Although part one of a two-part commentary will be published soon, I am also ofering eaders a brief reflection on the Feast of Our Lady of Ransom (Mercy), which is celebrated today, Wednesday, September 25, 2025. 

Our Lady of Ransom, pray for us.

 Today is the Feast of Saint Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist and the Commemoration of the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost.

Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ called Levi from his duties as a collector of tribute for Caesar to follow Him. Levi quit his position as a tax collector to become a collector of souls for God and His true Church. Saint Matthew wrote His Gospel to convince his fellow Jews to accept Our Lord as the Divine Redeemer and to convert to the true Faith, Catholicism.

This is quite a contrast with the work of the conciliar "popes," who have esteeemed Talmudic Judaism as an instrument of "justice" although it denies the Sacred Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ and wages warfare upon those who seek to restore the Social Reign of Christ the King, to say nothing of the fact that many of its rabbis support abortion and perversity under cover of the civil law. Quite a difference. It's the difference between fidelity and apostasy, between Catholicism and conciliarism.

I have read Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV's lengthy interview published on Crux. What is clear, at least to me, about Prevost/Leo is that he believes that everything concerning what he thinks about Catholicism is nuanced and subject to debate. He is a true son of conciliarism who has knows only how to parrot the stale ole cliches to make himself out to be "open' to everyone. A commentary will be published about a few of the excerpts once technical issues get resolved,

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Matthew the Apostle, pray for us.

Update on September 18, 2025, 10:20 p.m. My conputer has died. It will be difficult to post artcles for a few days.

In the meantime, please review Lavender Friendly Leo Strikes Again in light of Prevost's first interview, in which he said Catholic doctrine about sodomy can change--but not before "hearts and minds" are changed. Well, the conciliar revolutionaries have been changing doctrine for going on seventy-seven years. Well, perhaps some in the "resist while recognize" movement will come to recognize and cesae resisting the truth that none of this can come from the Catholic Church.

This republished article is about Saturday's feast, that of Saint Eustace and his Companions.

Finally, I received notification only on the morning of September 18, 2025, that a La Salette priest, Father James Dunphy, died on August 18, 2025, in Connecticut at the age of ninety-seven. Father Dunphy was a remarkable priest who never staged the Novus Ordo travesty and was a marvelous confessor who had an apostolate of giving spiritual guidance over the phone to anyone who would call him. Please pray for the repose of his immortal soul. Requiescat in pace.

Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us.

Saint Januarius and his Companions, pray for us.

Saint Eustace and his Companions, pray for us.

As the computer upon which these commentaries have been written for the past eighteen months is dying, there is time only to say hello and goodbye. Time to raise funds for a new notebook computer!

Update on September 18, 2025, 10:20 p.m. My conputer has died. It will be difficult to post artcles for a few days.

In the meantime, please review Lavender Friendly Leo Strikes Again in light of Prevost's first interview, in which he said Catholic doctrine about sodomy can change--but not before "hearts and minds" are changed. Well, the conciliar revolutionaries have been changing doctrine for going on seventy-seven years. Well, perhaps some in the "resist while recognize" movement will come to recognize and cesae resisting the truth that none of this can come from the Catholic Church.

May God have mercy on us all1

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph Cupertino, pray for us.

This is a very brief reflection about Saint Joseph Cupertino. 

A new commentary will be posted within ten minutes from the time this republished reflection is posted. Thank ypi

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Saint Joseph Cupertino, pray for us.

This is a follow-up commentary to Another Victim of the Anti-Incarnational Errors of Modernity.

It is my hope to have part twenty-five of Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomini Domine, Hosanna in Excelsis published within twenty-four hours.

A blessed Feast of the Impression of the Stigmata on Saint Francis of Assisi to you all on this Ember Day in September (partial abstinence, mandatory fasting for all those between the ages of twenty-one and sixty).

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Francis of Assisi, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary in September and the Commemoration of Saint Nicomedes.

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 Venerable 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?

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Finally, please remember the soul of the late Father John Joseph Sullivan, who was my seminary professor at Holy Apostles Seminary in the 1983-1984 academic year, on this day, which would have been his one hundred eighth birthday had he not died in May of 2000.

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

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

Our Lady of Dolors, pray for us.

Saint Nicomedes, pray for us.

There is no doubt that Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV is just as much of the lavender agenda as was Jorge Mario Bergolgio, and this commentary documents how this is so.

Hail, O Holy Cross, our only glorious and precious hope!

Our Lady of Sorrows, 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?

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Hail, O Holy Cross! Hail!

A blessed Feast of the Exltuation of the Holy Cross and Commemoration of the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost to you all.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.