I plan to write a series of posts on practical preparations for the tribulation. If you believe, as I do, that the start of the tribulation is imminent, then why not make some prudent preparations? The tribulation is described by the Catechism of the Catholic Church as a figurative Passion and Crucifixion for the Church.

675 Before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers.
677 The Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only through this final Passover, when she will follow her Lord in his death and Resurrection.

And Jesus recommended preparing:
[Luke]
{22:35} “When I sent you without money or provisions or shoes, did you lack anything?”
{22:36} And they said, “Nothing.” Then he said to them: “But now, let whoever has money take it, and likewise with provisions. And whoever does not have these, let him sell his coat and buy a sword.
{22:37} For I say to you, that what has been written must still be fulfilled in me: ‘And he was esteemed with the wicked.’ Yet even these things about me have an end.”

Some of the faithful say that they will simply depend on God during the tribulation. Of course, we must always depend on God. But Jesus counseled us to make preparations, to save up some money, to store some provisions, and (for some person, depending on their situation) even obtain a weapon for self-defense.

Now you might object, saying that He was only taking to the Apostles and only about His Passion and Crucifixion. But Sacred Scripture is Christ speaking to us today; it is not only about the past. And the Apostles had no need of money, provisions, and swords for the brief time of Jesus’ Passion, death, and Resurrection. So this passage is about preparations for the tribulation.

by
Ronald L. Conte Jr.
Roman Catholic theologian and
translator of the Catholic Public Domain Version of the Bible.