If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you (Jn 15:20). And from the very moment of His Birth secundum carnem, Our Lord has been persecuted: even in swaddling clothes, Herod’s soldiers sought Him out in order to kill the Child whom Herod feared might overshadow his earthly power. Martyrs of a false monarch appointed by the emperor, the Holy Innocents, whose memory we will celebrate in a few days, were the first – children themselves – to be martyred by a power as tyrannical as it was illegitimate, which for this very reason had to impose itself with violence, even on the youngest and most defenseless. Crudelis Herodes, Deum venire quid times? says the hymn for the Epiphany: “Cruel Herod, why do you fear the coming God?” New Herods, throughout history and especially in this grim twilight that marks the collapse of Christian civilization, have inflicted and continue to inflict suffering on the little ones, in order to crucify again and again, in His members, the Divine Head of the Mystical Body. Their lineage perpetuates through the centuries the blind and vengeful aversion of those who know they are usurpers and fear the arrival of the King, because it would represent the end of their frauds. They fear His return even more, because in the Second Coming – this time in the dazzling glory of the Rex tremendae maiestatis – it will not be Our Lord who flees from His enemies, but He Himself will drag them before Him and judge them before the world, and based on the universal evidence of their crimes they will be plunged into the abyss. The violence of the wicked hides the terror of the awareness that their days are literally numbered.
Glory to God in the highest heavens, and peace on earth to men of good will, the Angels sing over the cave of Bethlehem. Peace: the more we hear this word repeated by the world, and unfortunately even by those at the highest levels of the Church, the more it loses its meaning and reveals itself for what it is: the illusion, or rather the presumption, of being able to have peace in the world after having deliberately driven out Our Lord, Princeps Pacis (Is 9:5); the mad delirium of glorifying man for his non-existent and blasphemous infinite dignity, in the rebellious denial of the sovereign rights of Christ the King and High Priest, and in the systematic subversion of God’s Commandments. Let us not forget, dear faithful: the Antichrist is simia Christi – the ape of Christ – just as Satan is simia Dei – the ape of God. It is in the reversal wrought by the revolution that his infernal kingdom is realized: instead of the whole world composed in peace – toto orbe in pace composito – that marks the Birth of the Divine Savior, it is in the whole world divided in war – toto orbe in bello diviso – that we recognize the mark of the Enemy of mankind, a murderer from the beginning, a liar and the father of lies (Jn 8:44). On one side the Light, on the other the darkness. On one side the Truth, on the other the lie. On one side the Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ, on the other the war of the Antichrist in the tyranny of the Antichrist. Darkness fears the Light, just as fraud fears the Truth, and as χάος fears κόσμος.
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