Today, Saturday, September 26, 2015, is the Feast of the North American Martyrs, the eight Jesuits who gave up their lives for the Holy Faith in what are now parts of Canada and upstate New York between 1642 and 1649, and the Commemoration of Saints Cornelius and Cyprian.
Although I am working on part six of my current series about the Argentine Apostate’s visit to the United States of America, I have chosen to reformat and slightly revise my reflection on the North American Martyrs as these brave Jesuits had a zeal for the salvation of souls that Jorge Mario Bergoglio lacks.
Even this brief reflection speaks volumes about the contrast between the life and martyrdom of the eight men killed between 1642 and 1649 and Bergoglio, who did not mention the Holy Name of the Divine Redeemer at any point during his address to the United Nations or at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, “Ground Zero,” yesterday in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, New York. It is as though the Incarnation of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in Our Lady’s Virginal and Immaculate Womb by the power of God the Holy Ghost did not occur or is so offensive to those who deny His Sacred Divinity as to be shunted aside as some kind of embarrassment.
Each of the North American Martyr (Isaac Jogues, Rene Goupil, Jean Lalande, Gabriel Lalemant, Noel Chabanel, Anthony Daniel, Charles Garnier, and John de Brebeuf) shed their blood to Catholicize the upper reaches of North America. They were not interested in "inculturating" the Catholic liturgy with the pagan superstitions and barbaric practices of the Iroquois. They were concerned only about attempting to convert the heathens to the true Faith and to plant the seeds for the conversion of the land in which their noble missionary work had taken them. Can we do any less than they? We must seek to "keep it Catholic" at all times as we seek to plant the seeds for the conversion of this nation to become the Catholic States of America.
Our Lady of the North American Martyrs, pray for us.
Saint Isaac Jogues and Companions, pray for us!
Saints Cyprian and Justina, pray for us.
As part three of the current series was not posted until 3:00 a.m. yesterday and was followed in rapid succession by two other parts with almost no sleep, I cannot complete part six at this time, although I should have it completed by tomorrow afternoon. As noted before, detailed articles such as part three will be completed after Bergoglio is back in Rome. For the time being, however, the summary articles will have to serve as the means to highlight salient points. The sheer extent of the madness is mind-boggling. I really believe that this means that the adversary must know that his time is short, and he is making the best of it with his minion from Argentina, a veritable “lord of the world.” There is a preface to the revised article that compares the prayers used by Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI and Jorge Mario Bergoglio/Francis in their respective visits to "Ground Zero" eighty-nine months apart.