Advent 2025 marks the beginning of a new liturgical year and the celebration of the birth of Christ ~ the true King of the Universe yet who entered into human history not in pomp or splendor but in absolute meekness, a vulnerable swaddling infant born in a humble stable. This same Christ our King would later pronounce as an adult, “Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. (Mt 5:5) Yet if there is anything that the powers of this world truly despise in this present age of technological sophistication, it would be the very idea of meekness or the meek. We occupy an age of bravado, self-importance, and self congratulation where there seems to be very little appetite for meekness, humility, or quiet contemplation in the mad scramble to make one’s “mark on the world.”

This coming year also represents the 250th anniversary of the founding of our nation which, by God’s grace, has grown and developed into an American empire. But in those 250 years many Americans seem to have forgotten a key foundational principle, that this was to be a Christian nation under God. We would needed no earthly sovereign because God was proclaimed to be our sovereign. That notion began to evaporate with the end of the Cold War which left the United States as the sole reigning world power, however. The ensuing 21st century hubris which came to exemplify American ‘elites’ (along with their European globalist allies) has led the entire Western world disastrously away from its former sense of dependence on God. At the same time it has created a very unstable if not outright delusional model of society.

In fact the state of Western society has become so degraded, noticeably accelerating since the Covid debacle, that it becomes a challenge to even comment intelligently on the depraved state of affairs. Where does one even begin when children are being mutilated in the cause of “gender fluidity” or being trafficked under the guise of “immigration rights?” Civility and courtesy in public debate forums has all but collapsed into bare knuckle partisanship signifying a level or polarization unprecedented in this land since the pre-Civil War confrontations over slavery. Our larger cities have degenerated into crime infested, barren wastelands of social-political polarization, wokeism, substance abuse, and massive homelessness. As a case in point America’s urban crown jewel, New York City, just elected an openly and unapologetic Marxist mayor. Climate activists and Green energy advocates distort data and twist the very laws of physics to justify forcing their ideological agendas on a reluctant public which pays the price in lost jobs and skyrocketing energy costs. Social dislocation has become endemic, visible on our very streets.