Perhaps it is just as well that the article that was ready for publication about forty-eight hours ago before it went “poof” into cyberspace was not to be rewritten. It was better to wait for the actual results from the Irish plebiscite on Friday, May 25, 2018, Whit Friday and the Commemoration of Pope Saint Gregory VII and Pope Saint Urban I, before composing a new article.

Well, this is a new article, although it contains very familiar themes to those who have been readers of my writing for the past two decades or so.

That the Irish have voted in favor of decriminalized baby-slaughter should surprise us not in the slightest as evil must flow from the lies upon which Modernity is founded and with which the counterfeit church of conciliarism has made its “official reconciliation.”

Work will begin tomorrow, the Feast of Saint Augustine of Canterbury, on “Sober Up, part thirteen. Spoiler alert: Although I will once again stipulate the fact that the Deep State, directed then as now by former President Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetro, has sought to undermine and to overthrow President Donald John Trump, much evil is being done by the current administration that cannot go without comment and comment upon it I will.

Finally, my writing continues to be impeded by nagging health issues, which have included the addition of a skin condition called Rosacea. (I am not even a consumer of alcoholic drinks, and I never have been!) This is penance that I deserve for my own sins, but it is one I would not wish on anyone else. I am, though, thankful for the penance and its accompanying sleepless nights as our goal is to rest for all eternity in Heaven. We must bear the cross with patience, love and gratitude in this passing, mortal vale of tears.

A blessed Trinity Sunday to you all.

My Trinity Sunday reflection is to be found by scolling below.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Bede the Venerable pray for us.

Today is Trinity Sunday and the Commemoration of the First Sunday after Pentecost, 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."

Part five of "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus" is being written at this time, although it may not appear for a few days. 

A blessed Trinity Sunday to you all.

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

[A brief article about the referendum in Ireland today, Whit Friday, was ready to be posted when its entire content was lost forever after this site's software program required me to login again. Poof! 

[Pray for Ireland today as voters choose, in effect, to permit their national legislature, the Oireachtas, to "legalize" the slaughter of the innocent preborn in their mothers' wombs by surgical means at least through the first three months of these babies' lives. Pray to Our Lady of Knock. Pray! 

[I will rewrite the article later today. Penance is better than ever in 2018.]

Jorge Mario Bergoglio had one of those "private" chit-chats recently. Like so many of the other such confabs he has had in the past, however, what was "private" was blurted out pretty publicly, which is exactly what this wretched blasphemer from Argentina desired.

May God have mercy on us all!

A commentary on the ongoing coup should follow in a day or two.

Today, Whit Wednesday, is an Ember Day. Those between the ages of twenty-one and fifty-nine are required to fast, and all over the age of seven are to take meat (or products made from meat) at the principal meal.

Our Lady of the Cenacle, pray for us.

It was four days ago, that is, on Wednesday, May 16, 2018, that Jorge Mario Bergoglio expressed words of praise for a visiting delegation of the devil-worshippers known as Buddhists. There is not an apostolic bone in this apostate's body, although he is only carrying on the anti-apostolic "traditions" established by his predecessors in the antipapacy of the counterfeit church of conciliarism.

A revised reflection on Pentecost Sunday may be found by scrolling below.

Our Lady of the Cenacle, pray for us.

Today is Pentecost Sunday, the birthday of Holy Mother Church, the upon which the first pope, Saint Peter, who was vivified as the Vivifier Himself, God the Holy Ghost, descended upon him and Our Lady and the other Apostles (and the rest of the disciples) gathered in the Upper Room in Jerusalem as they completed their Novena to God the Holy Ghost ten days after Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's glorious Ascension to His Father's right hand on Ascension Thursday. Saint Peter wasted no time in doing something that is forbidden, at least in a de facto sense, in the counterfeit church of conciliarism: he preached to the Jews about the necessity of their converting to the true Faith.

The missionary work of the Church to seek with urgency the unconditional conversion of all men and all nations to the her maternal bosom, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there is no true social order, brought us glorious missionaries who were willing to embrace many sacrifices, including martyrdom itself, to spread the Faith of the Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, so that men and all nations would be able to order themselves rightly according to the Deposit of Faith that He has entrusted exclusively to Holy Mother Church for Its eternal safekeeping and infallible explication and by means of a fervent cooperation with the graces won for us by the shedding of Our Lord's Most Precious Blood and that flow into our hearts and souls through the loving hands of Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of all Graces. The work of conversion does not end when one is Baptized or Confirmed.

The work of conversion away from our sinful selves to become more conformed to the Cross of the Divine Redeemer and the merciful designs of His Most Sacred Heart for us is one that is constant. Every beat of our hearts, consecrated as they must be to that same Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, must burn with fire for the love of God as He has revealed Himself to us through His true Church and as we seek to grow in holiness and to make reparation for our sins and those of the whole world. It is useless for us to be converted in the Baptismal font unless we are willing to let God the Holy Ghost help to convert us every day to cooperate more fully with His Seven Gifts and Twelve Fruits. Saint Paul the Apostle explained that the spiritual man, the one who is filled with Sanctifying Grace, cannot be understood by the sensual or worldly man:

For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is in him? So the things also that are of God no man knoweth, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit that is of God; that we may know the things that are given us from God. Which things also we speak, not in the learned words of human wisdom; but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God; for it is foolishness to him, and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined. But the spiritual man judgeth all things; and he himself is judged of no man. (2 Cor. 2: 11-15)

We must keep this in mind when our relatives and friends and associates do not understand how we can refuse to keep our silence when a putative "pontiff" calls a mosque as a "jewel" or as a "sacred" place or as he prays as a Jew without mentioning the Holy Name of the Divine Redeemer (doing voluntarily what the leaders of Sanhedrin tried to force the Apostles to do, that is, to mention the "name of that man no more") and has he praises the nonexistent ability of false religions to help build the "better world."

We cannot care about what others think of us. We must say and do only those things that are pleasing God, never fearing to raise our voices to defend His greater honor and glory and majesty when these are offended by one claiming to speak for the Catholic Church on earth. The Mystical Bride of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Holy Mother Church, is as spotless and as immaculate as Our Blessed Mother herself.

The Catholic Church did not give us "hootenanny" liturgies before the aftermath of the "Second" Vatican Council. She did not give us "inter-religious dialogue" and "inter-religious" prayer services. She gave us liturgies that came from God the Holy Ghost, not travesties that reaffirm people in the spirit of the world.

The Catholic Church can only give us clarity of doctrine, not ambiguity and complexity that took one "clarification" after another to attempt to make "clear." And Holy Mother Church has always mirrored Our Blessed Mother's hatred of heresy and error, which was part of the meditation written by the late Father Frederick Faber on the Sixth Dolor of Our Lady:

In the judgment of the world, and of worldly Christians, this hatred of heresy is exaggerated, bitter, contrary to moderation, indiscreet, unreasonable, aiming at too much, bigoted, intolerant, narrow, stupid, and immoral. What can we say to defend it? Nothing which they can understand. We had, therefore, better hold our peace. If we understand God, and He understands us, it is not so very hard to go through life suspected, misunderstood and unpopular. The mild self-opinionatedness of the gentle, undiscerning good will also take the world's view and condemn us; for there is a meek-loving positiveness about timid goodness which is far from God, and the instincts of whose charity is more toward those who are less for God, while its timidity is searing enough for harsh judgment. There are conversions where three-quarters of the heart stop outside the Church and only a quarter enters, and heresy can only be hated by an undivided heart. But if it is hard, it has to be borne. A man can hardly have the full use of his senses who is bent on proving to the world, God's enemy, that a thorough-going Catholic hatred of heresy is a right frame of mind. We might as well force a blind man to judge a question of color. Divine love inspheres in us a different circle of life, motive, and principle, which is not only not that of the world, but in direct enmity with it. From a worldly point of view, the craters in the moon are more explicable things than we Christians with our supernatural instinct.

We must therefore permit God the Holy Ghost to come into our souls with His bright burning flames at every moment of our lives so that we will filled with love of God and hatred of our own sins as we seek to cooperate with the graces He sends us through the loving hands of His Spouse, Our Lady, making sure to honor His Spouse as we pray as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit. May this be our prayer this day and every day our own lives:

Come, Holy Ghost, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love.

V. Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created.

R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.

Let us pray. O God, Who didst instruct the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Ghost, grant us in the same Spirit to be truly wise, and ever to rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

A blessed Pentecost Sunday and Octave to you all!

Our Lady of the Cenacle,  pray for us.

Although I am slowly completing work on my next commentary, the best that I can do for you today is offer this  slightly revised reflection for the Vigil of Penecost, which is a day of fast for those between the ages of twenty-one and fifty-nine and a day of partial abstinence for those seven years of age or older. This does not mean that those of us over the age of fifty-nine should not fast if able to do so, only that it is not morally obligatory to fast. We should keep in mind that God is most pleased with the souls who give Him more than the minimum required by Church law. We must give Him our all as the consecrated slaves of His Co-Equal, Co-Eternal Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. 

Our Lady of the Cenacle, pray for us.

This commentary, which was published about twenty-one hours ago, has been revised in several places (indentations of two quotations had to be made). 

May God have mercy on us all in this time of apostasy and betrayal!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Ubaldus, pray for us.

Saint Paschal Baylon, pray for us.

As noted on this site’s home page, two articles from 2009 are being republished today as the failing computer on my writing is completed crashed yesterday, forcing me to use a “Windows” restart program that took all afternoon and into the evening to go through its paces.

The two republished articles, “Voting in Favor of the Druids" and Surrendering What Saint Patrick Won," which were published, respectively, on September 26, 2009, the Feast of the North American Martyrs and the Commemoration of Saints Cyprian and Justina, and September 30, 2009, the Feast of Saint Jerome, at a time when voters in the Republic of Ireland were about to vote on a national referendum to ratify the European Union’s Treaty of Lisbon, which listed that the chemical and surgical execution of innocent human beings was a “human right” that had to be respected by each nation.

The Irish had rejected the Treaty of Lisbon in a referendum on June 12, 2008.  However, nothing is ever settled for the “left” unless it is settled on their terms, and it was less than sixteen months later that, after a few minor changes were made in the treaty’s text, that the second referendum, held on October 2, 2009, was approved by two to one margin (67.1%). The surrender of once Catholic Ireland to the statist forces of the European Union was thus made complete.

The sons and daughters of the Land of Saints and Scholars compounded their error on May 22, 2015, when they voted by a margin of 62.07% to 37.93% in favor of the Irish Constitution’s Thirty-fourth Amendment, which made it “legal” for practitioners of sodomy and its related perverse practices to “marry.”

Yet another referendum is being held on May 25, 2018. The new referendum seeks the approval of Irish voters for permitting the surgical execution of children in their mothers’ wombs up to the age of twelve weeks. Up to this point, however, the voice of the protector of “creation” and the militant defender of the nonexistent “right” of foreign nationals to invade other countries by breaking just laws regulating migration, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, has been as silent as it was three years ago.

Although an original commentary on the current referendum is being written, I thought that it would be useful to post the two commentaries from 2009 as each is most relevant to the current referendum.

Let’s face facts: The Republic of Ireland is in the sorry state that it is because of conciliarism and its “reconciliation” with the new “principles of the era that was inaugurated in 1789.”

Work on other articles, including "Sober Up, part thirteen" and "Jersusalem Belongs to Christ the King and His True Church, part four," will be completed after the original article on new Irish referendum.

Finally, prayers are requested for the family of Father Marcellus Moylan, who is the associate pastor of Our Lady of Victory Chapel in Mason, Ohio. Father Moylan's parents have had to evacuate their home (which, contrary to news that a third party had given us, is still standing, thanks be to God and His Most Blessed Mother--and the prayer composed by Saint Benedict Joseph Labre that is a protection against fires and earthquakes that the Moylans pray daily) in Leilani Estates on the island of Hawaii. They have established a "Go Fund Me" page to solicit donations. Here are links to a news story that features Mr. John Moylan and to the Go Fund Me page: Evacuees Return to their Homes for the First Time Since Eruptions Began and Video of the Moylan Family. The Moylans' Go Fund Me Page.

Our Lady of Knock, pray for us.

Saint Boniface Martyr, pray for us.

This spiritual resource should have been posted on Friday, May 11, 2018, the second day of the Octave of the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

We began the oldest of all of Holy Mother Church's Novenas, the Novena to God the Holy Ghost in preparation for Pentecost Sunday, May 20, 2018, on Friday, May 11, 2018. The last day to pray for the Novena, of course, is on the Vigil of Pentecost, May 19, 2018.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

This commentary has taken nearly three weeks to complete. As noted several days ago, an unexpected trip, which finished off our 2008 minivan, leaving us with a quite a dilemma as it will not be paid off until March 1, 2020, interfered with the work of this site.

However, it was important to take the time necessary to complete this commentary on a 2014 video that attempted to refute sedevacantism by claiming that it is an “impossibility” for the See of Peter to be vacant.

This is a very long commentary, which is not a definitive work on the subject but merely an effort to respond to the specific points made in the aforementioned video presentation. Nonetheless, though, this commentary is an effort to demonstrate that it is not possible for the counterfeit church of conciliarism to be the Catholic Church. Catholic doctrine is immutable. Everything about the counterfeit church of conciliarism, including its false, sacrilegious liturgies, is unstable and subject to “modifications” as “pastoral needs” require.

The original posting of this article included a sentence indicating that this commentary would be sequenced. I had meant to omit that reference, which was inserted as the text was being written at a time its completion was proceeding slowly. However, I decided to persevere in my original goal to publish the commentary all at once. The reference to sequencing has thus been deleted.

Additionally--and very importantly, there was a major typographical error of the sort that I have become rather infamous near the beginning of this commentary. I had meant to write that the commentary was written without any animus toward the presenter of the video in question. Although the text has been corrected, I apologize for any misunderstanding. I thought that I had written what I had intended to write. Moreover, I did not catch the error when I reviewed the text. I apologize for any misunderstanding. I have animus toward no one. I pray for all regardless of whether they like the work of this site or are opposed to it. Mea culpa!

My reflection on today’s Feast of the Ascension of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ can be found by scrolling below.

A blessed Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord to you all.