This is a brief commentary about the tragic nassacre that took place in Nasbville, Tennessee, two days ago.

Work continues on part twenty-two of "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus."

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

The great saint whose feast we celebrate today, Monday, March 27, 2023, Saint John Damascene, fought the iconoclasts in his day, and while many, although far from all, of our Catholic churches are now in the hands of the conciliar iconoclasts, we can festoon our homes with images of Our Lord and Our Lady and Saint Joseph and other saints as we use these images to remind us that we are united to the saints represented in these images by means of the Communion of Saints that we hope to share Heaven with them for all eternity in the glory of the Beatific Vision.

Today, course, is our daughter Lucy’s twentieth-first birthday and the fifteenth anniversary of her First Holy Communion.

Please do pray for Lucy Mary Therese Norma Droleskey on her birthday today. Thank you.

Finally, considerable progress was made on part twenty-two of "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus as I made some some good headway on it yesterday. All I can tell you is that I am being methodical in the composition of the next commentary and hope to have it completed by Wednesday of Passion Week, March 29, 2023.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Damascene, pray for us.

This is my annual Passiontide reflection. 

Work on part twenty-two of "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus" is proceeding more slowly than I would like, partly because of a fully penitential flare-up of the rheumatoid arthritis in my right hand (and I am right handed). It appears as though Wednesday of Passion Week, March 29, 2023, is the most realistic date on which the commentary will be published. 

A blessed Passiontide to you all.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

This is a brief follow-up to We Have No "Rooting" Interest in the Russo-Ukraine War Other Than for a Just Peace that also discusses the similarities between the American involvemen in Ukraine presently and the flawed neoconservative delusions that ignite the Iraq War twenty years ago. 

Part twenty-two of "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus" should be published no later than the Feast of Saint John Damascene, Monday, March 27, 2023, and a commenatary on the current implosion taking place within the counterfeit church of conciliarism should follow by the Feast of the Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lent, Friday, March 31, 2023. 

As I noted about a week ago now, I will not be offering any further commentary about New York County Alvin Bragg's politically motivated campaign to indict former President Donald John Trump on truly baseless ground until after Easter, but for the moment I want to remind the very few remaining readers of this website that Donald John Trump has been, is now, and will ever be his own worst enemy (see the details in Trump won't change, and that shows he can't win.

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

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

The Russo-Ukraine war is nearly thirteen months old.

This is an updated and revised (with new commentary based upon recent event) of a three-part series published a year ago on this ongoing tragedy.

This commentary is lengthy, However, I urge readers who are “rooting” for one side or another to make a bit of time available so that they can consider the material included therein.

The next commentary on this site will be a retrospective on the needless, unconstitutional, and immoral invasion, occupation, destruction, and reconstruction of Iraq that began twenty years ago yesterday, that is on March 20, 2003, local Baghdad time. Part twenty-two of “Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus” will follow a few days thereafter, followed by a commentary about the conciliar “bishops” in Germany and their “synodal” path about which Jorge Mario Bergoglio is doing precisely nothing.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Benedict of Nursia, pray for us.

This reflection contrasts the work of Saint Benedict of Nursia with that of the two most recent conciliar “popes.”

Much time is spent in this reflection giving attentionn to Bergoglio’s denial of the commission that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ gave to the Eleven on Ascension Thursday to convert all men to the true Faith. Saint Benedict of Nursia, the father of western Monasticism and thus of Europe itself, had an intolerance for such teaching. So should we.

A semi-original commentary will appear in fifteen to twenty minutes of this posting.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. 

Today, of course, is the transferred 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!"

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

A blessed Feast of Saint Joseph to you all! 

This is not the commentary that I was hoping to have ready today.

However, given the news about the imminent arrest of former President Donald John Trump, I have taken the time to try to remind the very few readers of this website that, apart from the facts of the case which are discussed in summary form herein, we must not let the adversary steal our Lent from us by the games that one set of naturalists play against the other major set of naturalists.

It is possible that another original commentary will appear tomorrow, the transferred Feast of Saint Joseph.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

This is a substantially revised tribute to our glorious Saint Patrick, Bishop and Confessor, whose work in behalf of the conversion of the Irish clans from paganism stands in very sharp contrast to the obeisance that has been paid by the conciliar “popes” and their “bishops” to every false religion and pagan superstition imaginable. It was to wipe out paganism that Saint Patrick spent his life as a missionary to the Emerald Isle, that land of Saints and Scholars which has fallen back into paganism in no small measure because of the false doctrines and sacramental barrenness of the liturgical rites of the counterfeit church of conciliarism. Saint Patrick stands ready to convert each one of us away from our own sins if only we beg his intercession to help make us saints, especially now in the middle of the Fourth Week of Lent.

We are privileged to have a relic of Saint Patrick that is venerated each night before sleep. This relic was given to us most unexpectedly by a good friend of ours some years ago now.

It is my hope, perhaps furtive, to have the next original article by Laetare Sunday, March 19, 2023.

Tomorrow, Saturday, March 18, 2023, the Feast of Saint Cyril of Jersualem and the Commemoration of Saturday of the Third Week in Lent ), is the forty-first anniversary of the death of my late mother, Norma Florence Red Fox Droleskey (nee: Maxine Coomer). Please pray for the repose of her immortal soul.

Tomorrow is also the sixteenth anniversary of the death of Father Daniel Johnson, the longtime pastor of St. Mary's by the Sea Church in Huntington Beach, California, who personally walked the entire territory of his parish three times to knock on every door, resulting in the conversion of 532 people to the Holy faith, and it is also the fifteenth anniversary of the death of Mrs. Therese Colgan, the mother of a former student of mine from St. Francis College, Brooklyn, New York, during the 1985-1986 academic years. Please pray for the respose of their immortal souls. (A former friend of mine for whom I pray every day turns seventy-two years of age on March 18 as well.)

A blessed Feast of Saint Patrick to you all!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Patrick, pray for us.