In this uncompromising episode, Johnny Mack dives into the pattern of desanctification that has corrupted the Christian calendar. We explore how the modern world takes our most essential spiritual observances, our Holy Days, and replaces them with secular, commercialized holidays. We expose the theft of Thanksgiving, where the perfect sacrifice of the Eucharist is replaced by a single day of consumption, and trace how the sacred 12-Day Feast of Christmas was inverted and colonized by a months-long commercial frenzy during Advent.
Mack expands on the pattern by contrasting the spiritual discipline of Lent with the sensual excess of Mardi Gras, challenging us to reject the fleeting pleasure of the Beads for the truth of the Ashes. Ultimately, this desanctification of time reflects the modern spirit that seeks to make even the transcendent Mass feel "ordinary." This is a crucial call to action for Advent: a charge to reject the spirit of the world, reclaim your calendar, and fight to keep the Holy, Holy.
