Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is nigh today. He comes to us in Midnight in piercing cold in Bethlehem.

Have we prepared to "make haste," that is, to flee from the world and its false attractions and promises and "saviours" to welcome Him in our hearts and souls by means of Holy Communion?

Have we asked His Most Blessed Mother, Who brought Him forth miraculously in the cave when there was no room for Him in the inn, to help us to make room for Him in the "inns" of our hearts and souls.

Have we asked the Patron of the Universal Church and the Protector of the Faithful, Good Saint Joseph, to protect and to guide us as we seek out His Divine foster-Son as He is born for us on Altars of Sacrifice in the Catholic catacombs?

Are we prepared to celebrate this Christmas with joy and with thanksgiving as the Word Who was made Flesh in Our Lady's Virginal and Immaculate Womb by the power of God the Holy Ghost beckons us to adore Him in His Real Presence day in and day out?

Make haste, the Lord is nigh. Midnight is coming.

Are we ready?

Make haste.

Prepare well.

Our Saviour is to be born for us!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

A judge in Ireland haso sentenced a sixty-six year-old woman who refused to a mask in public places to eighteen months in prison by denouncing her "absurd selfishness."

This is a brief commentary on the absurdity of the judge and the paganism of these times.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Francis Xavier Cabrini, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle. Saint Thomas did not believe that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ had risen from the dead on Easter Sunday. Our Lord told the doubting Apostle to press his finger into His nail marks and to press his hand into His wounded side. Saint Thomas believed. Along with the other Apostles, including the one who replaced Judas Iscariot, Saint Matthias, Saint Thomas became a bold proclaimer of the Catholic Faith, going to India, where he sacrificed his life for the Holy Faith. Saint Thomas the Apostle touched the flesh of the Risen Saviour with his own hands. He then went on to touch the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of that same Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ with his own priestly hands as he uttered the words at Holy Mass that made the Messias incarnate under the appearances of bread and wine. The very words Saint Thomas uttered after he had touched Our Lord on Low Sunday, Dominus meus et Deus meus, are what we pray every time a true priest utters these words at Holy Mass: "Hoc Est Enim Corpus Meum." As we prepare the celebration of Christmas Day four days from now, we should ask Saint Thomas to help us reverence Our Lord in His Real Presence with greater fervor as we grow stronger in the Faith with every passing day, consecrated as we are to Our Lord through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. 

Also, Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part fifteen was published yesterday, Monday, December 20, 2021, the Vigil of Saint Thomas.

Remember to check out my books for Christmas gifts. One that is particularly timely in light of the conciliar Vatican's shutting down the Summorum Pontificum and Ecclesia Dei Adflicta spigots is G.I.R.M. Warfare: The Conciliar Church's Unremitting Warfare Against Catholic Faith and Worship. I will write about the latest restrictions soon.  

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Thomas the Apostle, pray for us.

With apologies for the delay in completing part fifteen of this series, I trust that you will understand that I did as much as I could in the hospital after the surgery on Wednesday, December 15, 2021, the Octave Day of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Commemoration of Ember Wednesday in Advent, to repair the four fractures in my right hip that I had suffered in a fall on Tuesday, December 14, 2021. A great part of this commentary, however, was written on the Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 19, 2021, after my return home from the hospital the previous today to commence the three months of recovery that my body will need to heal from the surgery to repair the injuries. Thank you for your patience.

I may have another original article before Christmas. I did, however, want to complete this commentary but must be prudent in my expenditure of energy by taking breaks now and again from the computer.

Republished reflections will be posted tomorrow, Tuesday, December 21, 2021, the Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle, and on Wednesday, December 22, 2021, the Feast of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini here in the United States of America.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

EVENING UPDATE ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2021: WELL, I AM BACK AT MY COMPUTER TO PROVIDE YOU WITH AN UPDATE.

Part two of this two-part series discusses the "apology" that Jorge Mario Bergoglio delivered to Hieronymos II in Athens, Greece, on Saturday, December 4, 2021, the Feast of Saint Peter Chrysologus and the Commemorations of Saint Barbara and of the First Sunday of Advent.

I will now "disappear" for about a week to complete the massive work of organizing and writing "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part 15." There is much that is not making the news in the United States of America, including the fact that over 400,000 Austrians have protested their country's draconian lockdown and vaccine mandate as well as the fact that well-conditioned athletes are dropping dead in Europe and here in the United States of America after getting "the jab," which is continuing to injure and kill thousands of people, a fact that no one can ignore as it is sinful to permit poisons to be injected into one's body, which is the temple of God the Holy Ghost.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

This is part one of a two-part series dealing the with the recent activities of the apostate known as Jorge Mario Bergoglio. 

This first part focuses on the lightness with which "Pope Francis" considers sins of impurity and with his clever endorsement/non-endorsement of "New Ways Ministry," proving once again that Wrong Ways Jorge is infallible wrong about almost everything.

A republished reflection on Saint Lucy can be found by scrolling below. The last original article prior to this one, The Supreme Masters of Sophistry: Unable to Admit the Fifth Commandment Exists (Combined Parts One and Two), dealt with the the oral arguments before the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States of America in the case of Thomas E. Dobbs, Mississippi State Health Officer, et al. v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, et al.

By the way, there remains a very significant and rather urgent need for non-tax-deductible financial gifts. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Lucy, pray for us.

The saint whose feast we celebrate today, Saint Lucy, resisted all efforts made by the civil authorities to induce her to worship the idols when a suitor, who was angered by her rejection of him after she had given away her riches to the poor, betrayed her as Christian to the pagan officials of the Roman Empire in Syracuse, Sicily, at the beginning of the Fourth Century A.D., in the year 304 A.D.

Saint Lucy could have saved her life if only she worshiped the idols. Unlike the conciliar "pontiffs," men who have esteemed the symbols of various and sundry false religions, with their own consecrated hands, Saint Lucy refused to do so and was immovable when taken to a house of sin. She refused even to look upon the vice that was before her.

May this immovable foe of religious liberty help us to see more clearly with the eyes of our immortal souls that the Catholic Church cannot be in the least responsible for the abominations and blasphemies and sacrileges and defections from the Faith perpetrated by the counterfeit church of conciliarism.

May Saint Lucy, a model of purity and gentleness and grace and courage, help us to see so clearly that we flee to the catacombs where the Faith is protected without any concessions to conciliarism.

A blessed Feast of Saint Lucy to all who are named after this great witness to the Faith, especially my dear wife, who took Saint Lucy as her patron at Baptism, and our dear daughter, Lucy Mary Therese Norma, who has, of course, a special devotion to the virgin and martyr from Syracuse, Sicily.

I ask your prayers also for the repose of the soul of the late Father Salvatore V. Franco, who died on this day nineeteen years ago now. Father Franco, who suffered from serious heart problems but died of a form of leukemia that he only found out he had weeks before he died, was good enough to offer us refuge in his kitchen in Westbury, Long Island, New York, in April of 2002 until November of 2002 as he offered the Immemorial Mass of Tradition for us each weekday.

Although I had long before abandoned the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical abomination on Sundays as I moved in "indult" circles, we made the decision to abandon all putative "offerings" of this abominable travesty during the week when Father Franco took ill and before he died. Father Franco, who was ordained as a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn in June of 1953, had a heart attack in 1963 at the age of thirty-seven, an act of God's Divine Mercy that kept him from being immersed in parish life as the conciliar revolution proceeded apace. Father Franco kept active, however, offering Mass and helping souls. We will be forever grateful to him for providing us with the refuge that he did in the months after Lucy's birth. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen. We will always miss you, Father Salvatore V. Franco!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Lucy, pray for us.

This posting places parts one and two of my protracted analysis of the oral arguments before the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States of America in the case of Thomas E. Dobbs, Mississippi State Health Officer, et al. v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, et al. in one place. 

As noted three months ago, Catholics must look beyond the headlines as words matter, and one can never expect lasting good to come from arguments that prescind from false premises and even boast of "exceptions" to the binding precepts of the Fifth Commandment as a matter of principle.

Two reflections on Our Lady of Guadalupe, May We Be As Simple and Trusting and Forty Hundred NINETY Years Later: The Americas STILL Belong to Our Lady, have been republished. Please scroll below.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas, pray for us.

Two articles on Our Lady of Guadalupe are being republished today, Gaudete Sunday. Each has been slightly revised and, of course. In addition to this article, there is also "We Must Be Made As Simple and Trusting" that was published in four parts back in 2010.

A fuller description of today’s feast is found in the introduction to “We Must Be Made as Simple and Trusting” below. A Spanish language translation of this commentary that was prepared by Mr. Juan Carlos Areneta seven years ago can be read at: Las Américas Pertenecen a Nuestra Señora.

Finally, please pray for my younger brother (and only sibling), who turns sixty-eight years of age today. Our late mother died on March 18, 1982, and our father died on September 5 1992. The years have certainly passed quickly.

The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is not on the universal calendar of the Catholic Church nor is it a mandated feast in the United States of America except in the Archdioceses of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Santa Fe as well as in the Dioceses of Monterery, Tuscson, and El Paso. We can nevertheless commemorate it withi joy on this Gaudete Sunday, the Third Sunday of Advent.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us.