SERWON FOR XXIV SUN, POS PENT.
Whot 1s this abomination of desolation our Saviour speaks of today?
Eirstly tt literally refers to the idols placed in the Temple of Jerusalen, and
the Roman arny'é desolation thereof in the year 70 A.D. ehen Ad athe wus Gft agen a Hore.
Secondly 1t refers to the latter days under the Antichrist, which is now being
prenared for by two major world events. One is the enforconent of the New Yass to
weaken the faith of nost Catholics, This is an abomination of desolation in the
way it wines out all speci fioally Catholic doctrttes such as the offortory prayers,
gnd hy the desolation of faith it Leaves anong those who attend,
‘The other preparation for the Antichrist 4s the collusion goinx on now between the
Vatican and Moscow. If we see the red flag fly over St.Poters in Rome, we will
know that very soon will the Man of Sin appear.
St. Alphonsus, the peeat doctor of the Church, says expressly that the reign of the
intiohriat will last only ‘three and a half yours, during which tine the Holy Sacrt -
floe of the Maas will be taken avay.
Thirdly there is a moral application of this expression, the abominable desolation
caused in the soul by mortal sin, Not only has the sinner expelled his God from
the sentuary of his baptised soul, but he creates a desolation of virtue wherever
he noes, piving the infection of « bad example,
‘The false Christs and lying wonders spoken of, could refer to the New
novenent of today, who openly prepare for the one-world teacher...the Christ
who fs not Jesus, We must remonber that the ehort reign of the Antichrist, who
will use the world government and computer technolory with anazing skill, will
end in a crushing defeat for all his forces, and a wonderful victory for those
Catholics who do not fall into the general apostacy under persecution, This is
Geseibed by
John in chapters 13 and 14 of his Apocalypse, It is all only a
sinn of the Second Coming and general judrenent.
Wo will seo after this victory for the.Churoh, the promised triumph
of the Inmaculate Heart of Nary, But, as She said to the children at La Salette,"twenty five years of plentiful harvest and they shall forget that the sins of
men are the cause of all the troubles on this earti.” Ye would do well to re-
read the trenendous details of this apparition of 144 years ago, and profit by
‘the warntnns contained in it.
St.Augustine gives us a list of seven evénts that Holy Scripture has
clearly revealed to ocour in the end times, but he is careful to add that the
manner and order of these events remains uncertain. !lis own opinion is the
following order of events will occur:
1) Eldas will return
2) The Jews will believe
3) The Antichrist will persecute
4) Christ our Lord shall cone to judge A segoe crny; oF
Gop, bk 20,
ch30,end, )
5) The dend shall rise with inmdtal bodies
6)The food and the wicked shall be separated
87) The world shall be burned and then renewed.
Theproper sentiments we will experience at that last judpenent, is well given
hy the sequencetof the Requiem Mass. This would be fitting to meditate upon this
week, as we make an examination of conscience on how we have used the gifts of
God this year, Imagine ourselves in the Holy Land, surrounded by the risen bodies
of all who ever lived, Christ our Lord will appear no more as the meek and merciful
Saviour, but in the fulness of Mis pover and majesty as Judge, Do now whatever we
know will pive us confidence then, on "that day of wrath and noumnine/ when the
world disselves into nshes,.,What will’ I poor sinner pjeading, who for me be
interceding, when the just are merey needing,
[tf wo are here today it is by the grace of God alone, and]we know what will
pive us confidence on that terrifying day; it is especially by devotion to the
very mother of our Judge. How can Jesus Christ inflict upon us the rigors of His
Justice 1f the Queen of Heaven says "I want him here with me, he preyed his rosary
daily and did mary things for me."