These devotions to Our Lady in her desolation are found in Behold Thy Mother: A Servite Manual of Prayers, Chiefly in Honor Our Lady's Sorrows. They are to be prayed betweeen 3:00 p.m. today, Good Friday, and 10:00 a.m. tomorrow, Holy Saturday.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Although I did decide to republish my Good Friday reflection (scroll below) as this is the most solemn day of the year, I am also offering anyone who accesses this site today, Good Friday, April 10, 2020, a sermon given by Father Francis Xavier Weninger, S.J., nearly one hundred forty years ago. His is the superior reflection!

We adore Thee, O Christ, and we praise Thee, because by Thy Holy Cross Thou hast redeemed the world.

Hail, O Holy Cross, our own glorious and precious hope.

Our Lady, Queen of Martyrs and Mother of Sorrows, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint Mary Magdalene, pray for us.

This is the day that our sins transcended time and played their significant parts in putting God to death. The greatest crime in the history of the world was committed this day, Deicide, and we were among the guilty parties putting God on trial and then subjecting Him to horrible and painful humiliations and scourgings before we nailed Him to the wood of the Holy Cross, upon which He paid back to His Co-Equal and Co-Eternal Father the debt of our sins.

Yes, there is no greater crime than Deicide. There is also no greater act of love in all of human history as Love Incarnate took upon Himself the guilt of our sins though He was guilty of nothing. It was out of love for His Co-Equal and Co-Eternal Father's Holy Will and His matchless love for us that He, Who had instituted the Priesthood and the Eucharist last evening at the Last Supper, that He subjected Himself to the hands of us sinful men, even going so far as to make excuses for us, His executioners, as He hung on the gibbet of the Holy Cross.

This great act of sacrificial, redemptive love of the God-Man, Who had become Incarnate in His Most Blessed Mother's Virginal and Immaculate Womb by the power of God the Holy Ghost, is re-presented in an unbloody manner on altars of Sacrifice by true bishops and true priests every day of the year except for today, Good Friday. Our focus today is on mourning for our sins and expressing our gratitude that we have been redeemed by the shedding of every single drop of the Most Precious Blood of Our Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as we ask Our Lady to help us to grow in a greater fervor for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as we grow more and more detached from even our Venial Sins and come to despise them as much as we despise any Mortal Sins that, God forbid, we may have committed.

This is a day of solemnity and sobriety, a day of total withdrawal from the world and its madness. We spend our time in church today as we keep Our Lord company at the Altar of Repose prior to noon and as we participate in the Mass of the Presanctified. Our sins put God to death. We helped to murder God in the very Flesh.

How does God repay us ungrateful and frequently lukewarm sinners? He gives us the true Church, born out of the Blood and Water that flowed forth from His wounded side when It was pierced by Saint Longinus's lance, making possible our regeneration in the Baptismal font and in the Sacred Tribunal of Penance, making it possible for us therefore to receive His very Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Most Blessed Sacrament in Holy Communion. And he give us His Blessed Mother, she who is our Co-Redemptrix, our Mediatrix and our Advocate, to be our Blessed Mother as He entrusts her to Saint John the Evangelist, whose fidelity to Our Lord on this day is meant to foreshadow our own fidelity by means of assisting at daily Mass frequently and of persevering until the point of our dying breaths in states of Sanctifying Grace by remaining a as close to Our Lady as he was.

Will we repay Our Divine Redeemer Who was nailed to the Cross this day with a true effort to amend our lives? Will we repay Our Divine Redeemer Who shed every single drop of His Most Precious Blood this day with a greater effort to take seriously our consecration to His Most Sacred Heart through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary? Will we seek to live at all times in light of First and Last Things as we bear our own crosses with love and joy and gratitude?

Our Lady stands ready to help us to bring us to Calvary every day. Sure, we must make the same kind of effort as Saint Helena made to find the site of the True Cross in the Fourth Century as the Mass has indeed been taken away by spiritual robber barons. However, Our Lady does indeed stand ready to fortify us in our resolve never to return to the muck and the mire of a false church whose "pope" mocks the Holy Cross and makes of It an instrument of socialistic "justice" and Judeo-Masonic globalism.  

May we give thanks and praise to Our Lord through His Blessed Mother's Immaculate Heart this day for the wondrous mystery of His love that has made possible our eternal salvation.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Today is Maundy Thursday.

The Paschal Triduum of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ’s Passion, Death and Resurrection actually began with the Office of Tenebrae yesterday evening, and it will end on Easter Sunday.

These are the holiest days are the zenith of Holy Mother Church’s liturgical year. This is the day on which Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ instituted the Holy Priesthood and the Eucharist at the Last Supper for our sanctification and salvation. Although Our Lord would enter deep into His Passion immediately after the completion of the Last Supper as He suffered His Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, He wonderfully gave us the Holy Priesthood of the New Dispensation as He instituted the New and Eternal Covenant that He would ratify by the shedding of every single drop of His Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross tomorrow, Good Friday. We must express our gratitude to Him at all times for giving us the Priesthood so that we can have access on a daily basis to His own Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in Holy Communion, made present for us on altars of Sacrifice by true bishops and true priests in this time of apostasy and betrayal.

This is a day to keep watch with Our Lord in His Real Presence at the Altar of Repose, remembering most importantly to beg Our Lady to make more and more voluntary sacrifices to make reparation to the Most Sacred Heart of her Divine Son through her own Immaculate Heart for our sins and those of the whole world.

Although I am not republishing the reflections that are contained in To Live in Light of Eternity, Volume 2, readers are still able to access them by clicking on the following links for Maundy Thursday:

Maundy Thursday: The Gifts of the Holy Eucharist and the Holy Priesthood are Given Unto Mere Men

As Our Divine Redeemer's Passion Begins

Additionally, though, I am providing those who access this site with a sermon written by Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J., who was an Austrian missionary to the United States of America in the Nineteenth Century after the revolutions that shook Central Europe in 1848.

Father Weninger was a fearless defender of the Holy Faith and a prolific writer. One of his most important books was Protestantism and Infidelity.

The Catholic Encyclopedia describes his work as follows:

Jesuit missionary and author, born at Wildhaus, Styria, Austria, 31 October, 1805; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, 29 June, 1888. When already a priest and doctor of theology, he joined the Society of Jesus in 1832 and in 1841 was sent to Innsbruck, where he taught theology, history, and Hebrew. As the Revolution of 1848 impeded his further usefulness at home, he left Europe and went to the United States. During his forty years he visited almost every state of the Union, preaching to vast multitudes in English, French, or German, as best suited the nationality of his hearers. In the year 1854 alone he delivered nearly a thousand sermons, and in 1864 he preached about forty-five missions. His zeal also prompted Father Weninger to win souls with the pen and he published forty works in German, Sixteen in English, eight in French, three in Latin. Among his principal works are: "Manual of the Catholic Religion" (Ratisbon, 1858); "Easter in Heaven" (Cincinnati, 1862); "Sermons" (Mainz, 1881-86). (Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J.)

Omitted from this list, however, is Father Weninger’s Protestantism and Infidelity, which is a superb critique of Protestantism’s complete infidelity to Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and His Sacred Deposit of Faith.

As Our time and our heart belong entire to Our Lord and His Paschal Triduum as we keep ever close to Our Lady, who was with Him every step of the way as he participated the Queen of Martyrs in His Redemptive Act on the wood of the Holy Cross on Good Friday, I will withhold the publication of another—and relatively brief!—commentary on the coronavirus scam that has caused Catholics across the vast expanse of the ecclesiastical divide at this time of apostasy and betrayal to be frightened by the high priests and priestesses of the “healthcare” and “scientific communities” until after noon on Holy Saturday.

A most blessed Paschal Triduum to you all. 

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

This article, which was written in 2011 and revised over the years, contrasts the zeal of Saint Vincent Ferrer for the conversion of Jews and Mohammedans with his antitheses in the counterfeit church of conciliarism, who do not believe that they have a mission from God to seek with urgency the conversion of the souls of any non-Catholics, including adherents of the Talmud and the Koran.

Although I would not have thought it possible six years ago when this article was written originally, Jorge Mario Bergoglio is even more of antithesis of Saint Vincent Ferrer than was Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI before him, not that the German Modernist by the way of the “new theology” was any slouch in this regard. It’s just that the Argentine Apostate has exceeded everything that has gone before him in the past sixty-one years, and he’s still at his work of destruction with a vengeance that certainly plays a role in brining the current chastisement discussed at lenght in Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part two.

Work on an original article dealing with the contiuing follies of conciliarism and the "insights" of "Archbishop" Carlo Maria Vigano has started but will not be posted until Easter Monday unless I can finish in time for posting on Spy Wednesday, which I think is not possible.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Vincent Ferrer, O.P., pray for us.

Today is Palm Sunday.

We have now entered into the most solemn week of the year as we withdraw more and more from the world and its false allurements to unite ourselves as never before with the events of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ’s Passion and Death prior to experiencing the glory of His Resurrection following the Mass on Holy Saturday, April 11, 202-, and on Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020, thus beginning a marvelous celebration of the Octave of Easter and the Easter season.

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

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

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

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

Remember, Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part two, was published four days ago.

A blessed Palm Sunday to you all.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Saint Vincent Ferrer, O.P. (whose feast is suppressed this year) pray for us.

Unfathomable. Just unfathomable

Only a handful of genuine mystics and truly gifted spiritual masters have been able to comprehend the unfathomable mysteries of grief that overwhelmed the fairest creature of our race, Our Lady, as those Seven Swords of Sorrow were plunged through and through her Immaculate Heart. We sin so casually, so thoughtlessly, so repeatedly, rarely giving a moment’s worth of a meditation to how our least Venial Sins caused Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to suffer unspeakable horrors during His Passion and Death, horrors that penetrated the Immaculate Heart of His Most Blessed Mother as she, conceived without any stain of Original or Actual Sin, suffered in a perfect communion of Hearts with Him. It cannot be that way with us from this day forward.

We are on the cusp of Holy Week, ending now the first week in Passiontide, Passion Week. We must enter deep into the mysteries of our salvation, which was wrought for us by the perfect obedience of the Word made Flesh in Our Lady’s Virginal and Immaculate Womb to the Will of His Co-Equal and Co-Eternal Father. We must quit our sins once and for all, recognizing how they caused the God-Man and His Most Blessed Mother to suffer, how they wound our own souls, which have been purchased by the shedding of every single drop of the Divine Redeemer’s Most Precious Blood, and how they have brought great sorrow into the Heart out of which was formed Our Redeemer’s Most Sacred Heart.

No more sin.

No more joking about sin.

No more dismissiveness about the gravity of sin.

We must repent and amend our lives as the consecrated slaves of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. Our Lady brought forth her Divine Son painlessly and miraculously. She brought us forth in great pain as the adopted children of the Living God as she stood so valiantly by the foot of the Cross on Good Friday. She stands by the foot of her Divine Son’s Most Holy Cross in every true offering of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass by a true bishop or a true priest. We must stand by her each day at Holy Mass as we make reparation for our sins and those of the whole world with every beat of our hearts, making sure as well to pray as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit.

Remember, Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part two, was published two days ago before being revised in a few places yesterday morning and evening. As the commentary is long as it is, I will only note an article about the strains within the globalist European Union that were discussed part two's text is now beginning to be noticed by the "mainslime" media, something, of course, that has nothing to do with this site but with the fact that the strains are quite real: European Union Apololgizes to Italy.

Finally, Mrs. Randy Engel has written two very informative articles about the tentacles of Opus Dei that I want to bring to the attention of this site's vast readership: Knights  of Columbs Dump Crux--Who Picked Up the Slack?, part one and Knights of Columbus Dump Crux--Who Picked Up the Slack, part two.

A blessed Feast of the Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Passiontide to you all.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

This  commentary, which was revised revised slightly in several places during the morning and evening of Thursday, April 2, 2020, the Feast of Saint Francis of Paola and the Commemoration of Thursday in Passion Week, is a follow-up to the one that was published on March 10, 2020, has taken a very long time to complete. Indeed, most of the last ten days have been spent writing and revising it, a process that continued until very late last evening. It took over three hours just to format the commentary for posting at this time, and I was not going to delay it any longer as I would doubtless have more material to add to its text if I did so.

As it stands, though, this is a rather lengthy, if not book-length, review of the ongoing hysteria over the China/Chinese/Wuhan/Coronavirus. We must view the situation through the eyes of the Holy Faith and recognize a chastisement for what it is, and I guarantee you that "mitigation" strategies are not going to lessen the severity of any chastisement as long as men continue to persist in their sins and as long as sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance are protected by the civil law. 

The commentary contains the following sections, each of which is of various lengths with countless numbers of hyperlinks and sources:

1. The China Virus: Product of American Government and Corporate Surrender to the Chicoms
2. Dr. Francis Boyle’s interview on the origins of the China Virus in Wuhan BSL-4.
3. A Few Pertinent Observations about the Boyle Interview
4. The United States of America’s Ties to Red China
5. Statist Hypocrites Concerned About Protecting Lives While Supporting Baby-Killing Seize the Moment 
6. The European Union: Victim of the Coronavirus
7. Permanent, Undisguised and Unapologetic Healthcare Rationing is Here to Stay
8. Jorge Surrenders to the Civil State While Making Meaningless Gestures and Uttering Empty Words 
9. Prayer and  Reparation
10. A Brief Passiontide Reflection

I am going to attempt to get some other writing done that has been postponed because of this project, although I will spend some time later today replying to e-mails that I have had no chance to answer as I have been very consumed in the writing of this commentary. 

There might be another original article before Palm Sunday,  and I alert readers--if there any any!--to the fact that the spiritual reflections on Holy Week and Paschaltide that have appeared on this site over the years have been collected and published in:To Live in Light of Eternity, Volume 2.

Finally, Mrs. Randy Engel has written two very informative articles about the tentacles of Opus Dei that I want to bring to the attention of this site's vast readership: Knights  of Columbs Dump Crux--Who Picked Up the Slack?, part one and Knights of Columbus Dump Crux--Who Picked Up the Slack, part two.

Our Lady, Health of the Sick and Comforter of the Afflicted, pray for us.

Today, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, might be the day that I complete work on my follow-up article about the Chinese Virus that has thrown so many people into states of panic as the statists such as Andrew Mark Cuomo and Gavin Newsom flex their authoritarian muscles to "protect" our bodily health while continuing to endanger the spiritual welfare of their citizens by means of their unapologetic support for sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance. The new commentary is forty-four pages long, and there are at least two major sections to complete before it is finished. I am sorry for the delay. However, I have done nothing else for the past four days but work on the article and to provide links to various sources while doing so. 

Now, today is the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. While I am not republishing many of the reflections contained in To Live in Light of Eternity, Volume 1, today's feast, which is a Holy Day of Obligation in Ukraine, is important to highlight on this site annually. 

Today's feast  signifies the moment when the Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, the very Word through Whom all things were made, personally entered into human history as He was made Incarnate in the Virginal and Immaculate Womb of His Most Blessed Mother by the power of the Third Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, God the Holy Ghost, Who overshadowed Our Lady after she had given her perfect Fiat to the Will of the First Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, God the Father, as that Will was made known to her by Saint Gabriel the Archangel.

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

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

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

Also, To Live in Light of Eternity, Volume 2, which contains reflections from Septuagesima Sunday to Easter Sunday, is available for purchase. Those who find themselves in "lockdowns" (we will be under one in a little over twenty hours) might have some time for reading. Thank you. 

Finally, the fifty-four day  Rosary Novena that was announced last week begins today. Please join,

[March 20, 2020, Update: Further information about the Rosary Novena that was announced below late last night can be found by scrolling down.]

Our access to the internet was restored less than twenty-four hours ago after an absence of seven days. This was most inconvenient but was completely out of my own control. I had to spend many hours trying to deal with the problem, which required me to drive over seventy-five miles to a Verizon Wireless corporate store to get matters resolved.

However, it was also within the Providence of God. Today, of course, is the great Feast of Saint Joseph, the Chaste Spouse of Our Lady, the just and silent man of the House of David. Saint Joseph denied himself his biological fatherhood in order to serve as the ever-virginal spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the most loving foster-father to Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

In him, Saint Joseph, is to be found every virtue for a husband and father to imitate: patience, charity, forbearance in all difficulties, fortitude, perseverance, temperance, and total self-abnegation. Those of us who are husbands and fathers must learn to be more silent, to learn to be more loving, to learn to be more patient, to learn to be more meek, to learn to be ever-ready to worker harder and harder at our life's work so as to help our wives and our children to live as redeemed creatures here below in order to know eternal happiness hereafter in Heaven. Saint Joseph is the model of home life and the patron of artisans, the protector of widows and orphans, the patron of those who are in danger of death. May we invoke his patronage each day after we invoke that of his Most Chaste Spouse, Our Lady, and never be slow to turn to him in our spiritual and temporal needs:

"O Saint Joseph, whose protection is so great, so strong, so prompt before the throne of God, I place in thee all my interests and desires. O thou Saint Joseph, do assist me by thy powerful intercession, and obtain for me from thy divine Son all spiritual blessings, through Jesus Christ, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; so that, having engaged here below thy heavenly power, I may offer my thanksgiving and homage to the most loving of fathers. O Saint Joseph, I never weary contemplating thee, and Jesus asleep in thy arms; I dare not approach while He reposes near thy heart. Press Him in my name and kiss His fine head for me, and ask Him to return the kiss when I draw my dying breath. Saint Joseph, Patron of departing souls, pray for me. Amen!"

A blessed Feast of Saint Joseph to you all! 

Finally, a person who is acquainted with the work of this site has asked me to post an announcement concerning a fifty-four-day Rosary Novena for the following intentions:

1. The abolition of the Novus Ordo liturgical service.
2. The restoration of a true pope on the Throne of Saint Peter.

The person who had the inspiration for this Rosary Novena last month has requested this notification to be posted on the Feast of Saint Joseph. The Rosary Novena itself is to begin on the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Wednesday, March 25, 2020, and ends on the Sunday during the Octave of the Ascension of Our Lord, May 17, 2020.

Here is an explanation of this Rosary Novena's origin as provided in a third person narrative by the person who brought this to my attention:

The inspiration for the Rosary Novena came from a dream the person had, over a month ago, of being in the magnificent Benedictine Monastery of Ettal in Bavaria. The person had never been there before, but it was full of people, singing in English about “the fruit of the revolution.”

The dream was so horrifying that the person decided to start a Rosary Novena for the abolition of the Novus Ordo and the restoration of a true pope and extend an invitation to as many people as possible to join in the novena.

The person prays regular Rosary Novenas and selects the end date first. The end date of the next one had already been selected as May 17^th, which automatically made March 25^th the start date.

After reading a book on the power of St. Joseph's intercession, the person also decided to launch the invitation on his Feast day, March 19^th. This year's feast of St. Joseph happened to coincide with the Lenten commemoration of Sts. Cosmas & Damian as well.

I believe that it can be inferred that the Novena's stated intentions of the abolition of the Novus Ordo include the end of the false conciliar religion whose false doctrines are enshrined in the Novus Ordo liturgical abomination propagated by the conciliar "popes" and their underlings with revolutionary abandon. The problem that we face, of course, is caused by a false church, which will be overturned when a true pope is restored on the Throne of Saint Peter.

Please send this announcement to as many people as possible.

Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Fifty-Four Day Rosary Novena Flyer