Should Catholics Have a Five-Year Plan for a Coming Chastisement?

And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments: If they profane my justices: and keep not my commandments: I will visit their iniquities with a rod: and their sins with stripes. But my mercy I will not take away from him: nor will I suffer my truth to fail.
–Psalm 88: 31-34

Ordinarily, I detest the concept of “five-year plans,” a Boomer-ish gimmick to get youngsters to coordinate their careers better (granted, I believe Stalin first coined the term).

However, we now face an interesting “five-year countdown,” with that many years until the 100th anniversary of Our Lady’s request for the consecration of Russia. Remember that it was in 1929 when she called for the pope to consecrate Russia to Her Immaculate Heart.

This was never done right, almost 100 years have elapsed, and that duration might be all heaven will allow for its completion. Since the hourglass is about to finish pouring, with a potential chastisement looming, maybe we should re-evaluate the five-year plan concept and adapt it to a spiritual purpose.

Background on “What Might Be Coming”

Why, by the way, does 100 years matter?

Because there is precedent for such a time limit prior to catastrophe. In 1689, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque received instructions to request that the King of France consecrate the country to Jesus’ Most Sacred Heart. After 100 years of neglect and/or disobedience, France’s monarchy was destroyed by the barbaric 1789 Revolution, a secular-humanist terror that would spread worldwide.

This established a somewhat recent precedent that God would only grant so much time (and a century seems more than generous) to carry out His commands. Once that time elapses, we can expect to experience God’s wrath.

As always, I remind readers that the potential for a chastisement within five years isn’t totally certain. Nevertheless, as society cascades toward kinetic warfare, moral depravity, financial ruin, total Christian apostasy, and more, the 100-year mark seems as good a reference point as any.

None of this should surprise us, either. It all fits well within what Fr. Paul Kramer calls “The Unanimity of Prophecy,” where so many prophetic voices have predicted a devastating chastisement from the Hand of God.

Therefore, let us consider some important items you should (and should NOT) include when you devise your five-year survival plan, counting down to the 100th anniversary of no Russian consecration. This will go beyond the basic pale of “prepping,” something you can investigate in several other places. I cover the gist of this in three sections:

1. Thing You Might Need
2. Things to Ignore (You Do NOT Need)
   • . . . including the Novice Order Mass!
3. What You Will DEFINITELY Need

Things You Might Need

The following items will not save your soul, but they possess a practical value, which would be imprudent to neglect.

Money Storage & Preservation

Although this is a dreadful subject, with no obvious guarantees, it is wise for Catholics to consider what they would do to safeguard personal assets.

I suggest diversifying your wealth into things you can liquidate and access quickly. This could be a blend of three components: 1) Physical Gold & Silver, 2) Rainy Day Cash, and 3) Some money in the bank.

These are the financial resources you can access and use ASAP, and only one of them (bank money) would involve dealing with an “institution.” The rest of it fits squarely into the DIY-survival framework. While you’re at it, it doesn’t hurt to own a few weapons to protect everything you own as world events worsen further.

Don’t go nuts with guns, however, since this is a spiritual fight primarily. Just as you wouldn’t bring a knife to a gunfight, the same holds true for guns in a spiritual fight. They do, nonetheless, come in handy.

Don’t bother with stocks, bonds, retirement accounts, or any other flimsy, confiscable financial instruments. Make sure you keep all gold, silver, and cash in a reliable lockbox and away from prying eyes. Spread it out into different locations if you believe it would be practical.

Finally, if you have not already, please do everything you can do to get out of (and remain out of) debt. This is one of many practical suggestions I offered in my ways to oppose Bergoglio article. The big contributors to indebtedness are houses, cars, bastard children, and poor health.

Personal Health

This is arguably the most essential in this section since, without robust health, you’ll become an unwitting client of the treacherous medical industrial complex. It doesn’t mean that Catholics should prioritize the health of the body over that of the soul (quite the contrary). However, if you are not deliberate, then you’ll find yourselves at the mercy of secular-humanist, greedy, wretched medical-ists.

They’re not your friend, no matter how clean they keep their lab coat. Healthcare is your individual duty, not some fictitious “right.”

What are some optimal health strategies for avoiding hospital imprisonment?

1. Do Not Eat to Satiety → ⅓ of what folks eat is for their health; ⅔ is for their physician (eat less, as many saints recommend)
2. Vitamin D Supplementation → shoot for 10,000 IUs a day; 50,000 IUs for therapeutic purposes
3. Walk Often → terrific, low-impact cardio; great opportunity for reflection; leave the phone at home
4. Lift Weights → two or three times a week
5. Men Must Maximize Testosterone (this is not optional and has nothing to do with age or state of life)
6. Limit the Sweets → resist the dangerous alternatives as well
7. Smoke Quality Tobacco → because its relaxing qualities are quite beneficial; ignore the anti-tobacco propaganda and grab a few cigars or pipe tobacco
8. Drink Temperately → this is similar to the last one (unless you cannot tolerate alcohol); avoid the cheap foam; grab a tasty Pilsner or a maybe Tripel brewed by Benedictines

Some of that advice you won’t discover from the conventional “health experts,” either allopathic, naturopathic, voodoo-oriented, or what have you. Think for yourself, and try to imagine what traditional catholics would have done in past centuries. More often than not, you can’t go wrong.

Finally, remember that once Our Lady triumphs, the world will change for the better, but we should expect to have much more physical work to do. It will be away with all the paper pushing, administration, and white-collar nonsense. Post-triumph careers will involve manual labor, even for middle-aged folks, making physical fitness far more obligatory than it is now.

Efficient, Affordable Transportation

With the massive hike in consumer prices, purposefully orchestrated by the state, we have to be much more deliberate about how we procure reliable transportation. Those jumbo SUVs and trucks aren’t terribly practical for an array of reasons. I recommend establishing transportation methods, which are as simple, affordable, and maintainable as possible.

Why does transportation matter?

Because many of us have no choice but to travel at least 45 minutes to attend the Holy Sacrifice in its proper form (more on this later). You cannot do this on a 50cc moped, but you might consider a higher-powered Moped, good enough to get you onto a 70-mph highway if necessary. This is ideal for unmarried folks or other individual travelers who transport nothing but themselves (tremendous savings on gas, insurance, repairs, etc.)

What about larger families?

This will depend on the size of the family. I cannot prescribe specific instructions, but you should invest in practical transportation, such as bicycles and scooters, to at least limit the over-reliance on large vehicles. While the largest households may need a large RAM van to travel to Holy Mass, this offers no advantage to smaller families who could get by with fuel-efficient Sedans.

Whatever the case, one’s 16-year-old child has no use for a massive Ford F-350. That’s most evident when they demonstrate no possible vocation for tradesman’s work (i.e., plumbing/landscaping) or any other useful truck application. Of course, the same applies to grown adults. Stop buying trucks just to ride higher on the road.

Things to Ignore (You Do NOT Need)

Next, I recommend avoiding these items, which are either blatantly harmful, or at least a waste of time given the proximity of a pending chastisement.

Retirement Funding

There is no reason to bother with this at all. Even if you retire, it won’t be for long.

Again, I recommend all current retirees keep themselves as physically fit as possible in the event they may need to resume working in a chastisement or post-chastisement environment. I encourage you to reflect carefully on what life may be like with the elimination of all the pensions, retirement plans, military benefits, and so forth. This would no doubt occur with the arrival of a serious chastisement.

Likewise, for current workers, there is no need to permit the “business professionals,” financial experts, or HR people to gaslight you into contributing to a 401(k), IRA, or 403(b). They do that for a reason, by the way, and it’s because their entire scheme would collapse without your continuous support. The financial-HR-legal-industrial-complex only sustains itself if it can cajole enough peons into funding the whole miserable gravy train with all those wonderful monthly contributions.

They indeed want you to save . . . themselves . . . not for retiring.

Furthermore, the securities market, an amalgamation of ungodly companies, requires your “retirement savings” to keep itself vibrant. Why not do a small part to starve the bastards (to an extent), and enjoy more moral peace of mind, by depriving those big/woke businesses of their economic lifeblood? It couldn’t hurt.

Vacation Money

Dear friends, the culture of taking vacations four-to-six times per year is about to end rather abruptly (see: hyperinflation). Soon, nobody will afford them other than the mega wealthy.

Wise Catholics have already mortified themselves of this excessive habit. By all means, take vacations as your budget permits, but anything beyond a rare voyage abroad is bound to be excessive for 90% or more of the population. You cannot justify complaining about rent, utilities, mortgage rates, and other recurring debits if you still travel like a millionaire.

The Novus Ordo Mass (Especially for Non-Holidays)

This will not help you spiritually other than maybe in case of an emergency, and even then, it’s debatable.

The N.O. Mass is not an acceptable way to fulfill one’s First Saturday Devotion each month. I hear all the time from people who subject themselves to severe scandal because they STILL attend Novus Ordo masses when a TLM isn’t convenient. The N.O., which offends God for so many reasons, should not even be an emergency back-up plan for First Saturday fulfillment.

• Almost all of them involve Communion in the hand (AKA, God on the floor)
• The prayers are heavily truncated in contrast with the TLM
• There are far fewer genuflections and Crossings
• Priests who offer it preach scandalous messages, often congruent with Vatican II
• Even if you kneel to receive Communion, you will have knelt onto particles of Jesus, which had already fallen onto the floor from previous communicants
• The best traditional clergy, including Abp. Lefebvre, strongly admonish us against it

To be sure, we should spare no effort to fulfill the Saturday obligation, most pleasing to the Blessed Virgin Mary, but not in any old way. Even as we intend to honor the Mother of God, we risk offending Our Creator by participating in something so illicit and offensive, replete with sacrileges.

I’ll leave it to you to decide whether to attend one on Sunday (with no other alternative). That aside, there is no good reason (not even for achieving the Sabbatine privilege) to attend an N.O. Mass on Saturdays.

Attachment to Celebrity Priests

Celebrity priests are those who would surely die if there was no one to hear them speak.

God help them if they ever had to enter a monastery, which might be their only remedy (see Fr. Corapi, for example). I’ll avoid mentioning other specific priests who fit this persona, but perhaps they are quite obvious. These are the clergy who would never be content with an ordinary parish-priest role.

You might spot them when they “name drop” about who they’ve met and many incredible things they’ve seen. They clamor for attention, and because they prize it so much, will never say or publish anything that would challenge the wicked Antichurch in the Vatican. Any criticism of the Anti-Catholic regime in Rome would incur serious consequences, soon spelling the end of their celebrity statuses.

For that reason alone, they’re not merely unhelpful; such clergy refuse to assist laymen with identifying the almost boundless volume of wolves in sheep’s clothing throughout today’s world.

Given their commitment to the smiling, nice-guy image, you will have full assurance they’ll never risk losing it by taking a hard stance on anything controversial. Celebrity priests present themselves as jovial and orthodox, yet it’s a facade to conceal their papier mâché dedication to their vocation. Proof of this can be found by their unwillingness ever to tackle difficult church topics (the freemason invasion, Antipope Bergoglio, rampant sodomy, obnoxious “Catholic” women, etc.).

What should we do rather than follow celebrity priests?

When in doubt, it helps to remember the futility of having “heroes” in this world. The only ones we should celebrate are those who have entered eternity and possess the prefix “St.” before their name. Read their works, follow their examples, learn the traditional faith, and dispense with the “rockstar” priests you would find on YouTube.

A Literal “Five-Year” Plan

Finally, don’t waste the finitude of your precious life attempting to assemble some ridiculous sequential scheme, mapping out what you would do each year. Instead, be ready to meet your maker at any moment by focusing on the essential items in this next section.

What You DEFINITELY Need

“Here we go again with yet another conclusion section where he harangues us about praying the Rosary.”

I don’t care if the reader finds this repetitive because it merits repetition more than any other subject → You NEED to pray the Rosary every day and develop the strongest possible devotion to the Blessed Virgin.

Without Mary, the Mediatrix of All Graces, who loves you abundantly, you will never achieve salvation. Jesus mandated this just before he expired on the Cross. He secured our salvation, yet demanded it flow through the Blessed Virgin if any of us desire the fruits of His Holy Sacrifice. Let no one propose anything contrary.

If one wishes to advance in the spiritual life (and who wouldn’t?), then the Rosary devotion should extend to 15 decades each day. There’s nothing wrong with beginners taking their time to master the basic elements, but veteran Catholics have no excuse. Any layman can pray all the mysteries in about one hour. Public recitation of just five decades lasts for about 16 minutes at a normal pace (I’ve timed it).

Finally, whereas you should not succumb to the urge to attend the “new Mass,” it is essential for us to brace ourselves for the coming chastisement with the following spiritual habits.

1. Attending the Traditional Latin Mass (and not whining about driving for it)
2. Adoring the Eucharist as much as possible
3. Mental Prayer
4. Confessing sins sacramentally
5. Fasting and mortification
6. Not working on Sunday (including tedious items, like vehicle maintenance)
7. Meditating on the Final Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell

If this sounds familiar, that’s because the Church has prescribed it for ages. Make this more than a paltry five-year plan, but a daily and lifelong mission.

God bless and Ave Maria!

Bonus Content: More Genesis (The Band)

Just for fun, if you’ve read this far, here’s a novel reflection, unrelated to the above content. In my last article, I referred multiple times to Phil Collins’ band, Genesis. I left out one of their more interesting songs, however.

Listen to the lyrics of this one while considering two concepts: 1) Mortal Sin, and 2) Going to Confession. Do you notice a connection in the song? Feel free to comment.