End Times Blog

02/10/2025  Feast of the Guardian Angels

Apostasy is the abandonment of one’s faith on a personal level.  The Great Apostasy is the widespread abandonment of the practice of faith across the population.  This appears to be well underway and has been increasingly so since the first French Revolution and the advent of the so-called “Age of Enlightenment”.  It appears to have gathered pace since the so-called “Age of Enlightenment”,the late 19th century and again after the postwar period of the 20th century.  In the Catholic Church Apostasy increased steadily after the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) ended in the mid 1960s.  We saw the so-called “Sexual Revolution” of the 1960s and 1970s and, what I call the “Idolatry of Self” took hold.

In 1846 Our Lady told Melanie of La Salette that:  “In the year 64 [1864, 1964], Lucifer together with a great number of demons will be unloosed «unleashed» from hell. They will put an end to Faith little by little, even in those dedicated «consecrated» to God”. (Sister Mary of the Cross; Shepherdess of La Salette, by Abbe Gouin, Expanded Edition 2015).  It is unclear if Our Lady told Melanie that the year “64” meant either 1864 or 1964.  I contend that the reference is to both time periods as the Apostasy really picked up pace after the mid 1960s and a few other things appear to have happened.

Malachi Martin in his book “Windswept House” and others have talked of an event called the “Enthronement of Satan” that reputedly took place in the Vatican by unnamed members of the hierarchy of the Church.  We know that Exorcists reported that it suddenly got a lot harder to exorcise demons after about the mid 1960s.  In June, 1972. the then Pope Paul VI, concerned about the Church wrote:  “… We would say that, through some mysterious crack—no, it’s not mysterious; through some crack, the smoke of Satan has entered the Church of God. There is doubt, uncertainty, problems, unrest, dissatisfaction, confrontation. The Church is no longer trusted. We trust the first pagan prophet we see who speaks to us in some newspaper, and we run behind him and ask him if he has the formula for true life. I repeat, doubt has entered our conscience. And it entered through the windows that should have been open to the light…” https://aleteia.org/2018/07/06/what-did-paul-vi-mean-by-saying-the-smoke-of-satan-has-entered-the-church/

Things certainly deteriorated in Europe after 1864 and the Age of Enlightenment took hold.  There was the Franco-Prussian war of 1870; yet another revolution in France; a revolution in Italy where the Vatican was attacked, not to mention the famines that were predicted at La Salette.  Following on the heals of this we had the events of the 20th century and the so-called “War to end all Wars”.  Further, as predicted by Our Lady at Fatima in 1917, a Second World War.  And how many wars have there been since then?  The erosion of faith in our religious institutions has steadily gained pace since the first French Revolution.  The numerous sexual abuse scandals throughout the Church in the second half of the 20th century have only served to foster this growing Apostasy.  How many Catholics still practice their faith these days?  Church attendances have been declining across the board for decades.

It is the Great Apostasy that allows the Antichrist to influence the hearts and minds of the population.  It is likely the Antichrist will use the Idolatry of Self to win over many hearts and minds.  As I mentioned in an earlier Post (29/09/2025), “the only way the Antichrist can install himself and exalt himself above God; is by inserting himself in the hearts and minds of those who believe him and those from The Church who have fallen away from the true faith, or that he is able to persuade”.  St Paul makes it clear the Antichrist cannot appear until there is the Great Apostasy (2 Thessalonians 2:3).  

I believe the ability of the Antichrist to seduce a large part of the faithful will be fostered by the Great Apostasy and the confusion that is apparent in our world today.  This confusion was predicted by Melanie of La Salette:  “17. Each individual will wish to be his own guide and to be superior to his fellow men «his likes, i.e., either to his peers or to his human leaders».”  (Sister Mary of the Cross; Shepherdess of La Salette, by Abbe Gouin, Expanded Edition 2015).

In the current age, people are given over to all sorts of wacky ideas, conspiracy theories, new age and other diabolically or personally inspired bits of nonsense.  People claim their own personal truth as “The Truth” as did Pilat to Jesus Christ (John 18:38).  In a lot of ways, Pilat’s retort to Jesus “what is truth”, before condemning him to death, prefigures the great confusion in the world today before Christ’s return.  The Great Apostasy and concomitant confusion will allow the Antichrist to easily influence millions of gullible people who will be taken in by his so called signs, wonders and false miracles when he appears.  The influence of social media is likely to be of profound importance with this process.

May Jesus and Mary be loved by all hearts.