Expergiscere, homo: quia pro te Deus factus est homo. Wake up, O man! For your sake God has become man (Augustine of Hippo, Sermo 185).
Awake, O slumbering Church! You have been lulled asleep by twelve years of numbness, discouraged by the onslaught of evil coming against you from the very ones who ought to be your shepherds, driven to such despair that you desperately hoped and still hope that a bad tree could have somehow borne good fruit in the conclave of 2025.
Padre Pio of Pietrelcina foretold it in the 1960s: “Satan has been introduced into the bosom of the Church and within a very short time will come to rule a false church.”
Can you not see it? Do you not sense how something is wrong? Do you not feel how everything “looks” right and yet somehow the heart and soul, the essence and urgency, have been removed from the Gospel?
The North African writer Tyconius prophesied it in the fourth century in his description of the end times in his Commentary on the Apocalypse: “The bishops do, under the guise of a gift of the church, what advances the will of the devil.”
Guise (noun): an external form, appearance, or manner of presentation, typically concealing the true nature of something.
The more it is dressed up in a form that pleases you, the more they are confident you will keep sleeping. The more it appears to be what you understandably hope for, the more they are confident you will remain frozen in your hopeful slumber.
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