Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field. But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?  He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?  But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.  Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.’” (Matt. 13:24-30)

In this parable of the wheat and the tares,  Jesus describes how salvation history “works”.  It’s a lifetime adventure in which God respects Man’s freedom to the end – even at the expense of great destruction within the bookends of the Story.  And why is that?  Indeed, in this parable, there is an implicit answer to one of the central questions of our existence:  why does evil exist?  The answer is what it has always been:  evil exists because human freedom would not exist without it.  It is the ultimate paradox and yet its rather striking revelation is brought forward in this parable and presented to us as an enigma:  “let both grow together until the harvest“.    God is revealing to us that He cannot remove evil from human existence without also removing the good, and the reason for that is because the soil in which both grow is human freedom.  To remove evil, God would have to remove the soil, and He cannot do that since it would contradict His divine plan in creating the human person.

But there is another subplot within the bookends of this Story which this parable does not mention.  We know of course that some of the wheat can be choked by the weeds and die off (Cf. Matt. 13:7).  But did you know that evil thrives on destruction of not only of the good but also lesser evil?  If the Devil can increase his power and malevolence among men by overthrowing an earlier and weaker evil, he will do it.  We’re seeing that right now in our culture.   The scourge of feminism which has almost obliterated the human family is now itself being trampled upon by the transgender movement.  It is being completely obliterated by the evil that it helped birth.  In a short time, the so-called “women’s rights movement” will collapse completely.  Not only will the false promises of that ideology collapse, but it will take with it even basic, true human rights of women which were won far earlier.

At the start of the last century, the Serpent offered Eve another apple.  He offered her the role, responsibility, and power of a man and she took the bait.  Like in Eden, the Man went along with the offer because it made life easier and pleasurable for him.  For a while, the Woman ascended in influence and power at the expense of the emasculation of our culture and the destruction of the human family.  And while the poisonous consequences should have been punishment enough with the proverbial emptiness and loneliness that such an inverted ideology spawned, the ultimate punishment is what women are facing today:  the complete erasing of what it even means to be a woman.   We must give the great Dragon his due after all:  he is the champion of “cancel culture”.  The culture is but a booby prize to him.  His real game is all about one thing and one thing only:  trying to cancel “woman” herself.  When he cancels the Woman, the Man will be left alone, weakened, and eventually destroyed since every man’s true strength comes from a woman – whether his mother or his spouse.

But is this the end of the story? No.  We can begin again.  We can stop believing the lies of the devil. We can shake off the accoutrements of the culture, reject the Cult of Human Respect, and rebuild our civilization again from its ashes.  From the ashes, let us build again – a new society, a great society, a thoroughly Christian society.  With God, all things are possible.  But possibility can only be realized if we submit to the truth.  Not your truth or my truth, THE TRUTH who is the person of Jesus Christ.  But what does this mean?  It means being a gambler.  It means offering yourself totally – money, talents, and your kitchen sink to the Lord.  It means letting God truly work through us. It means being bold. It means giving offense. It means being nailed to the Cross.  That’s where the proverbial rubber hits the road.  It means loving others, but not worshipping at the altar of the Cult of Human Respect. If you love the World more than you love me, you are not worthy of me.  The early Church was zealous for the Lord and that got them killed.  You have to be in the world, but not of it.  Today in our culture, there are large swaths of the Church who are trying to be of the world, another swath of the Church living in servile fear to the biomedical totalitarian State and its lies, and yet another swath of the Church – mostly in leadership positions – who act like anemic politicians who value an absolute unity at the expense of truth.  On the back of on my Rosary’s crucifix, I have the phrase “Veritas Prima” inscribed on it.  Were that phrase tattooed to the forehead of every bishop of the Catholic Church today!

If you’re just a talker and not a doer, then you’re a pretender and a fake.  Unless you are willing to be Christ’s body, then really, why waste your time with such religious nonsense?  Go join the rabble.  “Indeed, the organic union in this body and the structure of the members are so compact that the member who fails to make his proper contribution to the development of the Church must be said to be useful neither to the Church nor to himself.” (APOSTOLICAM ACTUOSITATEM, 2)

Dear Lord,

We’re sick of this garbage and this attack on nature and creation itself.  We’re sick of lack luster leadership and an emasculated episcopacy who refuses to defend the Bride and plays the Judas. We’re sick of our own sin and betrayal and how it has contributed to this mess.  Cleanse us. Purify us.  Give us the courage to fight.  Give us the courage to risk it all for you…even our very lives.  Arise O, Lord!  Arise! Let the rocks cry out!  Let your graces fall!  Let it not be said you were more gracious and generous to Abraham who asked if there were 10 righteous men in the City of Sodom that you would spare them.  James and John asked to drink the cup you drank and to be baptized with the baptism that you were baptized with.  We ask for that now, too.  If not for our own place in your kingdom, then let it be for your glory alone, so that it will not be said of our generation that we allowed our eternal foe to conquer us and shame you.  Even if we have to spend eternity in the purgatorial flames, then let it be than to suffer that shame!  Queen Mother!  We are here to answer the call.  Rouse up your sons to defend the Holy Faith and the Church even at the cost of our very lives.

The time for revival is now.  Let us open our hearts to it!

In her Immaculate Heart,

John Pacheco
St.  Joan of Arc Community

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying. – St. Joan of Arc