Today is the Twenty-sixth and Last Sunday after Pentecost on which a Commemoration of the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is made secondarily. 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.

The next original article for this site should be published within fifteen minutes of this posting. 

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

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

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

Although a republished reflection on the Commemorated Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin May will be posted within thirty minutes of this posting, followed in quick order by an original article, I have taken the time to format Father Francis X. Weninger’s three sermons for the Last Sunday after Pentecost to provide a source of meditation on this last Sunday before Advent.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

This is a republished reflection on the suffering endured by the very first member of the Third Order of Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, who suffered much at the hands of her family members and even at the hands of the poor whose welfare she provided so generously when her husband, Louis, was the Landgrieve of Thuringia.

News reached of the death of the Reverend Patrick Perez reached me early yesterday morning. As is well known in traditional circles, we went to what we thought at the time was Holy Mass at Our Lady Help of Christians Church in Garden Grove, California, whenever we were in southern California between early-2002 and February of 2006.

Although I maintained no contact with him after I spoke with him in July of 2006 to discuss Father Anthony Cekada’s study on the invalidity of the conciliar rite of episcopal consecration (see New Bishops, Empty Tabernacles and Novus Ordo Watch’s Unholy Orders: 50 Years of Invalid Ordinations), I remembered him in my prayers every day during his life and will remember the repose of his immortal soul every day in my prayers for the Poor Souls. 

Reverend Perez was was very kind to us during our visits to Our Lady Help of Christians, and he also wrote the introduction to the second edition of my GIRM Warfare (which has been entirely revised and updated to reflect my understanding of the true state of the Church in this time of apostasy and betrayal). We are saddened to learn of his death at age sixty-one.

Even though the circumstances of the state of apostasy and betrayal are such that we may find ourselves estranged from former friends and colleagues, if not family members, we must pray every day for a good reconciliation in eternity. Reverend Perez was very close to Our Lady, and she always takes care of her own.

Please join us in praying for the happy repose of the immortal soul of Reverend Patrick Perez.

Caritas super omnia!

Requiem aeternum dona eis, Domine; et lux perpetua luceat eis. Requiescant in pace. Amen.

A new article should be ready for publication by Sunday, November 21, 2021, the Twenty-sixth and Last Sunday after Pentecost and the Commemoration of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Pontian I, pray for us.

The conciliar revolutionaries eschew the supernatural in favor of the merely natural. They are rationalists of the highest order, and this commentary provides a relatively brief explanation as to why this is so.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Gertrude the Great, pray for us.

This is a republished reflection on the life and martrydom of Saint Josaphat Kuncewicz, whose feast is commemorated today, the Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost (Mass of the Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany).

Saint Jospahat Kuncewicz did what conciliarism forbids, namely, seeking the conversion of the heretical and schismatic Orthodox to the Catholic Church, she who is the one and only true Church founded by Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ upon the Rock of Peter, the Pope. 

The current pretender in Rome has carried on the conciliar "tradition" of claiming that the Orthodox churches are simply a branch of "Christianity." This brief reflection refutes that false contention. Indeed, the very life of Saint Jospahat Kuncewicz is a refutation of that false contention.

An original article is being written as I recover from the surgery of six days ago. I hope to have it published by Monday morning, the Feast of Saint Albert the Great, who is one of my own patron saints.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Josaphat Kuncewicz, pray for us.

Well, thanks be to Our Lord and His Most Blessed Mother, the surgery on Monday, November 8, 2021, the Octave Day of All Saints and the Commemoration of the Four Holy Crowned Martyrs, went well. The Surgery Center of Oklahoma is remarkable, and I am very grateful to have had my surgery there once again as I had back in 2015.

Although I had intended to devote a few days to writing during this past week, it was within God’s Holy Providence for me to attend to one unexpected problem after another, including having to replace our car’s battery yesterday, Saturday, November 6, 2021, as it had died on Thursday morning, November 4, 2021, the Feast of Saint Charles Borromeo because of colder weather and then died again yesterday. The battery was three and one-half years old, so I had to drive twenty-five miles on a day when I thought I could get a brief article completed to get a new battery installed. 

Thus, as I am leaving home later today, Sunday, November 7, 2021, the Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost (Mass of the Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany) within the Octave of All Saints, to drive up to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for surgery on Monday, November 8, 2021, the Octave of All Saints, I have adapted the final part of an older article to serve as a reminder to Catholics not to be agitated by all the problems or elated by the results of various elections, from which our salvation or even the reform of society doth not spring.

Root causes.

Root causes.

Root causes.

No Social Reign of Christ the King, no just social order.

Yes, it is really Christ or chaos.

We need Our Lady’s help more now than ever before to shut out the agitation and to seek to do reparation for our sins as we offer up all the crosses, whether great or small, that God in His ineffable mercy sees fit to send us to His Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Viva Cristo Rey!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

All the Saints, pray for us.

Viva La Virgen da Guadaulupe!

Pray the Rosary daily.

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 yesterday, Monday, November 1, 2021, through midnight today, November 2, 2021, the Commemoration of All Souls, 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.

Our Lady of Deliverance, pray for the Poor Souls and for us.

Eternal rest grant unto them, 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.

Time was spent yesterday formatting Father Francis X. Weninger's three sermons for the Feast of All Saints. 

Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J., was an Austrian missionary to the United States of America in the Nineteenth Century after the revolutions that shook Central Europe in 1848.  He was a fearless defender of the Holy Faith and a prolific writer. One of his most important books was Protestantism and Infidelity.

The Catholic Encyclopedia describes his work as follows:

Jesuit missionary and author, born at Wildhaus, Styria, Austria, 31 October, 1805; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, 29 June, 1888. When already a priest and doctor of theology, he joined the Society of Jesus in 1832 and in 1841 was sent to Innsbruck, where he taught theology, history, and Hebrew. As the Revolution of 1848 impeded his further usefulness at home, he left Europe and went to the United States. During his forty years he visited almost every state of the Union, preaching to vast multitudes in English, French, or German, as best suited the nationality of his hearers. In the year 1854 alone he delivered nearly a thousand sermons, and in 1864 he preached about forty-five missions. His zeal also prompted Father Weninger to win souls with the pen and he published forty works in German, Sixteen in English, eight in French, three in Latin. Among his principal works are: "Manual of the Catholic Religion" (Ratisbon, 1858); "Easter in Heaven" (Cincinnati, 1862); "Sermons" (Mainz, 1881-86). (Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J.)

Omitted from this list, however, is Father Weninger’s Protestantism and Infidelity, which is a superb critique of Protestantism’s complete infidelity to Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and His Sacred Deposit of Faith.

Father Weninger's sermons for this feast day are truly inspirational.

Finally, there have been two new articles within the past week that you might have missed: Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part fourteen and After the Meeting of the Killer B's--Biden and Bergoglio. The titles speak for themselves. Also, please remember the Go Fund Me appeal that has a considerable way (the amount raised thus far on the site is actually a thousand dollars less than what has been raised as several people have made private donations) to go before sufficient funds are raised for my surgeries on Monday, November 8, 2021, the Octave Day of the Feast of All Saints.

A blessed All Saints Day to you all!

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

All the Saints, pray for us.

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.

A blessed All Saints Day to you all!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

All the Saints, pray for us.