Welcome to Armageddon

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On a CORAC pilgrimage to Mt. Meeker the day after the Feast day of Fatima.

By Charlie Johnston

Mt. Meeker, Colorado – 

Send not to know for whom the bell tolls,

It tolls for thee. – John Donne

Many Christians assume that Armageddon and the Apocalypse are synonymous. Up until about 25 years ago, I was one of them. The Apocalypse is the final sequence of events leading to the end of the world. Armageddon is the decisive battle between good and evil. A case could be made that they are contemporaneous, but I think it most unlikely. After great trials, good does win the battle of Armageddon. The Apocalypse is the end of the earth as we know it. I came to think that Armageddon is likely the prelude to the opening of the great era of peace after the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart. The Apocalypse is prelude to the final judgment – and the establishment of a new heaven and a new earth – in which the satan, all his demons, and all the damned are chained for all eternity. They will have no further influence or relevance.

I have always insisted (as has always been emphasized to me) that this is NOT the end. The (capital ‘A’) Antichrist is NOT near at hand (though there may be some foreshadowing archetypes), the Great Apostasy is not yet (though a dress rehearsal is in progress), and all the Apocalyptic tropes that some so love are not yet to be.

I wrote the title and the first two paragraphs of this piece on Thursday, Oct 5, two days before Hamas’ butchery in Israel. We crossed the border from metaphorical to current reality two days after I began this piece.

This is not business as usual in the long-troubled Middle East. The eruption of support for the butchery in supposedly sophisticated cities throughout the world and among the trendy left elites who love to pretend to moral superiority marks this as a decisive struggle between the forces of good and evil. The battle lines are shaping between the Judeo-Christian forces who, under God, built Western Civilization, giving liberty and conscience full freedom on one side and the axis of evil of radical Islam, atheists, and leftists serving as acolytes of the satan on the other. In the global battle that has already begun, there can be no compromise: one side must win and the other lose.

The elite classes, in government, public institutions, media, academia, and entertainment are scrambling to figure out how to handle their obvious support and enabling of terrorists. Some are doubling down and openly supporting Palestinian terror. These are mostly college kids and some news people – not the brightest of the leftist pack. Others are desperately trying to establish some sort of moral equivalence between the brutalized and the brutalizers. Still others are trying to pass off weird forms of revisionist history to deny the obvious. Perhaps the most pathetic are those lefties trying to convince people that all this is Trump’s fault. (I am not joking about this. I have read several screeds by clowns who are geniuses in their own minds blaming Trump and pretending that Biden, Clinton, Kerry and the Democrats never did what they did in plain sight. I saw one particularly unhinged rant that this was all because Trump cancelled the nuclear deal with Iran.) Some really stupid, vainglorious people make up a history that never was to justify their support of murderous butchery.

Whatever excuses, deflections and justifications are used, this is become a moment of profound moral clarity. The world is divided up into people who will use and justify brutal atrocities to get their way and those in the Judeo-Christian camp who will NOT accept that atrocities are acceptable means to gain even the noblest ends.

What is striking about current American policy-making is not just how bad it is, but how insipidly banal and childish it is. It is as if we are suddenly governed by arrogant, mouthy high school sophomores – who mess up everything they touch but always blame someone else.

In 2008 a friend connected to the RNC was trying to recruit me to help with communications, crafting pithy arguments that would pop with voters. I declined for three reasons: 1) I had almost as little regard for and confidence in John McCain as I did for Barack Obama; 2) the activist media already took great pains not to report on compelling arguments made by conservatives. They are advocates, not journalists; 3) I feared we had reached a tipping point where the stupids were already the majority. If so, we would just have to let their toxic policies crash and burn and rebuild from the ashes they were leaving. It is folly to expect a people who do not know how freedom was won or is maintained to hold onto it.

Now comes a moment of moral choice that requires no great philosophical, theological, or historical sophistication. Do you support the torture and murder of innocents, and even the gruesome execution of babies to achieve your goals? Yes or no. If you do, you have chosen evil. If you do not, you may still be sinful, but you have not joined the legion of satan’s acolytes. Do your comrades in arms choose the evil, gruesome methods? If they do, will you embrace evil to maintain your standing with them or will you come out from among them? The conscience of all is being illuminated right now.

Many liberal Jews are now shocked to find what they thought were allies cheering over the butchery of their kinsmen. Many honest liberals who are not Jews are equally shocked. The salient question is whether they are shocked enough to examine how the philosophy they embraced inevitably led to this point. If so, they may recalibrate their hearts and souls to embrace the good. If not, they are doomed to be enablers of evil even if they do not directly participate in it. They can still believe all the things that they heretofore have believed but, when they stand before God, they cannot say they did not know what they were facilitating.

Leftists (not liberals), Islam, and militant atheists are the primary troops the satan has mounted for his assault on God and His people in this decisive battle. It will grow. You can see that in the mass celebrations in almost every capital in the world. The satan’s troops are legion. The devil knows he will ultimately lose. While he would prefer another result, he is content to just take down as many souls of the humans he loathes as he can in the process. Again, you only need look at all the mass celebrations of inhuman butchery to see how well he is accomplishing that particular aim.

This battle will grow until it engulfs the whole world. The left is committed to a philosophy, bankrupt intellectually, that requires them to force their version of “morality” on all. They have no philosophy or morality, just a pale simulacrum of one. It is designed to hide the reality that when you boil it down it is just the naked will to power by any means. They have chosen to become children of the father of lies – and want to force you to do the same. In agonized moments of grief, I wonder why. Even if they succeeded, all they would gain is brutal misery with the devil “progressively” whittling them down until he could destroy the soul of the last man standing. The devil has raised up a global death cult. It is baffling and horrifying to see so many angrily cheering on the brutal deaths of Jews, completely oblivious to the reality that they are cheering for their own destruction in the process.

Watching the elite leadership class in this country argue that the answer is to give more aid to the Palestinians (who have ALWAYS used such aid to buy bombs and rockets, not infrastructure and prosperity) and to give Iran support up to and including the means to make nuclear weapons, tells me the official leadership class is dead, incapable (and unwilling) to protect its own people, much less spread the blessing of liberty to others. All they are capable of is indulging the very fantasies that have led us to this point in the first place – only harder.

There are many Muslims who want peace, but Islam is NOT a religion of peace. All one has to do is actually read the Koran to know the truth of this. All the quote-lines used to try to make it sound like a religion of peace are from the sections on how to deal with fellow Muslims with whom a sect is in conflict. For non-Muslims, the prescription is conversion or death. The only wiggle room is how long infidels may be given to convert.

Hard, life-altering decisions must soon be made among Islamic countries. Those who genuinely desire peaceful coexistence (possibly Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia) must find some compelling interpretation of the Koran that actually forbids monstrous violence against non-Muslims despite what the Koran, itself, actually says – or they must abandon Islam. If they hold to Islam without such a compelling re-interpretation, their governments will be destabilized and, ultimately, fall under pressure from populist sentiment. I don’t think that particular circle can be squared, so Islamic governments which want genuine peaceful co-existence must either ruthlessly crush purist radicals, abandon Islam, or become purist radicals themselves. Either of the first two options guarantee a civil war within Islam, itself and the third option guarantees a decisive war with all the non-Islamic world. Purist radicals increasingly believe that the time to establish the global caliphate, as the Koran directs, is now. Though not quite as immediately obvious, the rest of the world is in the same sort of zero-sum environment. The choices we make now are permanent.

Powerful, elemental forces have been unleashed at a time when the world is already unstable and weakened. The powerful forces will grow. All are now forced to choose whom they will serve, light or darkness. Many elitists have already chosen. I guarantee you this: if you choose based on what you think will give you the most personal or political advantage – or which side you think is winning, you will lose everything, including your soul, if you do not repent. This is the great separation of the sheep from the goats. We are all now in God’s winnowing fan.

In the next year I expect a lot of nations to fall and a lot of borders to collapse, to be rewritten later. The pressures brought to bear by global strife will bring with it mass economic destruction. To be clear, this is NOT prophecy. This is purely analysis of the type I have done all my life – and had many clients pay me to do. By next year at this time I expect a substantial  terraformation of the global landscape.

We are not alone. We have God. But we no longer have the Christian institutions we have long relied on. They are gone or become pagan, at best, or satanic, at worst. Once again God calls a people to Himself from a hostile world. The Church will stand. Christ guarantees it. But the hierarchy is in great turmoil, unable to provide the leadership to carry us through. That is because, as I have long said, God intends that this be the hour of the ordinary man. A rejuvenated Church, freed from those who want to repudiate Christ and Scripture, will become a great ally later in the crisis. But for now, if we wish to endure, we must choose God and declare ourselves openly.

To that end, I am in the midst of a significant bolstering of CORAC. From the beginning, I designed CORAC as a means for people to work together in collaboration as the old institutions fell by the wayside. All the scary stories and headlines are just the rumbling of the old institutions collapsing. We do not follow the old institutions that have been corrupted by the greed and vanity of men without chests. We have focused on giving people the tools they need to survive – and thrive – as the old order passes away. That means we work together to do a lot of little things, for doing little things well is how a society is knit together. To explain in more detail what those changes are and how you can become a part of this volunteer network, we will hold a global ZOOM meeting on Sunday, Oct. 29, at 4 pm ET (3 CT, 2 MT and 1 PT). You are all invited to check in.

When contemplating the Ascension of Christ, I often think of the joy of the Apostles as they realized that what they thought was the end was actually the beginning. Once again, we are at a great beginning. As always, it begins at Calvary. Deny yourself, take up your cross, and you will become the vanguard of the renewal of the faith and face of the world.

The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong,

But to those who follow the Lord with fortitude and fidelity

Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Cathrine’s Church at the foot of Mt. Meeker. Thanks to Dan Lynch Apostolates for making the image available for our CORAC pilgrimage.

Next week I depart for my tour through the south and southeast. After taking a break for the Christian holidays with family, I will resume the tour in January, starting in Florida and moving up the East Coast, then back through the Midwest and northern Mountain states. If you would like to schedule a visit, contact my scheduler, Gina, at ginaw@coracusa.com. Events hosted by CORAC members are always without charge. If a non-member wants to host a meeting, the fee is $350. The gigantic loophole here is that there is no charge to join CORAC. So join first and then contact Gina to schedule a meeting.

Yes, the world is unsettled and much is falling apart. But I will keep my appointed rounds with faith and fidelity. When I can’t anymore, for whatever reason, I trust that God will show me what He requires next. So I say to you, until the Lord shows His mighty hand, keep tending your garden. You want Him to find you hard at work in His service rather than sitting in your armchair waiting for Him to clean up the mess we have all made when He checks in on you.

If communication goes out for any length of time, meet outside your local Church at 9 a.m. on Saturday mornings. Tell friends at Church now in case you can’t then. CORAC teams will be out looking for people to gather in and work with.

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67 thoughts on “Welcome to Armageddon”

    1. Charlie, I appreciate your reminder that prophecy often rolls out in a way different from what one may have interpreted: “Now comes a moment of moral choice that requires no great philosophical, theological, or historical sophistication. Do you support the torture and murder of innocents, and even the gruesome execution of babies to achieve your goals? Yes or no. If you do, you have chosen evil. If you do not, you may still be sinful, but you have not joined the legion of satan’s acolytes. Do your comrades in arms choose the evil, gruesome methods? If they do, will you embrace evil to maintain your standing with them or will you come out from among them? The conscience of all is being illuminated right now.”

      I continue to hope that each one has a discrete, personal moment of Illumination. But then, I also freely admit the reality that God’s thinking and plans are so far beyond and above my own wee capabilities to think and imagine. For sure and certain, His Grace IS sufficient to bring conversion and salvation to each and every one of us IF we but choose to listen and respond, to repent and to choose Him and His Ways.

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  4. Thank you, Charlie for your timely analysis. We all need to be praying more fervently as our Blessed Mother has asked us to. I do also believe and see the sides lining up that, until now, has mostly been a spiritual battle. As the battle becomes violent the sides seem to become a little blurry. It nags me that Israel seemingly stood down and allowed this attack on them to happen. Perhaps, this is the case in warfare as there are many examples of governments doing this in the past. We must hope and pray that we get some real leaders. God Help us if we enter into warfare with nations that have leaders with actual functioning brains.

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  6. Thank you! I appreciate the distinctions you make between Armageddon and Apocalypse. Didn’t know that before.

    I struggle with the management crisis in the Church – I have been involved in RCIA (now called OCIA) for several years. None of the Catechumans or Candidates have raised the issue of the mess in Rome, but I’m expecting it. I struggle with the same conflicts and don’t know how to respond to myself or them. If the church goes schematic, who do I follow, the pope who, for better or worse, is the one chosen to lead, presumably by the Holy Spirit – or do I leave the reservation and follow Catholic leaders who align more with my point of view? Was that what gave birth to the reformation? Was Martin Luther the Bishop Strickland of his time? I don’t know.

    I wish someone would begin talking about rescuing the Palestinians from Hamas. I don’t believe that most Palestinians want a jihad against Israel. I perceive that they are like the average Germans in the 1930s, who initially thought the Nazis were either outliers or the ones to help them recover economically from the residue of WWI – only to discover too late that they were maniacs. By the time they figured it out, the tanks and jackboots were rolling, and there wasn’t much they could do about it.

    There isn’t much difference between Nazis and Hamas, in my opinion.

    I’d wear this t-shirt or bumper sticker — Free the Palestinians, Death to Hamas!
    Well, maybe I’d be uncomfortable advocating death to anyone, so maybe – Convert Hamas!

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    1. With respect, please do not compare Bishop Strickland to Martin Luther. Bishop Strickland is fully committed to living fidelity to the Magisterium AND obedience to lawful authority.

      Sadly, the majority of Palestinians elected Hamas as their governing authority – and surveys since have shown consistent support of 57-65 percent for Hamas. What is most shocking (and I do not want to believe) is that a small majority of people in the Arab world support Hamas. But we have tried wishing happy thoughts for most of my lifetime and all it has done is give more room for butchery. The first step, if there is to be any reconciliation, is for the Palestinians and peace-loving Arabs to throw off the bloody butchers among them.

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      1. No offense to Bishop Strickland – my point, maybe poorly made, is that he is an example of what I would expect to be coming from the Vatican, and sadly, it isn’t. Holding on to the barque of Peter I feel like a plastic fender bouncing off the side of the ship. I am probably naive but I think the average Palestinian has been lied to, and intimidated for so long by Hamas leadership their one-time endorsement of Hamas, in a rigged election with no subsequent elections, says more about Hamas’s iron fist than the Palestinian confidence in their leadership. To me, it’s like the average German who went along to get along because of fear of the Nazi’s not support. The Germans paid a steep price, and in many ways are still paying. I pray that this time, the violence will lead to the rise of a brave corps of Palestinians who rise up against their oppressors and take down Hamas.

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        1. Nah, I got your point, Madkat. I’m just a tad sensitive about Bp. Strickland. So many otherwise admirable clergy have gone off the rails in either their dissent or their attempts at diplomacy. Bp. Strickland has been the very model of an obedient prelate who is also fully obedient to Magisterial teaching…so he is very dear to my heart.

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    2. Madkatmomma,
      I’m with you on conversion.
      These people have been indoctrinated to hate religion/people other than Islam. Particularly Hamas. The Palestinians voted them to lead their Government and that government teaches the children to hate. Imagine if for generations Hitler’s youth programs taught the German youth how to think like a Nazi. Thier whole worldview would be similar to what these people in Gaza think. Same for N. Korea. Remember how the Japanese believed the Emporer was a god?
      Conversion is the only hope.
      Now, everyone has the ten commandments written on thier hearts so a moral compass is present. But it can be misdirected.
      The parable of the seed sowed on the path/thorns/rocks is an example. But we are to judge “by thier fruits” and a society that would use even thier own children as shields have lost that compass! What future are they sustaining for themselves to raise them to behave and think this way?
      Obviously, God knew the small children did not believe and act as the adults in Sodom and Gomorrah did yet He destroyed them as well. If you believe He did this as an act of mercy for them you would be correct as the next generation then could not continue this lifestyle of destroying souls.
      So we pray for a conversion, as Beckita said above, the “Illumination of Conscience”.
      They Will Be Done, oh Lord.
      Jesus, We Trust in You.

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    1. Madkatmomma, we have the old and wise comment policy that one would add a comment about why a particular news item is being shared. What are your thoughts concerning this link you bring to the forum?

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      1. Sorry. I shared it because the NYT was at least attempting to acknowledge they screwed up on the coverage of the hospital bombing. In the world of journalism that is a mortal sin. While they didn’t exactly fall on their sword I thought it was important to share that even the liberal NYT can admit a mistake. The world of journalism roundly criticized them which is probably why they did it. Having said that, I wouldn’t be offended if you thinks it’s too obscure and didn’t post it Meg/mkm

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  8. Thank-you, Charlie. As individual regions and groups within the Corac organization, we should be adopting the “prayer and work” attitude of the Benedictines. Building up our groups by working and praying together we will be as ready as we can be when the time comes.
    Come, Holy Spirit! 🔥
    God bless, katey in OR

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    1. Oh Dear Katey, we have been doing just what you recommend since the inception of Charlie’s blogging way back at TNRS. 🙂 Consider the many guest posts posted here over the years, from people in apostolic work, such as Dan Lynch’s prayer initiatives (Our Lady of Guadalupe, the King of All Nations and Our Lady of America) and those of our now deceased friend, Tony Mullen, who was the first national director of the Flame of Love movement. The very core message Charlie promotes is a mirror of ora et labora: Acknowledge God (remaining connected in prayer of intercession, petition, thanksgiving, and more) take the next right step (the very prayer of doing with the “lot of wood to chop” and all that has been accomplished and continues to unfold in CORAC being our work) and be a sign of hope to those around you.

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      1. Actually, standing with Charlie to be a group of do-ears and not watchers, only.
        How many members? How many do-ers? And talking to me, too. I need to get moving more along with the myriads of prayers – do both at the same time! It’s hard to get me going.
        God bless, katey

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        1. Myownbackyard2017 My guess is that “doers,” doesn’t always mean the physical act of labor but in fact could be along the charitable lines on offering up one’s day of suffering and praying for peace?!?!?! I think I’m right??? Not all of us have that much energy anymore. I’m so busy with babysitting 👩🏻‍🍼 and work I don’t seem to have any more time except to acknowledge God daily take that next right step (whatever He puts in front of me) and be a sign of hope to whenever she puts in my path for that day 😂😂😂. It’s like AA with a twist!!! One day at a time…with a RADICAL TRUST IN GOD that He will do the rest 😂🥰🙏🥳👩🏻‍🍼👼😘🌹🕯️

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          1. Actually, Linda, the phrase “prayer of doing” was introduced to highlight that in addition to the traditional ways of praying (Mass, Rosary, private prayers, contemplation, etc.), including fasting and offering sufferings, the very acts we do to help another are also a form of prayer. I get you on days that are filled with duties and I think I’m a generation ahead of you in age/energy resources. Those duties of work and babysitting are very much the prayer of doing when offered with Love to the Lord. Think in terms of the Morning Offering when we give all our prayers and works to the Lord. One day at a time, indeed. And sometimes it’s moment by moment. 🙂

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            1. Oh thank you for that beckita🥰🥰🥰. Gosh you made me feel so good reading that because I just feel babysitting is where God wants me currently. Sounds like you’ve been there and are there 🥰. I’m going to print what you said out beckita or write ✍️ it down👼👼🌹🌹🐶⛪️ thank you i

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              1. Linda, sometimes it’s a balancing act to fill our lives with both the usual forms of prayer and the prayers of doing. Most of all, I see your heart rooted in loving God and His people in whatever you’re called to do. That’s a solid foundation.

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                1. Beckita thank you!!! Coming from you a spiritual mother/sister to me, that means a whole lot!!! My life is absolutely so hectic currently I’d be dead right now if it hadn’t been for you and Charlie!!!😂😂😂. I just take every step I take acknowledging God, Taking the next right step and trying to be a sign of hope!!! I mess up and fall down ALL THE TIME but like Charlie says, just keep getting back up!!! Hey can you all pray for a Jeff and Renee today! Met them both at target 🎯 returning a defective item. They both work there. Told Jeff about Charlie and Fatima! I think think he needed a sign of hope!!!🥰. No other explanation for it! And Renee…what a beautiful older lady! Had two sons and they both passed away😩😩. She was weepy but loved and trusts Jesus🥰🙏🌹👼👼. Thank you 😘😘😘😘😘😘x12k😂

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                  1. God bless you, Linda. You’re doing the little you can right before you all the time. (Right there with you on falling down. I love Venerable Bruno Lanteri, who said after someone told him that s/he had fallen: “Begin again.” So simple. So good. Praying for Jeff and Renee. 🙂

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                    1. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02FVcYUVCwpQuDyawh9cT5mpMMPT4x2ftHwwFRr4SbUDa49wZyDYYXycedz269y3pwl&id=100022286255298&mibextid=e1zS5d

                      Thank you Beckita!! Please pray for our priest tomorrow Fr Ron Schock! He’s having corrective surgery to fix his ankle/foot hoping to get it back into alignment so he can walk again. He was involved in a very bad accident as a young man his leg got caught up into the machinery of his families farm tractor. He became a priest but still can’t walk because of the pain. He hopes to be able to walk again after the surgery 🙏🙏🙏. Big gun prayers!!! We are all so blessed to have each other🥰 thank you

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        2. Amen, Katey. And the standing is with God and each other as much as it is with Charlie. How often Charlie has rightly encouraged us to make friends/connections with those around us. When this Storm is at its heights with likely things such as communications being down we will each find ourselves with our neighbors, many of whom will not have had a clue that they would find themselves as we all shall be. Day by day, step by blessed step, we balance your beloved St. Benedict’s counsel. 🙂

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    1. Yes, indeed, Brendan. And we each have a duty to partner with God – as we acknowledge Him to discover what He is asking us to do – while Our Lady fulfills her role. (BH edit: deleted “backwards”)

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  10. Sobering, as is most of what’s going on these days. Looking at all of it, I so often think of our adult kids, most not near us, and wish we could all be together. All I can do each day is to re-consecrate all the family to the Immaculate Heart and give her permission/beg her, to mold all of us in our decisions. I am at peace doing this since most of my life has been molded by this Mother and what happens in Her hands is so good and right.

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  11. Ha!!! I just told a fb friend that it was Armageddon 1) because you said so And 2) because the Cleveland Browns keep winning 😂😂😂. Haven’t read this yet! Just got home from babysitting 👩🏻‍🍼 but can’t wait to dive into this! Thank you Charlie 🥰🥳🙏😬⛪️😩👼

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  12. JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! … PS:

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/10/23/tucker-carlson-interviews-col-douglas-magregor-about-israeli-war-and-potential-conflict-with-iran/

    Bad Guys have infiltrated Our USA and will do US Harm! … Be Prepared!!
    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/10/23/border-jihad-customs-and-border-patrol-issue-warning-for-hamas-palestinian-islamic-jihad-and-hezbollah-arrivals-posing-as-illegal-aliens-during-border-influx/

    https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/23/pentagon-says-iran-escalate-israel-hamas-conflict-attacks-americans/

    Why would Blue Democrat ****Holes/States want THEIR Crime Data out-There!?
    THEY are hemoraging Producer Class Citizens to Red States and want to keep tourists, business and tourists ignorant!
    https://americanwirenews.com/fbi-is-quietly-withholding-large-amounts-of-crime-data-from-americans/

    https://allenwest.substack.com/p/allen-west-wes-virdell-goa-2a

    https://www.glennbeck.com/radio/3-signs-elites-clamp-down-freedom

    https://justthenews.com/

    GOD SAVE ALL HERE!

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  13. Charlie really really really great piece!!! I think I’ve read it over 3 times and probably will many many more!!! The whole article could be highlighted and written back as WOW!!!

    I don’t know if you’re allowed to say or maybe you don’t know yourself and maybe we’re not meant to know…but does anyone have any idea how long Armageddon is supposed to go on until the era of peace? I know Desmond says when you see 🇫🇷 France and Italy 🇮🇹 go into civil war almost simultaneously be prepared to live your life day by day but I’ve actually been doing that for a long time😂😂😂.

    Anyways it’s just a question of curiosity.

    Thanks for this piece Charlie!!!! It’s very very good and very tight provoking and I’m sharing it all over the place😂🥰🙏🥳🌹🇫🇷🇮🇹👼🏡⛪️ 🐿️ 🐶

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  14. JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! … ;-)!

    https://catholicexchange.com/saint-noel-chabanel-a-life-of-faithfulness/

    https://spiritdailyblog.com/prophecy/the-sudden-tempest

    Yea! Lubbock … where Back in de Day … I went to Pilot School. A place where Ya can stand on a beer can and see the North Pole … Dust Storms & Tumble Weeds! …. the first time I saw the Tumble Weeds roll in, I thought to myself that this was supposed to only happen in John Wayne Westerns! ;-(
    https://www.lifenews.com/2023/10/23/lubbock-texas-bans-abortions-becomes-sanctuary-county-for-the-unborn/

    Sadly San Antonio ;-( … Blue or Red State the godless Baby Killing Marxists are pushing The Agendas of Death and Perversion!
    https://catholicvote.org/san-antonio-faces-lawsuits-after-approving-half-million-dollars-for-abortion-travel/

    https://catholicexchange.com/no-condemnation/

    https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=60272

    https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/synod-reform-renewal-or-revolution

    PF & PuppetStooge “Speak” …???!!!….. ;-(
    https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255774/pope-francis-and-us-president-biden-speak-by-phone

    https://www.newoxfordreview.org/documents/the-latest-episode-of-the-francis-follies/

    https://spiritdailyblog.com/commentary/america-endangered

    https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-guilty-pleasures-of-violence

    YEP! Obama’s Transform America Plan be unfolding. If 1% of the Illegals are Terrorists &/or violent Criminals, Ye be talking about Tens of Thousands of Bad Guys! THEY are amongst US!
    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/10/23/bidens-2023-flood-one-migrant-every-american-newborn/

    https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/dialogo-de-sordos-catholic-discussion-of-the-immigration-chaos

    But NO CALLS from DC Swamp Bigs to close Border!!
    https://www.frontpagemag.com/cbp-warns-of-hamas-and-hezbollah-fighters-on-southwest-border/

    https://stream.org/category/us/
    https://www.zerohedge.com/
    https://www.thedailybs.com/news
    https://newsbusters.org/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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      1. Oh wow, I was based at Reese AFB in the mid 80s for Undergraduate Pilot Training. Sad to see the base closed these days. Was quite the culture shock for a Jersey Boy. Wife and I were parishioners at St. John Neumann’s. Appropriate since she is a South Philly girl, born at the old St. Agnes.

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  15. Charlie, clearly said! A few of you folks are still in denial. Be prepared. Our own Government has let us down. Don’t hide, stand up, be counted. I believe God has a covenant with America and he needs us to fulfill it.

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    2. Yep! ….. THEY are going after The Saturday People with The Sunday People next! …. and THEIR Useful Idiots will Get de Axe quickly when their usefulness ends.

      Universal Evil, Powers & Principalities, at work ;-(

      The Israel-Hamas War is ALREADY Pushing the Great Reset Agenda

      https://armageddonprose.substack.com/p/anti-defamation-league-now-blaming

      https://www.zerohedge.com/political/kunstler-who-joe-biden-working

      GOD SAVE ALL HERE!

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        1. Katey, it happens to me, too, and I can’t figure out a way to stay logged in. It’s possible that WordPress is making logins a daily thing for security reasons. If I do find a way to stay logged in, I will pass it along.

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  18. JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! … PS:

    https://thepathlesstaken7.blogspot.com/2023/10/saint-raphael-endowed-with-grace-of.html

    https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/illinois-democrat-governor-promote-abortion/

    VDH…. Wise words.

    https://allenwest.substack.com/p/incitement-insurrection

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/exclusive-matt-gaetz-sends-warning-air-force-woke/

    https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/10/22/oregon-dumbs-down-hs-graduation-requirements-in-reading-writing-math-1406499/

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/10/24/special-counsel-jack-smith-continues-lawfare-operation-with-more-leaks-to-abc-this-time-claiming-mark-meadows-warned-trump-about-2020-election-result-being-accurate/

    https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/crisis-who-is-killing-young-america

    https://links.glennbeck.com/view/55d278157d0973635efe6258jpyiu.20pc/539bb9b4

    https://patriotpost.us/digests/101570-mid-day-digest-2023-10-24

    GOD SAVE ALL HERE!

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  19. Interestingly, Colonel McGregor also says we are moving towards Armageddon…

    What a surprise surprise that BLM expressed support for Hamas even before Israel took retaliatory steps …

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  20. JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! … 😉

    https://spiritdaily.org/blog/news/gods-creation-say-hi

    https://onepeterfive.com/ida-friederike-gorres-a-forgotten-catholic-rediscovered/

    https://spiritdaily.org/blog/apparitions/forums-the-hidden-meanings-of-akita

    https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-universal-call-to-lassitude

    https://catholicexchange.com/wolves-among-the-faithful/

    https://www.catholicleague.org/church-ideologues-never-learn/

    https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255788/vatican-statistics-africa-had-biggest-increase-in-catholics-while-numbers-fell-in-europe

    https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/whats-eating-germanys-essen-diocese

    I have to agree with PF on this one! Nowhere in Our Declaration of Independence or Constitution will you find the word Democracy. Indeed our Founders were afraid of the ideals of democracy and created a Republic that since Prez Wilson the Democrat Party has been successfully dismantling and why every State/City THEY “own” is a ****Hole ;-(
    https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255776/pope-says-what-happened-in-libya-and-iraq-shows-we-must-not-export-democracy

    https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/catholics-against-antisemitism-now-more-than-ever

    Interesting
    https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/why-the-jews-of-khazaria-the-himyarites

    https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/my-roman-nemesis-bottle-episodes

    Texas Attorney General Sues Biden Administration for Cutting Razor Wire at Southern Border

    https://americanliberty.news/media/report-fox-news-quietly-discontinued-live-television-interviews-with-trump/phouck/2023/10

    https://www.declassified.live/p/trump-moves-to-dismiss-january-6

    https://www.zerohedge.com/
    https://www.newsmax.com/
    https://links.glennbeck.com/view/55d278157d0973635efe6258jq98i.1zxk/3afd47e9
    https://www.thedailybs.com/news
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
    https://hotair.com/
    https://newsbusters.org/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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  22. JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! … PS:

    https://theconversation.com/hot-button-topics-may-get-public-attention-at-the-vatican-synod-but-a-more-fundamental-issue-for-the-catholic-church-is-at-the-heart-of-debate-213634

    Hats Off for Texas Lady!

    https://www.afa.net/the-stand/culture/2023/10/more-than-a-season/

    https://stream.org/oklahoma-governor-slams-ags-lawsuit-fighting-funds-for-nations-first-religious-charter-school/

    https://pro.paradigmnewsletters.org/p/awn_bidenbuckstac_1022/LAWNZABC/?h=true

    I’m glad McCarthy has Outted himself …. but. like Vatican City, what happens in UniParty Swamp DC over the next year does not matter much for Our welfare/safety ’cause, I’m thinking, unpleasant Global Events will overtake US/EU … Be Prepared!
    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/10/25/remarkable-details-matt-gaetz-gives-details-of-backroom-machiavelli-tactics-triggered-by-kevin-mccarthy-during-house-gop-conference/#more-252383

    Interesting & ALARMING Illegal Immigration Info
    https://cis.org/

    https://reclaimthenet.org/mastercards-digital-id-project-is-being-used-by-governments

    https://patriotpost.us/alexander/101616-bidens-hate-crime-distraction-from-black-on-black-violence-2023-10-25

    https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/25/exclusive-border-authorities-are-counting-palestinian-migrants-as-other-nationalities/

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2023/10/25/soros-money-anti-israel-groups-n2630228

    https://thefederalist.com/

    GOD SAVE ALL HERE!

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  24. It seems that the coming Armageddon is formally launched by the officially declared spiritual Armageddon ( synod on synodality ) conjugating with the geopolitical events ( Israel, Ukraine). From what one Polish priest said recently who visited Akita in Japan, sister Agnes, of Akita apparitions, age 92, was visited by the Holy Mother a year ago and was confirmed that the prophecies from 50 years ago are coming to realization now (terrible chastisements including fire from heaven (nukes?) where most of the population perishes)…

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    1. Where there is evil, grace abounds more abundantly, and:

      October 20, 2023 – Message from Our Lady of Medjugorje through Ivan Dragicevic

      Dear children! Today I invite you to pray for peace. At this time, peace is threatened in a special way, and I ask you to renew fasting and prayer in your families and to encourage others to pray for peace. Dear children, I want you to understand the seriousness of the situation and that much of what will happen depends on your prayer and perseverance. Dear children, I am with you and I invite you to seriously start praying and fasting, Thank you for responding to my call! (October 20, 2023)

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    2. PAWEL, although this is my own personal opinion, I believe that prayer, lots of prayer, for repentance and prayers for those heart ready to turn is the only answer.
      Prayer and trust in Jesus.
      Jesus, I trust in you!
      God bless us, every one!
      Katey in OR ✝️🙏🏽✝️❤️‍🔥📿💙 Lord, hear our prayers. 🛐

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  25. JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! … 😉

    https://catholicexchange.com/a-pilgrimage-a-devotion-for-eucharistic-revival/

    https://catholicfamilynews.com/blog/2023/10/26/exclusive-bishop-schneider-comments-on-new-book-synod-on-synodality-cardinals-five-dubia/

    https://catholicexchange.com/behold-your-mother-2/
    https://spiritdaily.org/blog/apparitions/winds-of-evil

    https://www2.cbn.com/news/israel/god-didnt-design-us-hate-former-hezbollah-fighter-now-ministry-leader-recalls-encounter

    https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255796/georgia-supreme-court-upholds-heartbeat-law-banning-abortion-recognizes-personhood-for-unborn

    https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255794/20-martyrs-of-persecution-during-spanish-civil-war-to-be-beatified

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/largest-christian-university-nation-alleges-being-unjustly-targeted-federal-agencies
    ……. Yep! The Usual Suspects … In-Action!! ;-(
    https://catholicvote.org/16-attorneys-general-sign-open-letter-against-crisis-pregnancy-centers/

    https://www.catholicleague.org/new-house-speakers-religion-already-an-issue/

    https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/do-synod-doubters-really-trust-the-holy-spirit

    https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/a-letter-from-headless-synod
    https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/in-unprecedented-letter-synod-urges

    https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/headline-news-around-the-world/item/6859-a-novus-ordo-priest-on-traditionis-custodes

    https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-treasured-past-is-the-future

    https://www.oursundayvisitor.com/sacred-architecture-and-witness-a-tale-of-two-temples/
    0:32 / 39:10
    Archbishop Vigano SHAMES Pope Francis and Bishops!

    https://stream.org/the-great-reset-would-have-us-build-back-barabbas/

    #1 Antichrist/next DemonRat Prez Wannabe attempting to look Presidential and relevant.
    Adam Corolla quipped: “Newsom is like a lousy California Mexican Restaurant owner who wants to franchise his business Nationwide” ;-(
    https://www.oann.com/newsroom/newsom-meets-with-chinese-president-to-discuss-fentanyl-and-climate-change/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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  26. JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! … PS:

    RIP Victims in Maine a State I called Home for four years.
    RIP all the Victims of Crime that occurs daily in Our USA! Crimes that go largely unreported ’cause it would reflect badly on The Democrat Party, THEIR Urban ****Holes, THEIR WIDE-OPEN Border Policy, THEIR Soros funded DAs, THEIR corrupt & weaponized & PC DOJ/FBI/DHS and Blue State equivalents. Plus …. THEIR Blind Eyes when it comes to Drugs, Human Trafficking, Perversion and BlueDemocrat Political High Crimes & Treason!
    We ain’t seen nothing yet ’cause besides ALL the Violent “common” Criminals, we have unknown numbers of Foreign Agents and Saboteurs In-Place …. NOW! … Waiting for The Execute Order! ;-(
    https://themostimportantnews.com/archives/the-toxic-brew-that-is-going-to-create-endless-chaos-in-the-streets-of-america

    Not to Worry!! THEY, Today, are hysterically calling to Disarm You and make You Helpless and unable to defend your Family, Friends and Neighborhoods!

    https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/evil_walks_among_us_monsters_with_human_faces_wreak_havoc_on_our_freedoms

    https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/25/tucker-carlson-warns-america-brink-collapse/

    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/athena-thorne/2023/10/25/the-systemic-anti-semitism-of-the-left-n1737877

    https://www.floppingaces.net/most-wanted/more-proof-the-mrnas-rewire-the-immune-system-with-unknown-long-term-effects/

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/10/25/cdc-confirms-only-3-of-eligible-americans-have-taken-covid-booster-shot-fda-confirms-may-slightly-increase-strokes-in-those-over-85/

    https://thefederalist.com/
    https://pjmedia.com/
    https://www.thedailybs.com/news
    https://links.glennbeck.com/view/55d278157d0973635efe6258jqj2g.1p4q/0a9c34d0
    https://newsbusters.org/

    GOD SAVE ALL HERE!

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Charlie Johnston is a former newspaper editor, radio talk show host and political consultant. From Feb. 11, 2011 to Aug. 21, 2012, he walked 3,200 miles across the country, sleeping in the woods, meeting people and praying as he went. He writes on cultural, global and political issues from an orthodox Catholic perspective. He emphasizes that we find God most surely through the ordinary, doing the little things we should with faith and fidelity. His constant refrain is that, to live real joy, we must acknowledge God, take the next right step, and be a sign of hope to those around us. He lives in the Archdiocese of Denver in the United States.