God’s Warning: Save Souls Now? Priest’s Plea!

Is the illumination of conscience—also known as The Warning—real? And if so, what should Catholics do about it?

In this powerful conversation, Fr. Cristino and Ken tackle one of the most talked-about private revelations circulating today. What is the Warning? Will every soul on earth suddenly see themselves as God sees them? And if that’s true… should it change how we live now?...But even deeper:  Are we mistaking the Warning for the Gospel?

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The illumination of conscience, the warning. Do you believe it? I want to make sure that we are not mistaking the warning and the illumination of conscience for the gospel. So to simply say, well, it's not needed. What does it say then about the gift of prophecy? Prophecy is the proclamation of truth. That is what prophecy is. It is not about predicting the future. Whether it's the the big big question about the end of the world or the three days of darkness or the illumination of conscience and the warning, if we get lost in that being the essence of the message that needs to be communicated, we've already lost the battle.

[Music] Father Cristino Ken, hey, welcome back. Thank you. So today we're going to touch on a topic that has been floating around on the internet for a while in some books and that is the illumination of conscience also called the warning um known expressed differently by different people. Uh but I know that a lot of our viewers are interested in this topic. Um, and the reason I want to bring it up to you is because I'm interested in the truth and I want to love God and I want to help people love God. And this is the basis for this conversation. It's not to accuse this camp is right, this camp is wrong. But I really would be interested to know your thoughts on this uh the illumination of conscience, the warning. Now you're a little bit familiar with these concepts. Yes, I think so. Uh and for those who are watching and are like what are they talking about can you summarize those concepts briefly? Sure. I I had read a book uh that was called the warning. Uh and uh it's uh kind of an anthology or or a compilation of a of a bunch of different people's accounts of things that they claim have been revealed to them in a stream of what we would refer to as private revelation. So people who claim to have received a particular information or insight from God uh sometimes through the intervention of our blessed mother or a saint or whatever happens to bring to their consciousness this truth that they say has been made known to them and that in turn they are supposed to make known to other people. And so in this book, it describes there being some sort of phenomenon that is meant to happen at a particular time that God knows in history uh which will serve as an occasion to hopefully provoke the conversion of of many people. And this warning uh is uh through something referred to as the illumination of conscience. meaning that as it has described at least as I recall reading it in this book a moment when time will basically stand still God will permit there to be a defined period of time as brief as it may be let's say 10 minutes where every person no matter who they are all at the same time simultaneously around the world will encounter God in a way that convicts them in their conscience to know how God sees them in that moment. Their sin will be laid bare to them. Uh everything about themsself as God sees it in his perfection will become clear to them. And so you can imagine if you're a very saintly person uh who loves God with all their heart and is striving very hard for holiness uh what God will have to show you in that moment is probably going to be uh happy or encouraging or uh consoling. Mhm. for what I imagine would be the vast multitude and I certainly include myself within that would be the realization of how far short I have fallen and those have fallen in in loving God, the areas of sinfulness in their life that are in need of repentance. Uh and that it will be an occasion for people to make a decision. uh but that they will be granted a period of time afterwards. And the book that I read was even describing of particular relevance to me as a priest what we can expect to occur afterwards which will be people beating down the doors of our churches wanting to find a priest for Catholics to go to confession and repent of their sins for non-atholics or non-Christians to seek baptism and confirmation that there can be expected to be mass conversions of those who now having been shown by God in his mercy how if they were to be judged at the general judgment at that moment. What they would face uh and therefore I guess what is expected is that many will return to the Lord or come to the Lord for the first time. uh which will usher in an extended period of peace which is meant to be a period of time in which God's reign can really be properly established in the hearts of men uh in order to prepare us for whatever is supposed to come at the end of time. Okay, good summary. Do you believe it? I don't know what to believe. And part of why is because it's not clear to me why such a thing would be necessary. If I'm going to be honest, I would I guess I would say I lean more towards the side of not believing that. And I lean towards that because I struggle to reconcile such indepth explanation from a variety of people who claim to have been given this information from God himself. When the gospel makes so blatantly clear from the words of Christ himself as it pertains to the end of time and the things that will precipitate the end of time being not known even to him. Not long ago we were just in the season of Advent, the beginning of a new year. We have the occasion at the end of the lurggical year every year and at the beginning of Advent to reflect upon the end of the world, the end of time and the judgment that is promised to us in Revelation for us to have been told that we need to be prepared because we do not know when we will find ourselves at the end. And certainly for anyone who has died before the final judgment, before the the general judgment, they have met their own particular judgment, uh we are judged at the moment of our death. And so we are instructed to be prepared for that at all times. Now, I do appreciate the idea of in God's mercy there being some kind of global intervention that that he decides to make to accommodate the fact that we have not evangelized the vast majority of the globe. And therefore, many many more souls do not know Christ than do know him. uh many more souls have never had even the opportunity to turn away from him because they didn't even know him at all. Uh and so maybe in God's mercy he is seeing that that will be the way to make up for that deficit if I can call it that in our efforts at evangelization. So I accept the possibility. I am not saying that I think that it is impossible and is wrong or evil or should not be believed in. What I what I don't know for sure is whether or not such a thing lends towards us becoming lax in our efforts to evangelize and to share the gospel according to the great commission. You're saying because this event is going to happen, we might we believe that it's going to happen. So therefore, what's the point of evangelizing? Well, I wonder I I think we all tend towards this kind of lowest common denominator, easiest path forward possible mentality in our lives. Uh the only reason most of uh big tech exists is to find easier and easier ways for us to have to do less and less for ourselves because some robot or some technology is going to do it on our own. This is the newest life hack, right? And so, well, you know, when the illumination of conscience happens, everyone's going to figure it out anyhow. So, I I don't I don't hear people talking like that. But if that is what's coming, I don't think it's unreal unreasonable if someone thought that. Uh, and so I I just don't know. I'm left saying we do know what the gospel says. We know our Lord tells us we have to be ready. We know he tells us we have to share the gospel. And so I want to make sure that we are not mistaking the warning and the illumination of conscience for the gospel. People being told about that who don't know Jesus are not being given the right information. St. Paul says it is Jesus and Jesus crucified whom I preach. That's what we ought to be preaching. That's for sure because that's what is told to us in divine revelation. So for for people that I know who believe in the illumination of conscience, I don't consider them people who are like, "Oh, it's going to happen, so I don't need to evangelize." I don't see that characteristic with them. I, in fact, I would see the opposite. I see a great fervor in their faith. They want to make Jesus known. These are the people I know. That's just anecdotal. I I don't see that that error that you would bring bring about. Perhaps it's possible, but I I I don't see that. Um, but then I I'm so I'm a little on the fence with this. Uh, I I don't know. I don't know. I I think it would be, if it's true, a great grace, wonderful. Let it happen. I'm not betting my life on it, though. Like, I I don't know. This is private revelation. I've never made ever a major life decision in my life based upon private revelation and I don't intend to. Um so if it's and one of the things I look at is but at the same time scripture tells us not to despise uh prophecy. And then I I look at uh St. Fina, maybe I'm going to read her a quote. And I'll get your reaction because it kind of fits within this discussion. Jesus said to St. Vina, "Write this. Before I come as the just judge, I'm coming first as the king of mercy. Before the day of justice arrives, there will be given to people a sign in the heavens of this sort. All light in the heavens will be extinguished, and there will be a great darkness over the whole earth. Then the sign of the cross will be seen in the sky. And from the openings where the hands and feet of the Savior were nailed will come forth great lights which will light up the earth for a period of time. This will take place shortly before the last day. So here we have St. Fina, a very recognized saint. personal revelation um that some kind of fit within this message of the warning. Your reaction to that then how do we deal with that? My first reaction is I love St. Fina. I love the devotion to the divine mercy. I venerate the divine mercy image every day. So I I value her contribution to uh the life uh and the piety of the church. Uh, I also have no reason to call into question the authenticity of her having received that revelation from our Lord. So that that might may happen uh won't I guess surprise me if I'm alive to see it happen. Uh what what a profound thing to behold uh if that is going to be the case. But we also have to remember that when we canonize a saint, we are not canonizing everything that they ever said or did. Canonization is personal. We canonize the person. Now, we do study thoroughly what they have said and done so that none of those things could potentially contradict or give a counter sign to the holiness of this person. And therefore anything that they have said or done cannot be seen as contrary to the gospel or to the magisterium. So clearly the writings of St. Fina which for a period of time were actually probably because of making statements like that they were forbidden and sister Fina was not considered a reliable person who would ever one day be canonized. It was in Poland it was forbidden that people should read her diary. But for whatever reason, uh, Archbishop Carlo Voyiawa, eventual Cardinal Voya, eventual Pope John Paul II, uh, did believe it and was very convicted about the authenticity of the messages and made it a personal mission to see to it that she would be canonized. And she was the first saint of the new millennium, the first saint canonized in the year 2000. uh and he proposed the messages of the of divine mercy as being the most essential message of our time as we enter into a new millennium after a century of of unmeasurable immeasurable unprecedented bloodshed and violence and war and hatred. Uh and so mercy would obviously be in order uh and and needed. And so those things are all true. But by canonizing St. Fina, we have not then taken every one of the revelations that she recorded in her diary and now said that these have the church's magisterial uh validation.

It doesn't mean that it won't happen, but we have to keep in perspective what it does mean and what it doesn't mean. And so if that doesn't come to pass, there's a variety of reasons why we could say that it didn't. Uh and I think one of the challenges that we're going to face in our modern time is the dissemination of information. And now with the kind of technology that we have and deep fakes and AI and how things get disseminated through social media and online in nanosconds after such and such has happened. I I it's going to be very easy for people to become deceived and confused and news reports come out that this great light has appeared in the sky and there will be people who will be automatically discredited discrediting it and debunking it and uh unless it is the case that every single person can go outside and look up at the same time no matter where they are in the globe and see the same thing in the darkened sky which would already be a phenomenon to behold because I'll text you. Yeah, exactly. Someone's got to let me know to go and look outside. I spend a lot of time working in my office and in my church some the whole idea would require absolutely divine intervention. And so that will be discredited and it will be dismissed and it will be called into question. And so there will be confusion that would would come no matter what. And I I guess I I just don't know how that would be resolved because I'm not God. And that's the point. We aren't God. So what do we need to know? And what we need to know has been given to us in the gospel in in the scriptures and has been entrusted to the magisterium of the church. That's why we distinguish between public and private revelation. public revelation ended with the death of the last apostle. There is nothing further that needs to be communicated for the salvation of souls than what we have received through their preaching that has been recorded in the sacred scriptures and handed down to us through the magisterium of the church which continues to safeguard and protect and interpret that for the sake of our salvation. we don't need anything else. That there has been an immense amount of other truths and and helpful things to bring clearer to light the things that have already already been revealed in public revelation. I'm not disputing that. Uh but they are not needed. So if something is not needed and it's extra, that doesn't make it irrelevant. It actually would suggest that it's a great grace. I just don't know what we need to do with those things. Well, okay. To your point, it may not be needed. However, it is God who gives us the gift of prophecy. So, he gives it for a reason.

So, to simply say, well, it's not needed. What does it say then about the gift of prophecy? What is the gift of prophecy? Well, I don't know. It's there in scripture. I mean, there's something there. Prophecy is the proclamation of truth. That is what prophecy is. It's not fortunetelling. It's not clairvoyance. It's not predicting the future. We we equivocate on this all the time. Prophecy does not mean predicting the future. It could be that in the proclamation of truth, you have enunciated something about a future that we did not yet know. That in hindsight, we would say, I guess that was true. But only in hindsight. The only way that you can validate something that someone said before it's happened as being prophetic is once it's happened and you can point to the person who said it was going to happen. So we have to we really have to distance oursel from this idea of prophecy being about foretelling what is coming in the future. That is not what scripture means by prophecy. Prophecy is the proclamation of truth. It is the giving of witness to the truth through the ministry of preaching and through the ministry of martyr of martyrdom of of those whose very lives gave witness to the truth of the gospel because of their willingness to shed their blood for it. Martyrdom is prophetic because martyrdom points to the truth of the gospel. Not because a martyr predicted something that was going to happen and two years later it did and then everyone can look back and say, "Oh, that martyr was a prophet. That martyr was a prophet at the moment that his or her blood was shed because they gave witness to the truth." That's prophecy. Okay. But let's take that example. they that martyr did say something they predicted and it did come true. Well, that does say something though like there there these things have happened within the history of the church. Look, let's take Fatima for example as a kind of the clear gold standard of marrying apparitions. Blessed virgin Mary appears. They they they clearly are given what we would have thought of as prophetic insights into something that's going to happen in the future. Uh it did happen. Uh for example um like the you know the errors of Russia the the great miracle you know of the of the sun thousands of people there who who saw it. How do you make sense of saying we don't need the gift of prophecy or we don't we don't need anything else yet God still does something like this in Fatima. All of what was said in Fatima was disregarded, disbelieved. It caused the children to suffer persecution in their lifetime. And then later we said, "Oh, I guess that was true." It lended credibility to what was said then to happen. But even before those things were shown to be true, because of the spread of of the Soviet Union and communism, because of the outbreak of the Second World War, just because those things eventually happened, we can then look back and say, "I guess those things were true." But the miracle of the sun changed the hearts of every single person who stood in that field, 70,000 people that day because they witnessed something happen that in that moment was meant to produce one outcome only. Conversion and repentance. Conversion and repentance is the message of Fatima, not the secrets. I I think we've become dangerously obsessed with the secrets and everywhere has its secrets now. This place has these five secrets and this visionary has her 10 secrets and this is the conditions under which her secrets get to be revealed. Salvation isn't a secret. The gospel isn't a secret. Convert and repent. That is the message of Fatima. And why those bad things happened is because people didn't listen. That was what our lady's message ultimately was. If you do not do this, if you do not return to my son, if you do not consecrate yourselves to my immaculate heart, these evil things will happen. And then the world on mass didn't do what they were told and then those evil things happened. So the message is clear and simple. The secrets are I'm not saying that they're not true and I'm not saying that the children did not they did speak a truth but it wasn't a truth that was the kind of truth that made it worth listening to because eventually the things came to be. The truth was we must repent. We must be converted and repent. Well, I you know I have no uh I totally believe that. I mean that is the message of Fatima. I I guess I feel like and I I to your point I like that of how like this sear has this secret and these are the conditions on which upon which it has to be revealed and this has to happen. This has to happen. this up. It seems kind of magical to me. And I I I do has have hesitations with those kind of things. But then at the same time, I know that the blessed virgin Mary has appeared and she appeared to Fatim those children at Fatima and there was a period of time before the message was approved. I just placed myself in the in the village of Fatima. Maybe you're the parish priest and I'm a parishioner and so so the blessed virgin Mary is appearing to these three children. Mhm. Do you go or do you say oh we have everything we need within the church. I'm like I'm curious. I'm like let's I maybe it is I'm checking it out. Of course I go. Okay. I'm the pastor of a of a small parish in a rural town. If I have some children who come and tell me that they're seeing the blessed virgin Mary, of course I'm going to listen to them and I'm going to accompany them because they need pastoral career. I guess I guess my point is then we see this miracle of the sun. This is a great grace. None of this though was approved until after. So there so there's this period of time uh well it was true and and it could be the fact that we're experiencing something like that now but we don't know because we won't know until the church steps in and makes a declaration. Right. Well, and that's why what's I don't know what help it will be if the world goes dark for however long, three days. We keep hearing about the three days of darkness and then an illuminated cross appears in the sky that everyone in the world sees all at the same time from no matter where they are with rays of light coming out of the places where our Lord's hands and feet were nailed. And then the church come and say, "We affirm that it is true that that that's going to happen." Well, it just happened. Uh uh so not saying anything about it in advance already says what needs to be said which is what do we what do you want me to say about this? Okay. If you believing this makes you love Jesus more, makes you a more faithful disciple, makes you take more seriously the practice of your faith and helps you to lead other souls to Christ, then mission accomplished. I think it did exactly what it was meant to do. If it makes you neurotic and paranoid and sound weird and now people don't listen to you and don't take you seriously and think that Catholicism is messed up and weird because of the manner in which you convey these things to people as though they have to believe them or their soul is going to be lost. that is contrary to the gospel. Nothing of what you've just done by behaving that way will have helped someone's salvation because you needed to make sure that they heard this message from this apparition in this country in the world where this person is currently seeing the blessed virgin Mary. If if you conveying that information to someone has actually driven them away from the faith or the church, how could it be that that message has now borne fruit in your witness? Sure. Do you see that happening? I know that happens because people become so consumed by these things that they're so desperate. I think it's motivated by good intentions. They're so desperate to get other people to listen to them and to believe this and to take this seriously that they're getting people distracted by the private revelation which then makes them disregard what we do know to be true because it's been given to us in the public revelation of the scriptures and the magisterium. So we have to know the time and the place and the manner in which we are going to try and share with someone something about any of these private revelations. So if you think you see an opening with a person and you decide to share with them, you know, I've been reading this thing and it's it's had a big impact on me. It's helping me pray better. I just want to share it with you in case maybe it's going to help you. That's very natural. That's a very approachable way to share with someone something that you have found value in yourself about these private revelations. But if you come across as rather one of those who makes people feel really uncomfortable and not want to talk to you and think you're crazy, you have not helped proclaim the gospel. You have not helped this person prepare for the illumination of conscience. You've you've done a disservice. And so that's that's the caution that I think needs to be given to this whole big topic whether it's the the big big question about the end of the world or the three days of darkness or the illumination of conscience and the warning or this sear and her secrets that are going to be revealed when the following four things have happened. If if we get lost in that being the essence of the message that needs to be communicated, we've already lost the battle because the message that needs to be communicated is Jesus and him crucified. That's what we have been told. That's what St. Paul did and that's the example that we need to follow. So your experience as pastor is very different than mine, right? We live in two different worlds. Uh I know that you have people coming in and out of your office. I'm at home with our kids. put out videos. Uh, so we interact with different groups of people. I mainly hang out with little kids. Do you see is this a major distraction? Um, is this a is this a big distraction right now in your mind with people for people? I know it has consumed and induced anxiety in the minds and hearts of a lot of my students from my previous ministry in university chapency and young adult ministry where they send me these YouTube videos of the things that they've watched and and father do you believe in this father you think this is true father what do you think this means uh you know um I can't remember what was the some some some dates lined up in such a way that one of my students was freaking out that do you think this means this is going to happen tomorrow? And I had no other answer but to say I guess we'll find out tomorrow. I I don't know what to tell you. Go to confession, receive holy communion, pray your rosary, read scripture. If you're doing that, doesn't matter what happens tomorrow, everything will be okay. Uh we've been given what we need. That's the point I'm trying to make. It's not as though we've been left in a very compromised and vulnerable state until we all come to understand what this seer has had revealed to her because of the apparitions she has of the blessed virgin Mary that until we got those that was a close call. We our soul could have been lost. God has not done that to us. any of these things that he allows through private revelation is only for the sake of helping us make a fuller and more strong embrace of that which has already been revealed to us and for someone who needed that help and that extra push to be shaken out of their stuper. I think that's what a lot of people experience is that they were just going through their Catholic life pretty complacently, maybe becoming very lukewarm, and then they encounter some of these messages and it fires them up. Maybe that was why this was needed. Maybe God allowed all of this to happen so that you would be able to come into contact with this and become newly convicted in your faith. But then what you are convicted about cannot be the medium. It needs to be the real message. And the real message is the gospel, the charurrima. Jesus Christ suffered and died for us in order that we might be saved from our sins and reunited to a relationship with God the Father in the power of the Holy Spirit. Period. From the Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 67. Throughout the ages, there have been so-called private revelations, some of which have been recognized by the authority of the church. They do not belong, however, to the deposit of faith. It is not their role to improve or complete Christ's definitive revelation, but to help live more fully by it in a certain period of history. Do you feel like that is what you were communicating? Well, it's hard for me to improve upon the catechism of the Catholic Church. I've been rambling for who knows already how long. That those two sentences summarize it perfectly. Okay, but I want to bring something else up here. It's in Thessalonians. It says, 'Do not squench the spirit. Do not despise prophetic utterances. Test everything. Retain what is good. Refrain from every kind of evil. Now, when I read this, it says, "Do not despise prophetic utterances. Test it." I feel like it's it's more than just a proclamation. There's something that needs to be tested here and not to be despised. When when you hear that scripture, what's your take away on it? I think what we are doing right now is engaging in prophetic utterances. I think we are trying to talk about the truth. We're having a conversation that is not just a verbatim uh recounting of something already contained in the catechism or or the New Testament. We're we're as rational human beings trying to wrestle with a topic and the extent to which it is true is prophetic. Prophecy is about truth. It is not about predicting the future. You can't test an utterance about predicting the future. There's nothing to test there. It's wait and see. And then if it doesn't happen, then what? And this has happened recently. where people this happened around the time of the death of Pope Benedict. There were all sorts of people who were saying the following things were going to happen to the popes. This the pope's going to be shot or this pope Pope Benedict's going to die or pope Pope Benedict will die but then pope Francis will have this thing happen. There was things being said about that. And then Pope Benedict died and then there was a funeral. Then Pope Francis kept doing what Pope Francis does as Pope and that was that. So now what do you test that prophetic utterance? Do you say, "Well, I guess it was wrong." Or do you say, "I don't know what it was." Or does the person come back and say, "I think I misunderstood." or I think I might have spoken incorrectly. At the end of all of that, I just ask what what was the point? What was what's the value of this? So when the scripture says test prophetic utterances, you can't test something about the future. You have to wait and see if it happens. And if it doesn't happen, what was said was either wrong or misunderstood or for a different time. It's not, you can't test that. But this conversation that we're having right now can be tested. You might have a viewer who will say, "Father Christino, you are out to lunch and here's all these things that you got wrong and here's all these things that you need to read and here that's testing my prophetic utterance and will have failed because apparently I was wrong." That's how that scripture I think needs to be interpreted. Okay. Okay, I appreciate the discussion. Um, is there any final thoughts that you want to give on this topic or any concerns that maybe you haven't had a chance to voice on regard regarding this because you're seeing this from a different perspective than me. You're seeing it as a pastor. Mhm.

I don't know uh the date on which I can't prophesy when is this video going to appear on your YouTube channel. So whenever this comes out by the time it comes out, God knows what other else bad things will have happened in the world. We we are being kept on the edge of our seats waiting for the nuclear war to break out. And my suspicion is it won't and there won't be a nuclear holocaust. And if there is, we certainly aren't watching this video. And we can all say we we dodged a major bullet there. Thank God for this or thank God for that. Or maybe we just let ourselves become way too preoccupied, paying way too much attention to things over which we have no control. And the question that I think in our examination of conscience we could ask ourself is has any of the time I've spent preoccupied by and worried about such and such a thing could that not have been spent loving my family serving my neighboring my prayer and just being close to the Lord. I if we if we focus on those things and then the illumination of conscience happens or a great sign appears in the sky. I would rather have been praying my rosary or sharing the gospel with someone or at the bedside of a person who's about to die comforting them when the big sign appears in the sky then watching a YouTube video about the big sign that's going to appear in the sky. What do I want to be doing at the moment that something like that happens? I think that's the question that we should be asking oursel.

Good, good, good insights. You know, I'm aware of these things, these, you know, different apparitions and um and my thought has always been I got to focus on what I what is before me. I do look at the world and I do see an increased I've we call it diabolical disorientation and insanity is increasing. Um the the level of of just great disorder is different now than it was 10 years ago. And when you look at that, it's just a natural thing like the world's going crazy here. How much longer is God going to put up with this? M these are things that I think about. Um and then I look on a on a natural level. I do sometimes watch the geopolitical situations and there's tensions in the world that are now that weren't 10 years ago. Um I look at our financial systems and I see there's stresses now that there weren't 10 years ago. These things sometimes are of interest to me and I I give some time to them, not a lot. And I and I see these and I see these as cracks in society especially the breakdown of marriage is a huge crack in society and our civilization can't continue if the marriage marriage continues to break down. I just I just that's my personal view here. I just can't see it like the marriage is the building block of our society. We might get a different society that completely looks totally different than that. But you lose marriage you lose what is familiar to us. Okay. So, all that said, I realize I have very little control over any of that and uh I have seven children. The eighth by the time this is released is probably going to be born. I I I don't have time to do anything else except look after my kids and be a good husband and and put out a few videos to serve people because this is how I I I work. But my dayto-day is I I just got to love my children. And I have to, and I we've used this phrase before, do the next loving thing. I have to love my wife. I have to love my children. I have to be faithful to my duty. And if I get inspired to offer my little sufferings in reparation for sin, for the conversion of my own family, and for the conversion of the world, there's not much else I can do. That's right. And so my thought is if the illumination of conscience is true, praise God. I I I I I I'm not making a major life decision on it because I feel it would be foolish for me to because I don't know. But what I do know is my kids in front of me and I know I have to my duties are obvious to me. That other stuff is not obvious to me. And so uh I just I can't be distracted by that. Exactly. Distracted. Right. St. Mother Teresa has that beautiful line. Do you want to change the world? Go home and love your family. She makes it sound pretty simple, but there is a profound truth contained within that. be faithful to your state of life. And if God comes in signs and wonders and finds me being faithful, that that's my prayer. Whenever it happens that some great sign appears in the sky or one of these massive phenomenon phenomena happen or I just die. I pray that it could be in the middle of my priestly work. I I knew a priest who finished saying mass and went to sit down in the presider's chair before he got up to say the prayer after communion and he just died of a massive heart attack. And I think, "Oh Lord, what a grace. I'd love to go out that way and die in my confessional." You know, let's keep you around a little longer, though. Sure. I I'd be happy for it to be when I'm an old man. But what a beautiful what a beautiful thing. Yes. There's no no more sacred moment for me as a priest than to be at the bedside of a dying person surrounded by their family now set free from their sin through the mercy of the sacraments of our church who's ready to go and meet the Lord. There's nothing more sacred than that moment. That's why we exist. And so if the Lord could come and get me when I'm offering that at that moment or that's being offered to me at that moment that that is our faith. That is the mystery of our faith. That's all that we need. And everything else can be a distraction. It doesn't have to be, but it can be. It just depends on what I do with those things. And I do want to just say just in case someone doesn't misinterpret what I have said because there's many videos that we have done where we have we have covered different apparitions that have been approved by local bishops or the church and many of them call our ladies calling in these apparitions people to repentance and to reparation for sin. this is what I know that has been approved by the church and I just feel very convicted to welcome people to do that in their state of life um to to pray the rosary to offer sacrifices for the conversion of sinners throughout the day but in one state of life and not to be distracted by that and I I got a message a little while ago from somebody after one of these messages I felt like they misinterpreted because they were really afraid. Um my thought is if this makes one afraid don't watch it. Yeah. This is not the only thing to fear is not loving God.

Not not loving God enough because there's no such thing as enough. Just not loving him. And if we let ourselves become distracted by other things, then we're going to start loving him less and less because we'll just be thinking of him less. We'll be thinking of the other things. And that's what we need to try and and remain in in control of. Well, thanks. Closing thoughts. Are we good here? Uh, I think we're good. Okay. [Music]