Our raucous times include raucous weather.

It’s getting interesting out there.

There is lightning. Hard to discern. It interrupted the consecration of schismatic bishops:

It also interrupted Fourth of July festivities in Washington:

And New York?

It wasn’t lightning, but rather fireworks setting the Brooklyn Bridge (briefly) aflame).

Red skies?

They are getting very icurious.

There was Ohio over the weekend:

Most interestingly, over Caracas after the quake:

And red sky back in New York.

Does the redness imply spiritual blindness?

The most famous biblical reference to a red sky appears in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 16, verses 2 and 3. In this passage, Jesus is speaking to the Pharisees and Sadducees who had asked him for a sign from Heaven to prove his authority.

He responded by pointing out how easily they could interpret weather signs while remaining completely blind to spiritual ones. He said, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.”