As the saying goes: it comes in threes both the good and the bad. On September 26, Hurricane Helene made landfall as a Category 4, bringing a nonstop firehose of rain, high winds, and storm surges. On October 9, Hurricane Milton made landfall as a Category 3, the second storm to batter the Southeastern part of the United States. Then came the famous aurora borealis – the Northern Lights – one day later.
The glowing green and reddish colors brought to mind, January 25–26, 1938, when an unprecedented aurora borealis witnessed across the globe that many thought was a devastating fire. This atmospheric anomaly fulfilled a prophecy by Carmelite Sister, Lúcia Santos, who with her two cousins, experienced apparitions at Fatima, Portugal of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The children were told three secrets, with the second secret about the beginning of World War II: “When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that he is about to punish the world for its crimes.” Sister Lucia wrote that this aurora borealis fulfilled that prophecy. World War II commenced the following year. Moreover, last Sunday was the anniversary of Fatima’s Miracle of the Sun in 1917.
If we remove the beams from our eyes, the signs are impossible to miss.
In the contemporary bread and circus world of football, The Shamokin, Pennsylvania squad is undefeated in more than two generations heading into Mount Carmel (the state’s winningest program) next Friday night looking to capture the Coal Bucket after a 29-year drought. Vanderbilt defeated Alabama for the first time in 40 years. Army and Navy are each undefeated for the first time since 1945 and both are in the top 25 and could play twice in the same year – a first in the series history that commenced in 1890.
As Hurricane Milton approached the Florida coast as a Category 5, Christian clergy encouraged the faithful to pray. The storm was downgraded to a Category 3 before making landfall in a matter of hours.
The democrat candidate for president, who never won a national primary, leads in most polls for the presidency courtesy of her party that believes they alone are the saviors of democracy.
A perilously large percentage of Americans believe freedom is simply – free.
According to Do No Harm, nearly 14,000 children between 2019 and 2023 underwent transgender surgeries, took puberty blockers, or were given cross-sex hormone injections. Pronouns trail gender selection with Facebook offering 58 genders to choose from. How’s legalizing marijuana working out? Recently, the first-ever Outfest Pride Parade was held in Bloomsburg the only “town” in Pennsylvania and onetime conservative enclave.
Millions have illegally invaded our nation without question and trepidation. The COVID vaccine was undisputed, and for those who did question and refused it were ostracized and ridiculed as being stupid and uncaring.
The Biden-Harris Department of Justice is suing local law enforcement for failing to hire those who can’t pass the standardized tests required for employment.
Last week, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, wearing a hat emblazoned with a Harris/Walz logo, blasphemed and mocked the Catholic sacrament of the Eucharist by feeding a kneeling far left influencer a Doritos corn chip. Whitmer wouldn’t dare profane Islam in any way.
Democrats like Whitmer have all the answers when it comes to killing children via abortion. Democrats are pro-choice on abortion, but anti-choice when educating America’s children. This irony continues to be lost on them.
Deep down in places that intimidate and even frighten us, we know things are spiraling out of control. Forty-five years ago, Robert Duvall and Martin Sheen were in Apocalypse Now, and today, we all are.
This battle for the American soul is more of a spiritual one than it is political. This campaign waged among us reflects the two roads described in the seventh chapter of Matthew’s Gospel: one leading to eternal life and the other to perdition.
It was in 1945 that Archbishop Sheen made this prophetic statement: “The barbarism of the new era will not be like that of the Huns of old; it will be technical, scientific, secular, and propagandized. It will come not from without, but from within, for barbarism is not outside us; it is underneath us. Older civilizations were destroyed by imported barbarism; modern civilization breeds its own.”
Doing nothing has consequences, but so do these three: courage, faith and prayer.
