Writes Harry Frett from Voorhees, New Jersey, “My wife and I typically visit a local nursing home on a regular basis and hold a Communion service for the residents.

“About a week and a half ago, we visited and afterward I had one Communion Host left over. Before I consumed the remaining Host, I held it up in front of me adoring Jesus.

“When I did this, suddenly I saw Jesus in the Host, and in front of Him were two opened books. As I was wondering what this meant, I received the words, ‘The General Judgment…’ I then was wondering why I received a vision of the General Judgement, thinking that in my life the particular judgment would take place first.

“As I was thinking about the General Judgement (while praying the Rosary), these additional words came to me, ‘…is not that far away.’ Later, as I was praying the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows of Mary, these additional words came to me, ‘Get your house in order.’ The words were surprising to me, since I try my best to keep myself in a state of Grace, but upon hearing these words which had a sense of urgency, both myself and my wife went to Confession that very night before Mass. Perhaps time is shorter than we think?”

Writes Matthew A. Tsakanikas, Department of Theology, Christendom College: “It is odd that at the same time as the great smoke on the East Coast, testimony of recovered alien ships was in the news with congressional action and investigations forthcoming.

“The UFO/alien philosophies seek to undermine Jesus Christ and distort the Gospel. That kind of manifestation, ‘the demonic/ Satan manifesting,’ in full view would be quite the deception.

“Aren’t people always trying to connect aliens with interfering with nuclear installations? Will some ‘aliens’ come as false saviors blaming Christianity for the wars/breakdown of the technological world?

“C.S. Lewis’ space trilogy presents the Christocentric possibility for alien life, but how easily we could be duped by a demonic visitation or coming that reveals other terrestrial civilizations as a challenge to the Incarnation. We must always hold that Jesus makes earth/the human race the center of cosmic renewal through his Incarnation; the Catholic Church the place of union between the terrestrial and the transcendent in the Eucharist.”

And Paul Rasavage, Maple Falls, Washington: “Mr. Brown, soon after the Illuminati-planned economic collapse and subsequent world war, intended to both reduce the global population and force whatever humanity remains under martial law, the antichrist will have his day of declaration. A global AI network, based on all of the telecommunications infrastructure industrialists have been feverishly constructing over the past decades, will be the platform from which AI will be put in effective control of humanity, all in global real-time.

“In short, AI will be seen for what it really and truly was intended to be — the ‘beast’ of Revelation.

This global, all-seeing, omniscient beast, under complete control of the antichrist, will replace judges, politicians, indeed, entire governments.

“The AI Beast will have the authority over life and death, as suits the anti-christ. What better way to be able to hunt down, track, and identify those who choose to reject the ‘mark of the beast’? The beast will have authority to direct local police and paramilitary forces around the world, issuing edicts and criminal sentences up to and including the execution of said rebels. Who then, as St. John writes in the Book of Revelation, will be able to withstand the beast?”