The following weeks of Lent would be both exciting and challenging for me because I shall try, with the help of the Holy Spirit, to migrate piety within the root determinants of our daily existence, by delving through obscure frontages leading to the relevance of the Blessed Virgin within the intricacies of our modern life.
My conviction is that Mary is the Dawn of the next civilisation, a civilisation that has already budded. The coming weeks’ submissions would not, as such, be made from the frontage of piety, but as a development of realities of our current civilisation, from the synergy of factors that have structured our modern era, seen through the realms of its roots, especially in the fields of Anthropology, Philosophy, Science, Politics, Economics, Theology, Feminism and Sustainability.
While some would wonder about the correlation of Mary, an article stigmated to the realm of faith, with realities of our modern livelihood, I reply briefly defending her contemporaneousness with a statement of hers when she broke into our time and space in 1917 at Fatima and delved into the politics of the time as she said: '… Russia will be converted, and there will be peace…'. That doesn’t sound like a chiming bell from Sistine Chapel, that is the Madonna breaking into real world politics that has rocked the world up till now.
Our modern existence has been battered into accepting a flawed patrimony of a division of State and Faith, and the State triumphs at the expense of Faith because of the Mammon factor. This condition has its root in the French Revolution, and as such, many do not see the direct relevance, for instance, of Mass on Sunday, and Profession on Monday. Piety is now extraneous to work. A dichotomy from State is not what is needed, a dialogue with State is and the dawn of Marian Civilisation would show and resolve this.
We are already witnessing a global age of radicality and flexing of muscles, underlining these struggles are proposition of ideas that intend to shape the next age of existence. This may well turn into a global crisis but it is not yet the end of the world.
The world may not end too soon, Christ will not come until there appears on earth the age of Mary. The eschatological dimension would only be opened through the gate of Mary. The same path He thread at His first coming would be the same path He would thread at His second coming, even if the manner of approach is radically different.
It is already certain that the different power blocks are involved in ideological struggles that are posed towards championing the next age, and here I shall stand and propose to you a totally unknown path that would come out as champion of this struggle: The humility of Mary.
“In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph”
- Our Lady of Fatima (1917)
- Our Lady of Fatima (1917)
