What will occur on the 21st of December?
The Feast Day of the Apostle Saint Thomas.
Then that "today" will become a "yesterday" with the "tomorrow" becoming the new "today," which shall be in the dioceses throughout the American Republic the Feast Day of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin.
Then
that "today" will become yet another "yesterday" and another "tomorrow" shall be the "today" of the day, and so forth...
For those who are so unfortunate so as to have lost the true notion of the end and beatitude of man, together with that of the interior life of grace and prayer: they shall be swayed by sensationalistic yellow journalism to the point of hysteria, or be manipulated further into tyrannized commercialism and egocentric consumerism by greedy and cunning salesmen as the Christmas they profane nears, only to return to a deadened routine of wasted days.
Of such folks, Shakespeare could write (
Macbeth, Act V., sc. v., 19-28):
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more; it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
We ought to make reparation for the all the peoples who shall do stupid things on the 21st of December on account of whatever is going to happen (be it a giant meteor falling upon us, the total disorientation of the planet's electromagnetic field, terrorist attacks, "postal" sprees, riots, the final bees αssαssιnαtҽd, stubbed toes and scraped knees, motion sickness, another Oprah talk show, the invasion of zombies, &c.).
It is not the menaces of the princes of the infernal depths that I dread, nor the perils posed by the created universe anxious to avenge its Lord God Whose sovereign majesty has been so exceedingly offended by sin, so much as I tremble before the stupidity of man and the malice of which he is capable.