Actually, the world might end on Friday. Our Blessed Lord Himself, according to the knowledge proper to His human nature, did not know when the end of the world would be. Neither do we. So what should we do if the end of the world is to be on Friday?
Matches, candles and tinned food won't help, nor will climbing the nearest mountain. The best thing to do would be to be baptised if you are not already baptised, to be received into full communion with the Catholic Church if you are not already in communion. For those who are in communion with the Catholic Church, a good confession would be sensible, accompanied by sincere prayer, penance, and works of charity.
In other words, all the things we should be doing anyway. It is not a bad idea to consider that the world might end on Friday, and to put our lives in order. If you think about it, that's what we should already be doing in Advent.
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Have the end-of-worlders said at what time (and in which time zone) it is going to happen? I think we should be told.
Of course it's a one-way bet. If they are wrong we will have the laugh on them, and if they are right they will presumably not be there to laugh at us and we will certainly not be there for them to jeer at!
Very good advice for Advent as we think of the last things- or the end of the world. John Macquarrie would have said we are" being before death" and our reverted blog master gives us a recipe for "authentic existence." As an asde, when I was at school peple said the end would be in 1967. Actually, given that Jesus was probably born in 6BC, it is already 2018.
Ermmm... isn't it supposed to be all over by this stage (11:11 a.m.)?
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Hmmm, think I'll go and ask the Jehovah's. Now THEY really know a thing or two about the Apocalypse...
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oh, wait...
Bit of an anti-climax. I hope the end-of-worlders had a good Christmas.
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