Longtime readers of this website know that my work attempts to address root causes as one of the spiritual diseases of our time is a glib superficiality when dealing with matters of historical importance. It is one thing to recount what happened on what date it happened and/or to provide a catalog of facts and dates. However, it demands a true understanding of the ideas and beliefs—true or false, good or bad, sound or unsound—possessed by those who made history to explain why certain events unfolded as they did and, in the current context of The Mystical City of God, to understand the underlying Jansenism of those at the Sorbonne who were committed to working against authentic Catholic Mariology and mystical theology with as much force and fury as they could bring to their wretched enterprise.

Part one of this study about the collected articles of Dom Prosper Gueranger’s twenty-eight articles in defense of The Mystical City of God published in L’Univers between May 23, 1858, and November 8, 1859, emphasizes the fact that the Abbot of Solesmes had personally reviewed the five hundred-ten page file containing all the proceedings and records of the beautification of Venerable Mary of Jesus of Agreed in the offices of the Sacred Congregation of Rites in Rome. As these articles were personally reviewed by a scholar, liturgist, historian,and theologian who, by the way, helped to prepare a draft of Pope Pius XI’s solemn, infallible proclamation of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Ineffabilis Deus, December 8, 1854, one cannot even begin to understand the real history of the actions of the Sorbonne against The Mystical City of God on September 17, 1686, unless one identifies the Jansenism at work in those actions and how the plot itself was implemented.

Dom Prosper Gueranger did this admirably, and part one of this two-part study explains the Abbot’s findings and how they related directly to the work of the “Second” Vatican Council and the construction of the synthetic liturgical concoction, the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical abomination, thereafter.

Part two will appear in four or five days. I might have an interfering commentary on another subject in the meantime, but most of my work over the course of the next few days will be as it has been for the past week, focusing on Dom Prosper Gueranger’s work as collected and published under the title Mary of Agreda and The Mystical City of God: 28 Articles by Dom Prosper Gueranger, OSB, Abbot of Solesmes, theological, liturgist, historian, ad author of the Liturgical Year. Originally published in L’Univers, Paris, 1858-1859.

Thank you for your patience.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

[Update on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, the Feast of Saint Francis of Paola and the Commemoration of Wednesday in the Fourth Week of Lent

[I have decided to divide my study of Dom Prosper Gueranger's articles published in in L'Univers between May 23, 1858, and November 8, 1859 in defense of The Mystical City of God into two parts. Part one is completed. However, I want to review it thoroughly before posting it and to make whatever revisions or amplications I think might be appropriate. 

[It is my expectation that part one will be posted within twenty-four hours, if not slightly sooner. I have had to take my time with the project. However, as I noted below in my introduction to a few reflections on the Way of the Cross, all the distractions and agitations of the world are really unimportant to me right now as to defend the sublime privileges of the Mother of God and of the venerable sanctity of her chosen vessel, Venerable Mary of Jesus of Agreda, is paramount in order to help readers have no compunctions whatseover about profiting from the inspirations to be found in The Mystical City of God as found in The Transfixion as move into Passiontide starting with First Vespers for Passion Sunday on Saturday evening, April 5, 2025.

[Thank you for your patience. 1:22 a.m., Wednesday, April 2, 2025.]

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. 

The next original commentary is crawling along. I think that I will need two more full days of writing before I send it out to vetted. I will another republished commentary for your tomorrow, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, the Feast of Saint Francis of Paola and the Commemoration of Wednesday in the Fourth Week of Lent. Nothing going on in the world of Judeo-Masonic naturalism or in the Judeo-Masonic world of Modernism within the counterfeit church of conciliarism demands my immediate attention in comparison to task I have undertaken to provide a bit of commentary about Dom Prosper Gueranger's defense of The Mystical City of God in his twenty-eight articles in L'Univers and his absolutely irrefutable critique and systematic destruction of the Jansenist pseudo-doctors of the Sorbonne helped to pave the way for both the anti-Theism of the French Revolution and the anti-Catholicism of the conciliar revolution. This commentary will be published when it gets published and it will be thereafter that I will tackle the more mundane projects that await me between, say, the end of this week and Spy Wednesday before we enter into the Paschal Triduum of Our Lord's Passion, Death, and Resurrection, with the singing of Tenebrae on Wednesday, April 16, 2025.

A blessed Tuesday in the Fourth Week of Lent to you all.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Today, Monday March 31, 2025, Monday in the Fourth Week of Lent, marks the twentieth anniversary of the end of thirteen day ordeal imposed by Judge George Greer to his judicial power imposed by his court-ordered execution of Mrs. Theresa Marie Schindler-Schiavo, a brain-damaged human being who was no closer to death than anyone of us, by the cruel process of starvation and dehydration.

As one who wrote extensively on the killing of this innocent human being and who spoke at a rally directly across from the hospice where her death sentence would start be carried out six days later, it is saddening--so very saddening--to have reviewed the facts of Mrs. Schiavo's case in this retrospective that was written in 2010 and revised both ten years ago and in various again now. It is also very sad to have that Catholics have to be reminded of the simple moral truth that no one may undertake any action that has as its only direct end the death of an innocent human being.

The removal of the provision of food and water from a living human being can result in only one possible end, the death of that person, something that can never be willed for one who is innocent.

Why is it so difficult to recognize that the two of the Corporal Works of Mercy are to "feed the hungry" and to "give drink to the thirsty"?

Dr. Paul Byrne's Medical Decisions' Protection Document can be found in Appendix B of this retrospetctive. It will help to protect patients from the modern Aztecs, ghouls, and "quality of life" vampires in circumstancs such as Terri Schiavo's and, of course, other circumstances such as being declared "brain death" or deemed "ready" to dispatached from life "compassionately" in hospice care. Please review, print out and execute the document and its addenedum in Appendix C if you do not have a copy already.
 

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Eternal rest grant unto the soul of Mrs. Theresa Marie Schindler-Schiavo, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her. May her soul and all of the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

Finally, I am still working on the study that is being written with great care and requires some amount of transcription to buttress various points made by Dom Prosper Gueranger in his defense of The Mystical City of God in twenty-eight articles published in the French journal, L'Univers, between May 23, 1858, and November 7, 1859. Dom Prosper Gueranger based his defense on a personal review of the five hundred ten page Vatican file on the Cause for the Beatification of the Venerable Mary of Jesus of Agreda. The files were examined again by Father Peter Mary Rookey, OSM, in the archives of the Congregation of the Rites in 1957, confirming Dom Prosper Gueranger's findings of a century before. How anyone can dobut Dom Prosper Gueranger's careful scholarship and his eloquent defense of The Mystical City of God and then discount the confirmation a century later of the Abbot of Solesmes's findings is unfathomable, but there are those who continue to do so.

This is all relevant now as Mr. Timothy A. Duff, who spent twenty years periodically working on a correct English translation of The Mystical City of God (see New English Edition of The Mystical City of God), ran the original articles, published in the French language, of course, through a Deepl.com translation, which was then reviewed by a French-speaking seminarian in Canada. 

The purpose of my own study is to comment on selected passages found in Dom Prosper Gueranger's articles and to once again to refute the claim that The Mystical City of God has been condemned by the authority of the Catholic Church. This is not so. Jansenists in at the Sorbonne in 1696 did this, and they did this principally to avoid offending Protestants and because they, themselves, Jansenists, disfavored Marian devotion in general and the elucidation of the Mother of God's sublime privileges in The Mystical City of God.

Thus, I must take time with the work I am doing. In the meantine, though, I will be republishing a few articles that I believe to be of contemporary interest on each of the next seveal days. 

Oh, remember also that I still have a current  Go Fund Me Appeal for a Used Car was posted seventeen days ago.

Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Today, March 30, 2025, is Laetare Sunday. A year ago today was Holy Saturday, and a year from now will Monday in Holy Week. Such are the vagaries of the Paschal cycle upon which Holy Mother Church's calendar is based.

As I will need another few days to complete the reflection upon which I am working currently, I am going this short reflection on the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Laetare Sunday. The current project requires me to put other matters, such as those in the news in our world of endless agitation caused by the lies of Judeo-Masonic naturalism and designed to distract us from the interior lives of souls, especially during this holy season of penance and withdrawal from the world, aside for now. 

A blessed Laetare Sunday to you all!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

The great saint whose feast we celebrate today, Thursday, March 27, 2025, 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-third birthday and the seventeenth 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.

This is a brief follow-up to a commentary published three days ago.

I am still working on the reflection that I will have vetted before publication. 

There will be a republished reflection about Saint John Damascene posted tomorrow, Thursday, March 27, 2025. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Although I am working on two other commentaries now, including the one that will be sent out for vetting prior to its publication, the news that President Donald John Trump has nominated the pro-Wuhan Virus vaccine, pro-Big Pharma Acting Director of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (C.D.C.), Dr. Susan Monarez, to be the agency’s permanent director following his, Trump’s, withdrawal of the nomination of Dr. David Weldon serve as the C.D.C.’s director (see Sober Up in 2025) required me to prepare this brief commentary, which could just as easily been entitled, “Plus Ca Change, Plus C'est la Même Chose.

Remember, there is still an active Go Fund Me Appeal for A Used Car to which I hope that more readers will consider making a donation, either through the appeal or via PayPal.

A blessed Feast of the Annunciation to you all!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.

Today's republished reflection is about the feast we today, Tuesday, March 25, 2025, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 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.

A very brief new commentary will be published in a very few moments.

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

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

The hour is late. I am tired.

This commentary discusses the results of a recent Pew Research Religious Landscape Survey that shows there is widespread acceptance of grave moral evils by self-identifying Catholics.

How did this happen?

Well, apostasy continues to have consequences, something that this commentary explains at length.

The next commentary on this site, other than my republished reflection for the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, may not appear until Thursday, March 27, 2025, the Feast of Saint John Damascene and the Commemoration of Saints Cosmas and Damian on the Thursday in the Third Week of Lent. 

A reminder:  Go Fund Me Appeal for Used Car was posted eight days ago. Three people have given via the appeal and six others have given through PayPal (and one via the snail mail). There is still a considerable amount to be raised. Thank you for your consideration of the appeal.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

I have said this before and I will keep on saying it: no matter how many bombs the Israeli Defense Forces drop on Gaza, no matter how many residential homes they destroy, no matter how many innocent civilians are killed, there will never be peace in the Holy Land or anywhere else in the world until and unless all men are converted to the true Faith and then exclaim una voce dicentes:

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dóminus, Deus Sábaoth. Pleni sunt cæli et terra glória tua. Hosánna in excélsis. Benedíctus, qui venit in nómine Dómini. Hosánna in excélsis.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Benedict of Nursia, pray for us.