Many friends have written to this blog since the awful events of September 10. Those who read this blog know of my preoccupations, my interest in world events and other matters. I dare to say the times are pressing on us. I may be wrong and we may be here still conversing a year from now. The events of this month may blow over like the events of September 11, 2001 that now seem so far removed. But I do think —for what is worth— that after the Death of our beloved Pope, Benedict XVI … we are closing the age.
Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white. Suddenly there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him. Then Peter said to Jesus, ‘Lord, it is good for us to be here; if you wish, I will make three dwellings here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.’ (Matthew 17:1-4)
Peter is there with John and James but the text points appropriately to Peter who had been appointed head of the Apostolic Body only about one week prior. So we have Peter’s appointment on Matthew 16 and then the ascent to the top of Mt. Tabor where Jesus is transfigured appearing with Moses and Elijah. Three men up in the air in glorious brilliance, Christ in the middle between the Law (Moses) and the Prophets (Elijah) —Torah and Tanakh— seen next to three men on the ground Peter, John and James with Peter in the prominent place. Confused and bewildered, Peter suggests to build dwellings for Christ, Moses and Elijah. Other evangelists comment “he [Peter] did not know what he was talking about.”
There is some rich theological meaning to the vision but I gather this: Two ages are past, the Age of the Law, and the Age of the Prophets. The Law was a model leading to Christ, the Prophets announced Christ and His work all the way to the End Times and beyond. Present also there is the first Prince of the Church because what is implicitly announced is the Age of the Church. The six men are like the six tips of the Star of David, the bright morning star.
- The Law is a tutor that leads us to Christ (Moses)
- Christ is revealed by the Prophets (Elijah)
- Christ is revealed in his Mystical Body, the Church (Peter)
I do not believe in Dispensationalism, which is a heresy, and I do not know if the age that ended with Benedict XVI is the third age I described above. In time we will know. What many are sensing now is the end of something that has dominated mankind for a long time. Comets were considered by ancient peoples as messengers of change. A big comet may be announcing a big change. Three comets crossed the sky before the Spaniards arrived to the realm of Moctezuma. Not long after that, Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared for the first time in the Americas and the end of the barbaric practices of the indigenous peoples of the Americas came to an end.
I am convinced, and I said so in many occasions, that the Aztec Empire was a model of this world we live in today. A world full of oppression and violence where the innocent are sacrificed without a second thought.
To this world a strange star, planet, comet (God knows what it really is!) comes careening at an incredible speed. I dare to say that body will change our world in ways we cannot even imagine. A more perfect vision of Christ will preside the entrance into this new era. Of that, I am sure. For that reason I am looking at the sky filled with hope: come to us, Lord Jesus.
Amen.
Quod scripsi, scripsi 
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A pearl from one email received recently:
> “According to this NASA website, the closest it comes to Mars is on October 3, 2025 and closest to Jupiter is on March 14, 2026.”
March 13, 2026 is the 13th anniversary of the ascension of Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
Another curious thing:
If one adds 1260 days to the date when Benedict XVI passed (See the 1260 days in Revelation 12) the result is:
Saturday, June 13, 2026 (Feast of St. Anthony of Padua)
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Very nice explication. I have found that Scripture often has so many layers that we can never exhaust them all.
Jewish law required two witnesses in order to convict a person of a crime or to seal a covenant. Elijah represented the prophetic office and Moses represented the law. Jesus at the transfiguration has not yet torn the veil of the holy of holies because he has not yet completed his mission on the cross, thus he is in the act of fulfilling the law and the prophesies, but it is not yet finished. Peter is the vicar of Christ. He is already raised to that office, but his coronation will be with a tongue of flame after the ascension. James and John are brothers and that is significant. All of the disciples are to be brothers – children of God. Thus, Peter represents Christ in the New Covenant for which there are two witnesses – James and John. Jesus is the fulfilment of the old covenant for which there are two witnesses. During the transfiguration the boundary between the eternal and the temporal is put aside, indicated by the inner illumination of Jesus and his clothing. The reach of the moment therefore is eternal. It touches all past time and all future time.
Six comets and an unknown celestial body that is comet-like invoke the number seven that can indicate both completeness (seventh day of creation in which God rests) and/or the movement of God in the world: seven lamp stands, l seven churches, seven commandments pertaining to creation, and in Revelation the seven seals, trumpets and plagues with interludes.
The uptick in demonic activity of late is notable, but even more so is the pulling away of the veil of “niceness” that covered the inner ugliness of those in rebellion. All of the false outrage over the imagined hurt feelings of the marginalized and the breast-beating virtue signaling has been shown to be hypocrisy by the gloating, celebrating and snarkery spilled out over the murder of Mr. Kirk whose name means church as you have pointed out.
The rebellious were never nice people, but they were allowed to pretend they were until they could no longer contain their toxic bile. Their hypocrisy is right up there with the scribes and the Pharisees – perhaps worse in this demonic age. We can never take them seriously again when they pretend to care about the feelings of others. They have spent all of their credibility and gone deep into deficit spending.
On may be forgiven for suspecting that the century of Satan that Pope Leo the 13th saw in a vision and against which he created the Michael the Archangel prayer, may be winding up. And Lo! If it is, there is a new Pope Leo on the scene. The only Pope Leo since the 13th! And 13 is associated strongly with Mary. Add seven comets and you have signs in the heavens.
Something is up. We may be sure of that.
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