Instead of awaiting chastisement we are called to pray for transformation -- that the societies of men and the world we inhabit be profoundly changed to gain accordance with God's Plan (morally and naturally).
As stated by the Blessed Mother, we should pray to heal our world (not watch it fall to ruin).
Hoping for purification is understandable for those who are appalled by rising evils yet we are first to pray for fundamental change that will render disasters unnecessary.
It is perhaps time to reflect on the many cases of vandalism against the Catholic Church and in particular statues of Christ and the Blessed Mother.
While such things always occur -- through the decades, there have been countless cases -- the frequency seems to have quickened.
Most recently, there were cases of statue destruction in Western New York, New Jersey-Philadelphia, Florida, Utah, and Nebraska. In the New Jersey cases, forty statues were vandalized -- the images toppled and beheaded (in Cherry, Hill, Mount Laurel, and Evesham).
Stretching back to the 1990s, cases have ranged across the entire breadth of America, from northern California to Texas.
In most cases, they are the work of a local deranged person, sometimes a group of teens (immersed in drugs or the occult), or -- as in New Jersey -- a misguided "born-again" Christian who believes Catholic statues are idolatry (apparently unfamiliar with Scripture and correct use of the term "idol").
Are they just isolated cases, or is there a spirit moving?
On a larger scale, obscene or desecrated images of Jesus or the Blessed Mother have found their way into museums or the mass media -- the public square.
Read more here: http://www.spiritdaily.com/Kibehotimes.htm
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