Today is the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, always the humble handmaid of the Lord who humbled herself this day, the last day of Christmastide, which ends after Holy Mass today, by submitting to the rituals of the law although she was not in need of such a ritualistic purification because of her Perpetual Virginity.

This is the day that Our Lady presented her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, in the same Temple where He would be found twelve years later answering questions of the rabbis, the same Temple whose curtain would be torn in two from top to bottom as He breathed His last on the wood of the Holy Cross to redeem us, thereby signifying the permanent end of the Old Covenant and the supersession of Judaism by Catholicism as the true religion. The aged Simeon, who waited patiently every day in the Temple for the fulfillment of the promise that God had made to him, that he would not die before his eyes had seen and his arms had beheld the Messiah, sent the first Sword of Sorrow plunging through Our Lady's Sorrowful and and Immaculate Heart when he prophesied that the Child he beheld would be destined for the rise and for the fall of man, a sign to be opposed, a Sign of Contradiction. We must never fear to be signs of contradiction in our own lives in imitation of the THE Sign of Contradiction, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, as He hung on the wood of the Holy Cross to redeem us as he was mocked and reviled by the very people from whose stock He had taken His Sacred Humanity.

We must be willing to suffer all manner of calumny and humiliation for the many times that we have preferred human respect to fidelity to Our Lord, for the many times we have refused to call upon Our Lady's maternal intercession, for the many times we have refused to "take sides," especially in our day by refusing to reject conciliarism and its ravenous wolves once and for all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Although I might record a video or audio presentation on the farce of the Cirque du Naturalisme that is gripping the lives of so many now, this commentary seeks to rise above the bread and details of the current quadrennial madness in an effort to provide a supernatural perspective to help those trapped in the bread and circuses of naturalism to pray more fervently for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Bosco, pray for us.

Saint Dominic Savio, pray for us.

Saint Maria Domenica Mazzarello, pray for us.

Today, Wednesday, January 31, 2024, is the feast of the great Saint John Bosco, to whom we are very devoted. This is a revised reflection on an extraordinary priest who had a zeal for the salvation of souls in his youth, a zeal that would last until he died on this date in 1888, one hundred thirty-six years ago.

Saint John Bosco stands a rebuke to everything that manner in which the conciliar revolutionaries refuse to seek converts to what they think is the Catholic Church and the manner in which they reaffirm unrepentant sinners in lives that could lead them to Hell for all eternity if they do not go to Confession and amend their lives. This brief reflection, written about fourteen years ago now, is an effort to capture the spirit of this magnificent teacher of the young, mystic and zealous apostle of souls.

Part two of my current two-part series will be posted within a few minutes.

Vivat Christus Rex! Viva Cristo Rey! 

Our Lady, Help of Christians, pray for us.

Saint John Bosco, pray for us.

Saint Dominic Savio, pray for us.

Saint Maria Domenica Mazzarello, pray for us.

Today, Monday, January 29, 2024, is the Feast of Saint Francis de Sales.

I am hereby republishing a brief and woefully indequate account of the Apostle of Charity and zealous foe of Calvinism.

Part two of my current series is being written. I will about the Texas border situation thereafter.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Francis de Sales, pray for us.

There is little "new" to say about the farce of electoral politics that I have said hundreds upon hundreds of times before.

However, I make the effort now and again to remind the readers of this site that there is secular "solution" to any social problem.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Peter Nolasco, pray for us.

Saint Agnes, pray for us.

Today is Septuagesima Sunday. 

Lent begins in but seventeen days.

Easter is exactly nine weeks way.

It is time to start our preparations for Lent, time to start thinking about the penances we are going to undertake starting on Ash Wednesday in order to make reparation for our sins and those of the whole world as we prepare to enter deep into the mysteries of the Paschal Triduum of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's Passion, Death, and Resurrection on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. The purple vestments representing a penitential season of Holy Mother Church make their reappearance today to remind us that we must be deadly serious about the business of making the best Lent of our lives as we do not know whether this Lent will be our last one on the face of this earth--or whether we will even live to see the end of this particular Lent! Let us use this time well as the consecrated slaves of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, praying as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit.

A new commentary will be published within a few minutes.

Our Lady of Dolors, pray for us.

Saint Peter Nolasco, pray for us.

Saint Agnes, pray for us.

Today's offering a republished reflection on the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle.

As I spent almost the entirety of the Feast of Saint Timothy dealing with the problems caused by an identity thief who stole half of my meager monthly Social Security payment, the next original article for this may not appear until Saturday, January 27, 2024, the Feast of Saint John Chrysostom and the seventy-second anniversary of my baptism at the hands of Father John Dushan at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Queens Village, New York. Penance gets better and better than ever in 2024!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Paul, pray for us.

Saint Peter, pray for us.

Today, Biden, tomorrow Trump, and that will the last I write about the farce of this year's presidential elections for a good long while as there is no point to repeating themes that I have been writing and speaking about for many decades now.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Raymond of Penafort, pray for us.

Saint Emerantiana, pray for us.

Saint Ildefonsus, pray for us.

Delayed by the unexpected death of a nine-month old computer caused by its “dotter board” and the problems associated with discovering whether the device was under warranty (it is not), this commentary, which I had expected to have published four days ago, is about part of Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s interview on an Italian television talk show one week ago today, that is, on Sunday, January 14, 2024, the Second Sunday after the Epiphany and the Commemoration of Saint Hilary of Poitiers and of Saint Felix.

The next original commentary on this site will focus on the fifty-first anniversary of the dreadful decision of the United States of America in the case of Roe v. Wade, January 22, 1973. My commentary on the naturally absurd farce called the presidential election season will follow in a day or two after that before returning to the Argentine Apostate once again.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Agnes, pray for us.

This is a follow-up to Monday's commentary. 

Another new commentary, one dealing with Jorge Mario Bergoglio's latest interview, will be published either late tomorrow or early Saturday, the Feast of Saints Fabian and Sebastian.

Reflections on today's Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter in Rome and tommorow's feast (Saints Marius, Martha, Aubuchom, and Audifax; Saint Canute, King of Denmark; and Saint Wulstan) are to be found in this commentary.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Peter, pray for us.

Saint Paul, pray for us.

Saint Prisca, pray for us.

Saint Marius, Matha, Aubuchom, and Audifax, pray for us.

Saint Wulstan, pray for us.