It was just a coincidence, if you believe in coincidences. Readings at Catholic Masses this past Sunday, chosen long in advance by church authorities, told of the end of the times.
Lo, the day is coming, blazing like an oven, when all the proud and all evildoers will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire, leaving them neither root nor branch.
That was just the Old Testament. The reading from Luke foretold persecutions, executions, wars, earthquakes, famines and plagues.