Today is the Feast of Saint Cecilia, a heroic model of Catholic purity and of martyrdom for the Holy Faith.

Yes, the secular world celebrates a different “holy day” today. While we can always Catholicize such days, our first obligation is to live the liturgical life of the Catholic Church and not to be the prisoners of a secular calendar that has sought to replace Christmas Day with “thanksgiving day.” Every day is a Thanksgiving Day for a Catholic. (See the article below this one for a reflection on the secular thanksgiving day.

An original article should appear by Saturday, November 24, 2018. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. 

Saint Cecilia, pray for us.

One of the saddest spectacles here in a land suffused with the ethos of Judeo-Calvinist-Masonic naturalism is how the secular celebration of thanksgiving day has eclipsed Christmas Day in the homes of many Americans.

This is quite by design as it was the intention of the thirty-third degree Freemason named Franklin Delano Roosevelt to promote shopping during a time when our attention must be on withdrawing from the world. As there are a few new readers to this site, including some from Protestant and even Jewish backgrounds who have expressed an interesting in converting to the true Faith, it is my hope that this republished reflection might of assistance in demonstrating the extent to which the warfare against Christ the King that entered its overt phase with the Protestant Revolution in 1517 has shaped what passes for American "culture" to the detriment of souls and thus to all of social order. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Saint Cecilia, pray for us. .

Yes, I am back online again. It is going to take several days to get back up to speed with new articles. However, I remain grateful for the help that we received to get a refurbished notebook computer. I hope to have a new article for posting by the Feast of Saint John of the Cross and the Commemoration of Saint Chrysogonus, Saturday, November 24, 2018. 

Today is the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This is a short reflection on the feast day, which is followed by an appendix including the description of the Presentation of Our Lady as found in The New English Edition of The Mystical City of God.

Work on my book projects will resume later today.

Finally, please pray for a former student of mine who turns fifty-one years of age today and for a friend of ours on Long Island who turns seventy years of age today. Thank you.

Our Lady, Ark of the New Covenant, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

This is a brief refection on the life and the martyrdom of Saint Josaphat Kuncewicz, who laid down his life to do what is forbidden by conciliarism, namely, to seek the conversion of the schismatic and heretical Orthodox churches.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Josaphat Kuncewicz, pray for us.

Although felled by some kind of sickness and slowed by the chronic problems caused by degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis and two fracture lumbar discs, this is a brief commentary on the tragic events that continue to unfold in California. Pray for all those affected and for the conversion of those who are steeped in and/or promote sin with wanton abandon.

Most of my time now is being spent on readying volume one of an anthology of my spiritual reflections. A grant has been given to make possible the volume’s printing so that I can avoid using CreateSpace again. It is my hope to have the book ready for sale in early December.

My election commentary will be posted whenver they count the manufactured votes in Broward and Palm Beach counties in Florida. Gee, I wonder if Gore is going to beat Bush this time around?

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Didacus—San Diego, pray for us.

Although I have been busy with many things, including putting together the anthology of spiritual reflections and attempting to write on the electoral side show that will keep many people agitated for the next two years prior to the 2020 circus that will keep many people agitated until 2022, I saw that "Bishop" Athanasius Schneider's travel itinerary is being curtailed by the apostles of "episcopal collegiality" within the walls of the Occupied Vatican on the West Bank of the Tiber River (see Novus Ordo Watch Wire), I have neither the time nor the desire to add my own commentary to the matter other than to republish this piece, which was published ten months ago.

The irony here is that Bergoglio's cracking down on dissenters from his interpretation of the apostasy represented by conciliarism represents an exercise of the sort of authority that a true pope is duty-bound to employ when faced with renegade bishops. In this instance, of course, Jorge Mario Bergoglio is not a true "pope" and his nemeses, including Raymond Leo Burke and Athanasius Schenider, are neither bishops nor priests. This is all a smokescreen n the part of the adversary to create the same kind of illusion of a "good guys" versus the "bad guys" conflict that was created centuries ago by the lords of Modernity to control the masses with the illusion of conflict between competing sets of naturalists. The conflict between Jorge and his renegades is simply a matter of Modernists of one degree or another who cannot agree on what level of defection from the Catholic Faith constitutes apostasy. (The answer is, of course: just one, meaning that they've all abandoned the Holy Faith as even a partial abandonment puts one outside the pale of the Barque of Saint Peter.)

The election commentary will take a few days, if not a week, to complete. It will be as thorough as "George Soro's Latest Sideshow" a month ago. Thanks for your patience.

Our Lady, Queen of All Saints, pray for us.

The Four Holy Crowned Martyrs, pray for us.

[Circumstances, including the degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis and two fractured lumbar vertebrae, have slowed me down in recent days. I am sorry for the lateness of this posting. However, November is the month of the Poor Souls. Thank you.]

One of ways in which we can practice true Charity is to remember the Poor Souls every day in our prayers. Terrible, terrible sinner that I am, one of my devotions has long been to the Poor Souls. To help the Poor Souls repay the debt that they can no longer pay for themselves is to acquire friends for eternity who will help us at the moment of our own deaths. Charity to the Poor Souls can help to undo our own lack of charity to others in this passing, mortal vale of tears. This is indeed the month of the Poor Souls. Let us show them our due attention each and every day of the year, especially in this month of November.

Work on book projects is consuming my time at present. I will write an election commentary after the results are known tomorrow night. I have restrained from writing about the biennial madness thus far, but I have plenty to say when the farce is over and the current "most important election of our lives" has come to an end and the votes have been "counted" by the fraudulent machines/computers. 

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

Although I will revise my reflection on the Poor Souls that will include a few vignettes about some of the people whose deaths occurred within the last year—or whose deaths at an earlier time became known to me during the past year—later today, I am hereby publishing the article on which I have been working for the entirety of this week.

This current commentary is about the stress on “synodality” in the final draft report that was issued upon the close of Bergoglio’s “youth synod.”

You see, “Pope Francis” wants a “democratic” church. For autocrats such as the Argentine Apostate, however, “democracy” means inspiring the masses to do what they, the autocrats, want done by tickling their ears so to make it appear that they, the people, are the originators of what the elite want done. This is nothing other than the textbook program of all revolutionaries, obviously, and it is rather hypocritical as Bergoglio’s calls for “synodality” and “consultation” and “encounter” have not applied to the Franciscan Friars [and Sisters] of the Immaculate, to the four “cardinals” who issued their dubia about Amoris Laetitia nor to “Archbishop” Carlo Maria Vigano. Fake, phony, pious frauds.

Our Lady of All Saints, pray for us.

Eternal rest grant unto the Poor Souls in Purgatory, 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 one and only goal in this life is to get home to Heaven by dying in a state of Sanctifying Grace as a member of the Catholic Church. Absolutely nothing else matters. The path to Heaven runs through the Cross of our Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, as we consecrate ourselves to Him totally through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of His Most Blessed Mother.

We must embrace suffering and humiliation and hardship with equanimity, joy and gratitude, mindful of the fact that Our Lady desires use whatever merits we earn from our embrace of our sufferings for the honor and glory of the Most Blessed Trinity and for the good of souls, especially the Poor Souls in the Church Suffering in Purgatory, whose intentions we must remember every day and especially during this month of November. There is no other path to the triumph of the empty tomb other than the suffering of the Cross.

We must also forgive right readily those who have offended us in any way and to ask forgiveness from those whom we have offended, whether advertently or inadvertently. Nothing anyone does to us or says about us is the equal of what one of our least Venial Sins caused Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to suffer in His Sacred Humanity during his Passion and Death and that caused His Most Blessed Mother's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart to be pierced through and through with Seven Swords of Sorrow. 

The good, the bad and the ugly of ever person's life is revealed only on the Last Day at the General Judgment of the living and the dead. Let us be content to bear with suffering, humiliation, ostracism and mockery now as a means of so dying to self that we will consider it to be a great honor to be crushed and brought low in the sight of men. Suffering is indeed the path to triumph!

We must continue to pray for each other on a daily basis, praying especially that the disagreements of the present moment in this time of apostasy and betrayal will be washed away by the merits of the Most Precious Blood of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and by the maternal intercession of His Most Blessed Mother.

If we want to be in Heaven for all eternity, you see, in the presence of the Most Blessed Trinity, Our Lady, Saint Joseph and all of the angels of the saints, then it is a pretty good idea to pray for everyone whom God's Providence has placed in our paths, hoping that those from whom we might be estranged at the present time, especially because of the divisions among Catholics created by conciliarism and its apostasies, will be united with us for all eternity in the glories of Heaven, please God that each of us dies in a state of Sanctifying Grace.

One of ways in which we can practice true Charity is to remember the Poor Souls every day in our prayers. Terrible, terrible sinner that I am, one of my devotions has long been to the Poor Souls. To help the Poor Souls repay the debt that they can no longer pay for themselves is to acquire friends for eternity who will help us at the moment of our own deaths. Charity to the Poor Souls can help to undo our own uncharity to others in this passing, mortal vale of tears. This is indeed the month of the Poor Souls.

Let us show them our due attention each and every day of the year, especially in this month of November. Remember, of course, that from noon today on All Saints' Day through midnight of the Commemoration of All Souls tomorrow the Catholic faithful, as often as they visit a church or to pray for the dead, reciting six times during each visit the Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be for the intentions of Holy Mother Church may gain a plenary indulgence applicable only to the souls in Purgatory, under the usual conditions of making a good Confession within a week before or after, worthily receiving Holy Communion within the week and having the right intention of heart. This is called the Toties Quoties Indulgence.

Also, courtesy of the Daily Catholic website, are the Thirty-Day De Profundis Prayers for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. (Link provided in text of this brief reflection.)

Finally, the next original article for this site is nearing completion. Although I am working on getting out a series of anthologies of my spiritual/liturgical reflections, I will continue to write as time and my own physical ability, which on some days is limited because of the chronically deteriorated state of my lower spine, permit. Thank you.

A blessed All Saints Day to you all!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

All the Saints, pray for us.