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Mystery book on
'End Times' reappears

--- Beloved by St. Therese of Lisieux!

It's one of those books that comes out of
nowhere -- almost literally -- just when
the world needs it most.

Is it all correct --- what it reveals about the future,
both for the world and the soul?

From the vantage point of earth, who can say?
It is written by a human.

But a great saint --- Therese of Lisieux --- was so taken
by this book that it spurred her entry into the convent.

"Reading this book was one of the
greatest graces of my life," she says.

"The impression I received from it is too intimate
and too sweet for me to express. All the great
truths of religion, the mysteries of eternity,
plunged into my soul a happiness
not of this earth."

(It was while reading this book that Therese asked
her father's permission to enter the convent.)

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Completed in 1881 by Fr. Charles Arminjon, an aged French priest,
Fin du Monde Présent et Mystères de la Vie Future surfaced
just long enough to draw Therese into the convent and then,
for more than a century, plunged back into obscurity.

Now, with the help of a pious devotee of St. Therese who
spent decades searching for the original French edition,
and then years translating it, we have the honor
of placing before you the very first English translation
of this urgent, hope-filled, and chilling work:

With pious audacity, Fr. Arminjon devotes
the first chapter to the end --- the end of the world:

"Although Christ chose to leave us ignorant of the exact
time of the end of the world," Fr. Arminjon says,
"He deemed it fitting to give us detailed information
on the matter and circumstances of this great event."

"The end of the world, Christ says, will come at time
when the human race, sunk in the outermost depths of
indifference, will be far from thinking about punishment
and justice. It will be as in the days of Noah, when men
lived without a care, built luxurious houses, and mocked Noah
as he built his ark. 'Madman! Dreamer!' they cried. Then the flood came
and engulfed the whole earth."

"So," writes Fr. Arminjon, "Christ warns us that the final catastrophe will take place when the world is at its most secure: civilization will be at its zenith, markets will be overflowing with money, and government stocks will never have been higher."

"Mankind, wallowing in an unprecedented material prosperity,
will have ceased to hope for heaven. Crudely attached to the pleasures
of life, man, like the miser in the gospel, will say "My soul, you possess goods
to last for many years. Eat, drink and be merry."

Has that dread day
finally arrived?

"Unprecedented material prosperity"? We've enjoyed it
for decades, building the "luxurious houses" Fr. Arminjon speaks of.
The world's "markets have been overflowing with money" --- until
the crisis slammed us last year like a tsunami come from nowhere.

Is this the end?

Fr. Arminjon reminds us that "the present world, precisely because
it was created, necessarily tends toward its conclusion and end."
And, indeed, all around us we see perishing the world
we have known for generations.

Is this the end?

Fr. Arminjon claims no special knowledge, nor is he a
sensation-monger. On the contrary, he insists that we
"steer clear of every perilous opinion, relying neither upon
dubious revelations nor upon apocryphal prophecies, and
making no assertion that is not justified by the doctrine of
the Fathers and of Tradition."

Which is precisely what makes this book
so chilling for the sober-minded among us:
Fr. Arminjon's conclusions are grounded in the
Fathers of the Church, Tradition, and the Bible.

He always speaks with thoughtfulness and prayerful prudence:
which is why these pages moved Therese so completely,
and why they will lead you, too, to share so many of his conclusions
about the end of the present world, the Antichrist, Purgatory, Hell,
the importance of Christian sacrifice, the role of suffering
in salvation, and the mysteries of eternity that
Father so ably illuminates here.

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Finally, you'll be grateful that Fr. Arminjon does not merely sketch
the darkness ahead; he paints as well a vivid picture of the
sweet means Jesus has given us to fill that darkness with light;
and of the rich bounty He has in store for all who stay faithful.

It is the sweetness of this book that caught St. Therese up in a
fervent love of God and nourished what her biographer
describes as her "impatience for the joys of Heaven and
her paramount esteem for a life wholly consecrated to Divine Love."

The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life:
the book our world desperately needs, not only to show us
how to read the signs of the times, but also to equip us to
bear ourselves as Christians, no matter what the future brings.

The End of the Present World and
the Mysteries of the Future Life

by Fr. Charles Arminjon
$17.95 paperback
336 pages

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