Something has been missing in America’s cultural and political discourse for a long time.

It’s not just morality. It’s not just faith. It’s something more fundamental–the very presence and protection of angels.

At one time, belief in angels wasn’t just part of the faith. It was part of life. They weren’t just decorative cherubs or Hallmark card figures. They were warriors–divine powers sent by God to intervene in the battles of men, revealing truth, protecting the faithful, and, when necessary, destroying the wicked. People knew that they played an active role in history, guiding us, protecting us, and revealing truth. They understood that spiritual warfare wasn’t an abstract concept but an ongoing reality, shaping nations as much as individuals.

But in America today, angels are either stripped of their power or erased entirely. We’ve pushed them to the margins of culture, reducing them to myths or replacing them with something darker.

And that’s not an accident.

Nowadays, even an article like this will seem weird to most.

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St Gabriel’s Pattern

Today is the Feast Day of St Gabriel on the Traditional Catholic calendar, and tomorrow is the Feast of the Annunciation. The Church of course placed these back to back because of their conjunction to one another.

The Annunciation is central to the Christian faith. The angel Gabriel, the great messenger of God, appears to the Virgin Mary and speaks the most consequential words in human history:

“Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women” (Luke 1:28).

In that moment, the eternal plan of salvation was revealed. In that moment, the Incarnation of Truth itself began. Truth Himself–the Way, the Truth, and the Life–was about to enter the world. And the instrument of that revelation was an angel. For 2,000 years, this event has stood as the single greatest moment of divine revelation, the moment when Truth took on flesh to dwell among us. It was a reality so profound that Satan and his own cohort of fallen angels have been trying to bury it ever since.

Today, that war continues–not just against faith, but against the very concept of Truth itself.

Against Christ himself.

Gabriel was not just a passive messenger. He was a warrior of truth. His name means “God is my strength” or “man of God.” and throughout Scripture, he is the one who reveals God’s hidden plans, lifting the veil on what men could not yet see. He spoke to Daniel, delivering a prophecy about the advent and redemption of Our Lord Jesus Christ–and about the tyrannical king Antiochus IV, who was a forerunner of the Antichrist. He came to Zacharias, declaring that John the Baptist would be the trailblazer of the Messiah. He was likely the messenger who spoke to Joseph in a dream, although his name is not mentioned. And in the Annunciation, he shattered the silence of history with the proclamation of the Incarnation.

Gabriel’s role was always the same–to announce, to illuminate, to expose.

And that same pattern is unfolding again.

The War for Reality and the Discipline of Seeing

Gabriel announced the Incarnation of the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Today, we are witnessing the re-incarnation of something akin to it—the disclosure of truths long buried by the deep state.

They lied and continue to double down about JFK’s assassination.

They lied and continue to double down about January 6.

They lied and continue to double down about Russia, Ukraine, Syria, and every other nation on the planet it seems.

They lied and continue to double down about COVID-19, even though admittedly that seems to be the most difficult for them—because enough Americans actually stood up.

Lie after lie after lie–and only recently, slowly, unevenly, has truth begun to leak through.

In a world driven by deception, truth tellers are always targeted first. And America has been drowning in deception for generations. Once a nation forgets the messengers of God, it stops hearing the message of God. That is why this moment is so perilous: many are seeing facts, but missing the meaning.

They want to see it in a bullet and an ear and a stage in Butler, PA, but that’s where it ends.

The intelligence agencies, the media, the global financial elite—these forces don’t just manipulate narratives. They create entire realities. They manufacture history, rewriting events before the ink is even dry. And they have worked tirelessly to ensure that the supernatural–especially the presence and power of angels—is dismissed as fantasy.

Simply put, truth exposes power. And as long as the enemy can keep enough Americans asleep, the assumption is that Trump’s great exposure campaign will fail because the only ones paying attention to it are the “nutters.” Those who work to engage with the stories as they happen are shunned until an unprescribed later date when Trump or Tucker–or more correctly the two dimensional pixelated images of Trump or Tucker– say something is true.

That’s when they’ll believe it.

“I’ll know when everyone else around me knows and then I can be sure.”

This is the war for reality playing out in real time–regardless of where one stands politically.

And yet, for so many Americans, nothing is true until “someone they recognize” says it. On Friday Peter Doocy asked Trump just to tell us point blank who killed JFK because no one has time to sift through thousands of pages, and you know what Trump said?

Basically that the American people need to figure it out on their own. He did his part. Now it’s their turn.

 

He also said this, in his typical mysterious way–not to be clandestine or elusive only, but perhaps to invite Americans to actually care about their own freedom and discover some things for themselves:

How many of us have been saying that–and more?

Too many people are assuming Trump is going to fix everything and we can just go back to our bread and circuses, forgetting that 2028 will arrive before we know it. I’ve long been cautioning that this battlefield must include us, not just Trump and those he appoints. The court of public opinion is more than just about mandate for Trump; it is about our own dignity, our own dog inside that won’t be satisfied with only a bone.

The blind trust even in a Trump or a Tucker is not truth-seeking. That’s just another flavor of mind control, even though neither man may have any intention on it being so. Real truth requires more than just passive consumption. It demands discernment. It demands engagement. It demands consistent prayer. It demands that we be smart enough to realize the enemy is everywhere trying to memory hole tomorrow’s history on us. It’s what I find Trump quite frequently cultivates, whether he knows it or not. And conversely, it’s exactly what the ruling powers don’t want us to have.

As a quick aside, the story of Naaman in 4 Kings 5:1-15 (Douay-Rheims)–today’s Lesson in the Traditional Mass worldwide–carries wisdom about truth that is just as relevant now for Americans still on the fence on whether to join the information war or not. Naaman, a powerful Syrian commander, was a leper. He had access to wealth, influence, and military might, yet none of it could cure him. He was blind to the truth that his healing would come not from power, but from obedience.

When the prophet Eliseus told him to wash in the Jordan seven times, Naaman scoffed. He wanted a grand display, a miracle on his own terms. The truth was too simple for him to accept.

Only when he humbled himself and obeyed did he receive healing.

This is exactly where America–the Peter Doocys of the world– stands today. It is exactly where doubters who didn’t do the work fall. They have a choice: humility or pride.

Final Words: Fiat or Spectate

The truth, when it comes, is often humbling–if we allow God to show it to us. And once we open ourselves to it, truth does not remain abstract. It demands action. It demands conversion.

St Gabriel did not ask permission to announce the Incarnation. He did not wait for the world to be ready. He simply declared the truth. The Annunciation marked the beginning of the end for the reign of darkness. It shattered the silence of history and set in motion the victory of the Cross.

But the Annunciation was not only revelation from above. It was reception from below. Mary, a mere creature before a divine messenger, responded with humility: “Be it done unto me according to thy word.”

She did not spectate.

She obeyed.

That is the challenge now facing us.

Exposure alone is not enough. Seeing is not enough. Sharing screenshots is not enough. Truth must be received, not merely observed.

That means rejecting systems that have enslaved us.

It means refusing to participate in deception.

It means restoring the spiritual foundations that were abandoned.

Above all, it means preparing for what comes next.

They know truth cannot be stopped–only delayed.

But delay ends when people choose obedience over comfort, over “safety.”

If America is to emerge victorious, she must do more than wait for someone else to tell her when to wake up. She must discover divine order–first within herself. That means invoking the angels, not as sentimental figures, but as warriors of God, defenders of truth, and guardians of the created order.

It means invoking St Michael in the battle against deception.

It means remembering St Raphael as we confront spiritual sickness.

And it means turning, today, to St Gabriel–recognizing that we are standing inside an annunciation of our own.

This isn’t just a moment in history.

This isn’t just about politics.

This is about the war between truth and lies, between good and evil, against Truth Himself.

May we have the humility not only to see, but to answer–and to answer rightly.

 

LEJEUNE RECENT

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May everyone named directly or referenced indirectly ask forgiveness and do penance for their sins against America and God. I fight this information war in the spirit of justice and love for the innocent, but I have been reminded of the need for mercy and prayers for our enemies. I am a sinner in need of redemption as well after all, for my sins are many. In the words of Jesus Christ himself, Lord forgive us all, for we know not what we do.