Roberto
de Mattei
Corrispondenza
Romana
September
9, 2020
The era of the Coronavirus is seeing a new phase in the cosmic struggle
between the celestial and infernal forces. In history, in fact, along with the
hand of God, we also need to see the hand of the Devil who is always rivaling
the Divine plans in order to realize his own warped projects. The Kingdom of
God is that of order, peace and harmony; the Devil’s is a kingdom of chaos,
conflict and perennial revolution. God permits, for His greater glory, that the
two kingdoms - the first always victorious, the second always beaten - wrestle
until the end of time.
Today the followers of the Devil are the scientists, who, in their
laboratories, are seeking to be lords over the life and death of mankind. Then
we have the social engineers, who, by means of sophisticated techniques,
manipulate the state of mind of public opinion. After the failure of the great
illusions that opened the 20th century, the revolutionary forces are
now fostering a scenario of profound mental and social chaos. Six months after its explosion, the Coronavirus’s
gravest consequence until now has not been in the health or social realms but
in the psychological order. Nobody knows
what to think and often opposing thoughts follow one another as in cases of
cognitive dissonance. In a persuasive
article penned by the sociologist Luca Ricolfi in a Roman daily, he writes that
the ground where the most radical changes are taking place is in the way our
mind works.
The most evident change is [made manifest in] uncertainty, which is not
only the difficulty found in planning for the future, but is “a generalized
state of mental anarchy”. The regime of
mental anarchy triggered by Covid 19, writes Ricolfi, is perilous for social
cohesion, since the life of society is held together by common rules and shared
patterns in perceptions of reality “but it is also perilous for the
psychological equilibrium of the individual, since a world in which
everyone sees what they want to see,
without regard for what others see, is tremendously destabilizing and anxiety-
inducing.” (How Covid is changing our lives,
Il Messaggero, of September 5th
2020).
Covid 19 is a perfidious, mendacious and multifaceted virus, that
terrorizes some, paralyzing their forces
and destroys the equilibrium of others, making them think that it doesn’t
exist. Thanks to these contradictions, the kingdom of Babel is advancing in an
atmosphere of fear and pessimism. Abandonment to Divine Providence is required
to resist, without losing the supernatural virtue of hope. Devoid of hope are those living in the terror
of being infected, who subject themselves to any and all impositions by the
civil and ecclesiastical authorities; but also [ without hope] are those who
attribute all that is happening to a project of destruction against which
nothing can be done except cry out in anger.
Those living in terror, anger and frustration in the era of Coronavirus, are losing the battle
against the maleficent virus. Only those who conserve in the depth of their
souls the joy of serving the Lord, are victorious. This joy is a divine gift
and for those who do not ask for this help – all is lost. Those who trust in the
help of grace, on the contrary, fight and win, especially if they entrust
themselves to the One Who is the channel of all graces – the Blessed Virgin Mary
whose Nativity and Most Holy Name are commemorated in the Church on September 8th
and September 12th respectively.
Translation:
Contributor Francesca Romana
