A self-explanatory commentary.

A revised reflection about Saint Matthew the Apostle will be published later today. The hour is simply too late to complete the revisions.

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.

Saint Matthew the Apostle, pray for us.

This is one of the shortest articles ever to appear on this site.

The title is pretty self-explanatory. The details will not take up much of your time.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Eustachius and Companions, pray for us.

It is around 3:15 a.m. on Friday, September 18, 2015, the Feast of Saint Joseph of Cupertino and the Commemoration of Ember Friday in September. There is a lot packed into this relatively short article.

Although the limited number of “gigabytes” available to me each month handicaps my ability to complete articles with the sort of timeliness that had been customary, I will do my best in coming days to comment on Bergoglio’s trip to Communist Cuba and to the United States of America. I cannot watch anything in “real time” on my computer given the lack of access to the internet available to us. However, I will do the best that I can in light of this difficulty.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph of Cupertino, pray for us.

Today is a day of total abstinence from meat and meat products and a day of obligatory fast for those between the ages of twenty-one and fifty-nine, although it is commendable for those of us who are no longer obliged to observe the fast to do so if one’s health permits.

[Today's original article, "More Hateful of Catholicism Than Martin Luther Himself," can be found by scrolling below. It was posted around 2:00 a.m today.]

Today is the Feast of the Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary in September.

We are called to meditate on the Seven Dolors of Our Lady every day of our lives. While there are many good meditations on the sufferings of Our Lady, including those provided by the revelations of Anne Katherine Emmerich and the Venerable Mary of Agreda, the late Father Frederick Faber has given us much food for inspirational meditation in his The Foot of the Cross, published originally as The Dolors of Mary in 1857.

Consider this brief excerpt from Father Faber's reflections:

"But let us make the world stand still, and see how it looks. If our common love for God, which is so poor, is irritated by the sight, what must Mary have suffered? For what is irritation to our weakness to her would be the most deep and transcending sorrow. God comes to His creation. It does not stir. It cannot. It lies in the hollow beneath Him, and has no escape. He comes in the beauty of a mercy, which is almost incredible, because it is so beautiful. But seemingly it does not attract the world. He draws nigh. Creation must do something now. It freezes itself up before His eye. He may have other worlds, more fertile, more accessible to Him, than this. In the spiritual tropics, where the angels dwell, He may perhaps be welcome. But not here. This is the North Pole of His universe. He shed His life's blood upon it, and it would not thaw. It is unmanageable, unnavigable, uninhabitable for Him. He can do nothing at all with it, but let His sun make resplendent colored lights in the icebergs, or bid the moon shine with a wanner loveliness than elsewhere, or fill the long-night sky with the streamers of the Aurora, which even the Esquimaux, burrowing in his hut, will not go out to see. The only difference is that the material pole understands its business. which is to make ice in all imaginable shapes; whereas we men are so used to our own coldness, that we do not know how cold we are, and imagine ourselves to be the temperate zone of God's creation."

Our sins helped to thrust those Seven Swords of Sorrow through and through Our Lady's Immaculate Heart at various points during her life, including during her Divine Son's Passion and Death. We must resolve never to grieve her Immaculate Heart again as consider our joy and our privilege to live penitentially as the consecrated slaves to her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the same Immaculate Heart. (Father Frederick Faber, The Foot of the Cross, the Dolors of Mary.)

We can help to make reparation for our sins that have grieved the Immaculate Heart of Mary if we pray more and more Rosaries each day, if we help to propagate devotion to her Seven Dolors. Indeed, Our Lady promises us the following graces if we promote devotion to her Seven Dolors:

1) I will grant peace to their families

2) They will be enlightened about the divine mysteries.

3) I will console them in their pains and I will accompany them in their work.

4) I will give them as much as they ask for as long as it does not oppose the adorable will of my divine Son or the sanctification of their souls.

5) I will defend them in their spiritual battles with the infernal enemy and I will protect them at every instant of their lives.

6) I will visibly help them at the moment of their death, they will see the face of their Mother.

7. I have obtained (This Grace) from my divine Son, that those who propagate this devotion to my tears and dolors, will be taken directly from this earthly life to eternal happiness since all their sins will be forgiven and my Son and I will be their eternal consolation and joy.

As a terrible sinner, I am counting on my own promoting of devotion to the Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary to help me just a little bit at the moment of my Particular Judgment. What about you?

A blessed Feast of the Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary to you all.

Well, at long last, although never by popular demand, here is the long-delayed new article for this site. It is relative short and to the point about Jorge Mario Bergoglio being even more hateful of Catholicism than Martin Luther Himself.

We are grateful to the six people who have made non-tax-deductible financial gifts in the past few days. We did, however, receive quite a glorious cross yesterday, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross: news that a used engine will cost $1700 to purchase and another $1300 to repair. We accept this cross with joy, love and gratitude. I am, however, forced to do that which I have avoided doing for most of the past year or so, that is, to ask those who have the means to be of assistance to us to make a non-tax-deductible gift as soon as possible. Thank you.

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

Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

Saint Nicomedes, pray for us.

The Saviour of the world hung on the wood of the Holy Cross: Ecce lignum Crucis, in quo salus mundit pependit (Behold the wood of the Cross, on which hung the Saviour of the world. (Adoration of the Cross, Good Friday Liturgy.)

The Cross of the Divine Redeemer was displayed prominently on street corners and in the nooks and crannies of every village in Europe during the era of Christendom. There is no "expiration date" on the Cross of the Divine Redeemer's relevance to the life of any man or of any nation. We must lift high the Cross in our own daily lives and we must plant it firmly in the soil of our nation without any apology whatsoever as Catholicism is the one and only foundation of personal and social order.

We must also remember that Our Lady stands at the foot of her Divine Son's Most Holy Cross in every true offering of Holy Mass just as she stood at the foot of the Holy Cross on Good Friday. She stands with us as we bear our own crosses in our daily lives. We must, therefore, seek the assistance of the Mother of God in lifting high her Divine Son's Holy Cross in our daily lives, praying as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit.

The cross is ever present in each of our lives, and for this we must say with Saint Francis of Assisi, Deo gratias! Penance is the path to Heaven. We do our penances by carrying our crosses with gratitude. Isn't it great to be a Catholic?

Work continues on the next article which has been slowed by our own current cross of being without a vehicle as we endeavor to raise funds for our car's necessary repairs and to rent one in the interim. Again, this is a cross that has been perfectly fitted for us from all eternity by the loving hand of God for His greater honor and glory and our own sanctification as the consecrated slaves of His Co-Equal and Co-Eternal Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. Hail, O Holy Cross! Hail!

A blessed Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross to each of you.

Today is the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary, commemorating the victory won by King Jan Sobieski of Poland over the Mohammedans at the Gates of Vienna on September 12, 1683. The troops under the command of Jan Sobieski exclaimed "Jesus, Mary, Sobieski!" as they prayed their Rosaries and routed the Turkish forces.

Each of us does battle every day with the Turks, that is, with the forces of the world, the flesh, and the devil. We must call upon the Holy Name of Mary, something we do at least one hundred fifty-three times every day if we pray all fifteen mysteries of Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary. This sweet name of the Mother of God must be on our lips at all times, and it must be exclaimed by public officials as she is honored as the Queen of Heaven and on earth, yes, of each and every nation on earth, including the United States of America. No one should be ashamed at any time to proclaim the Holy Name of Mary publicly. Indeed, we must do so with joy and confidence.

Saint Louis de Montfort taught us in True Devotion to Mary that those who are the consecrated slaves of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary should address others with a Marian salutation. How felicitous it is, therefore, to greet others with Ave Maria! or a Salve Regina! How glorious it is to make invocations such as "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, we love you, save souls!" or "Sweet Heart of Mary, be my salvation" or "Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and the hour of our death."

May Our Lady, she who is our life, our sweetness and our hope, help us to grow in this virtue, especially in this time of apostasy and betrayal.

Sweet Name of Mary, be our salvation.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Well, yesterday was supposed to be devoted to completing an article that ties in the upcoming renaming of a piazza in Rome in honor of the drunken, lecherous heretic Martin Luther with the fast-paced, head-spinning series of events that have spiraled out of control as the septuagenarian juvenile delinquent, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, invents nonexistent grounds for ratified and consummated marriages to be declared null. Luther did not intend the mess that is still unfolding in the world today. That mess occurred because of his own revolution's inevitable consequences that he did not foresee as his intellect was so darkened by his sins that he could refused to admit that was his own false, heretical beliefs that set Europe on the course of moral decay whose extent horrified him.

Similarly, the "conservative" within the conciliar hierarchywho have tried to "stabilize" the conciliar revolution have never understood that they have been trying to save that which is false of its very nature and is thus from the devil as they have done the adversary's bidding repeatedly by breaking the First and Second Commandments with their praise of false religions and active, full and conscious participation in "ecumenical prayer" gatherings in their own dioceses. Revolutions always eat their own, and that's what going on right now throughout the structures of the false church that arose with the blessing and direction of the first of six usurpers of the Throne of Saint Peter since the death of Pope Pius XII on October 9, 1958, Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII.

My work on this article, however, was impeded by the slight little fact that our automobile's engine died yesterday, this time for good, in not the most optimal of weather conditions. It's a long story, which unfolded I was parked on the shoulder of a major highway in heavy traffic for several hours as I kept in touch with Sharon and Lucy back home, and it is far from clear to us how this all gets resolved. We are in need of prayers. We are also very much in need of readers making use of the PayPal donation buttons as this is a time when I must do that which I tried to avoid doing in the past few years, namely, to make a general appeal to the readership of this site for non-tax-exempt financial gifts. Thank you.

Without a vehicle and the prospect of not having one for quite a lengthy period of time, I will have plenty of time today to complete the next original article for this site.

This current cross, one of several we have been given at this time, is accepted with love ad gratitude as we know that it has been fashioned for us from all eternity by the loving hand of God for His greater honor and glory and for our own sanctification as the consecrated slaves of His Co-Equal and Co-Eternal Divine Son, Christ the King, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

All to thee, Blessed Mother. All to thy Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, we love you! Save souls!

Another very early/late hour even though work on this article proceeded for around twelve hours before this posting.

One can hardly blame poor Judge David Bunning for his ignorance of the applicability of the Natural Law in an American courtroom when Jorge Mario Bergoglio and his band of thugs, thieves and brigands have helped to rob a large preponderance of Catholics today of anything approaching a true sensus Catholicus in order to create a false sense of the Catholic Faith that is broad enough to reaffirm hardened sinners in their lives of debauchery.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Nicholas of Tolentino, pray for us.

This is a tribute to Saint Peter Claver, S.J, whose true missionary zeal for the conversion and sanctification and salvation of souls stands in vast contrast to the blase and practically indifferent attitude of the conciliar "popes," including Jorge Mario Bergoglio/Francis.

Saint Peter Claver, S.J., personally baptized over 300,000 people in Colombia who were destined for chattel slavery in the Americas. Saint Peter Claver freed those souls from enslavement to the devil by means of Original Sin, equipping them to offer up the injustices of chattel slavery as disciples of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and as the devoted clients of His Most Blessed Mother. Saint Peter Claver's example does indeed stand in stark contrast to that of the revolutionaries of the counterfeit church of conciliarism. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Saint Peter Claver, pray for us!

As we sprung a bit of a surprise on our daughter yesterday, the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, there was an insufficient time for completing the next original article, which will include the "Motu Proprio" that Jorge Mario Bergoglio issued to "streamline" the nullity process within his false church (something that raises the question as to why he is even bother to hold his "synod of bishops" in four weeks' time). Knowing that I sound like a broken record, I do expect to complete the article today.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Peter Claver, pray for us.

Saint Gorgonius, pray for us.

Today is the great feast day of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, she who is the fairest flower of our race.

The angels rejoiced around the crib where Good Saint Anne placed her all-holy daughter, who had been conceived without any stain of Original Sin nine months before, that is, on December 8. The New Eve, whose act of perfect obedience to the will of God the Father at the moment that Saint Gabriel the Archangel announced to her that she would be the very Mother of God untied the knot of the first Eve's prideful disobedience in the Garden of Eden, shone at her Nativity with exterior beauty and brightness that reflected the interior beauty and brightness of her immortal soul, filled with grace at the very moment of Immaculate Conception. The favor of God rested upon Our Lady from all eternity.

How can words capture our gratitude and joy to God for giving us Our Lady to be our own Heavenly Mother and Queen? They can't. Words can only approximate our gratitude and joy this day--and every day of our lives--over the fact that the Singular Vessel of Devotion in whose Virginal and Immaculate Womb would be conceived Our Divine Redeemer.

We would not have any chance of getting to Heaven if Our Lady had not been conceived and born. We have no chance of getting to Heaven without Our Lady's help, which is why we, as the consecrated slaves of her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through her own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, must cling to her at all times, especially by means of wearing--and the fulfilling the terms of our enrollment in--her Brown Scapular and by praying as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit.

Perhaps the best birthday gift that we can give to Our Lady, apart from our worthy reception of her Divine Son in Holy Communion at a true offering of Holy Mass at the hands of a true bishop or a true priest, is to resolve now to do live more penitentially in reparation for our sins and those of the world world. By living more penitentially and by praying more Rosaries each day, you see, our souls might--emphasis on might--begin to be filled with more fervor and tenderness for Our Most Blessed Mother, she who made possible our salvation and who is the Mediatrix of All Graces.

A blessed Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary to you all.

It is my hope to have the next original article published later today. Thank you very much.