February 8, 2010

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February 8 Article

Refusing to Reform

The multitudes have to wait no more! The eighty to one hundred people who have been, at least as of late, actually accessing individual articles have another article to read. This one deals with the continued defiance of the conciliar 'bishops" in the wake of the scandals that have cost so many their beliefs in the Holy Faith and have cost those who are as of yet attached to the conciliar structures over two billion dollars of their hard-earned contributions. It is clear these men, who defect from articles contained in the Deposit of Faith, have no intention of reforming even their administrative procedures as they seek to minimize offenses against the moral law and to intimidate whistle-blowers with the full weight of their "ecclesiastical" muscle. Sound familiar? Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Saint John Matha, pray for us.

As this current article deals with the unpleasantness of the scandals caused by the conciliar "bishops'" indifference to serious moral crimes, including a link to two articles dealing with such crimes, please take caution not to share this article with the young or with those who would prefer, most understandably and commendably, to refrain from reading such material.

There should be another article by tomorrow morning, February 9, 2010.

Finally, there is news about Michael Oswalt, the courageous young man who broke with the conciliar structures last year when he came to recognize that he was not, after all, a validly ordained priest of the Catholic Church. Mr. Oswalt has made his way to Mount Saint Michael's Church in Spokane, Washington, where he will study under Father Casimir Puskorius, CMRI, for his conditional ordination to the priesthood. Mr. Oswalt changed his plans during the summer, choosing to pursue his vocation to the priesthood with the Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen. The failing health of his mother kept him from going to Spokane until last month. Those of you unfamiliar with the details of his remarkable story can read about it in Embracing The Faith No Matter the Consequences. Please pray for him as he undertakes his additional studies for a true priestly ordination.

February 7 Article

Still Nothing New Under the Conciliar Sun

Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI has urged the Scottish conciliar "bishops" to be totally faithful to the magisterium of the Catholic Church. This is quite interesting coming from a man, Ratzinger/Benedict, who defects from the Faith on various points, having had to invent a condemned line of illogic (the hermeneutic of continuity and discontinuity) to justify those defections. How can a man who defects from the Faith in numerous ways, starting with the very nature of dogmatic truth itself, urge others to be faithful to that from which he himself dissents? No, there still nothing new under the conciliar sun. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Saint Romuald, pray for us. (See also the excellent information at  Sedevacante: Q & A CONCERNING SEDEVACANTISM, a website that is run by Brother Pio-Francis, T.O.S.F.)

Revised: Still Nothing Super About the Super Bowl

Although there will be a pro-life advertisement at some point during tonight's telecast of Super Bowl XLIV featuring 2009 Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow (whose parents were "Christian missionaries" in The Philippines, meaning that they were working to take Catholics out of the true Church as The Philippines were evangelized about four hundred forty-five years ago now by Catholic missionaries from Spain), the first home-schooled student to win the award, of the University of Florida, there is still nothing super about the "super bowl." I know. Call me a killjoy. Call me whatever you want. Popularity and numbers are not what defines this poorly viewed site (relative to the millions upon millions of people in cyberspace).

No matter the Tim Tebow advertisement, which will be examined in an upcoming article on this site after it has been aired and uploaded for viewing on YouTube (no, I will not be watching "the game"), tonight's telecast will feature a display of immodesty and indecency that no believing Catholic should want to expose himself to on a voluntary basis. Seems to me to be a good night to say a few more Rosaries and to go to be early.

It is my hope to have another original article posted on this site by tomorrow at some point. There were many temporal difficulties last week that kept the number of original articles down to five in number (in addition to the video recorded on Friday that has been uploaded to the Christ or Chaos Store). I will try to do better this week in the hope that the bout of illness that has laid me pretty low in the last few days will, in God's Holy Providence and by means of Our Lady's prayers, subside to increase my productivity.

There are several prayer intentions that I have been made known to me in the last few days. One of these concerns Mr. Matthew D. Hardin, who converted to the Faith on August 6, 2008, the Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and who will turn twenty years of age this year. Mr. Hardin, who was good enough to move our stored belongings from Ohio to Connecticut three weeks ago now, has been diagnosed with non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver, a condition with which he may have to live for the rest of his life. Please pray for Mr. Hardin, upon whom Our Lady has bestowed many remarkable graces to remain steadfast in the Faith despite all of the problems of the past few months, and his family at this time.

Finally, it is to keep a permanent record of those problems, which involve, of course, the abuse of clerical authority, accessible now and in the future that Father Markus Ramolla has, upon the pleadings made by some of the faithful who have found in the Confraternity of Saint Albert the Great a refuge from that abuse of clerical authority at Saint Gertrude the Great Church, decided to keep the SGG Info website open, serving principally as a reference resource while concentrating on the apostolate that was begun following the injustices visited upon him three months ago now.

I am glad that this is the case as the information, particularly that found in Part 6 of the editors' response to "School Dazed," provides important documentation of a pattern of abuse of clerical authority and misrepresentations and conflated stories that had gone on for far too long.

It will, of course, continue to be my own policy to refrain from responding to any and all attacks made upon me, entrusting all to Our Lord through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, knowing that the more we are humiliated and rejected and castigated and scorned in this life is the more that we can die to self and be more perfectly united with the Cross of Our Divine Redeemer. Everything else gets revealed on the Last Day at the General Judgment of the Living and the Dead!

The enemies of the Faith in the conciliar church and in the world-at-large are working overtime these days. We must concentrate on opposing them as we pray for their conversion, conscious, as always, of our own need to make reparation for our own many sins, especially by praying as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit.

A blessed Sexagesima Sunday to you all.

February 5 Article and Late Night Update

Religious "Liberty" Even For The Adversary

Some people have expressed "shock" that officials of the United States Air Force Academy have provided "worship" space for practitioners of rank paganism. This is nothing new, however. Witchcraft has been recognized as a "religion" by the United States Department of Defense since 1975. There are five pages devoted to its beliefs and practices in a military chaplains' handbook printed by the United States Army with our taxpayer dollars. Such must be the case in a nation that is founded on false, naturalistic, anti-Incarnational, religiously indifferentist, and semi-Pelagian principles. Such must be the case especially when the conciliar "pontiffs" have visit various temples of the devil, esteemed the symbols dedicated to him, and reaffirmed adherents of false religions in their false beliefs. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Saint Agatha, pray for us.

Late night update: Well, there was a link to a free video presentation in this space yesterday. As happened in God's Holy Providence, however, the first effort to upload the video resulted in all of six of fifty-four minutes being uploaded. The second effort resulted in forty-nine of fifty-four minutes being uploaded. As this has eaten into my time considerably, I am uploading the new video, "We Must Stand for Christ the King," to the Christ or Chaos Store site, where you may purchase it for one dollar.

While I'd like to have been doing other things with my time than dealing with the upload, everything we do and suffer, if it is offered up to God with a pure intention through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, redounds to the greater honor and glory of God and our sanctification and salvation. Even time lost dealing with computer problems that delays various projects is meant to glorify God and to sanctify our souls. All to thee,  Blessed Mother. All to thy Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, we love you. Save souls!

This presentation, which runs a remarkably short fifty-four minutes (yes, my tongue is indeed in my cheek), is simply a reminder that the petty tyrants of Modernity are but the logical consequence of the overthrow of the Social Reign of Christ the King wrought by the Protestant Revolt and institutionalized by the inter-related, naturalistic forces of Judeo-Masonry. There is nothing new in this presentation. It is simply a new presentation of my apologia in behalf of the restoration of the Social Reign of Christ the King. Viva Cristo Rey!

As a result of this delay, however, look for the next written article on Sexagesima Sunday.

February 4 Article

As We Get Back to Basics

Although the video presentation that was recorded on January 21, 2010, and posted a week ago today when this site was, well, at least for a few moments, accessible on a subscription basis only (and is now available at Christ or Chaos Store), was meant to be my last statement on the events of the last three months that have divided some Catholics very bitterly, this postscript is being published now that Part 6 of the refutation of Father Anthony Cekada's "School Dazed" has been posted on the SGG Info website.

As Father Ramolla noted on the home page of the SGG Info website, we need to get about the business of sanctifying and saving our immortal souls, mindful of our obligation to pray for those from whom the circumstances of the moment have estranged us, conscious always of our need to make reparation for our own many sins by offering up everything we do and everything that we are called in God's Providence to suffer with joy and gratitude in reparation for our sins and those of the whole world, entrusting all to God Himself through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Saint Andrew Corsini, pray for us.

My next video presentation will be posted by tomorrow morning. It has been delayed by the lack of suitable venue for its recording. However, I hope to be able to record the video this evening and post it by tomorrow morning.

February 3 Article

Sanctioning Apostasy With Sanctimony

The leader of the "Traditional Anglican Communion," "Bishop" David Hepworth, has submitted a petition to the officials of the counterfeit church of conciliarism to respond to Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI's Anglicanorum Coetibus. "Bishop" Hepworth's explanation of his petition, which has taken the form of a "pastoral letter" to the members of his false sect, contains some very interesting revelations, including the fact that officials in the conciliar Vatican urged him in 1992 to seek true holy orders from the heretical and schismatic Polish National Catholic Church in order to "preserve" Anglican "tradition." Got that? Read the article for the rest. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Saint Blase, pray for us.

I ask you to remember in your prayers today the repose of the immortal soul of Sharon's late father, Mr. John Griffith Collins III, who died three years ago this morning at Westchester County Medical Center in Valhalla, New York. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul and all of the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

Finally, there are many former friends of mine who would rather die than to have their names mentioned even favorably on this site, something that I respect very much. It is with this in mind that I pass along fifty-ninth birthday greetings to a traditionally-minded former colleague in the conciliar structures with whom I collaborated for about five years. This individual, who has suffered much in the conciliar structures for his criticism of the Novus Ordo, is remembered in our prayers daily.

February 2 Articles

Republished: The Sword of Sorrow

Today is the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, always the humble handmaid of the Lord who humbled herself this day by submitting to the rituals of the law although she was not in need of such a ritualistic purification because of her Perpetual Virginity. This is the day that Our Lady presented her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, in the same Temple where He would be found twelve years later answering questions of the rabbis, the same Temple whose curtain would be torn in two from top to bottom as He breathed His last on the wood of the Holy Cross to redeem us, thereby signifying the permanent end of the Old Covenant and the supersession of Judaism by Catholicism as the true religion.

The aged Simeon, who waited patiently every day in the Temple for the fulfillment of the promise that God had made to him, that he would not die before his eyes had seen and his arms had beheld the Messiah, sent the first Sword of Sorrow plunging through Our Lady's Sorrowful and and Immaculate Heart when he prophesied that the Child he beheld would be destined for the rise and for the fall of man, a sign to be opposed, a Sign of Contradiction.

We must never fear to be signs of contradiction in our own lives in imitation of the THE Sign of Contradiction, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, as He hung on the wood of the Holy Cross to redeem us as he was mocked and reviled by the very people from whose stock He had taken His Sacred Humanity. We must be willing to suffer all manner of calumny and humiliation for the many times that we have preferred human respect to fidelity to Our Lord, for the many times we have refused to call upon Our Lady's maternal intercession, for the many times we have refused to "take sides," especially in our day by refusing to reject conciliarism and its ravenous wolves once and for all. Our Lady, Help of Christians, pray for us! Saint Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church and Protector of the Faithful, pray for us.

Stage Left From The Very Beginning

Why should we be surprised that some of the officials who worked in the United States Conference of "Catholic Bishops" are associated with organizations that support baby-killing and perversity. Many of the American bishops of yore were part of "stage left" from the very beginning. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

I am seeking a venue to record my next video, the one that is a commentary on Obama's State of the Union message last week. I do want to make it clear that no matter where my videos are recorded, the comments made are mine and mine alone. They do not reflect or indicate support from anyone associated with any of the venues where the videos are recorded. The next video will be about forty-five minutes in length. The last one was sixty-one minutes in length.

January 31 Article

Doing What Is Forbidden by Conciliarism

Although the hour is a late one, I do want to post this brief reflection that contrasts Saint John Bosco's zeal to seek the conversion of souls to the true Faith--and to bring back the lost sheep into the fold--with conciliarism's refusal to seek such with urgency the unconditional conversion of non-Catholics to the true Church, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there can be no true social order. Our Lady, Help of Christians, pray for us. Saint John Bosco, pray for us.

January 30 Article

Lost In Space

Although I intend to prepare a video response to Barack Hussein Obama's absurd "State of the Union" address that was delivered on Wednesday, January 27, 2010, this brief article is simply a reminder to the readers of this site that we must keep focused at all times on root causes. Caesar Obamus is but a symptom of the problems we face that stem from the consequences of the overthrow of the Social Reign of Christ the King wrought by the Protestant Revolt and the rise of the forces of naturalism represented by Judeo-Masonry. Never lose sight of that fact. Never lose sight of the fact that God is more powerful that Barack Hussein Obama, that the weapon of Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary has vanquished or converted enemies of Christ the King such as Obama in the past. Pray your Rosary. Make no concessions to naturalism in the world or to conciliarism's "reconciliation" with the "new principles inaugurated in 1789." Remember that Catholicism is the one and only foundation of personal and social order. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Saint Martina, pray for us.

Prayers have been requested for three people who have died recently, two of whom died just yesterday on the Feast of Saint Francis de Sales (who taught us that those who pray for the Poor Souls discharge all of their Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy, something that I am counting on very much as devotion to the Poor Souls is very near and dear to my heart).

Please pray for the repose of the souls of Sister Mary Francisca, CMRI, who died suddenly yesterday in Florida of an apparent heart attack, and of Mr. Danny Delawder, the brother of Mrs. Debbie Wilker (a member of the Confraternity of Saint Albert the Great in West Chester, Ohio), who also died of a heart attack yesterday morning. We express our condolences to the religious and personal family of Sister Mary Francisca and to the family of Mr. Delawder.

I also ask your prayers for the repose of the soul of Mrs. Ann Spearman, the longtime secretary to His Excellency Bishop Mark A. Pivarunas, who died earlier this month in Omaha, Nebraska. We learned only a few days ago of Mrs. Spearman's death. We knew her well and always enjoyed visiting with her. One of her daughters is Sister Mary Alphonsus. We offer our condolences to Mrs. Spearman's family and to Bishop Pivarunas and the parishioners of Mary Immaculate Catholic Church and students of Mater Dei Academy and the seminarians of Mater Dei Seminary.

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and all of the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

Even though we are driving about two hundred miles round trip today to visit Sharon's mother in a rehabilitation center near Kingston, New York, I should have another (and free!) article for the great multitudes in cyberspace by tomorrow morning. Please continue to pray from Mrs. Claire Collins as she begins her three weeks of rehabilitation therapy to help her recover from the broken leg she suffered in an automobile accident on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. Thank you.

January 29 Update

Welcome back to Christ or Chaos as a free website!

I am very much indebted to the gentleman who worked for four months to revamp this site. Unfortunately, however, the amount of time necessary to format articles by paying attention to various internal codes ate into my ability to write and publish. Although I do need to generate income to support my family, some readers have noted to me that we should continue to trust in Our Lady to sustain us as we have in the past, that my articles should be made available to the general public. Thus it is that we have returned the site to the way it was on Tuesday, January 26, 2010, updating it with the addition of the two articles written since that time.

Those of you who have subscribed to the site will be offered a full refund of your subscription monies. I will try to find some way to make it possible for those who have subscribed to have free access to the video presentations that will be uploaded to the Christ or Chaos Store store site. The video, which dealt with some of the events of the past two and one-half months, that was uploaded yesterday to this site is now available for purchase on the store site for those who did not subscribe. I will continue to offer videos for sale via the Store site. It is still my intention to do one or two videos per week.

Well, welcome back. There will be a new article by tomorrow morning now that I can resume writing in the program that permits this software dunce to write and publish without worrying about internal codes.

We must still rely on the non-tax-deductible donations of those who support the work of this site and have the means to do so. All to thee, Blessed Mother. All to thy Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, we love you. Save souls!

January 28 Article

Still In Defiance of the Truth

This article is about Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI's continued attacks on the integrity of the Holy Faith by means of promoting the lies of false ecumenism that began to be promoted in a Protestant conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1910 (I don't think that he'll be praising the one hundredth anniversary of Pope Saint Pius X's Notre Charge Apostolique on August 15, 1910, or the centenary of the promulgation of The Oath Against Modernism on September 1, 1910). Ratzinger/Benedict continues to insist that there are "core beliefs" that can unite Catholics and non-Catholic Christians to combat secularism. "Core beliefs"? The false "pontiff" is directly in defiance of the perennial teaching of the Catholic Church.

January 27 Article

Only Those Nasty Traditionalists

This new article is yet another reminder that Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI believes in a "new ecclesiology" that has been condemned by the authority of the Catholic Church and that reaffirms adherents of false religions in their false beliefs unto the moment of their deaths. We can provide no manner of approval to this apostasy. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Saint John Chrysostom, pray for us.

January 26 Article and Late Evening Update

Red Carpet For A Modernist

Yes, another free article. Guess who's coming back to the United States of America in thirty-six days as the red carpet is rolled out for him? None other than William "Cardinal" Levada, the prefect of the conciliar Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a man whose Modernist view of dogmatic truth mirrors exactly that of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Saint Polycarp, pray for us.

There should be another article tomorrow, the Feast of Saint John Chrysostom.

Late evening update: The revamped website will be launched tomorrow morning, Wednesday, January 27, 2009, at 1:00 a.m., Eastern time. Although I have a lot of things to learn to master the new site, the gentleman who has spent four months on the project of revamping it will upload articles for me until I am able to overcome my technological denseness, which I hope won't take too long. There will be a new article ready for publication by tomorrow at some point. I will also be uploading a video presentation once I am "up and running" with the revamped site.

Please bear with me as the changeover is made.

January 25 Article

Not Pro-Abortion?

Another day, another free article. I need a few more days of tutorials to make sure that there are no glitches once this site becomes subscription-based. Keep checking.

Oh, this article? A rejoinder to those Catholics who contend that Barack Hussein Obama is not pro-abortion.

Check back tomorrow for yet another article. Saint Paul the Apostle, pray for us.

Please check the SGG Info website for parts three and four of the editors' refutation of "School Dazed."

Late January 24 Update

Although I am in need of a tutorial as to the ins and outs of the the revamped website, the hard-working reader of this site who has spent four months revamping it informs me that the switch over to the new format will occur around Midnight, Eastern time, tomorrow morning, that is to say in a few hours from now.

As readers of this site are aware, I have tried everything imaginable to keep access to this site free of charge in the nearly six years since it was launched. We have been the beneficiaries of many non-tax-deductible financial gifts over the years from readers with large means and virtually no means. Their generosity has sustained us in very difficult times.

There is, however, a need to stabilize our situation with regular, predictable income. It is this need that prompted me in September to contact the individual who has now redesigned the site to start the process of turning this site into a subscription-based operation. The details will be provided on the revamped site. Suffice it to say for present purposes that monthly access to this site will cost $2.50. The process of registering will be, I am told, user friendly, although there could be some unforeseen glitches.

A new article has been prepared for posting tomorrow. I will also do more video presentations on the revamped site. It is my expectation that there will be two to three articles a week and two video presentations a week. As many of the articles on this site have been repetitive because the nature of the problems in the world and in the counterfeit church of conciliarism are repetitive, I look forward to providing a fresh approach by means of the video presentations.

It is my hope that longtime readers of this site will understand that the switch over to a subscription-based site was made as a last resort. Please know of our prayers. Sincerely yours in Christ the King and Mary our Immaculate Queen, Thomas A. Droleskey.

January 22 Articles

Thirty-Seven Years of Indifference

Many speeches will be given today as several hundred thousands of Americans gather on the Capitol Mall and Seventh Street in Washington, District of Columbia, at the rally that precedes the annual March for Life. Not one of these speakers will defend the Social Reign of Christ the King. Not one of these speakers will urge people to pray and to work for the conversion of all men and nations to the Catholic Faith, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there can be no true social order. The pro-abortion administration of Barack Hussein Obama and Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., will be rightly excoriated. Alas, each of the speakers addressing the hundreds of thousands of Americans gathered on the Capitol Mall will fail to address the principal, proximate reason why over thousand innocent babies will be killed today as they were killed yesterday and as they will be killed tomorrow: the overthrow of the Social Reign of Christ the King wrought by the Protestant Revolt and institutionalized by the forces of Judeo-Masonry with which the counterfeit church of conciliarism has made its "reconciliation." Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us. Saints Vincent and Anastasius, pray for us.

Although this article contains material from past reflections on this subject, there have been substantial new additions for today's posting. This article also contains a link to an important study about the connection between Catholic Relief Services and pro-abortion funding groups that was completed by Mrs. Randy Engel.

Getting Bolder In His Apostasy

Fresh from his apostasies at the Talmudic synagogue in Rome, Italy, on Sunday, January 17, 2010, Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI has renewed his zeal to false ecumenism with Protestants and the Orthodox, citing as the impetus for the modern "ecumenical" movement a meeting of Protestants that took place in Edinburgh, Scotland, from June 14 to June 23, 1910. Takes one to know one. This article contains a link to a Spiritual Resource: Prayers for the Church Unity Octave, that was provided to me by Father Francis Miller, O.F.M.

Finally, the second part of the SGG Info website refutation of Father Anthony Cekada's "School Dazed" article has been published. We have enjoyed our visits with Father Markus Ramolla here in Connecticut the past few days. Please pray for his safe return to Ohio today.

January 20 Article and Updates

We Still Wait For Christ the King

A lot of naturalists of the "right" are jumping up and down for joy after the unexpected election of Scott Brown to the United States Senate seat from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that was held by the late United States Senator Edward Moore Kennedy from November 7, 1962, to August 25, 2009. Why all the joy? Kennedy's former senate seat is still held by a man who supports baby-killing under cover of the civil law as a matter of principle. Why all the joy? Oh, ObamaCare is going to be stopped? Cap-and-trade is going to be stopped? Economic "stimulus" monies may be stopped? Citizen anger, especially among unaffiliated voters, might temper Caesar Obamus? Perhaps yes, perhaps no.

None of this really matters, however, if we keep defining political "moderation" in terms of which pro-abort candidate for public office is more acceptable than another pro-abort candidate for public office. Those who believe that the victory of any pro-abort is a victory for the cause of "limited" government and the "betterment" of the nation ought to consider these words of Silvio Cardinal Antoniano in the Sixteenth Century:

The more closely the temporal power of a nation aligns itself with the spiritual, and the more it fosters and promotes the latter, by so much the more it contributes to the conservation of the commonwealth. For it is the aim of the ecclesiastical authority by the use of spiritual means, to form good Christians in accordance with its own particular end and object; and in doing this it helps at the same time to form good citizens, and prepares them to meet their obligations as members of a civil society. This follows of necessity because in the City of God, the Holy Roman Catholic Church, a good citizen and an upright man are absolutely one and the same thing. How grave therefore is the error of those who separate things so closely united, and who think that they can produce good citizens by ways and methods other than those which make for the formation of good Christians. For, let human prudence say what it likes and reason as it pleases, it is impossible to produce true temporal peace and tranquillity by things repugnant or opposed to the peace and happiness of eternity. (Silvio Cardinal Antoniano, quoted by Pope Pius XI in Divini Illius Magistri, December 31, 1929.)

 

The policy failures of the statist George Walker Bush helped to make possible the election of the statist Barack Hussein Obama, whose own policy failures and statist overreach helped to make possible the election of Scott Brown. And babies continue will continue to be killed today by chemical and surgical means in the numbers that they were killed yesterday. Why all the joy? Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Saints Fabian and Sebastian, pray for us.

Updates: About one hundred readers of this site received a notice earlier today that was sent out by the gentleman who has done much hard work in the past four months in revamping this website, the first set of changes that have taken place since the site went online on February 20, 2004. The information provided to the readers, most of whom have been regular supporters of this site, will make it possible for them to access this site after the website changes are implemented this Monday, January 25, 2010. Others of you who desire to continue to access this site will have to register as subscribers once the changes go into effect. I will have more information on these changes in a few days. I did, however, want to explain the reason for the note that was sent out earlier today.

January 19 Article and Prayer Request

Pressing the Mute Button

Where is the outrage from Catholics over Ratzinger/Benedict's acts of apostasy in the Rome synagogue two days ago? Sadly, most Catholics have pressed the "mute" button on themselves, preferring silence rather than to rise in defense of the honor and majesty and glory of the Most Blessed Trinity and His Deposit of Faith. We must pray never to become accustomed to such apostasy ourselves. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Saint Marius and Companions, pray for us. Saint Canute, King of Denmark, pray for us.

Tomorrow's article will be a review of Caesar Obamus's first year in office as the currently governing naturalist of the "left," building on the statism of the naturalist of the "right" who had preceded him. Thursday's article will discuss the relationship between Catholic Relief Services and pro-abortion agencies. Friday's article will be another commentary on the consequences of the overthrow of the Social Reign of Christ the King wrought by the Protestant Revolt that include the daily slaughter of the preborn by chemical and surgical means.

Prayer Request: Please do pray today for His Excellency Bishop Robert F. McKenna, O.P., who is undergoing carpal tunnel surgery on his left wrist today. Bishop McKenna plans on offering Holy Mass on the Feast of Saint Agnes, Thursday, January 21, 2010, which is the thirty-seventh anniversary of the opening of Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel.

Father Markus Ramolla is here in Connecticut at this time to offer Holy Mass at Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel as Bishop McKenna is recovering from surgery. It was good to see Father Ramolla offer Holy Mass this morning.

There is, as per usual, additional useful information on the SGG Info website, including the first part of a formal response by the editors of that website to Father Anthony Cekada's "School Dazed" article.

January 18 Article

Saint Peter and Anti-Peter

Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI visited the Talmudic synagogue in Rome yesterday. Although there is much familiar material in this commentary, it is a new composition that reviews the false "pontiff's" address, which was filled with the usual conciliar apostasies. May God have mercy on us all. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us. Saint Prisca, pray for us.

There should be another new article tomorrow, January 19, 2010. There will be some changes to this website effective next Monday, January 25, 2010. I will inform you of these later this week. There should be an article about the relationship between Catholic Relief Services and pro-abortion organizations and one on the thirty-seventh anniversary of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States of America in the cases of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton.

January 15 Article

Expecting from "The Bishops" What is Not Forthcoming from "The Pope"

Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI will visit yet another synagogue in two days, once again violating the First and Second Commandments as he does so. Those Catholics attached to the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism who excoriate the "bad bishops" for refusing to defend the inviolability of innocent human life do not realize that their real problem is "the pope" who offends God and thus makes it all the more possible for violations of the Fifth Commandment to take place. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Saint Paul the Hermit, pray for us. Saint Maurus the Abbot, pray for us.

There are additional prayer intentions: one is for a a parishioner of Immaculate Conception Church in Norwood, Ohio, Mr. Tom Vuksta, who has been hospitalized recently. Another is for the repose of the soul of a parishioner of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Spokane, Washington, Mrs. Marge Prestini, who died at the age of eighty-nine on Monday, January 11, 2010. Eternal rest grant unto her, 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. (I thank the readers who have informed me of these prayer intentions.)

The next article on this site may not appear until Sunday, January 17, 2010. We are still in the midst of some travels. There was an article posted late yesterday afternoon. See below.

Father Markus Ramolla has informed me of photographs of the first Catechism Class for the Confraternity of Saint Albert the Great. The work for souls continues!

Finally, Sharon's mother had surgery on her broken leg yesterday. She will have to undergo extensive physical therapy. Please continue to pray for her at this time. Thank you.

January 14 Article

Secularity Is Always Negative

As promised late last evening, here is another new article, although one that deals with familiar themes of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI's betrayal of the Social Reign of Christ the King in favor of the oxymoronic "healthy" or "positive" secularity of the modern civil state, which is founded in one false, naturalistic, anti-Incarnational principle after another. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

There should be a new article posted by tomorrow morning. I will have more prayer updates at that time. For the moment, however, I have been asked to pass on a request for prayers for an infant named Isaiah May, who is to be executed on January 20, 2010, as so-called physicians remove his ventilator. There will be more on this breaking story in the next few days. And we wonder why there are so many natural cataclysms when we live in the midst of such moral cataclysms?

Late January 13 Update

Although I had hoped to have another new article ready for publication by tomorrow morning, the toll of a long three days on the road demands that that article wait until tomorrow afternoon or Friday morning. In the meantime, however, please do read another excellent article by Mr. Timothy Duff, An Anonymous Letter, on the SGG Info website.

News reached me just a short while ago this evening that Mrs. Ada Federspiel, the matriarch of a prominent family of traditional Catholics in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area, died today. Mrs. Federspiel, who was over ninety years of age, had, if my memory serves me correctly, fifteen children. She and her late husband made many sacrifices in the late-1960s and early-1970s to find priests in the underground who were offering the Immemorial Mass of Tradition. One of Mrs. Federspiel's beautiful and moving poems recounted the story of how her family drove over 300 miles one Christmas to go to a true offering of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

We had the privilege of meeting Mrs. Federspiel on a number of occasions between 2006 and 2008. She was a valiant defender of the Catholic Faith, a dignified Catholic lady who used every moment that God gave her to try to bring souls into the true Church, including trying convince an elderly priest at the assisted living facility where she lived that the Novus Ordo was invalid and offensive to God. Mrs. Federspiel was a longtime and very devout parishioner of Immaculate Conception Church in Norwood, Ohio. We offer our deepest and most heartfelt condolences to her family, assuring them of our prayers for them and for the repose of their mother and grandmother's and great-grandmother's immortal soul. Eternal rest grant unto her, 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.

Also, please remember in your prayers the immortal soul of another parishioner of Immaculate Conception Church, Mr. Ray Ventura, who has died. Mr. Ventura, I am informed, was a member of Saint Matthew's Church in Norwood, Ohio, which was, much to the chagrin of the now-retired conciliar "archbishop" of Cincinnati, Daniel Pilarczyk, sold to the Society of Saint Pius V, whereupon it become Immaculate Conception Church. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul and all of the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

We have our own special intention to ask you to remember: Sharon's mother, Mrs. Claire Collins, who will turn eighty-two years of age next month, was badly injured in an automobile accident in the Catskills in upstate New York yesterday, Tuesday, January 12, 2010. Mrs. Collins's right leg was broken in half and separated, as I understand it, almost entirely from the knee. Please pray for her full recovery (and, more importantly, for her return to the Faith).

Finally, we need to pray for the dead and the injured in the catastrophic earthquake that hit Haiti yesterday. This is not the time for a commentary on the evils that many Haitians practice that arouse demons galore. There will be time in the future for such a commentary. For the moment, however, we need to pray to Our Lady for the souls of the dead and for the well-being of the survivors and those who are making efforts to assist them.

This disaster is, of course, a reminder to each of us that death is very near. We must be prepared at all times for death, especially by making our Act of Contrition in the morning upon arising and at night before going to sleep, making it a practice to recite this prayer whenever we sense some kind of mortal danger (reckless drivers on the roadway, the threat of an impending heart attack or strokes, at the report of an oncoming storm carrying life-threatening conditions). We do not know when the Master is going to come for us. He comes very frequently as a thief in the night. We must be prepared at all times.

Check back tomorrow afternoon for the next article.

January 12 Article

No Honor Among Naturalists And Other Thieves

Time is at a premium right now. This article is yet another reminder that those who do not seek to pursue the common temporal good in light of man's Last End and in accord with the binding precepts of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law as these have been entrusted to the infallible authority of the Catholic Church will give us nothing other than--guess what--naturalism! Golly gee willickers, Mister Peabody, who would have ever thought of that? Oh, where was I? Yes, yes, I remember. Not only will naturalists give us nothing other than naturalism, they will wind up attacking each other as they plot how to acquire more power and prestige. The way out of this? The Holy Rosary and Our Lady's Fatima Message. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

The next article on this site will not appear until Thursday, January 14, 2010, at the earliest. The vast multitudes in cyberspace may have to wait until Friday, January 15, 2010. Keep checking. And I must once again beg the indulgence of correspondents as I am unable to respond to e-mails until late this week. Thank you.

January 11 Article

With Perfection Staring Directly At Them

With the perfection of the Immemorial Mass of Tradition as it stood through the century in all of its pristine beauty and glory before Fathers Annibale Bugnini and Ferdinando Antontelli got their hands on the liturgy in the 1950s staring at them right in the face, today's conciliar revolutionaries still cannot admit that there is no need to "reform" a "liturgical renewal" that was in and of itself a revolution against the Catholic Faith, that the Novus Ordo worship service that is so offensive to God must be abandoned once and for all.

No, today's conciliar revolutionaries, including Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI and his master of ceremonies, "Monsignor" Guido Marini, insist that there has been "continuity" between Catholic Tradition and the Novus Ordo, a "continuity" that can be "recovered" by means of a "reform of the reform." There's only one slight, small, teeny-weeny problem with this positivistic assertion: the men who planned and implemented the Protestant and Masonic Novus Ordo worship service meant full well to make a break with Catholic Tradition. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

There should be a new article tomorrow, Tuesday, January 12, 2010, at which point there might be a gap of two days or so until the next original article appears. Also, be advised that it may be impossible for me to respond to e-mails in the next few days. I ask for your patience. Thank you.

January 10 Articles

Revised: From Nazareth We Come, In Nazareth We Must Live

Today, the Sunday within the Octave of the Epiphany, is the Feast of the Holy Family of Nazareth.

Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ chose to become Man in His Most Blessed Mother's Virginal and Immaculate Womb by the power of the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, God the Holy Ghost, and place Himself, the Co-Equal and Co-Eternal Son of God the Father, under subjection to mere creatures His Most Blessed Mother, the fairest flower of our race, and to Good Saint Joseph, his foster-father. The subjection of the God-Man to the authority of His Most Blessed Mother and his foster-father, whom He had chosen from all eternity to provide Him with the earthly love and care and stewardship of a father seeking only to please God with his every thought, word an deed, teaches us that we, who came from families and who, in many instances, are raising families of our own, must be subject to all legitimate authority, duly constituted, in all things that do not pertain to sinful commands.

Children are supposed to learn this subjection in the household from their tenderest days, seeing in their fathers the image of Saint Joseph and in their mothers the image of Our Lady. Children are supposed to realize that God in the very Flesh obeyed His creatures in the Holy Family of Nazareth. So must they.

Parents must, for their part, foster an atmosphere within the family of selflessness, charity, forgiveness and joy, centering the family's life on daily assistance at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (if at all possible), regular time spent in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, the daily recitation of Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary, supplications to Our Lady's Most Chaste Spouse, Saint Joseph, home enthronement to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Total Consecration to Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the same Immaculate Heart of Mary, Scriptural reading and family reading time, especially about the lives of the saints, and a refusal to participate in the rot of popular culture. This requires sacrifice and the willingness to be misunderstood, calumniated and rejected even by one's own family members as we protect our children from those cultural currents that come from the devil and are designed to lead each of us to Hell for all eternity.

To eschew worldliness one must be ready to embrace the Holy Poverty of the Holy Family of Nazareth, detaching oneself from the material acquisitiveness of our consumer society, shaped by Judeo-Calvinist materialism, and to live in light of First Things and Last Things as we week to acquire the only thing that matters: Sanctifying Grace in this life and eternal life in the glory of the Beatific Vision of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost in Heaven.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, we love you, save souls!

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, pray for us now and in death's agony.

Knowing His Enemy Very Well

Our adversary, the devil, knows that his enemy is the Cross of Divine Redeemer, which is why he seeks to attack It at every turn. He has used various social revolutionaries to do this in recent centuries. He has used the conciliar revolutionaries to do this as well. Indeed, one of the supreme ironies of the attack on the Crucifix in a Catholic cemetery in Hanoi, the capital city of Communist Vietnam, is that many conciliar revolutionaries have removed crucifixes voluntarily from their own parishes and schools and colleges and universities. The errors of Russia keep spreading as some traditional venues maintain that there is no need to have prayers after Low Mass. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us!

There is another excellent editorial, "Defining Decency Down," on the SGG Info website that I recommend most heartily for your review.

A blessed Feast of the Holy Family of Nazareth to you all.

January 9 Article

Just A Matter of Forgiveness?

Taking the same tack that some have with respect to recent scandals that have, most unfortunately, demanded a bit of attention on this site in the past two months, conciliar revolutionaries plead for "forgiveness" for their own problem children, such as the former conciliar "archbishop" of Milwaukee, Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B., as these destroyers of souls are permitted to retain their "good standing" in the conciliar structures. Indeed, Rembert Weakland, whose endless warfare against the Catholic Faith was chronicled in Weak In Mind, Weakest Yet In Faith, is being permitted to speak from the pulpit of the wreckovated Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this coming Tuesday, January 12, 2010. Just a matter of forgiveness? Decide for yourselves. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

There will be another new article published on this site tomorrow, the Feast of the Holy Family, in addition to a republished article about the feast itself.

January 8 Article

Refusing Any Semblance of Mercy (or Justice)

Still defending his decision to invite the pro-abort, Marxist-trained Barack Hussein Obama to deliver the commencement address on May 17, 2009, at the University of Notre Dame du Lac in Notre Dame, Indiana, "Father" John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., is refusing to show any mercy--no less justice!--to the "Notre Dame 88" who were arrested for carrying signs against baby-killing and/or praying the Rosary or carrying images of Our Lady as the nation's leading supporter of surgical and chemical baby-killing spoke to the adoring multitudes on the campus where I arrived to commence my graduate studies on January 11, 1973, and where I received my Master's degree on January 10, 1974. Our Lady does NOT honor honor pro-aborts, and "Father" Jenkins had better realize that the Mother of God, she who made possible the Incarnation of the Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity in her Virginal and Immaculate Womb by the power of God the Holy Ghost when she gave her Fiat to the will of God the Father at the Annunciation, will not honor those who honor pro-aborts, no less subject defenders of truth to persecution and injustice. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

January 7 Article

Signs of Apostasy Abound

The counterfeit church of conciliarism's accommodations to the prevailing, naturalistic, anti-Incarnational, religiously indifferentist and semi-Pelagian principles of Modernity have produced a bifurcation wherein it is not at all uncommon to find "conservative" conciliarists battling "liberal" conciliarists on matters of Faith and Morals. This is the case in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, California, as "conservative" watchdog groups expose the relationship between the so-called "Catholic Campaign for Human Development" and the funding of groups that support and/or provide for the killing of innocent preborn babies by chemical or surgical means.

Could you imagine Pope Saint Pius X remaining silent about such outrages? Ah, of course, he would have recognized apostasy. The head of the counterfeit church of conciliarism, Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, is diffident in the face of the funding of the killing of the preborn. Then again, he offends God by esteeming the symbols of false religions with his own priestly hands. It's pretty easy to be nonchalant about one of your "archbishops" permitting the funding of pro-abortion group when you offend God mortally by giving public respect and esteem to false religions in full violation of the First and Second Commandments. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Please do check the informative material on the SGG Info website. Excellent and to-the-point editorials are published on the home page frequently. And there is a particularly good letter written by a former seminarian a Most Holy Trinity Seminary that summarizes the situation at Saint Gertrude the Great Church very well. It is in the SHORTS section of Vox Populi.

January 6 Article

Manifesting Christ the King At All Times

Our Lord was made manifest on Christmas Day to the handful of Jewish people, including the shepherds in the field who were sent to adore Him by the angels who had announced the following:

And there were in the same country shepherds watching, and keeping the night watches over their flock. And behold an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the brightness of God shone round about them; and they feared with a great fear. And the angel said to them: Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, that shall be to all the people:

For, this day, is born to you a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord, in the city of David. And this shall be a sign unto you. You shall find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army, praising God, and saying: Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will. And it came to pass, after the angels departed from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another: Let us go over to Bethlehem, and let us see this word that is come to pass, which the Lord hath shewed to us.

And they came with haste; and they found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger. And seeing, they understood of the word that had been spoken to them concerning this child.And all that heard, wondered; and at those things that were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God, for all the things they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them. (Luke 2: 6-20.)

 

Today's feast, the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord, known colloquially in Ireland as "Little Christmas" and in many other places as Three Kings' Day, celebrates Our Lord's manifestation to the whole world through the Gentiles. Indeed, the Offertory for today's Mass explains that all kings shall adore Christ King and that all nations shall serve Him:

The kings of Tharsis and the islands shall offer presents: the kings of the Arabians and of Saba shall bring gifts: and all kings of the earth shall adore Him: all nations shall serve Him.

 

The United States of America is no exception to this. We must pray for the day when the leaders of this country, founded on the falsehoods of Protestantism and Judeo-Masonry that are so hateful to Our King, will adore Him as their King and the day when this nation will serve Him as it acknowledges His Social Kingship over it by submitting in all that pertains to the good of souls to the authority of the Catholic Church that He Himself founded upon the Rock of Peter, the Pope. We are suffering at the hands of statists today because the men of Modernity who believed that they had no obligation to offer public worship to Christ the King through His true Church set us on a course that can result only in the triumph of the civil state over the King of Kings Who was made manifest to Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar on this day. We must make Him manifest in our own lives at at all times, never fearing to suffer in behalf of the truths of the Holy Faith or to suffer in the cause of justice when souls are placed into jeopardy needlessly even by some of our own true shepherds.

A blessed Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord to you all! Another original article will appear tomorrow, January 7, 2010.

Finally, there is a new Letter to the Editors of the SGG INFO site from Mrs. Janet Gaye that is well worth reading.

January 5 Article

Almost Always At Odds With Themselves

Conciliarists are at odds with each other over many things, including what constitutes a "proper" interpretation of the texts of the "Second" Vatican Council and the "magisterium" of the conciliar "pontiffs." This time, however, "Bishop" Ratko Peric of Mostar-Duvno in Bosnia-Herzegovina has taken over Vienna's Christoph "Cardinal" Schonborn's "private" visit to Medjugorje over Christmas that constituted a de facto "official" endorsement of the false apparitions. "Bishop" Peric used logic and facts to eviscerate Schonborn's words and actions. Perhaps Schonborn will respond to "Bishop" Peric's use of logic and truth by claiming that the local conciliar "bishop" in Mostar-Duvno is full of "hatred" and/or that he is "possessed." Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

There should be an original article published tomorrow.

January 4 Update

Although it was my hope to have a new article posted by today, a phenomenon called fatigue got in the way. One will appear later this evening or early tomorrow morning.

There is a brief editorial, "All the Subtle Demonisms," on the SGG Info website that I urge readers of this site to read. The editorial is excellent.

Also, several readers from England have written to inform me that the Reverend Mr. Bernard G. J. Hall was mistaken in his belief that there are no Masses in England that are not offered "una cum Benedicto." One reader informed me of Masses that are offered by Father Thomas Le Gal once a month in his, the reader's home in Bradford, Yorkshire, England. Another reader has written to remind me of something that I had forgotten: two priests associated with the Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen, Fathers Eugene Rissling and Johannes Heyne, offer Mass once a month in the Downham Market section of London in the church that was served for many years by the late Father Oswald Baker. I thank the readers for bringing this to my attention.

Yet another reader has sent me two excerpts from Dom Prosper Gueranger's The Liturgical Year pertinent to today's feast, the Octave Day of the Holy Innocents:

From Pudentius, the Poet of the Mysteries and the Martyrs, from whom the Church has taken her beautiful stanzas for the Feast of the Holy Innocents, Salvete, Flores Martyrum, celebrates the immolation of these lovely Babes of Bethlehem. . . . It is to this Hymn that the Roman Liturgy has had recourse for several great Feasts, and we now extract from it the strophes which refer to our dear Innocents.

The anxious Tyrant hears that the King of kings is come, who is to rule over the Jews, and all on the throne of David.

Maddened by jealous fear he calls a messenger, and says to him: ‘Our rival is at hand – we are in danger: go, slave, arm thee with thy sword, and bathe every cradle with blood.

‘Let every male-child be slain, and every nurse be watched, and every Babe feel thy sharp-edged blade, even whilst he sucks his mother’s breast.

‘Not a Mother about Bethlehem but I suspect her; then watch them all, lest they hide their boys from thee.’

On this the executioner goes and in his wicked cruelty plunges his naked dagger into the tender flesh and the but freshly formed hearts of these little ones.

But where shall he strike? Where find space enough to hold a gaping wound in these4 infant-bodies not so big as the dagger in his hand?

Yet still these butchers murder every child. Here it is an infant dashed against a rock, covering its flinty sides, oh, cruel sight! with blood and brains and eyes.

There it is a lovely babe torn from his mother’s arms and thrown into a deep stream, whose gurgling waters weep whilst drowning sobs and life so sweet as these.

Hail, ye Flowers of the Martyrs! The enemy of Christ cut you down in the very threshold of life, as rose-buds are snapped by a storm.

First Victims for Jesus! Tender flock of his Martyrs! Ye, with sweet simplicity, play with palms and your crowns even at the very altar of your sacrifice!

And what does Herod gain by this dark crime? Does it give him what he sought? The single One he cared to kill is Jesus, and he still lives!

The stream of infant-blood has ceased to flow, and he alone is safe: the Virgin’s Child has escaped that sword which robbed all other Mothers of their babes.

So was it in that time of old, when Moses, the liberator of his people, and the type of Christ, escaped the senseless edicts of the wicked Pharaoh. [Taken from The Liturgical Year, Christmas Book 1, Vol. 2, By Abbot Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B.; Loreto Pubs, 2000, Fitzwilliam, NH; Octave of Holy Innocents, pp. 444-446.]

Prayer to the Holy Innocents in The Liturgical Year:

Sweet Flowers of the Martyrs! your Feast is over in our Church on earth, but your patronage will never leave us. During this new year of the holy Liturgy which God has given us, you will watch over us and pray for us to the Lamb, who loves you so tenderly. We entrust to you the fruits of grace which our souls have gathered from the Christmas Feasts. We have become little children together with our Lord; we have begun a new life with him; pray for us, that we may grow with him in wisdom and age before God and man.1 Secure us perseverance by your prayers; and to this end, keep up in our hearts that Christian simplicity which is the special virtue of Children of Christ. You are innocent; we are sinners; still, we are brethren; love us, then with brotherly love. You were garnered into heaven at the very dawn of the Law of Grace; our lives have fallen on the close of time, and the world has grown cold in charity; be near and help us; cheer and encourage us in our combat, by showing us your lovely palms of victory; pray to our Lord, that we may speedily obtain by repentance the heavenly crown which his infinite mercy allowed you to win, without the fatigues and risks of a battle.

Infant Martyrs! forget not the young generation, which has just entered on the scene of life. You were taken to eternal glory at the age of infancy; these little ones are like you in their innocence, love them, watch over them, pray for them. The grace of their Baptism is upon them in all it freshness, and their pure souls reflect as a mirror the holiness of the God that dwells in them by grace. Alas! these Babes are to go through great trials; many of them will forfeit the grace of God, and their Baptismal garment will lose its unspotted purity. The world will seek to corrupt their heart and mind, and the frightful influence of bad example is almost always successful. Christian mothers will have to weep over the ruin of their children’s souls, and what consolation is there for such a grief as theirs? There is a Christian Rama and a Christian Rachel ever wailing in the Church: do you, sweet Innocents of Bethlehem, comfort these mothers, by praying for their little ones. Pray that our times may grow less evil, and that parents may have less need to fear than they now have that the first step taken by their children in the world will be death to their souls. Amen. [Taken from The Liturgical Year, Christmas Book 1, Vol. 2, By Abbot Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B.; Loreto Pubs, 2000, Fitzwilliam, NH; Octave of Holy Innocents, p. 447-8.]

 

Holy Innocents, pray for us.

Finally, I ask for your prayers for the repose of the soul of the late Frank Sullivan, who died in Rhode Island on the Feast of the Circumcision at the age of ninety-two. Father Gabriel Lavery, CMRI, offered Mr. Sullivan's Requiem Mass earlier today. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul and all of the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

January 3 Article

Telling Omissions

Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI has issued his annual "world day of peace" message. The text, which has been available for the past two weeks now even though it is dated January 1, 2010, contains a few passages that make proper Catholic distinctions between what constitutes pantheism and what constitutes man's legitimate dominion over the created world. There are, in addition to the usual endorsement of international agencies and of the principle of subsidiarity (as was the case in Caritas in Veritate), some very telling omissions, including no references whatsoever to Our Lady, her Most Holy Rosary or her Fatima Message. Our Lord has given us the path to peace--and it does not run through environmentalism. It runs through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

A blessed Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus to you all!

A new article should be posted on this site at some point tomorrow, January 4, 2010.

January 2 Article

On A Mission of Their Very Own

It is evidently the case that a group of rampaging elephants in India have not gotten the message from Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI that "peace" consists of the "coexistence" of different religions. On a mission of their very own, a group of rampaging elephants last year attacked the homes of those who had been responsible for persecuting and killing Catholics in 2008. "O ye, beasts and cattle, bless the Lord." Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

There should be another article tomorrow on Holy Name Sunday, January 3, 2010.

January 1, 2010, Articles

Stalinists Always Claim to Want Peace

Father Anthony Cekada has written recently that none of the problems that he has sought for so long to minimize were worth going to "war" over, analogizing the warfare that has ensued in the last eight weeks as a result of his own diffidence in the face of serious complaints that were brought to him time and again by parents and other parishioners to a dispute within the Cistercians in the Seventeenth Century over the eating of meat. If there is nothing to go to "war" over, one is then forced to ask why Bishop Daniel L. Dolan and Father Anthony Cekada have suborned their friend Joseph Charles McKenzie's now disabled website and why the pulpit of Saint Gertrude the Great Church has been used as a forum of self-serving pity parties and the public castigation of Father Markus Ramolla, who sought only to protect the innocence and the purity of the young. One is also forced to ask why Bishop Dolan and Father Cekada are suborning efforts to deport their former friend and employee, the Reverend Mr. Bernard G. J. Hall, from the country where he has lived since 1982. Would Federal immigration authorities have been "tipped off" "anonymously" if Mr. Hall was still working at Saint Gertrude the Great School while he kept he mouth shut about the abuses that he had observed with his own eyes there?

Alas, the Reverend Mr. Bernard G. J. Hall, is being punished for establishing the SGG Info and St. Albert the Great websites. He explains his plight in a series of answers to questions that I posed to him on Monday, December 28, 2009, six days after he was fingerprinted and photographed by Federal authorities after visa problems that Father Cekada had been promising the Reverend Mr. Hall for years to fix became a pretext to start deportation proceedings against him. Mr. Hall's story is compelling. It contains a narrative that, so very sadly, is now familiar to those who have been following the tragedy created by Bishop Dolan and Father Cekada and their rank abuse of clerical authority. Stalinists always claim to want "peace" as they seek to silence and punish anyone who dares to criticize them.

The Reverend Mr. Hall's plight has also been assessed by Mr. Timothy A. Duff in his excellent article, The Betrayal of the Reverend Mr. Bernard Hall.

Although it had been my hope that further articles on the situation at Saint Gertrude the Great Church and School would not be necessary, I knew on the morning of Wednesday, December 23, 2009, when reading an e-mail from the Reverend Mr. Hall on my cellular phone that yet another article would have to be written. As readers will discover when reading Mr. Duff's article, the cruelty that has been visited upon Bernard G. J. Hall is truly unfathomable, coming just days before Christmas. Please join me in praying a Rosary for the Reverend Mr. Bernard G. J. Hall and his intentions at this time.

Republished: To Fulfill All Righteousness, To Proclaim the Name of All Names

We start the New Year of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the year 2010, with the Feast of His Circumcision, the first time that He shed His Most Precious Blood as His Holy Name, Jesus, was proclaimed publicly for the first time. One drop of His Most Precious Blood would have been enough to redeem us. It was His Co-Equal Father's Will for Him to undergo His fearful Passion and Death so as to show forth the depths of His love for us and the horror of our own sins.

Our Lady was present with her Most Chaste Spouse, Good Saint Joseph, when the Precious Blood of her Divine Son was shed for the first time on this day over two millennia now. She was present as He shed His Most Precious Blood during His Passion and Death. She, our spotless Blessed Mother, wants us to be ready to shed our blood in behalf of the Holy Faith and in defense of the Holy Name of Jesus, the only Name given to men by which they are to be saved. We will rely upon Our Lady's help to have the courage to be more zealous in defense of the Holy Faith that has been given to us as such a high cost?

Republished: Another New Year to Serve Our Lord through the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Well, here is the first new article of the new year. It is but a brief reflection on the gratitude that we must have to God for all that He has given us throughout our lives, including the now concluded year of 2009, and to beg Him to be grateful to Him for everything that He gives us--both the consolations and the crosses--as we offer unto Him in perfect equanimity all of our sorrows and joys through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

A blessed New Year and Feast of the Circumcision of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to you all!

An original article should appear tomorrow, January 2, 2010.

December 31, 2009, Articles

L'Osservatore Romano Di Infirmita Mentale

What more can be said? More insanity from L'Osservatore Romano. What more can be said? This 238th article of calendar year 2009 on this site deals once again with praise for merchants of cultural evil from the pages of L'Osservatore Romano. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Republished: A Pope Who Was Not Puddy Tat

Pope Saint Sylvester I did not abide heresy. He did not enable it in the slightest. He confronted it as he sought the conversion of all non-Catholics to the true Faith. His firm defense of the Holy Faith as Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's Vicar on earth must inspire us in our day to seek his intercession for the needs of the Church Militant on earth as she suffers in the catacombs as pretenders to the papal throne make their open accommodations to propositions that have been anathematized time and time again in the past by true popes and/or dogmatic councils. The Church arose from the catacombs during the pontificate of Pope Saint Sylvester I. May his intercession for us now help to bring about a like arising from the catacombs in our own day as the falsehoods of the counterfeit church of conciliarism are wiped away once and for all.

There might be another original article published on this site later today, and there should be another original article posted for tomorrow, the Feast of the Circumcision, along with a revised article.

It would be wise to end this year by spending time before Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's Real Presence in prayer as we pray our Rosaries in thanksgiving for the favors and graces received this year, in reparation for our sins and those of others this year, in petition for our spiritual and temporal needs and, of course, in adoration of the good God Who preserves our existence and Who wants us to show forth our love for Him by our fidelity to His teaching and our sorrow for our sins as members of His true Church.

A Holy New Year of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 2010 to you all!

December 29 Articles

Hawaii Sleep-O

Barack Hussein Obama emerged from three days of sunning and relaxation on the beaches of Oahu to make a statement about the incident aboard Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day that could have been made by his predecessor, former President George Walker Bush. Thus it must ever go in a country where naturalists of the "left" and of the "right" are paralyzed by the prevailing currents of political correctness while they enable domestic terrorism against the innocent preborn under cover of the civil law. Our Lad of the Rosary, pray for us.

There should be another original article at some point tomorrow, December 30, 2009.

Revised: A Martyr for the Church's Liberties

There was a time when there were real, honest-to-goodness Catholic Archbishops of Canterbury. Let's see here, that would be from the time of Saint Augustine of Canterbury in 597 A.D. to the time of Reginald Cardinal Pole in 1558, a period of nearly a millennium. The fortieth legitimate Archbishop of Canterbury is the saint whose feast we celebrate today, Saint Thomas a Becket, who was indeed a martyr for the Church's liberties.

Saint Thomas a Becket asserted the rights of Christ the King as the Archbishop of Canterbury, insisting that clerics accused of civil crimes be tried in ecclesiastical, not civil, courts. This led him to clash with his onetime friend, King Henry II of the House of Plantagenet. Prefiguring another English king named Henry (this one, number The Eighth, from the House of Tudor), Henry II could not abide his former friend's resistance to his, Henry's attempt to assert royal power over the Church, leading him to uttering the words that would inspire three of his barons to murder the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas a Becket, on this date in 1170, eight hundred thirty-eight years ago now. The latter Henry, the one called "The Eighth," had Saint Thomas a Beckets relics destroyed as his martyrdom was a reminder to one and all that the Church has Divine Rights superior to those of the civil state.

King Henry II had to do public penance for uttering the words that resulted in the martyrdom of Saint Thomas a Becket. His son, King John I, having been slow to learn the lessons of his public penance, was forced by his barons and noblemen in the year 1215 to sign the Magna Carta to guarantee the rights of the Church under civil law in England. This was a victory for the liberties of the Catholic Church that had been won by the blood of this great champion of the Social Reign of Christ the King, Saint Thomas a Becket, whose intercession we seek this day and every day for the restoration of the Social Reign of Christ the King in all nations, including the United States of America.

Indeed, the situation we face in the United States of America today is the direct result of the overthrow of the Social Reign of Christ the King wrought by the Protestant Revolt and the rise of Judeo-Masonry. Nations founded in the belief that men can pursue the common temporal good without subordinating themselves to the Deposit of Faith that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ entrusted exclusively to His Catholic Church for Its eternal safekeeping and infallible explication--and who believe that they can be "good" and "virtuous" on their own powers without belief in, access to or cooperation with Sanctifying Grace--are bound to degenerate over the course of time. Statism is the only end result of the process of decay that must occur when nations reject the simple truth that Catholicism is the one and only foundation of personal and social order. And it is the statists of the present moment, starting with Barack Hussein Obama, who sacrifice the legitimate national sovereignty and national security of their own nations in order to demonstrate their "solidarity" with "bettering" the world on a "global" basis.

Oh, here's my travel tip for you for today: don't take any advice on personal safety offered to you by Janet Napolitano. Just a little tip.

A continued blessed Christmas and a blessed feast of Saint Thomas a Becket to you all!

December 28 Articles and Latest Update from SGG Info

Revised: Wholly Innocent

Today, the Fourth Day within the Octave of Christmas, is the Feast the Holy Innocents, the children who were put to death at the orders of the jealous titular King of Judea who had been installed by the Roman occupiers to pacify resistance to their unjust occupation of the Holy Land. King Herod the Great, whose sons Herod and Philip were no less corrupt and violent than he was, wanted to kill the Baby King Whom he thought to be a threat to his own political suzerainty, such as it was as a puppet ruler under the Roman occupiers. It meant nothing to him to wipe out so many innocent children in his quest to kill the Baby King, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Who was born in Bethlehem to save, his, Herod the Great's, own immortal soul by the shedding of every single drop of His Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross.

There have been imitators of Herod the Great throughout history who have sought to put to death the followers of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in an insane effort to wipe the Faith off of the face of this earth. The names of these imitators are legion. Their likes are to be found in our own midst today as politicians of both major organized crime families of naturalism in the United States of America, the Democrat Party and the Republican Party, believe that a just social order can be established and maintained while innocent preborn human beings are slaughtered under cover of law and while the Sovereignty of Christ the King is denied in favor of the sovereignty of men and their false, naturalistic, semi-Pelagian and anti-Incarnational ideas.

That having been noted, however, it is important to point out that the Holy Innocents are honored as saints because they died in the place of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as a political potentate drunk with his own self-importance sought to kill the Newborn Baby King with a furious rage. The slaughter of the innocent preborn today, as horrible as it is and as deserving of our attention by means of legitimate Catholic Action undertaken under the direction of our true bishops and true priests, especially by means of praying Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary and by means of sidewalk counseling, is different in that the children being killed today are not being targeted specifically in the place of Our Lord. Unlike the speculative conclusions offered by the "International Theological Commission" of the counterfeit church of conciliarism in 2007, the Catholic Church has never held out "hope" that the souls of unbaptized infants go to Heaven, which is why the crime of the killing of the preborn is so monstrous as it kills the souls of those involved in the execution and denies the slaughtered babies the glory of the Beatific Vision. The Holy Innocents are saints because they were targeted quite specifically because of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and thus shed their blood on His account.

We need to invoke the intercession of the Holy Innocents today and every day to stop the shedding of the blood of the innocent under cover of law, praying to them especially that Catholics blinded by the allure of various naturalistic "strategies" to end the social evils of the day will be reminded of this truth stated by Pope Saint Pius X in Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910:

 

For there is no true civilization without a moral civilization, and no true moral civilization without the true religion: it is a proven truth, a historical fact.

 

Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ must reign as King of men and nations, my friends. Accept no naturalistic substitutes from the "Herods" of this world and their enablers in the counterfeit church of conciliarism who reject the Social Reign of the Newborn King, Our Divine Redeemer Whom Herod the Great sought to kill.

L'Osservatore Di Tutte Le Cose Grezze

It's been quite a year for the observer of all crude things (otherwise known as L'Osservatore Romano). The year of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ of 2009 is ending with Gian Maria Vian's publication praising The Simpsons. Although, as is indicated in the body of this article, the first ten paragraphs are lifted entirely from L'Osservatore Benedetto, the rest of the article is entirely original in text, although the themes have been sounded again and again on this site over the years.

There should be another original article on this site tomorrow, the Feast of Saint Thomas a Becket.

Finally, there are new updates on the SGG Info website, including a commentary on the home page and a very fine summary of why parishioners have left Saint Gertrude the Great Church in West Chester, Ohio, and Saint Clare's Church in Columbus, Ohio, that was written by former Saint Clare's parishioner Sue Bastaja. Mrs. Bastaja's letter is an excellent rejoinder to those who are continuing to misrepresent the facts and to project "hatred" into the minds of hearts of those who have had quite enough with clericalism and the character assassinations that have taken place in the past seven weeks.

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