A self-explanatory title. 

The concluding part of this two-part commentary should appear tomorrow, Monday in Holy Week.

A Palm Sunday reflection may be found by scrolling below.

A blessed Palm Sunday to you all.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Today, Sunday, March 29, 2026, is Palm Sunday. I do not know about you, but this Lent seems to have flown by very rapidly.

We have now entered into the most solemn week of the year as we withdraw more and more from the world and its false allurements to unite ourselves as never before with the events of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ’s Passion and Death prior to experiencing the glory of His Resurrection following the Mass on Holy Saturday, April 4, 2026, and on Easter Sunday, April 5, 2026, thus beginning a marvelous celebration of the Octave of Easter and the Easter season.

We need Our Lady’s help to keep and to intensify our Lenten penances this week. May our reliance upon the Most Sorrowful Mysteries of her Holy Rosary aid us in understanding what our sins did to her Divine Son and to her and how grateful we must be for being the unmerited beneficiaries of the Mercy won for us on the wood of the Holy Cross and for being given from that Cross so great and wonderful and perfect a mother as she, Our Blessed Mother, is to us by Our Divine Redeemer Himself.

"From Eden to Palm Sunday" is a substantial revision of a reflection that I wrote for the printed pages of Christ or Chaos in 1997. Given the vastness of the subject, this reflection is pitifully, woefully inadequate. The revised article is really a condensed version of what was gone into in greater detail in the Living in the Shadow of the Cross lecture program. About half of the lecture program dealt with material condensed in the current article. Obviously, Holy Week is not a time to watch this lecture program! However, it is there for those who are interested at some point during the months that follow.

To greet Christ the King this Palm Sunday and every day of our lives, we must not let anything get in the way of letting Him treat us according to the tender mercies of His Most Sacred Heart, remembering that nothing anyone does to us, says about us or causes us to suffer is the equal of what one of our least Venial Sins caused Him to suffer in His Sacred Humanity during His fearful Passion and Death on the wood of the Holy Cross and that caused those Swords of Sorrow to be pierced through and through the Immaculate Heart of His Most Blessed Mother.

Our fervor during this week of weeks must be genuine, and we must beg Our Lady, especially by meditating upon the Sorrowful Mysteries of her Most Holy Rosary, to help us persist in this fervor moment by moment, day by day, week in and week out, month after month, year after year until the time when we meet Christ the King, Our Crucified and Risen Saviour, at the moment of our Particular Judgment.

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A blessed Palm Sunday and a blessed Holy Week to you all.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

This contains a few reflections for your consideration on the Way of the Cross that might be useful for the last three weeks of Lent. These reflections were written many a moon ago and have been revised slightly over the past three decades. 

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Harry S. Truman, although he, a thirty-third degree Mason, does figure prominently in an anecdote at the beginning of this commentary.

This new commentary is about the Freemasonic spirit at work within the counterfeit church of conciliarism, which is about all I am able to say as I almost fell entirely asleep as I was writing this.

Republished reflections about today’s principal feast, the Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and about Saint John Damascene, were published about twenty minutes ago.

The next original commentary should appear on Palm Sunday (in addition to two republished reflections).

Our Lady of Dolors, pray for us.

Saint John Damascene, pray for us.

The great saint whose feast is commemorated elebrate today, Friday, March 27, 2026, Saint John Damascene, fought the iconoclasts in his day, and while many, although far from all, of our Catholic churches are now in the hands of the conciliar iconoclasts, we can festoon our homes with images of Our Lord and Our Lady and Saint Joseph and other saints as we use these images to remind us that we are united to the saints represented in these images by means of the Communion of Saints that we hope to share Heaven with them for all eternity in the glory of the Beatific Vision. 

Today, course, is our daughter Lucy’s twenty-fourth birthday and the eighteenth anniversary of her First Holy Communion.

Please do pray for Lucy Mary Therese Norma Droleskey on her birthday today. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Damascene, pray for us.

The feast we celebrate today, Wednesday, March 25, 2026, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Commeration of Wednesdayin Passion Week, signifies the moment when the Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, the very Word through Whom all things were made, personally entered into human history as He was made Incarnate in the Virginal and Immaculate Womb of His Most Blessed Mother by the power of the Third Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, God the Holy Ghost, Who overshadowed Our Lady after she had given her perfect Fiat to the Will of the First Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, God the Father, as that Will was made known to her by Saint Gabriel the Archangel.

The whole of human history is changed today--and no one can remain neutral about what happened on this day. If the Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity really did become Man this day in Our Lady's Virginal and Immaculate Womb so as to redeem us on the wood of the Holy Cross thirty-three years later, as we know is indeed the case, then every person and every nation on the face of this earth must acknowledge this fact and subordinate everything to the Deposit of Faith that He has entrusted exclusively to His Catholic Church for Its eternal safekeeping and infallible explication.

We must pray to Our Lady every day so that we will never lose sight of the centrality of the Incarnation in our own lives and in the lives of our nations, never lose sight of the fact that Holy Mass itself is Incarnational as the Word Who was made Incarnate in her Virginal and Immaculate Womb is made Incarnate on altars of sacrifice under the appearances of bread and wine by true bishops and true priests. Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ spent nine months in the tabernacle of Our Lady's Virginal and Immaculate Womb, thereby sanctifying the wombs of al mothers. He is in solidarity with every child in every mother's womb. Every abortion, whether by chemical or surgical means, is an indirect attack on the Incarnation that took place this very day.

The nezt original commentary should appear in about twenty-fours from the time of this poasting. 

Thank you.

A blessed Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to you all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

This is part two of yesterday's commentary.

As I am tired at a very late hour, all I say for the moment is that I may or may not have another new commentary tomorrow, the Feast of the Annuncition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Commemoration of Wednesday in Passion Week, in addition to my republished reflection on Our Lady's Annunciation.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.

This commentary discusses the recent spate of overtly anti-Ctholic remarks by the likes of self-styled "Christian Nationalist" Douglas Wilson and Raphael Edward Cruz.

The United States of America was founded by men who were hostile to the true Faith and it should come as no surprise that the false ethos of the founders is stronger than ever today.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

This is my annual Passiontide reflection.

A blessed Passiontide to you all.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Saint Isidore the Farmer (whose feast day is March 22 here in the United States of America), pray for us.

Saint Catherine of Genoa, pray for us.