Although not on the General Roman Calendar, today, Friday, November 27, 2020, is the Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal. Although not observed universally on a mandatory basis, this feast is is nevertheless an important one to commemorate as this powerful sacramental is yet another sign of the love that pours out from the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the hands of Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces, despite our own ingratitude and infidelities. [This feast is one that, traditionally, had been celebrated solemnly in the Diocese of Brooklyn, and it was within the boundaries of that diocese that I was born on Saturday, November 24, 1951, three days before this feast day that year.]

This reflection was written in 2010 and published in two parts. It was four years ago now that it was combined into one part and revised slightly in a few places.

Work is about done on the next article, although I will need another five or six hours of writing this afternoon into the evening to complete it. A

Thank you.

Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, pray for us.

Saint Catherine Laboure, pray for us.

This commentary is about some of the fallout from the McCarrick Report and Jorge Mario Bergoglio's efforts to whitewash his own role in the protection of predators by seeking to cast Girondist/Menshevik conciliar revolutionaries as the ones who created problems that he is "cleaning up."

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John of the Cross, pray for us.

Saint 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 was and can be no such thing as "resistance" to a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter.

Work on the next original article should be wrapped up after another four or five hours of writing. However, I will post it late this evening along with a reflection on the life of Saint John of the Cross, on whose feast day I was born in 1951, that made its debut in To Live in Light of Eternity, Volume 6.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Clement, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 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 on Monday,  November 23, 2020, the Feast of Pope Saint Clement I. Another one will follow in a few days thereafter. 

Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part seven has undergone some editing after a few remaining typographical errors had been brought to my attention. Please circulate the commentary widely as so many people are either living in fear now and/or are confused about the vaccines that have been heralded by the president, who believes whatever Big Pharma tells him is true even though its corporate executives mislead the public constantly and then, thanks to a bill signed into law by another "hero" or "secular savior" of the false opposite of the naturalist "right," Ronald Wilson Reagan, on November 14, 1986. Shallow men impressed by "experts" have done a lot of harm in the course of doing what they thought was "good." We need Our Lady's help to see the world clearly through the eyes of the true Faith, and one of the ways to do this is stop being agitated by talk radio and twenty-four hours a day news channels. The saints did not need these things. Why do we?

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

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

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

The title is self-explanatory as the hour is as late as this commentary is long. 

A commentary about the always continuing follies of conciliarism will appear in a few days. 

In the meantime, however, the need for non-tax-deductible financial gifts continues to be crucial right now. Please consider making such a gift today! (Also see: Donations).

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.