1st Sunday of Advent, Year C "The Anti-Christ & his mother"

Advent is a time to prepare for the coming of Jesus at Christmas, His Second coming at the end of the world and the coming of Jesus at our personal judgment when we die.

In the Gospel, Jesus speaks about what will happen before His coming as judge. He said, “there will be signs in the sun, moon and the stars, and on earth nations will be in dismay perplexed by the roaring of the sea and the waves.”

These words can be interpreted as either literal or symbolic or both literal and symbolic.

In our day and age, what are we to think when the comet struck Jupiter on July 16, 1994? Or the miracle of the Sun in Fatima on Oct 13, 1917, as the sun a zigzagged and then appeared to fall from the sky? Or people who saw the sun dance in Medjugorje? And what about the tidal wave in 2004 that killed 230,000 people on Christmas Day, or hurricane Katrina in 2005 that devastated New Orleans? In 2023, last year an earthquake in Turkey and Syria killed 7,900 thousands of people? Are these signs that Jesus is coming to judge the world soon? However, before His Second Coming, the anti-Christ will rule the world.

What will the anti-Christ be like? There are 16 things about the Antichrist that reveal who he is. 1. He will be controlled by Satan through diabolical possession. 2. He will declare himself the messiah. 3. He will be Jewish and his mother will be Jewish (LaSallete). 4. He will conquer enemies & reign over the world for 3 ½ years. 5. He will declare Jerusalem the capital of the world. 6. Claim to be God & force people to worship him (2Thess 2:4) 7. He will have statues of himself set up for people to worship 8. He will persecute Christians (Rev. 13:7) (The Great Persecution). 9. He will abolish the Mass (Dan. 12:11) 10. He will start a new religion and create a false church (Catherine Emmerich) 11. He will be extremely intelligent, and will have eloquence, and possess perfect knowledge of every art, and know all scriptures. History of the Anti-Christ 12. He will work false wonders (2 Thess 2:9-10) such as calling down fire from heaven, cast out demons. He will supposedly die and come back to life, but he will not have really died. (Rev. 13:12). He will appear to heal the sick, but they will be false miracles. 13. He will control the World Economy – “Also, it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.” (Rev. 13:16-17). 14. He will kill Enoch and Elijah who will return as prophets. (Rev. 11:8). 15. The Antichrist will be destroyed by Jesus at His Second Coming. 16. The Antichrist’s number is 666. Letters of alphabet are 666 when translated. Nero was like an Antichrist his number was 666.

According to the book, History of the Antichrist by Rev. P Huchede, pg. 24) written in 1884, a professor of the Theology at the Grand Seminary Laval, France, the Antichrist will be preceded by the false prophet. “The Antichrist adores Satan and the false prophet glorifies the Antichrist. He will communicate his power of working miracles to others, who will go into different countries and cities to gain new proselytes by human and diabolic means in the power. There shall rise up false christs and false prophets and they shall show signs and wonders to seduce, if it were possible the elect. They blaspheme the majesty of God and despise all true authority.”

What I am going to tell you is private revelation, that has been approved by the Church and does not contradict her teachings, meaning we may choose to believe it or not believe it.

St. Hildegard an abbess of a monastery lived from 1098 to 1179 was declared a doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict in 2012. Her work was discovered by St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) and Pope Blessed Eugenius III (1088-1153), both of whom regarded it as divinely inspired, her reputation as a prophet began to spread throughout Christendom. She writes about the mother of the anti-Christ and also the anti-Christ. St. Hildegard said,

After the birth of the anti-Christ heretics will preach their false doctrines undisturbed resulting in Christians having doubts about their holy Catholic faith. After his birth false teachers and doctrines will appear followed by wars, famines and pestilence.

Just like his mother, the boy will be “nurtured by the Devil’s arts (occult practices). His mother will seldom let anyone see him, yet through “magic arts”, and will gain the love of the people for him. When he reaches manhood, he will publicly announce a hostile doctrine on religion, “clearly perverse” (Chap. 26).

This inaugurates his gradual rise to international fame and power. The strategy he uses to achieve his goal of world domination is to align himself with “…kings, dukes, princes, and the rich” (Chap. 27). To accomplish this he employs his knowledge of the “Devil’s arts”, to deceive people into supporting him.

He will allure and attract the people to himself by granting them complete exception from observance of all divine and ecclesiastical commandments by forgiving their sins and requiring only of them their belief in his divinity.

He performs a series of miraculous events that appear supernatural, but in reality are only apparently so. Much of this, we are told, will center on an illusive ability to manipulate the climate. The Antichrist will “…bring forth fire and lightnings from heaven, and raise thunders and hailstorms.” All of these, she explains, will only be “illusions” (Chap. 27).

He will seem to cause people to get ill and then miraculously heal them. He will even raise the dead. Hildegard explains how he can accomplish this. A corpse, whose soul is in the hands of the Devil, will move as if alive, but remain dead. We are reminded again by Hildegard that this will be permitted by God, but she adds that it will only be allowed to occur a few times. He will also appear to cast out demons (Chap. 27).

She said, At this point there will be two types of response to the Antichrist by the public: those who fully believe in him and follow him, and those who admire and believe in him, but also want to retain and continue practicing their Christian faith. The latter group will suddenly fall sick by the hand of the Antichrist. Doctors and medicines will be of no help and the Antichrist will generously offer to miraculously cure them. Many accept his offer of healing and once cured, they are moved to abandon their faith and follow him exclusively (Chap. 27). In other words, the Antichrist will be able provide an antidote for an illness, but by accepting it, people will begin to follow the anti-Christ and reject Jesus.

“And he will acquire for himself many peoples, telling them to do their own will and not restrain themselves by vigils and fasting; he will tell them that they need only love their God, Whom he will pretend to be” (Chap. 30).

Hildegard adds that he will encourage sexual immorality and people will feel fortunate to be living at this time, regarding earlier generations of Christians as fools for their formality, religiosity, and ignorance of God’s love.

At this point he will prohibit baptism and the sacraments, and will “throw out” the gospel of Christ. He will open his mouth and preach contradiction. He will say Jesus of Nazareth is not the Son of God, only a deceiver, who gave Himself out as God; and the Church instituted by Him is only superstition. He will say, “the true Christ has come in his person” “I am the savior of the world”. He grant entire freedom from the commandments of God and the Church and permit everyone who lives as his passions dictate. By doing this, he hopes to be acknowledged as a deliverer from the yoke, and as the cause of prosperity in the world. Religion he will endeavor to make convenient. He will say, that you need not fast or embitter your life by renunciation. He will preach free love. He will scorn all that is holy. He will condemn humility and extol doctrines of pride. He will tear down that which God taught in the Old and New Testament, and maintain sin and vice are not are not sin and vice.

This is when his greatest deception occurs: he will arrange to be run through by a sword and die; he will be covered by a shroud, and then falsely rise from the dead. The will amaze his followers and his power will increase. He will produce a document that he claims will be for the salvation of souls, but in reality, Hildegard tells us, it is a “dire curse” (Chap. 31).

Hildegard adds a message, not addressed to people of the twelfth-century, but to those living in the last days.

Brothers and sisters, with these understandings, may we grow closer to Jesus Christ. May we not fear nor be despondent. May we instead live our lives more worthy of being called Catholic. Especially in this atheistic world, where God is put aside more than ever. We are charged with a special mission by Jesus Christ Himself to evangelize and share His teachings with everyone.

Since God is more powerful than all of hell, we should never be afraid of the imminent coming of the anti-Christ, but instead should put our trust in God, because He is our strength and support. Let us also not forget to pray and do penance that will help us in becoming good followers of Jesus.  

We can fast on Wednesdays and Fridays, read a small portion of Scripture daily, pray the Rosary daily, attend Mass as often as we are able, confess monthly, spend time in Adoration, and live a life in union with Jesus, for by doing these things we will stay close to Our Lord and if the anti-Christ would come in our time, we will surely be safe with Jesus, the one and only Savior.

May every knee bow before the holy name of Jesus. And may we take refuge in the Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray Her Rosary everyday as a family, and She will protect us and keep us close to Her Son.

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