… “Remember the hour of death and you will never sin,” our holy mother Church calls to us. “You will never sin forever!” Do you hear what she says? We forgot about this inevitable hour for everyone: and what have we now turned the whole world around us into with our sins? We forgot to think about death; but she has not forgotten about us and, with a terrifying force, more and more violently, day by day, hour by hour, she more and more mercilessly snatches from the ranks of the living her intended victims: war, famine, disease, earthquakes, terrible and sudden floods; social and family discord, reaching the point of bloodshed, in which sons raise their hands against fathers and mothers, brother against brother, husbands against wives, wives against husbands; an internecine war in which the dregs of society and our distraught youth, carried away by the God-fighting teaching, rebel in blindness against the powers that be and against all who live according to the commandments of God, and not according to the elements of the world...