Even though the sole word “apocalypse” causes terror in many people who associate it with catastrophes and horror, the book of Revelation, sometimes referred to as Apocalypse is above all a book of victory and hope

What are we as Christians supposed to make of all this? Is this – or in what sense is this – one of the “signs of the times” that we are supposed to look for? Is this a sign of the end times?

When you have nothing, then you will have Me! When you have to depend on nothing, work, money. riches, food, etc. then you will realize I exist. That I am God. That I am the creator and provider of all things…

Let us reflect on Jesus’ words to Peter, his first representative on earth, when, on a stormy night, and frightened by the violence of the wind and the waves, the old fisherman, the rock of Christ’s church, has faltered and is sinking: “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”