Today's feast, which was extended to the universal church by Pope Pius IX, is the result of at least six centuries of devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus that culminated with the apparitions of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque at the height of Jansenism in the late-Seventeenth Century. 

None of us deserves the mercies of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Yet it is that Our Divine Redeemer does indeed shower us with those mercies if we approach Him with a contrite heart, especially by making regular use of the Sacred Tribunal Penance to make good, integral confessions of our sins to a true priest as we promise to amend our lives, to do penance and to sin no more. We are loved by Love Himself. We are loved particularly by Love Incarnate, Who died for us on the wood of the Holy Cross to redeem us.

Our Lord's love for us is an act of His Divine Will, the ultimate expression of which is the salvation of our immortal souls as members of His Catholic Church. What an obligation we have to return love unto Love Himself as we seek to serve Him as His consecrated slaves through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Several other reflections on this feast day that have been posted on this site in the past are: Enthroning the True and Unsurpassed Love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Our Homes, No One is a Stranger to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus: Remedy for the Cruelty of a Cruel Age.

An original comnmentary will be publlished within ten minutes of this posting.

A blessed Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to you all.

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.

Today's republished article, which was written thirteen years ago now and revised again in 2018, attempts to draw comparisons between Saint Basil the Great's battles with the Arians and our own battles with the lords of the counterfeit church of conciliarism and their apologists. I had forgotten, prior to re-reading the article, just how many little nuggets from Dom Prosper Gueranger's The Liturgical Year are contained in its text.

Here is one just nugget:

"Peace is just what Basil desired as much as anybody; but the peace for which he would give his life could be only that true peace left to the Church by our Lord. What he so vigorously exacted on the grounds of faith proceeded solely from his very love of peace. And therefore, as he himself tells us, he absolutely refused to enter into communion with those narrow-minded men who dread nothing so much as a clear, precise expression of dogma; in his eyes their captious formulas and ungraspable shiftings were but the action of hypocrites, in whose company he would scorn to approach God's altar. As to those miserably misled, 'Let the faith of our fathers be proposed to them with all tenderness and charity; if they will assent thereunto, let us receive them into our midst; in other cases, let us dwell with ourselves alone, regardless of numbers; and let us keep aloof from equivocating souls, who are not possessed of that simplicity without guile, indispensably required in the early days of the Gospel from all who would approach to the the faith. The believers, so it is written, had but one heart and one soul. Let those, therefore, who would reproach us for not desiring pacification, mark well who are the real authors of the disturbance and so not point the question of reconciliation on our side any more.'"(Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year.) 

The authors of disturbance today are not those of us who point out the errors and blasphemes and sacrileges of the conciliar "popes," including Jorge Mario Bergoglio, but those who are silent about and/or enable these offenses, a silence that prevails these days among so many "conservative" and "traditionally-minded" priests and presbyters in the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism.

Oh, remember that the Ordering Books page contains links to purchase some of nine of my books that were published between 2019 and 2021.

It is my hope to have my next orginal commentary published by tomorrow, the Octave Day of Corpus Christi and the Commemoration of Saints Vitus. Crescentia, and Modestus. Thank you.

May God have mercy on us all in this time of chastisement.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Basil the Great, pray for us.

Today is the commemorated Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua on the sixth day in the Octave of Corpus Christi.

This is but a brief, revised reflection on Saint Anthony, who is near and dear to the hearts of a preponderance of Catholics today no matter where they might fall along the vast expanse of the ecclesiastical divide in this time of apostasy and betrayal.

Perhaps I should note, however, that Saint Anthony of Padua would be hammering the heretics of the counterfeit church of conciliarism today just as he did in his own day nine hundred years ago.

An original article, Christ the King Alone Has One Set of Laws That He Will Apply to Everyone When They Die, was published about thirty-six hour ago. A follow-up to that commentary will be published in about five or six days. However, it is my hope to publish part one of a two-part commentary on the aggressive advance of perversity in all walks of social life here in the United States of America and around the world.

Thank you.

Our Lady of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.

Saint Anthony of Padua, pray for us.

Another late/early hour has come upon me.

This commentary, whose writing was completed just a short while ago after having spent most of yesterday composing it, is about a recent news item that perhaps you might have seen, namely, the second indictment in less than three months of former President Donald John Trump.

As this commentary is written from the perspective of the Catholic Faith and not the exigencies of partisan politics, although there is a great deal of discussion about the hyprocrisy and double-standards that abound in this world that rejects Christ the King and is thus captive to the devil, I am sure that parts of this long commentary will displease a lot of people. 

The next commentary on this site will be about pleasing God by rejecting the march of perversity that is a malignancy spreading so rapidly that it might very well signal the death knell of nations, including the United States of America, as Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will not let nations who defy Him in such a manner go unpunished. Indeed, all the political agitation of the moment is a punishment in and of itself. 

Our Lady of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.

Saint John of San Facundo, pray for us.

Saints Basilides, Cyrinius, Nabor, and Nazarius pray for us.

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. 

The sickness that is as yet ongoing kept me from writing about Sister Mary Wilhelmina Lancaster for a bit longer than I would have liked. 

This commentary may not please a lot of this site's few remaining readers. However, Sister Mary Wilhemina Lancaster fought to maintain Catholic tradition and Catholic religious life with joy and charity even as she persisted in the structures that we know are controlled by revolutionaries who hate the Faith and who have mocked examples such as Sister's repeatedly, none more hatefully, though, than Jorge Mario Bergoglio himself.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Today is Trinity Sunday and the Commemorations of the Feast of Saint John of San Facundo, of the First Sunday after Pentecost, and of Saints Basilides, Cyrinius, Nabor, and Nararius, 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." We must be afraid of offending the Most Holy Trinity by means of our sins of commission or, like Senor Jorge himself, sins of omission. 

Also, a sickness that began as a sore throat, cough and congestion that began over a month ago appeared to go away before I developed conjunctivitis (pink eye) in my right eye seventeen days. Despite almost immediate treatment with antibiotic eyedrops, though, it was within the Providence of God for the infection (a local physician says bacterial, an ophthalmologist says viral) to spread to the lymph nodes on the right side of the face and neck.

The condition, which is, of course, a blessed and most welcome penance that I recognize full well as gift from the good God to be given back unto Him as the consecrated slave of His Co-Eternal Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, has worsened to the point where the entire right side of my face is swollen. This is all accompanied by an incredible fatigue, which has made it difficult to write this past week other than to respond to a few emails.

I am trying to work on a new article that I had meant to start a week ago today before this all began to worsen. It is my hope to make substantial headway on the commentary today and to have it posted by the Feast of Saint Norbert, Tuesday, June 6, 2023.

Finally, there is a person who has a much more serious health concern: Father Louis J. Cambpell, ordained on September 3, 1961, who has been the pastor of Saint Jude Shrine in Houston, Texas, since 2001. 

Father Campbell was hospitalized on Pentecost Sunday with chronic dehydration. An email alert I received from Saint Jude Shrine on Whit Friday evening provided the information that he has returned home and is recoving. Please continue to pray for the full recovery of our own friend and the friend of all believing Catholics, the tireless worker in Our Lord's vineyard, Father Louis J. Campbell, who took his name in religious life as an Augustinian in honor of Saint Louis de Montfort, the author of True Devotion to Mary. God bless and Our Lady keep, Father Louis J. Campbell!

A blessed Trinity Sunday to you all.

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

Saint Francis Caracciolo, pray for us.

This commentary is less about the John Durham report itself as it is about what the eternal fate of those named it will be if they believe that, having escaped any legal consequences for their scheming and lying, they can escape them when they die. Not so.

Another commentary will follow in a few days.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Mary Magdalene de Pazzi (whose feast is impeded this year by Whit Monday), pray for us.

The sermons delivered by Father Francis Weninger, S.J., as part of his missionary work here in the United States of America one hundred fifty years ago should always be given prominence whenever possible.

Thus, I hereby present two Father Weninger's three sermons for Pentecost Sunday. 

A continued blessed Pentecost Sunday to you all!

Our Lady of the Cenacle, pray for us.