Supernatural Signage

Hurricanes, Heavenly lights, and Fatima’s prophecy

By Greg Maresca

As the saying goes, it comes in three, 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 was witnessed across the globe. Many thought it was a devastating fire. This atmospheric anomaly fulfilled a prophecy by Carmelite Sister Lúcia Santos, who, with her two cousins, experienced apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima, Portugal.

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. Last Sunday was the anniversary of Fatima’s Miracle of the Sun in 1917. 

Removing the beams from our own eyes makes the signs 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 Democratic presidential candidate, who never won a national primary, leads in most presidential polls courtesy of her party, which believes it alone is the savior 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?  The first-ever Outfest Pride Parade was recently held in Bloomsburg, the only “town” in Pennsylvania and a one-time conservative enclave.

Millions have illegally invaded our nation without question and trepidation. The COVID-19 vaccine was undisputed, and 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 applicants who could not pass the standardized tests required for employment.

Last week, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, wearing a hat emblazoned with a Harris/Walz logo, knelt, mocked, and blasphemed the Catholic sacrament of the Eucharist by consuming 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 spiritual than political. It's a campaign waged among us that reflects the two roads described in the seventh chapter of Matthew’s Gospel: one leading to eternal life and the other to perdition. It's a call for introspection and contemplation, urging us to consider the more profound implications of our actions and choices.

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.

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