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.

Pleaes scroll below for the article posted about twenty-four hours ago, Antipope Appoveth, Antipope Undermineth What He Approveth.

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

The conciliar revolutionaries are very adept at undermining their own teaching, although none of them has done so with the particular boldness of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who has, even if ever so subtly, began to undermine a “response” by the misnamed “Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith” to dubium about pastoral “blessings” upon sodomites who have entered into “civil unions” that he himself had approved on Monday, February 22, 2021, the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter in Antioch. Bergoglio began to undermine his “doctrinal” congregation’s response to the dubium during his Angelus address on Sunday, March 21, 2021, which was Passion Sunday and the Commemoration of Saint Benedict in the Catholic Church but was the “Fifth Sunday of Lent” in his counterfeit church of conciliarism, by saying the following as a way to undermine his congregation’s refusal to permit the “blessing” of “civil unions” that he had approved:

It means sowing seeds of love, not with fleeting words but through concrete, simple and courageous examples, not with theoretical condemnations, but with gestures of love. Then the Lord, with his grace, makes us bear fruit, even when the soil is dry due to misunderstandings, difficulty or persecution, or claims of legalism or clerical moralism. This is barren soil. (Angelus Address, March 21, 2021.)

This commentary deals with Bergoglio’s undermining of the conciliar Congregation for the Deformation, Destruction, and Deconstruction of the Holy Faith near the end of its text as the first two-thirds of the commentary explain how conciliar documents on the Sixth and Ninth Commandments are based in false premises that wind up serving as instruments to further the conciliar agenda against the Holy Faith. Being bereft of ability to understand their own falsehoods, the conciliar revolutionaries attempt to fight moral evils, no matter how tepidly, without addressing the fact their proliferation in the direct result of the anti-Incarnational civil state of Modernity with which they long ago made their “official reconciliation.”

Now, a bit of speculation on an entirely different matter.

Tomorrow, Thursday, March 25, 2021, is the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Commemoration of Thursday in Passion Week. It is also the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the founder of the Society of Saint Pius X, whose false Gallicanist ecclesiology remains so many even today three decades the basis of the “resist while recognize” movement.

Now, my speculation on the following is purely that as the thought about it occurred to me while writing the text of this long commentary: Might Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who loves to “make a mess of things,” seek to deflect criticism for his banning all private “Masses” in the Basilica of Saint Peter and the consigning of stagings/offerings of the modernized version of the Immemorial Mass of Tradition in the basilica’s crypt by posthumously lifting the ban of excommunication that was imposed upon him, Lefebvre, on July 2, 1988, in Ecclesia Dei Ad Afflicta? This speculation may be without any merit. However, it would be in character for Bergoglio to try to woo the bishops and priests of the Society of Saint Pius X by such a gesture of “mercy” to further neutralize what has long been the “controlled opposition” of what passes for the much of the traditional movement.

Finally, we have been informed by a person who attends a chapel administered by a priest of the Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen, that the fifty-one year-old police officer, Eric Talley, who bravely responded to the call of duty when Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa opened fire upon shoppers at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, on Monday, March 22, 2021, the Feast of Saint Isidore the Farmer here in the United States and the Commemoration of Monday Passion Week, and was mortally wounded by the gunfire was a member of a Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen parish in Colorado.

Press reports state that Officer Talley, who was married and was the father of seven children, had given up a six-figure position to become a police officer after a friend of his was killed in automobile accident caused by a driver who was driving under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance. His bravery and valor are admirable.

Our prayers, therefore, should be with the Talley family at this time as we pray for the repose of his immortal soul. A commentary on this tragedy—and the recent killings by Robert Aaron Long in Atlanta, Georgia, will follow by Palm Sunday along with a republished reflection on Holy Week.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine up him.

May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.

This is a brief republished reflection on the Sacrament of Confirmation sixty=three years to the day after I received it at the hands of the late Bishop Walter P. Kellenberg, the founding bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York.

Another original article should appear by the Feast of the Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Passiontide or, at the very latest, by Saturday of Passion Week. 

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Saint Benedict of Nursia, pray for us.

Saint Isidore the Farmer, pray for us.

Saint Maria de la Cabeza, pray for us.

Dr. Byrne's Statement to the Uniform Law Commission:

The Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) has been adopted in all 50 states based on the recommendation of the Uniform Law Commission (ULC).  Now the ULC is considering revision of the UDDA. 

The UDDA states, “An individual who has sustained either 1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions, or 2) irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem, is dead. A determination of death must be made in accordance with accepted medical standards.”

The first (1) is termed death by cardio-pulmonary criteria and the second, (2) death by neurological criteria (DNC) aka as “brain death” (BD).

When DNC, aka BD, the heart is beating with circulation delivering oxygen to every part of the body and taking away waste products.

A reason to declare DNC is to get organs for transplantation from patients with a beating heart, circulation, and respiration (exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide in tissues).  Proposed UDDA revisions by BD proponents would, by statute, take away any rights of patients or their families to prevent declaration of BD by doctors and would explicitly not require consent for doing the dangerous procedure of the apnea test (PAT).

The ULC is considering revision of the UDDA so DNC will be done without providing notice, information, or getting consent from loved ones to declare BD including the procedure of the apnea test (PAT) with its risks.

The PAT involves removing the life-supporting ventilator for up to 10 minutes or longer. The PAT purposely increases carbon dioxide to stimulate brainstem nerves to initiate a breath as would occur in a healthy person.  There is no validation data that a patient with an injured brain will respond normally to high levels of carbon dioxide by taking a breath or a gasp.  The function of taking a breath may not be observed.  The part of the brain being tested may not be functioning but that does not mean it is destroyed.  It may be potentially able to recover if in the state of penumbra (blood flow that is too low to detect but not totally absent).  The PAT may harm the patient since increased carbon dioxide can make brain swelling worse causing brain destruction.  In addition, the PAT does not test all brainstem functions related to breathing.  Families may be told that oxygen will be given implying that the test is safe.  Giving oxygen does not protect against harms from high carbon dioxide and may depress other breathing reflexes.  The PAT is of no benefit to the patient and only risks harm.

The patient declared DNC has a beating heart and other organs suitable for transplantation but is not a true corpse or cadaver suitable for burial or cremation.

Potential organ donors asked to give consent at the DMV may believe that organs are taken only after true death. They should know that when organs are taken from a BD patient the heart is beating and circulation is present.

No one should be declared dead until rightly and correctly a cadaver ready for burial or cremation.

What can we do?

• Write to the Uniform Law Commission and tell them that the UDDA needs to be repealed and replaced by “No one shall be declared dead unless respiratory and circulatory systems and the entire brain have been destroyed.  Such destruction shall be determined in accord with universally accepted medical standards.” 
• Full and complete information and the opportunity to decline use of neurological criteria alone to declare death must be provided.
• Full and complete information and the opportunity to decline the Procedure of the Apnea Test must be provided.
• Full and complete medical records must be made available on request within 24 hours to family, surrogates, attorneys, and designated physicians including while the patient is still in hospital.
• Communicate the same to your federal and state legislators.

The Honorable Samuel Thumma, Chairman

Members of the Determination of Death Act Committee

Uniform Law Commission

111 N. Wabash Avenue, Suite 1010

Chicago, IL 60602

info@uniformlaws.org

(312) 450-6600

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 Passiontide Reflection was published about fifteen hours ago. Another article will follow by tomorrow morning.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. 

Passiontide has begun, requiring us to intensify our reflections upon the Sacred Mysteries of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's Passion, Death, and Resurrection so that we can be more fully prepared for the Paschal Triduum that begins on Maundy Thursday, April1, 2021, but which is preceded by Tenebrae on Wednesday evening, March 31, 2021. Worldly distractions must have little place in our lives these next two weeks. Our Lord, the very Word Who was made Incarnate in His Most Blessed Mother's Virginal and Immaculate Womb by the power of His Co-Equal, Co-Eternal God the Holy Ghost at the Annunciation (the feast of which we celebrate this Friday, March 25, 2021), condescended to suffer and die for us, each and every single one of us.

How can we pray such a debt of love to the God-Man who took upon Himself the guilt of sins, which caused Him to suffer in His Sacred Humanity as sin the very antethesis of of Sacred Divinity?

What we can do is to keep close to Our Lady as we beg her to help us to be more grateful than ever before for the gift of her Divine Son's Redemptive Act in which she participated fully as the Queen of Martyrs atop Mount Calvary and to meditate with great fervor and devotion upon the Sorrowful Mysteries of her Most Holy Rosary so that we can make the very best Passiontide of our lives.

A republished article about Saint Benedict of Nursia, whose feast is commemorated today, will be published this afternoon. There are no fewer than five different articles that are being prepared for publication now, although one of them, "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part twelve," will not be publisted until Easter Monday or Easter Tuesday. There is just too much work to complete before it can be published. Oh, please note as well that What One Antipope Giveth, the Next Antipope Can Taketh Away was published three days ago now.

Finally, today, Sunday, March 21, 2021, is the sixtieth anniversary of my Confirmation at the hands of Bishop Walter P. Kellenberg, the founding Bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, at Saint Aloysius Church in Great Neck, Long Island, New York. Please pray for my fellow confirmadi, whether living or deceased. Thank you.

A blessed Passiontide to you all.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Saint Benedict of Nursia, pray for us.
 

[An original article, What One Antipope Giveth, the Next Antipope Can Taketh Away, was published late yesterday afernoon. Please scroll below for details. Also, please scroll below for information about my newest book: Bergoglio At War--With the Catholic Faith (Paperback); Bergoglio At War--With the Catholic Faith (Kindle).]

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! 

This commentary could have been entitled “Dancing on Ratzinger’s Grave Before He’s Dead and Buried,” “Hi-Yo, Summorum Pontificum, Away!,” “One Trap Catches Thousands of Mice,” “Montini’s Posthumous Revenge,” or “The Return of Annibale Bugnini, Virgilio Noe, and Piero Marini.”

Jorge Mario Bergoglio is making it clear, if only by the use of a little known Modernist underling in the Secretariat of State, that the days of any tolerance of the liturgical "past" are over. Although he is starting with the banning of private, individual stagings of both the Immemorial Mass of Tradition and the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical abomination on the side altars in main part of the Basilica of Saint Peter, the letter that one of his appointees, "Archbishop" Pena Parra, sent to the Fabric of Saint Peter is a roadmap for his like-minded Jacobin/Bolshevik "progressitvist" revolutionaries in the conciliar hieararchy to use for themselves without any fear of antipapal reprisal. Indeed, quite the contrary is true. The Argentine Apostate is giving the "green light" to crack down on priests and presbyters who deviate from the joys of the "liturgical reform and renewal."

Those of us who understand that the conciliar officials are enemies of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and serve in a false religious sect that is but the counterfeit ape of the Catholic Church know that, no matter how interesting the civil wars within the conciliar church may be, the battle we fight is for the restoration of the Holy Faith, whose liturgical expression is safeguarded in the Immemorial Mass of Tradition. It is pointless for those who are attached to the conciliar structures in the belief that they represent the Catholic Church to fight for the "right" for the modernized version of the Immemorial Mass of Tradition as those they believe to be the officials of the Catholic Church hate any expression of liturgical tradition because they hate the Faith.

My reflection on the Feast of Saint Joseph will be highlighted tomorrow, Friday, March 19, 2021.

Today, March 18, 2021, was the thirty-ninth anniversary of the death of my mother, Norma Florence Droleskey, who was born on March 6, 1921, in her beloved Corpus Christi, Texas, at the age of sixty-one years, twelve days. She had been diagnosed with stomach and esophageal cancer just seven weeks before her death. Please pray for the repose of her immortal soul.

Today is also the fourteenth anniversary of Father Daniel Johnson, the pastor of Saint Mary by the Sea Church in Huntington Beach, California, for over twenty-five years, and the thirteenth anniversary of the death of Mrs. Theresa Colgan, the mother of a friend of ours who had been a student of mine at Saint Francis College in Brooklyn, New York, during the 1985-1986 academic year. Please pray for their souls as well.

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, 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.

Please be assured that we will include the intentions of each one of our readers in mind as venerate this relic of Saint Patrick this evening.

While work on the next article, with deals with what starry-eyed Catholics within the conciliar structures who have "fought" for the "freedom" to assist at the modernized version of the Immemorial Mass of Tradition that was in effect universally within the conciliar church for a grand total of two years (all right, excluding the first change in the Canon of the Mass since Pope Saint Gregory the Great rearranged sixteen words at the end of the Sixth Century A.D. that was made by Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII in 1963, most of the "1962 Missal" was implemented on the First Sunday of Advent in 1961, December 3, 1961) until being supplanted by the so-called "transitional Mass," the Ordo Missae of Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini/Paul the Sick, on Sunday, November 29, 1964, are recognizing is the beginning of the end of Summorum Pontificum, the work that remains to be done on it is substantial. Thus, I beg the patience of the readers as I work on this important and very detailed commentary. (Please scroll below for information about my newest book.)

Also, Dr. Paul Byrne has asked me to circulate the following request he has made concerning the repealing and replacing of  the so-called "Universal Determination of Death Act" (UDDA):

A blessed Feast of Saint Patrick to you all! 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Patrick, pray for us.

This is a republished reflection on Pope Saint Gregory the Great, whose feast is celebrated today, Friday, March 12, 2021, along with the commemoration of Friday in the Third Week of Lent, that draws principally upon Pope Saint Pius X's Iucunda Sane, March 12, 1904.

The next original article will appear on this site early next week as there are yet a few formatting problems with the new anthology that I am trying to publish in time for the Argentine Apostate's eighth anniversary of being the universal public face of apostasy.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Gregory the Great, pray for us.