Work continues on the next original commentary for this site. It will be posted in a day or two.

I am, however, offering readers a brief reflection on the Feast of Our Lady of Ransom (Mercy), which is commemorated today, Sunday, September 24, 2023, the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost. 

Our Lady of Ransom, pray for us.

This is the concluding part of a two-part series, focusing principally on former President Donald John Trump’s disastrous discussion of surgical baby-killing after spending a bit of time summarizing the reasons why Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., disqualified himself from holding public office fifty years ago.

The next original commentary may take several days to complete as it deals with a recent interview that Victor Manuel Fernandez gave to the National Catholic Register.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Saint Thomas Villanova, pray for us.

Saint Maurice and Companions, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of Saint Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist.

Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ called Levi from his duties as a collector of tribute for Caesar to follow Him. Levi quit his position as a tax collector to become a collector of souls for God and His true Church. Saint Matthew wrote His Gospel to convince his fellow Jews to accept Our Lord as the Divine Redeemer and to convert to the true Faith, Catholicism.

This is quite a contrast with the work of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who esteems Talmudic Judaism as an instrument of "justice" although it denies the Sacred Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ and wages warfare upon those who seek to restore the Social Reign of Christ the King, to say nothing of the fact that many of its rabbis,including his pal Abraham Skorka, support abortion and perversity under cover of the civil law. Quite a difference. It's the difference between fidelity and apostasy, between Catholicism and conciliarism.

The next original conmentary is being written. However, given the fact that methodically dissecting former President Donald John Trump's recent  interviews with Kristen Welker and Megyn Kelly, I may need another full day and then some before it can be posted. Thank you for your patience.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Matthew the Apostle, pray for us.

This is a brief reflection on the martyrdom of Saint Eustace and Companions (his wife and two sons), a feast that is celebrated today, Wednesday, September 20, 2023, along with the commemorations of Ember Wednesday in September and of the Vigil of Saint Matthew the Apostle.

Unlike the conciliar revolutionaries, Saint Eustace and his family refused to offer even one grain of incense to the idols and preferred death rather than to compromise on any point of their abiding Faith in Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The martyrdom of Saint Eustace should provide us with inspiration in these trying times, especially since Saint Eustace had been involuntarily separated from his wife and sons for some time prior to their joint martyrdom, which made possible their entry into Heaven together.

Part two of my current series is still being written. I am just too tired to continue work on it at this time. 

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Saint Eustace and Companions, pray for us.

This commentary is meant to serve as an introduction of some basic principles to those readers who either do not retain the points about the futility of partisan politics in a world where people are divided by error but united in amorality or need a “refresher” to pull them back from falling over the precipice of agitation about this or that latest crisis or this or that candidate for elected office.

Part two of this commentary, which should appear tomorrow, the Feast of Saint Eustace and his Companions and the Commemorations of Ember Wednesday and of the Vigil of Saint Matthew the Apostle, will deal specifically with the errors promoted and the amorality practiced by Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and Donald John Trump, who are divided by various errors but are  nevertheless united in their use of amorality to “solve” problems that neither recognizes are caused by Original Sin remotely and the Actual Sins of men proximately.

In addition to this current commentary, anyone who has the time or inclination to do so can review Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.'s., Ultimate Treason is Against Christ the King and Memorandum to Donald John Trump: The Inviolability of Innocent Human Life is Non-Negotiable as “sneak previews” into tomorrow’s commentary. 

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Saint Januarius and his Companions, pray for us.

This is a very brief reflection about Saint Joseph Cupertino. 

Although I have started work on my next original article after posting At the "Mercy" of the Merciless, part three, twenty-three hours ago, it may not appear until Wednesday, September 20, 2023, the Feast of Saint Eustace and His Companions and the Commemorations of Ember Wednesday in September and of the Vigil of Saint Matthew the Apostle.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Saint Joseph Cupertino, pray for us.

Although I had intended to start writing a commentary about an interview that Victor Manuel Fernandez gave recently to the National Catholic Register, I think that a third part of what was intended to be a two-part series is warranted by several interrelated developments.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Saint Francis of Assisi, pray for us.

This concluding part of a two-part series could have been entitled “Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part twenty-five.” However, as we are at the “mercy” of merciless, I believed that the title of this series is very appropriate.

Another new commentary should appear in a few days.

Our Lady of Dolors, pray for us.

Saint Nicomedes, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary in September and the Commemoration of Saint Nicomedes.

We are called to meditate on the Seven Dolors of Our Lady every day of our lives. While there are many good meditations on the sufferings of Our Lady, including those provided by the revelations of Venerable Anne Katherine Emmerich and the Venerable Mary of Agreda, the late Father Frederick Faber has given us much food for inspirational meditation in his The Foot of the Cross, published originally as The Dolors of Mary in 1857. Consider this brief excerpt from Father Faber's reflections:

"But let us make the world stand still, and see how it looks. If our common love for God, which is so poor, is irritated by the sight, what must Mary have suffered? For what is irritation to our weakness to her would be the most deep and transcending sorrow. God comes to His creation. It does not stir. It cannot. It lies in the hollow beneath Him, and has no escape. He comes in the beauty of a mercy, which is almost incredible, because it is so beautiful. But seemingly it does not attract the world. He draws nigh. Creation must do something now. It freezes itself up before His eye. He may have other worlds, more fertile, more accessible to Him, than this. In the spiritual tropics, where the angels dwell, He may perhaps be welcome. But not here. This is the North Pole of His universe. He shed His life's blood upon it, and it would not thaw. It is unmanageable, unnavigable, uninhabitable for Him. He can do nothing at all with it, but let His sun make resplendent colored lights in the icebergs, or bid the moon shine with a wanner loveliness than elsewhere, or fill the long-night sky with the streamers of the Aurora, which even the Esquimaux, burrowing in his hut, will not go out to see. The only difference is that the material pole understands its business. which is to make ice in all imaginable shapes; whereas we men are so used to our own coldness, that we do not know how cold we are, and imagine ourselves to be the temperate zone of God's creation." Our sins helped to thrust those Seven Swords of Sorrow through and through Our Lady's Immaculate Heart at various points during her life, including during her Divine Son's Passion and Death. We must resolve never to grieve her Immaculate Heart again as consider our joy and our privilege to live penitentially as the consecrated slaves to her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the same Immaculate Heart. (Father Frederick Faber, The Foot of the Cross, the Dolors of Mary.)

We can help to make reparation for our sins that have grieved the Immaculate Heart of Mary if we pray more and more Rosaries each day, if we help to propagate devotion to her Seven Dolors. Indeed, Our Lady promises us the following graces if we promote devotion to her Seven Dolors:

1) I will grant peace to their families

2) They will be enlightened about the divine mysteries.

3) I will console them in their pains and I will accompany them in their work.

4) I will give them as much as they ask for as long as it does not oppose the adorable will of my divine Son or the sanctification of their souls.

5) I will defend them in their spiritual battles with the infernal enemy and I will protect them at every instant of their lives.

6) I will visibly help them at the moment of their death, they will see the face of their Mother.

7. I have obtained (This Grace) from my divine Son, that those who propagate this devotion to my tears and dolors, will be taken directly from this earthly life to eternal happiness since all their sins will be forgiven and my Son and I will be their eternal consolation and joy.

As a terrible sinner, I am counting on my own promoting of devotion to the Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary to help me just a little bit at the moment of my Particular Judgment.

What about you?

The next original article to be posted will be completed by early next week. 

Finally, please remember the soul of the late Father John Joseph Sullivan, who was my seminary professor at Holy Apostles Seminary in the 1983-1984 academic year, on this day, which would have been his one hundred seventh birthday had he not died in May of 2000.

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.

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

The concluding part of "At the 'Mercy' of the Merciless" will be published within fifteen minutes of this posting. 

Our Lady of Dolors, pray for us.

Saint Nicomedes, pray for us.

The Saviour of the world hung on the wood of the Holy Cross:

Ecce lignum Crucis, in quo salus mundit pependit (Behold the wood of the Cross, on which hung the Saviour of the world. (Adoration of the Cross, Good Friday Liturgy.)

The Cross of the Divine Redeemer was displayed prominently on street corners and in the nooks and crannies of every village in Europe during the era of Christendom. There is no "expiration date" on the Cross of the Divine Redeemer's relevance to the life of any man or of any nation.

We must lift high the Cross in our own daily lives and we must plant it firmly in the soil of our nation without any apology whatsoever as Catholicism is the one and only foundation of personal and social order.

We must also remember that Our Lady stands at the foot of her Divine Son's Most Holy Cross in every true offering of Holy Mass just as she stood at the foot of the Holy Cross on Good Friday. She stands with us as we bear our own crosses in our daily lives. We must, therefore, seek the assistance of the Mother of God in lifting high her Divine Son's Holy Cross in our daily lives, praying as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit.

The cross is ever present in each of our lives, and for this we must say with Saint Francis of Assisi, Deo gratias!

Penance is the path to Heaven.

We do our penances by carrying our crosses with gratitude.

Isn't it great to be a Catholic?

Hail, O Holy Cross! Hail!

A blessed Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross to each of you.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.