This is a brief update to inform readers that the Kindle version of A Study of Dom Prosper Gueranger's Detailed Defense of The Mystical City of God has been published. The paperback version is undergoing the “review” process at this time, although I will probably wait until some issues with the cover design get resolved before making it available for purchase.
Longtime readers of this website know that my work attempts to address root causes as one of the spiritual diseases of our time is a glib superficiality when dealing with matters of historical importance. It is one thing to recount what happened on what date it happened and/or to provide a catalog of facts and dates. However, it demands a true understanding of the ideas and beliefs—true or false, good or bad, sound or unsound—possessed by those who made history to explain why certain events unfolded as they did and, in the current context of The Mystical City of God, to understand the underlying Jansenism of those at the Sorbonne who were committed to working against authentic Catholic Mariology and mystical theology with as much force and fury as they could bring to their wretched enterprise.
Part one of this study about the collected articles of Dom Prosper Gueranger’s twenty-eight articles in defense of The Mystical City of God published in L’Univers between May 23, 1858, and November 8, 1859, emphasizes the fact that the Abbot of Solesmes had personally reviewed the five hundred-ten page file containing all the proceedings and records of the beautification of Venerable Mary of Jesus of Agreed in the offices of the Sacred Congregation of Rites in Rome. As these articles were personally reviewed by a scholar, liturgist, historian,and theologian who, by the way, helped to prepare a draft of Pope Pius XI’s solemn, infallible proclamation of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Ineffabilis Deus, December 8, 1854, one cannot even begin to understand the real history of the actions of the Sorbonne against The Mystical City of God on September 17, 1686, unless one identifies the Jansenism at work in those actions and how the plot itself was implemented.
Dom Prosper Gueranger did this admirably, and this book explains the Abbot’s findings, which were translated into English by Mr. Timothy A. Duff, who published the collected articles in Mary of Agreda and The Mystical City of God: 28 Articles by Dom Prosper Gueranger, OSB, Abbot of Solesmes, theological, liturgist, historian, ad author of the Liturgical Year. Originally published in L’Univers, Paris, 1858-1859, and how they related directly to the work of the “Second” Vatican Council and the construction of the synthetic liturgical concoction, the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical abomination, thereafter.
Finally, today, Friday, September 5, 2025, the Feast of Saint Lawrence Justinian and the First Friday of the month of September, is the thirty-third anniversary of the death of my father, Dr. Albert Henry Martin Droleskey (see One Man's Life Changed By Doctor Droleskey) at Flower Memorial Hospital in Sylvania, Ohio, just thirty-five days short of his seventy-third birthday. Requiescat in pace. Amen.
Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
Saint Lawrence Justinian, pray for us.
