This reflection on the life of Saint John of the Cross was written for and published in To Live in Light of Eternity, Volume 6, in 2020 and is being offered to readers of this site for the fourth time.

It had been my hope to have another original commentary completed in time for publication today. However, given the circumstances of the past few days that culminated yesterday afternoon in the sacramentally provided for death of Sharon's mother, Claire Alica Fitzgerald Collins: February 26, 1928, to November 23, 2025, Requiescat in Pace, the commentary is going to have wait for another day or two, especially since I have contracted yet another flu-like virus that has laid me pretty low. This is a glorious penance and it means that God is not done punishing me for my sins and thus purifying me for Himself. Deo gratias! Penance is better than ever in 2025.

As today, November 24, 2025, is my seventy-fourth birthday, I ask prayers for the repose of the souls of my late parents, Dr. Albert Henry Martin Droleskey and Mrs. Norma Florence Red Fox Droleskey. Thank you.

Our Lady of he Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John of the Cross, pray for us.

Sant Chrysogonus, pray for us.

This is a republished reflection about Pope Saint Clement that includes the following passage from Dom Prosper Gueranger's The Liturgical Year:

With only one exception, all of the documents which attest Clement's intervention in the affairs of distant churches have perished with time; but the one that remains shows us in full action the monarchical power of the bishop of Rome at that primitive epoch. The church of Corinth was disturbed with intestine quarrels caused by jealously against certain pastors. These divisions, the germ of which had appeared even in St. Paul's time, had destroyed all peace, and were causing scandal to the very pagans. The Corinthians at last felt the necessity of putting an end to a disorder which might be prejudicial to the extension of the Christian faith; and for this purpose it was requisite to seek assistance from outside. The apostle had all departed this life, except St. John, who was still the light of the Church. It was not great distance from Corinth to Ephesus where the apostle resided: yet it was not to Ephesus but to Rome that the church of Corinth turned. Clement examined the case referred to his judgment by that church, and sent to Corinth five commissaries to represent the Apostolic See. They were bearers of a letter, which St. Irenaeus calls potentissimas litteras. It was considered at the time so beautiful and so apostolic, that it was long read in many churches as a sort of continuation of the canonical Scriptures. Its tone is dignified but paternal, according to St. Peter's advice to pastors. There is nothing in it of a domineering spirit; but the grave and solemn language bespeaks the universal pastor, whom none can disobey without disobeying God Himself. These words so solemn and so firm wrought the desired effect: peace was re-established in the church of Corinth, and the messengers of the Roman Pontiff soon brought back the happy news. A century later, St. Dionysius, bishop of Corinth, expressed to Pope St. Soter the gratitude still felt by his flock towards Clement for the service he had rendered. (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year.)

Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B,, understood that there was and can never be such thing as "resistance" to a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Clement, pray for us.

Saint Felicity, pray for us.

Although a republished reflection on the Commemorated Feast of Pope Saint Clement I will be posted within thirty minutes of this posting, I am providing you with 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.

An original commentary about the last week of the ecclesisastical year is being written but, given the circumstances, I do not have it ready for publication yet.

Please continue to pray for Claire Collins, who is in her last agony, as well for her children, including Sharon, grandchildren, including Lucy, and great-grandchilren at this time. 

Finally, I posted DR. PAUL BYRNE'S MEDICAL DECISIONS’ PROTECTION DOCUMENT (“MDPD”) about five hours ago to help readers protect themselves and their family members from medical practices that shorten life or impose death. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Clement I, pray for us.

Saint Felicity, pray for us.

Although I have included Dr. Paul Byrne's Medical Decisions Protection Document in several articles over the past decade or so, I thought that it would be a good idea to make them available on a stand-alone basis so that those who have not availed themselves of this document nor excuted it could print this document out, sign it, and give it to every single health care provider one uses (general practitioners, specialists, naturopaths, chiropractors, dentists, oral surgeons, podiatrists, radiologists, cardiologists, orthopedists, pediatricians, rheumatologists, neurologists, obstetrians/gynecologists, urologists, general surgeons, gastroenterologists, etc.). 

Do not delay.

Keep copies of the signed document at home, in the car, and at work. Take it with you when you travel. 

Be aware that many, although not all, in the medical industry make a presumption in favor of "brain death," especially in cases of young children and adults who have healthy and thus "usable" organs to be vivisected for the transplantation market, and in cases of those whose "quality of life" is said to be "poor" according to the "experts'" own subjective criteria and judgments. Obviously, the elderly need to be protected as well.

Human beings must not have death imposed upon them even if they are close to death. It is neither merciful nor compassinate to do impose death by means of hospice (whether administered at home or in a facility) and is entirely morally illicit to ask to for this or worse yet, to request direct, undiguised euthanasia.

Our Lady, Health of the Sick and Comforter of the Afflicted, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, Patron of the Dying, pray for us. 

Saint Cecilia, pray for us.

Pope Saint Clement I, pray for us.

Saint Felicity, pray for us.

Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV really meant it seven weeks ago when he said that no one can is pro-life unless he supports “migrants’ rights” as well as opposing the surgical execution of innocent preborn children.

This is a very brief, republished reflection on the heroic virtues of Saint Ceclia, whose feast is celebrated today, November 22, 2025.

An original commentary will be posted within a few moments are the republication of this reflection.

Finally, my mother-in-law, Mrs. Claire Collins, continues to fail. 

Please continue to pray for Claire Collins, who has had the benefit of the Sacrament of Extreme Unction as administered by a priest of the Society of Saint Pius V, and for her children, including Sharon, of course, who is with her family now, her grandchildren, including Lucy, and great-grandchildren at this time. 

Also, I urge readers of this site to re-read Chronicling the Adversary's Global Takeover of the Healthcare Industry and to share this article with other family members so that, please God and by Our Lady's maternal intercession, all will be united in their firm opposition to any kind of hospice (whether at home or in a facility) that expedites death while robbing the dying person of his consciousness in the name of a false "compassion."  Palliative care/comfort care/hospice are euphemisms to anestethize what is euthanasia. 

May God have mercy on us all.

Have confidence in the maternal protection of Our Lady and just pray her Most Holy Rosary. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Cecilia, pray for us.

Today Friday, November 21, 2025, is 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.

It was my hope to have a new commentary published by now. However, given the circumstances of the moment with my mother-in-law's imminent death, I have been unable to complete the next new commentary, something that I hope to rectify within twenty-four hours. Thank you.

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

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

This is a revised and expanded reflection on the suffering enduring by the very first member of the Third Order of Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, who, after the death of her husband, suffered much at the hands of her family members and even at the hands of the poor whose welfare she provided so generously druing the lifetime of her husband, Louis, the Landgrieve of Thuringia

Please continue to pray for Sharon's mother, Mrs. Claire Fitzgerald Collins, who received the Sacrament of Extreme Unction from a priest of the Society of Saint Pius V yesterday evening, Tuesday, Novemeber 18, 2025, the Feast of the Dedication of the Churches of Saints Peter and Paul. This was an answer to many prayers over the course of two decades. (Keep perserving in prayer for your loved ones! Never give up. Just pray without looking for results. Pray with a confident faith in the goodness of our merciful God and the intercessory power of Our Lady, Saint Joseph, and all the other saints and angels.

It is my hope to have a new article by this time tomorrow, Thursday, November 20, 2025, the Feast of Saint Felix of Nola.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Elizabeth of 

Urgent prayer request: Sharon's ninety-seven and one-half year-old mother, Mrs. Claire Fitzgerald Collins, is dying. She is suffering valiantly while in great pain and is being attended to my two of her daughters at this time. It is a great blessing for her family to have had her with them all these years. She has been very devoted to her family as they have been to her. It would be greatly appreciated if readers of this site could pray a Rosary for Claire Collins and for her family at this time as well as the Three Very Beautiful Prayers for the Dying. Thank you.

As promised, this is my rather lengthy commentary about Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV’s elegy of praise to the contemporary motion picture industry, much of which produced so many evil films eighty-nine years ago that Pope Pius XI warned us in Vigilanti Cura that the moral fiber of entire nations was being corrupted.

Films that graphically display, promote, celebrate and glorify the evils of our own day predominate in 2025, but one would never know this from the address Prevost/Leo gave to those in the motion picture industry on Saturday, November 15, 2025, the Feast of Saint Albert the Great and the Commemoration of Our Lady of Divine Providence.

A blessed Feast of the Dedication of the Churches of Saints Peter and Paul to you all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.