is weak is put into the hands of the one who is strong; in society the sense of justice is lost, and mutual trust, the basis of every authentic interpersonal relationship, is undermined at its root [Evangelium Vitae n. 66]

However, he also spoke about the rise of the anti-Church! On a visit to the United States as a Cardinal, Karol Woytlya, in his final speech before his departure said the following:

“We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel. This confrontation lies within the plans of divine Providence; it is trial which the whole Church, and the Polish Church in particular, must take up. It is a trial of not only our nation and the Church, but, in a sense, a test of 2,000 years of culture and Christian civilization with all of its consequences for human dignity, individual rights, human rights and the rights of nations.” [cf reprinted by the Wall Street Journal after his election as Pope in it’s edition of Nov. 9, 1978].

Sadly, we have seen Ecclesiastical leaders dancing to the tune of the multi-coloured Spirit of the Age in Germany, in America and in our own ancient city of Lincoln and the discarding of Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. We have seen an idol put into St Peter’s Basilica and worshipped in compliance by the Church to a Cabbage movement that says the planet needs to be saved from human beings. A year later, COVID struck! Coincidence or Planned?

Now the Cabbages run Parliaments and have been passing laws that take away the right to protest, take away agricultural land from farmers and it seems we will find ourselves stopped from growing food in our own gardens!

We saw churches closed, before the dictums of the State was even proclaimed! Some of our Ecclesiastical leaders, it seems, are increasingly being ruled by the Culture of Death and the idolatry of Secular ideologies that worship false idols, the planet, the woke culture that redefines human nature as a template where we can even make the hybrids of man and machine, humans and animals and thus comes the transhumans! Meanwhile a new form of human bio-engineering has begun in the bodies of millions all over the Western world and all we find in the ecclesiastical corridors of power are the sounds of Crickets!

Indeed, at the Jubilee Year 2000 Pope John Paul II proclaimed the same words “Do not be afraid!” and called us to be “witnesses of hope” for the 3rd Millennium.

How are we to be witnesses of Hope for this 3rd Millennium of Christianity?

Remember the watchword of World War III is ‘ignorance will cost you your liberty and even your life!’ So, let us in 2023 get informed, pick up a book, do our own research, link up with minds that are critically thinking, have fellowship with people not living or overwhelmed by fear and make connections with people, podcasts and websites not in compliance to the Media and the State but beginning to form The Resistance, for:

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; on those who live in a land of deep shadow a light has shone.

Vive La Resistance!