Ember Friday, December 19th, 2025.
Catacombs:
“The entire creation is thus associated with the awakening of the bride.”
Cantata of Love
Meaning, all the saints who make up the “bridal gown” of the bride (per Apocalypse 19), anticipate with great fervor the rebirth of the Catholic Church. Because her glory is their glory. Even as Saint Therese predicted: “my glory will be a mirror of the Church’s glory.”
Philomena knew this, as well, her name meaning “light” (glory), when Our Lady appeared to her and told her what death she would soon pass through which represented a forshadowment of the type of death the Church would also endure. The bride “passes through this death” by the help and example of the saints who came before her and built her up with their martyrdom:
The “Spirit of Babylon”:
Why do I write about narcissism so much? Because not only is it the “spirit of Babylon” but it’s also linked to the final passion of Holy Mother Church. Once we understand this, everything will become clear. You will often see me repeat the same quotes, because I want to instill the current crisis in your minds. In my Saint Paul Series, Part Three and in a recent post, I said this about narcissism and what it does to the Church:
ALL THE CHURCH’S MEMBERS ARE INFECTED. My first study of narcissism that helped me connect all the dots of my experiences were introduced to me several years ago through a very sharp, no nonsense, witty and compassionate woman named Dr Ramani Durvasula whose entire area of expertise is the field of narcissism. She said the latest research showed that 1 in every 6 people are narcissists. Apply that catastrophe to the Church and all her members. Just imagine 1 in every 6 of the Church’s members having narcissism. I’ll never forget her words on what narcissism does to the soul: “YOU WERE ROBBED.” Again, apply those words to the Church. She was robbed.
In my epilogue post on the Gentile Prince you can read here, I quoted what Saint Paul warns happens to the Church as a whole when even ONE member of the body experiences joy or suffering:
“If one member suffers any thing, all the members suffer with it; or if one member glory, all the members rejoice with it.”
~1 Cor 12:26~
After years of studying narcissism and trying my best to understand it when I see it in action, while in communication with someone IN THE MOMENT who is a narcissist, I came to the conclusion that Our Lord faced this very “Jewish behavior” in the Pharisees; in short, they were narcissists. This “disease” is nothing new. It goes all the way back to the garden of Eden and the sin of our first parents.
We hear the term narcissism thrown around ALL THE TIME, but it’s so much deeper than that. It’s the powers and principalities through the people of their choosing. Some believe it’s the demonic anger and traits of the Nephilim described in the Old Testament, which as we know biblically was the core reason Our Lord caused the Great Flood.
This “demonic spirit” is actually the “spirit of Babylon”. This “mystery of Iniquity” found within the bride (SELF worship: New Mass is narcissism in ceremonial form), the Catholic Church, predicted in the Book of the Apocalypse, is the very thing she is ultimately called to “expose” (UNVEIL)… and defeat before she can become the NEW Jerusalem. So you see, this “disease” is nothing new (no pun intended). The curtain is just finally being pulled back and we are seeing the “disease” for what it is.
This “spirit of Babylon” is very much likened to the weight that Frodo carries in The Lord of the Rings. In fact, I almost always know I am dealing with a Pharisee (or narcissist) when someone puts down Frodo and calls him weak. These very people wouldn’t last five minutes with the ring around their neck. People with this attitude tend to lack charity, humility and self awareness (direct symptoms of narcissism).
So, I guess you can say I am not one jot surprised. What those with this “lack of self awareness” fail to grasp about the heroism of Frodo is he was essentially carrying “the spirit of Babylon” around his neck. And he had to fight all the TEMPTATIONS that threatened to corrupt his goodness. In fact, while chaos breaks out at the Council of Elrond, Frodo is the only one able to see clearly. See video proof:
But he was in fact chosen BECAUSE OF HIS INNOCENCE. As Lord Elrond even remarked, Frodo showed “extraordinary resilience to its evil.” Speaking of evil, the discovery I made gradually is that the Jews not yet converted to Christ display the same behaviors as narcissists and only when they are converted to Christ their King, will there be peace.
Narcissists and Jews are the only ones who actively seek war when others speak peace. These groups also play the victim, all the while discarding and harming the innocent (how others mock Frodo is a prime example). Christ the King THE TRUE “Victim of holocaust”… did not play the victim. In short, narcissism is the “Jewish spirit” and the “Jewish spirit”… is narcissism: BABYLON.
Ezechiel’s Prophecy of the Passion of Holy Mother Church:
Here’s where I made a stunning discovery. I still cannot get over the workings of Providence and the materials that fall in my lap when I sense the pull to write on a specific topic. For those of you who read my recent post from Gaudete Sunday on Jesus the Bridegroom, and His Mysterious Betrothal at the Well, you will understand why this ties into Babylon, the gentile bride’s past adultery and how only with the final passion and death of the Church, will the Marriage Supper of the Lamb come about, all per the Book of the Apocalypse and the Catechism.
My current daily layout for scripture entails reading two chapters of the Old Testament, one psalm, one chapter of the New Testament and one epistle from Saint Paul. I am currently in the Book of Numbers Chapter 5 and this is where the dots began to connect. Chapter 5 is all about the “trial of jealousy” where if a husband suspects his wife is committing adultery and cheating on him, he is justified in bringing her before the priest to suffer punishment for her infidelity.
This “trial” before the priest also ends with what is actually called “the LAW of jealousy” and a “sacrifice of jealousy” she must OFFER to undergo to make up for her crime against her husband. This “trial”, “law” and “sacrifice” of “jealousy” are shown to be entirely just in the eyes of God. For, the holy jealousy that Saint Paul speaks of when he says, “I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God” is applied to the husband in this particular law. That’s right, he has a RIGHT to be jealous:
And the husband stirred up by the spirit of jealousy bring her before the Lord, and the priest do to her according to all things that are here written: The husband shall be blameless, and she shall bear her iniquity. (Numbers 5:30-31)
Who is this starting to sound like? “Husband shall be blameless”… “she shall bear her iniquity”. Yes, this is starting to sound like Our Lord as Bridegroom and the “unfaithful” bride, the Church. The reason why the woman at the well was chosen by Our Lord was because she had been married five times and by the time Jesus the Bridegroom met her at the “well of betrothal”, she had no husband which Our Lord rightfully called out the fact that she was unlawfully living with a man outside of wedlock (John 4).
One of the many reasons Protestantism is so insulting to Our Lord is because Jesus, as faithful Husband and Bridegroom has only ONE BRIDE, which He founded: the Catholic Church, is depicted as One in favor of divorce. Though she, His bride, may be unfaithful, He is not. What protestantism represents in a nutshell is one thing: DIVORCE. Each protestant “church” represents a type of perverted “bride” and if we look at this in its proper context, this would be like Our Lord DIVORCING the Catholic Church.
Protestants depict Our Lord as divorcing His one and only bride when He finds her unfaithful, and remarrying another “church”, then another, and another, and another because look how many “sects” of protestant “churches” founded by man have been the result of this “divorce”.
Protestants actually depict Our Lord as the unfaithful Bridegroom, Who, once He tires of her, marries a new “church”. THAT is why protestantism is a great evil, again, in a nutshell. Back to the other “strike of Providence” that fell in my lap yesterday. I still am in awe. I “randomly” opened my bible to Ezechiel Chapter 16 and I could not get over the short summary of the chapter in italics:
“Under the figure of an UNFAITHFUL WIFE, God upbraids JERUSALEM with her ingratitude and manifold disloyalties: but promises mercy by a new covenant.”
Biblically speaking, what is the punishment an “unfaithful wife” must undergo to make “reparation” for her crimes against her marriage? To “repair the damage” according to the “trial of jealousy” invoked by her husband, she must “drink bitter water” that must go through her body:
The malediction shall go through her, and her belly swelling, her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse, and an example to all the people. (Numbers 5:27)
At first glance, the reader of this chapter is left thinking that the unfaithful wife simply suffers permanent infertility at that point, BUT according to ancient Jewish understanding of the text, it was understood that the punishment being specified here is that the adulterous woman would not miscarry, but die. In that very chapter, it is said that if the woman was innocent, but the husband only suspected her WITHOUT EVIDENCE, then the water wouldn’t harm her when she drank it.
She would be exonerated. Infidelity was seen as a capital crime, which merited the death penalty. My friend Mark recently told me that the water at the well when Our Lord is speaking to the Samaritan woman, a type of the Church, represented the Church’s divinity (PURIFYING waters of the sacraments). I would like to state for the record that the woman easily could have represented the Church’s humanity.
Bells should be ringing right about now and more dots should be being connected! since this “spirit of Babylon” is indeed the “mystery of iniquity” found inside the BOSOM of Our Lord’s bride, the Church, then the “only” option per the catechism and the Book of the Apocalypse is that the bride must “repair” the damage of her infidelity by drinking the PURIFYING waters of “death”.
Because this “death” is indeed the death of the “spirit of Babylon” (narcissism) made on the altar. As in the Old Testament, this was done before the “blameless husband” and priest, but since Our Lord is BOTH Husband and Priest, the Church endures this “sacrifice of jealousy” before His eyes. In Ezechiel 16, Our Lord tells Jerusalem that HE HIMSELF as Priest and Husband will judge her in fury and… “jealousy”.
Things start to get chilling when we realize what must happen to the Church in the Book of the Apocalypse. It says that she will DRINK “the cup of wrath” which will lead to her death, and according to scripture, it will only take ONE SINGLE HOUR. All of this ties directly to the Book of Numbers “law, trial and sacrifice of jealousy” does not it? Pope Benedict XVI had a mysterious draw to Tyconius’ interpretation of the Passion of the Church.
He concluded that Jerusalem and Babylon ARE ONE AND THE SAME. She is both black AND beautiful because part of her belongs to God (Jerusalem: BEAUTIFUL) and part of her belongs to the devil (Babylon: BLACK). Benedict so firmly believed this interpretation of the Book of the Apocalypse that he wrote a significant 12-page article in 1956. In reality, this interpretation is not founded by Tyconius, but it is prophecized BY EZECHIEL.
When you finish this post, I urge readers to go straight to Ezechiel 16. He describes Jerusalem BOTH as bride, and HARLOT. The bride who was chosen by God, cheats on Him and will pay for her crimes… but ultimately come out victorious. NEW Jerusalem? In short, like Frodo, the Church has had to “carry the load” (“spirit of Babylon”) in her Body, learn to live with it, and only by drinking “the cup of wrath” to rid herself of it, will she appear before her King “without spot and wrinkle” as described by both John the beloved, and Paul.
We know Our Lord ultimately accepts this “sacrifice of jealousy”, because we read:
“And the sacrifice of Jerusalem will please the Lord.”
~Malachi 3:4~
This specifies the future sacrifice (death) she will carry out as “act of reparation.” That is why by the time the Marriage Supper of the Lamb comes, we read after the “death” of Babylon (chapters 17 and 18) that the “bride hath prepared herself” (chapter 19). This “preparation” was her death. In fact, Chapter 16 of Ezechiel I “randomly” opened to yesterday after learning about the “trial of jealousy” ends with this promise from the Bridegroom Jesus to the bride, Jerusalem. It ends with the Marriage intact:
“And I will establish My covenant with thee [Marriage Supper of the Lamb]: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and may no more open thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I shall be pacified toward thee for all thou hast done.”
Before this death, what is the main form of reparation while she lives? Easy, FIRST SATURDAY DEVOTION which entail “acts of reparation” to “repair the damage”. The bride indeed will be purified right up to the 7th and final trumpet with the help of Mary.
AVE MARIA, CHRIST IS KING!
~END~
Catacombs lyrics from above video:
Lonely caverns built on fragile frames
Full of broken crowns, forgotten names
Don’t leave me here
Don’t leave me here
Desperate roots lay starving at my feet
Waiting for my heart to fall asleep
Don’t leave me here
Don’t leave me here
Among these catacombs
Where our eyes will close
Will I lie alone?
Just my flesh and bone
Among these catacombs
Born of remnant souls
Will I lie alone?
Just my flesh and bone
Don’t leave me here
Don’t leave me here
Lay my sins to rest swallow them now
Stone above my head sink underground
Just leave me here
Carmelite Sister Martyrs 