Today is the great Feast of Corpus Christi. This article, written a long time ago now and slightly revised over the years, is an exhortation to the readers of this site to spend more and more time in adoration before Our Beloved before His Real Presence in the Most Blessed Sacrament if this is at all possible in your area. 

This article, which has been in development for about four days, is quite lengthy.

As I have noted in the past, I am writing for the long term. My writing is not for those who would “sound bites” as my goal is move beyond the passions of the moment to provide a Catholic context to the fast-breaking events as we have entered Aldous Huxley’s “brave new world,” which has its “religious rites” of supposed “science” from which no one can dissent.

Even the supposedly “pro-life” United States Joseph Manchin (D-West Virginia, the only so-called “pro-life” Democrat in the United States Senate), a Catholic, chose not to vote on a Republican-sponsored amendment that would have banned Federal taxpayer funding of the creation of human-animal chimeras by truly mad scientists. Manchin put loyalty to his political party, which is committed institutionally to support every manner of moral evil imaginable, by not wanting to “embarrass” his fellow Democrats above what Pope Saint Pius X called in E Supremi, October 4, 1903, the “party of God,” that is, the Catholic Church.

The monsters of the brave new world know that they will face no insuperable obstacles from the politicians who drink at the trough of their campaign contributions and who fear behind labeled as “anti-science.” And this, you see, is simply the result of the anti-Incarnational world of Modernity wrought by the Protestant Revolution against the Divine Plan that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Himself instituted to effect man’s return to Him through His Catholic Church. The Protestant Revolution, inspired in no small measure by Talmudic friends of Martin Luther, let loose the anti-Incarnational forces of Modernity that continues to make war against Christ the King and His true Church and, quite of course, has no room for dissenters.

The next original article will appear by Friday, June 5, 2021, which is the second day of the Octave of the Solemnity of Corpus Christi and the Commemoration of Saint Boniface, Apostle to Germany.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Angela Merici, pray for us.

Today is Trinity Sunday and the Commemoration of the First Sunday after Pentecost, thus beginning the second half of the liturgical year that began with the First Sunday of Advent.

The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity was revealed to us by Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Although there are clear references in the text of the Old Testament to a plurality of Persons in the Divine Godhead ("Let us make man in our own image"), human reason, which can come to the conclusion that God exists, is insufficient to know about the existence of the Most Blessed Trinity. Our Lord Himself, the Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity made Man in Our Lady's Virginal and Immaculate Womb, had to reveal this to us. The doctrine of the Most Holy Trinity is rejected by all infidels and misrepresented by most Protestant sects.

To wit, many Protestants, especially in the evangelical and fundamentalist sects, are "baptized" in "the name of the Lord Jesus," not in "The Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost," which is invalid on its face. This means that many hundreds of thousands of Protestants are not even Christians despite their thinking that they are. We must defend the doctrine of the Most Blessed Trinity with our very lives if necessary, having frequent recourse to the making of the Sign of the Cross throughout the day. This is a custom that is held dear by many Spaniards and Latin Americans.

Remember, Jorge Mario Bergoglio did not want to give a "blessing," not that he is capable of giving one as a lay Jesuit revolutionary, that is, when address the crowd on the Capitol Mall in Washington, District of Columbia, on Thursday, September 24, 2015, the Feast of Our Lady of Ransom, for fear of offending "unbelievers."

The next article for this site is being written. I hope to have it published soon, but it will not be completed in time for posting today.

Today is also the sixty-second anniversary of my First Holy Communion at Saint Aloysius Church, Great Neck, New York. Please pray for my fellow First Communicants, living and deceased, and for the priests and religious of the parish who helped to prepare us for this blessed today.

A blessed Trinity Sunday to you all.

Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, pray for us.

Pope Saint Felix I,  pray for us.

King Saint Ferdinand III, pray for us.

Saint Joan of Arc, pray for us.

In light of the news that Jorge Mario Bergoglio has told Italian “bishops” that he plans “reforms” of Summorum Pontificum and that he has appointed a known enemy of Ratzinger/Benedict’s Motu Proprio, Arthur Roche, to be the new prefect of the conciliar Congregation for Divine Worship, I am hereby adapting an article published in March when an obscure office within the Secretariat of State consigned the staging/offering of the Immemorial Mass of Tradition to the Clementine Chapel of the Basilica of Saint Peter and banned all individual stagings of the Novus Ordo liturgical service in favor of “concelebration” for reconsideration and reflection.

Additionally, I am hereby providing links to a limited number of articles that I have written since the issuance of Summorum Pontificum on July 4, 2007, so that those who are younger may come to realize that Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict’s motu proprio was a trap from the beginning and the trap has finally gone snap after a mere fourteen years:

1. Mister Potter's Big Cigar
2. Motu Plus Two
3. Strictly by the Script
4. "Reconciliations" at the Price of Truth
5. Liturgy: The Final Frontier
6. Hook, Line and Sinker
7. A Shopworn Line: "He Just 'Had' to Say That"
8. No Such Thing as a Small Sacrilege
9. Submit to and Obey the One World Church
10. Conciliar Theater of the Absurd
11. Honesty from an Unlikely Source
12. Answering to the Enemies of Christ the King
13. Continuity Plus Discontinuity Equals Insanity
14. High Church, Low Church
15. Mocking the Faith
16. Motu Madness Merry-Go-Round
17. A Trap Goes Snap
18. Once Again, It is All About Truth
19. "Pacification of Spirits"
20. Continuity Plus Discontinuity Will Always Equal Insanity
21. Studied Silence, False Hopes
22. Minimizing Evil Is Itself Evil
23. Nothing to Negotiate
24. Words Really Do Matter
25. Refusing To Take Ratzinger At His Word
26. As The Old German Fowler Sets More Snares, part one
27. As The Old German Sets More Snares, part two
28. As The Old German Fowler Sets More Snares, part three
29. Transforming the Extraordinary Into the Ordinary
30. "Yer Durn Tootin'"
31. The Better Mousetrap
32. There Is More to Life Than Just Doctrine?, part one
33. One Rite To Enshrine All That Is Wrong
34. Back To The Future
35. Seeking Unity In Their Apostasy
36. Perdition's Ally: Jorge Mario Bergoglio
37. Next Stop On The Motu Madness Merry-Go-Round: 1969 And Beyond
38. Jorge "Gives" What He Does Not Have
39. Turning The Tables On Jorge
40. Jorge the Juvenile Delinquent
41. Francis: Apostle of Antichrist, part two
42. Accepting Apostasy in Increments, part two
43. "The Church That Flowed From The 'Second' Vatican Council
44. Another Front in the Conciliar Civil War, part two
45. Jorge and the Company He Chooses to Keep
46. Nothing Random About This, part four
47. Nothing Random About This, part five
48. Just A Hypocritical Farce From Beginning to End
49. A "Correction In Need of a Correction, part three of a series
50. Stupendously Absurd and Bereft of Any Notion of Catholic Ecclesiology 

The battle that we fight is on behalf and in defense of the Holy Faith. It was to undermine and then supplant the true Faith with the false, condemned tenets of Modernism that the conciliar revolutionaries concocted the Novus Ordo liturgical service, which has served its purpose as a singular vessel of perdition to evangelize on behalf of those condemned tenets and to consign the true memory of the Catholic past to the Orwellian memory hole.

The Immemorial Mass of Tradition of the Latin Rite of Holy Mother Church is not the same thing as the modernized version of the “Latin Mass” that was made the “gold standard” of “traditionalism” by the Society of Saint Pius X and then by Karol Josef Wojtyla/John Paul II in Quattuor Abhinc Annos, October 3, 1984, and in Ecclesia De Ad Afflicta, July 2, 1988. What is called the “1962 Missal,” however, was in was in use universally in the counterfeit church of conciliarism from the First Sunday of Advent in 1961, December 3, 1961, to Saturday, November 28, 1964, before it was replaced by Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini/Paul VI with the Ordo Missae that eliminated Psalm 42 and, among other “novelties,” permanently abolished the Prayers after Low Mass, which had been made “optional” in the so-called “1962 Missal.” (Details of the Ordo Missae, which was known colloquially at the time as the “transitional Mass,” can be found in Experts in Dismissing Papal Primacy.)

Let the “resist while recognize” crowd perish on the battlefield of a missal that included Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII’s anti-liturgical, Jansenist changes that were made to prepare the way for a “new liturgy” for a “new faith.”

Noting that none of us who have come to see the true state of the Church in this time of apostasy are one whit better than anyone else, we must nevertheless, despite our own faults and failings, try to defend the Holy Faith that the conciliar revolutionaries continue to make war against, a defense that can only bear fruit in the future if we continue to do our work for the honor and glory of the Most Blessed Trinity as the consecrated slaves of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Each Rosary we pray can help to plant a few seeds for the restoration that is to come.

What are we waiting for?

A new article will appear by tomorrow, Trinity Sunday, in addition to a republished reflection for the feast day.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Augustine of Canterbury, pray for us.

Saint Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, pray for us.

This is a follow-up commentary to Jorge Orders Protection for His Pro-Abortion, Pro-Perversity Statist Comrades, which was published a week ago today, as it deals with the attitude of so many Catholics, I being one among them, in the 1970s and 1980s who began to refer to what we believe were true “bishops” or priests as being “pro-life” and permitted ourselves to be duped by the adversary into believing that there was a battle between the “good” bishops and the “bad” bishops as the poor pope “suffered” this battle of false opposites that served only to demonstrate, to some sooner and to others of us much later, that those who defect the Faith in one thing defect from It in Its entirety.

Although this commentary is only one quarter of the size of Sin More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part twelve, which was published thirty-one days ago and revised along the way until its posting on May 7, 2021, it will require time to study and digest.

For present purposes, however, I would like to point out a passage included in this commentary’s  text that comes from the reflection in The Liturgical Year that Dom Prosper Gueranger wrote for Ember Wednesday in the Octave of Pentecost that speaks to our situation very directly nearly one hundred fifty years later:

Tomorrow, we will speak of what the Holy Ghost does for the maintaining Faith, one and unvarying, in the whole body of the Church; let us today limit our considerations to this single point, namely, that the Holy Spirit is the source of external union by voluntary submission to one center of unity. Jesus had said: Thou art Peter, and upon this Rock I will build my Church: now, Peter was to die; the promise, therefore, could not refer to his person only, but to the whole line of his successors, even to the end of the world. How stupendous is not the action of the Holy Ghost, who thus produces a dynasty of spiritual Princes, which has reached its two hundred and fiftieth Pontiff, and is to continue to the last day! No violence is offered to man’s free will; the Holy Spirit permits him to attempt what opposition he lists; but the work of God must go forward. A Decius may succeed in causing a four years’ vacancy in the See of Rome; anti-popes may arise, supported by popular favor, or upheld by the policy of Emperors; a long schism may render it difficult to know the real Pontiff amidst the several who claim it: the Holy Spirit will allow the trial to have its course and, while it lasts, will keep up the faith of his Children; the day will come when he will declare the lawful Pastor of the Flock, and the whole Church will enthusiastically acknowledge him as such. (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year, Reflection on Wednesday in Whitsun Week.)

Interesting, eh?

The next original article should be posted no later than Saturday, May 29, 2021, although it could be posted sooner as we have had our regular access to the internet restored. I am, however, embarking upon a major revision and rewriting of G.I.R.M. Warfare that will occupy much of my time during the month of June, the month of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Philip Neri, pray for us.sede

Pope Saint Eleutherius, pray for us.

Although my own next original article will not appear until Friday or Saturday because of other work commitments and the time that will be needed to write it, I am presenting to you a transcription of a very powerful sermon on Whit Monday that was written and delivered by Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J., here in the United States of America in the early 1880s. This sermon has great relevance to contemporary events unfolding right before our very eyes, and I will provide a bit of commentary on this sermon in one of my next original articles on this site.

For the moment, though, suffice it to consider the impact that Father Weninger’s books and sermons had upon Americans, including a Jewish man who converted to the Catholic Faith because of Father Weninger’s writings:

Weninger’s writings during his life time were extensive and varied across a wide spectrum of topics, including, but not limited to, scripture commentaries, works on canon law, sermons, mission techniques, and musical compositions. These works had a great impact their readers, as shown in a letter that was sent in memoriam by a Jewish man from New Orleans. In the letter, he writes:

“To my sincere sorrow, I read in to-day’s paper of the demise of Fr. Weninger of Cincinnati. Not having had the pleasure of knowing him personally, I have learned to love him from studying some of his works, and it was for some time a favorite idea of mine, when passing through Cincinnati, to call on him and that him for the great spiritual benefit I derived by perusing his books. His picture is hanging over my desk, and if the prayers of a poor sinful Hebrew convert, whom by his writings he has helped by to find again the true and only way that leads to salvation, are acceptable toward the repose of his soul, I will thus try and show him my gratitude.” “Father Weninger,” Woodstock Letters 18, no. 1 (1889): 123 (As found at Jesuit Archives: The Digital Collection of Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J. .)

The next orginal article on this site, which is a follow-up to the one posted five days ago, will be posted by either late this evening, Monday, May 24, 2021, or tomorrow, Whit Tuesday, May 25, 2021. Thank you.

Our Lady Help of Christians (whose feast, which falls on this date although it is not on the general calendar of the Roman Rite, is suppressed today, Whit Monday), pray for us.

Today is Pentecost Sunday, the birthday of Holy Mother Church, the upon which the first pope, Saint Peter, who was vivified as the Vivifier Himself, God the Holy Ghost, descended upon him and Our Lady and the other Apostles (and the rest of the disciples) gathered in the Upper Room in Jerusalem as they completed their Novena to God the Holy Ghost ten days after Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's glorious Ascension to His Father's right hand on Ascension Thursday. Saint Peter wasted no time in doing something that is forbidden, at least in a de facto sense, in the counterfeit church of conciliarism: he preached to the Jews about the necessity of their converting to the true Faith.

The missionary work of the Church to seek with urgency the unconditional conversion of all men and all nations to the her maternal bosom, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there is no true social order, brought us glorious missionaries who were willing to embrace many sacrifices, including martyrdom itself, to spread the Faith of the Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, so that men and all nations would be able to order themselves rightly according to the Deposit of Faith that He has entrusted exclusively to Holy Mother Church for Its eternal safekeeping and infallible explication and by means of a fervent cooperation with the graces won for us by the shedding of Our Lord's Most Precious Blood and that flow into our hearts and souls through the loving hands of Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of all Graces. The work of conversion does not end when one is Baptized or Confirmed.

The work of conversion away from our sinful selves to become more conformed to the Cross of the Divine Redeemer and the merciful designs of His Most Sacred Heart for us is one that is constant. Every beat of our hearts, consecrated as they must be to that same Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, must burn with fire for the love of God as He has revealed Himself to us through His true Church and as we seek to grow in holiness and to make reparation for our sins and those of the whole world. It is useless for us to be converted in the Baptismal font unless we are willing to let God the Holy Ghost help to convert us every day to cooperate more fully with His Seven Gifts and Twelve Fruits. Saint Paul the Apostle explained that the spiritual man, the one who is filled with Sanctifying Grace, cannot be understood by the sensual or worldly man:

For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is in him? So the things also that are of God no man knoweth, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit that is of God; that we may know the things that are given us from God. Which things also we speak, not in the learned words of human wisdom; but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God; for it is foolishness to him, and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined. But the spiritual man judgeth all things; and he himself is judged of no man. (2 Cor. 2: 11-15)

We must keep this in mind when our relatives and friends and associates do not understand how we can refuse to keep our silence when a putative "pontiff" calls a mosque as a "jewel" or as a "sacred" place or as he prays as a Jew without mentioning the Holy Name of the Divine Redeemer (doing voluntarily what the leaders of Sanhedrin tried to force the Apostles to do, that is, to mention the "name of that man no more") and has he praises the nonexistent ability of false religions to help build the "better world."

We cannot care about what others think of us. We must say and do only those things that are pleasing God, never fearing to raise our voices to defend His greater honor and glory and majesty when these are offended by one claiming to speak for the Catholic Church on earth. The Mystical Bride of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Holy Mother Church, is as spotless and as immaculate as Our Blessed Mother herself.

The Catholic Church did not give us "hootenanny" liturgies before the aftermath of the "Second" Vatican Council. She did not give us "inter-religious dialogue" and "inter-religious" prayer services. She gave us liturgies that came from God the Holy Ghost, not travesties that reaffirm people in the spirit of the world.

The Catholic Church can only give us clarity of doctrine, not ambiguity and complexity that took one "clarification" after another to attempt to make "clear." And Holy Mother Church has always mirrored Our Blessed Mother's hatred of heresy and error, which was part of the meditation written by the late Father Frederick Faber on the Sixth Dolor of Our Lady:

In the judgment of the world, and of worldly Christians, this hatred of heresy is exaggerated, bitter, contrary to moderation, indiscreet, unreasonable, aiming at too much, bigoted, intolerant, narrow, stupid, and immoral. What can we say to defend it? Nothing which they can understand. We had, therefore, better hold our peace. If we understand God, and He understands us, it is not so very hard to go through life suspected, misunderstood and unpopular. The mild self-opinionatedness of the gentle, undiscerning good will also take the world's view and condemn us; for there is a meek-loving positiveness about timid goodness which is far from God, and the instincts of whose charity is more toward those who are less for God, while its timidity is searing enough for harsh judgment. There are conversions where three-quarters of the heart stop outside the Church and only a quarter enters, and heresy can only be hated by an undivided heart. But if it is hard, it has to be borne. A man can hardly have the full use of his senses who is bent on proving to the world, God's enemy, that a thorough-going Catholic hatred of heresy is a right frame of mind. We might as well force a blind man to judge a question of color. Divine love inspheres in us a different circle of life, motive, and principle, which is not only not that of the world, but in direct enmity with it. From a worldly point of view, the craters in the moon are more explicable things than we Christians with our supernatural instinct.

We must therefore permit God the Holy Ghost to come into our souls with His bright burning flames at every moment of our lives so that we will filled with love of God and hatred of our own sins as we seek to cooperate with the graces He sends us through the loving hands of His Spouse, Our Lady, making sure to honor His Spouse as we pray as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit. May this be our prayer this day and every day our own lives:

Come, Holy Ghost, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love.

V. Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created.

R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.

Let us pray. O God, Who didst instruct the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Ghost, grant us in the same Spirit to be truly wise, and ever to rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

A blessed Pentecost Sunday and Octave to you all!

Our Lady of the Cenacle,  pray for us.

Although I have not yet received the replacement for the Verizon Wireless “Ellipsis” jetpack hotspot device that connects us to the internet in our rural part of north central Texas, I did purchase a T-Mobile hotspot device that provides some coverage off and on, now and again, sporadically, and unpredictably.

It is my hope, therefore, that this relatively brief commentary on Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s efforts, exercised through the prefect of the misnamed Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to rein in “conservative” American “bishops” who want to establish a uniform policy barring pro-abortion, pro-perversity Catholics in public life from receiving what purports to be Holy Communion in the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical abomination will break through the “sound barrier,” so to speak, and get published.

I am sorry for the delay. However, we are pretty much incommunicado now until Verizon Wireless gets around to providing us with a replacement hotspot that actually works regularly and predictably.

Work on the next article proceeds. I will have republished reflections for the Vigil of Pentecost and for Pentecost Sunday on Saturday, May 22, 2021, and Sunday, May 23, 2021, respectively.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Peter Celestine (V), pray for us.

Saint Pudentiana, pray for us.

Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's forty days' of teaching the Apostles after his glorious Resurrection from the dead on Easter Sunday culminated this very day, Ascension Thursday, as He instructed the Eleven as follows before going up into Heaven from Mount Olivet at whose foot He had suffered His Agony in the Garden six weeks before as Saints Peter, James and John slumbered:

"And the eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And seeing him they adored: but some doubted. And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world." (Matthew 28: 16-20.)

'There is no "expiration" date on this command. Indeed, the commentary in the Bishop Richard Challoner version of the Douay-Rheims Bible explains that the command is in force until Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ comes in glory on the Last Day to judge the living and the dead and that His Church could never go astray, meaning, of course, that it is impossible for the Catholic Church to give any impression at all that God is pleased with false religions such as Mohammedanism and Talmudic Judaism, which is what the conciliar "popes" have done consistently in the past fifty-nine years, having reached the point of complete absurdity now under Jorge Mario Bergoglio:

18 "All power"... See here the warrant and commission of the apostles and their successors, the bishops and pastors of Christ's church. He received from his Father all power in heaven and in earth: and in virtue of this power, he sends them (even as his Father sent him, St. John 20. 21) to teach and disciple, not one, but all nations; and instruct them in all truths: and that he may assist them effectually in the execution of this commission, he promises to be with them, not for three or four hundred years only, but all days, even to the consummation of the world. How then could the Catholic Church ever go astray; having always with her pastors, as is here promised, Christ himself, who is the way, the truth, and the life. St. John 14."

The Catholic Church can never go astray. She is infallible. She does not give us any "new ecclesiology" or "hermeneutic of continuity and discontinuity" to deconstruct the meaning of dogmatic truth, thus attacking the essence of the nature of God Himself, or false ecumenism. Her pastors do not esteem the symbols and values and places of false religions and they do not engage in "inter-religious" "prayer" services. Her pastors do not teach that false religions have a "right" from God to propagate their false beliefs publicly and they do not praise those false beliefs for being "able" to "contribute" to the building of a "better" world. Pastors of the Catholic Church insist always and at all times that Catholicism is the one and only foundation of personal and social order with no equivocation, uncertainty, ambiguity or obscurity of any kind. As Pope Pius XI noted in Mortalium Animos, January 6, 1928, there is need to "strain" to "find" Catholicism in the pronouncements made by Holy Mother Church:

"For the teaching authority of the Church, which in the divine wisdom was constituted on earth in order that revealed doctrines might remain intact for ever, and that they might be brought with ease and security to the knowledge of men, and which is daily exercised through the Roman Pontiff and the Bishops who are in communion with him, has also the office of defining, when it sees fit, any truth with solemn rites and decrees, whenever this is necessary either to oppose the errors or the attacks of heretics, or more clearly and in greater detail to stamp the minds of the faithful with the articles of sacred doctrine which have been explained. " (Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos, January 6, 1928.)

How has the integrity of the doctrine of the First Commandment been stamped on "minds of the faithful" by the words and deeds of the conciliar "popes"?

Christ the King has taken His throne in Heaven. We must ascend with Him in our thoughts and prayers at all times as we refuse to have our minds and hearts poisoned by the words and the deeds of the false shepherds of the counterfeit church of conciliarism who dare to blaspheme God so regularly and so openly and/or who refuse to open their mouths in defense of the honor and majesty and glory of God when He is so blasphemed and offended.

As the angel made clear to the Eleven as they looked into the sky as Our Lord disappeared from their sight on this day, there is work for us to do:

"They therefore who were come together, asked him, saying: Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? But he said to them: It is not for you to know the times or moments, which the Father hath put in his own power: But you shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth. And when he had said these things, while they looked on, he was raised up: and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they were beholding him going up to heaven, behold two men stood by them in white garments. " Who also said: Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come, as you have seen him going into heaven. Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount that is called Olivet, which is nigh Jerusalem, within a sabbath day's journey. And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Jude the brother of James. All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren." (Acts 1: 6-14.)

Yes, we can't stand around all day long looking into the sky. There is work for us to do before Our Lord comes for us at the moment of our own Particular Judgments, which can come at any hour and on any day, and at the end of the world to judge the living and the dead. 

The work that we have to do is to sanctify and to save our immortal souls as members of the Catholic Church, work that requires us to be attentive to the graces that were won for us on the wood of the Holy Cross by the shedding of every single drop of Our Blessed Lord Saviour Jesus Christ's Most Precious Blood and the flow into our hearts and souls through the loving hands of Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces. And to cooperate with the graces that Our Lady sends we must be fortified in prayer, which is one of the reasons that we must keep most assiduously the first Novena in the history of the Church, the Novena to God the Holy Ghost. Our Lady was separated from her Divine Son when He Ascended to Heaven. She was united to Him, however, by means of her reception of His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in Holy Communion. She was united to the Apostles and the others who prayed in the same Upper Room where He had instituted the Holy Priesthood and the Holy Eucharist at the Last Supper on Maundy Thursday. She is united to us. She is our Blessed Mother. We need to ask her for all the graces that we need to save and to sanctify our souls as we eschew worldliness, which is the theme of today's substantially revised article, and as we refuse to participate in the fraud of a false religion, conciliarism, that is replete with daily outrages given to her Divine Son, starting with the outrage that is the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical service, and as we make much reparation for our sins and those of the whole world as the consecrated slaves of her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

A blessed Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ to you all on Thursday, May 13, 2021.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

The Holy Apostles, pray for us.