This is a  reflection on the life and the work of Saint Jerome, the great great Dalmatian who put the love of God above all else. Consider just one quotation from the work of this prolific writer and translator of the Bible into the Latin Vulgate:

"It is a smaller sin to follow evil which you think is good, than not to venture to defend what you know for certain is good. If we cannot endure threats, injustice, poverty, how shall we overcome the flames of Babylon? Let us not lose by hollow peace what we have preserved by war. I should be sorry to allow my fears to teach me faithlessness, when Christ has put the true faith in the power of my choice." (Saint Jerome, Prologue to the Treatise Against the Pelagians.)

How many traditionally-minded Catholics who are as of yet attached to the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism who know for certain that it is not good to praise false religions or to enter places of false worship or to treat the "clergy" of false religions as having a mission from the true God of Divine Revelation to serve and save souls refuse to do what is good, that is, to defend the honor and glory and majesty God and His Sacred Deposit Faith in order to indemnify the author of long-since repealed Summorum Pontificum, Antipope Emeritus Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, whose successor, Jorge Mario Bergoglios, has laid bare for all the world to see that he is "worried" by those who "want to return to the past"?

We must always defend what we know to be true as servants of the greater honor and glory of God.

Saint Jerome did.

What's our excuse?

I ask for your prayers for my dear wife, Sharon, who turns but a mere sixty years of age of age today. Thank you.

Finally, this is the first anniversary of the death of Rebecca Lynn Adams Dupree, the daughter of longtime readers of this site, Michael and Sandra Adams, in Amman, Jordan. Please remember Mrs. Dupree's immortal soul and the needs of her parents, two brothers and sister today. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Jerome, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Dedication of the Church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Mount Gargano, Italy. 

It is interesting to note that, given the rationalism that underlies Modernists' rejection of the supernatural, that this feast is not celebrated as such in the counterfeit church of conciliarism as it is based upon the apparition of Saint Michael the Archangel on May 8, 490. The architects of the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical service went to great lengths to edit out almost all references to apparitions, Indeed, none other than the old Rosicurcian Mason himself, Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII, suppressed the Feast of the Apparition of Saint Michael the Archangel on May 8 entirely in the first wave of his Jansenist anti-liturgical changes that went into effect on Sunday, December 3, 1960, the First Sunday of Advent, and the feast that we celebrate today, was eliminated by Annibale Bugnini and company and replaced with the combined Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. 

Believing Catholics, however, know that Holy Mother Church cannot deceive us, and that her Sacred Liturgy is guided by none other than the Third Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, God the Holy Ghost. It is thus that we celebrated the Feast of Dedication of the Church of Saint Michael the Archangel today, Friday, September 29, 2023.

Finally, I must ask the readers of this site to pray for Mr. Juan Carlos Araneta, who has been kind enough to use his time and has been generous in support of this site’s work by translating numerous articles into the Spanish language and posting many others, especially the “Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus” series on various social media platforms.

Juan Carlos, who is from The Philippines but has lived in the United States of America for quite some time now, was critically injured on Wednesday. September 27, 2023, the Feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian, as he drove a golf cart while working at a golf course in Bedford, New York. A tree limb fell on his head and caused multiple injuries, including a punctured lung. He also went into cardiac arrest after he was knocked unconscious by the tree limb. I was truly taken aback when I learned about this tragedy from a mutual friend.

Juan Carlos Araneta has been of great assistance to Father Adan Rodriguez, the pastor of Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel in Monroe, Connecticut, since he started going there in 2012. Indeed, Father Rodriguez is expected to visit him in the hospital today, Friday, September 29, 2023, the Feast of the Dedication of the Church of Saint Michael the Archangel, immediately upon his return from Argentina.

Please pray for Juan Carlos and his family, who are being advised by a Catholic physician who is an expert on the treatment of those otherwise targeted for the removal of life support and/or “comfort care,” at this time.

May Our Lady, to whom Juan Carlos Araneta is very devoted, intercede for him and for his family, who are, of course, praying for a miracle while being ready accept the ineffable will of God whatever may happen.

Thank you.

Our Lady, Queen of the Angels, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us and protect us.

Today is the feast of the great Saint Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia, who was murdered by his own brother, who hated the fact that that he, King Wenceslaus, was everything that he, Boleslaus, hated, namely, pious and devoted, a servant of Christ the King, a just ruler who ruled to advance the common temporal good in light of man's Last End. Boleslaus hated the fact that his brother, our dear saint, loved the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and baked the Eucharistic bread with his own hands. This should give us pause for reflection in our own circumstances today when so many of our own relatives and one-time friends and acquaintances might hate us simply for being Catholic, no less Catholics who try, despite our sins and failings, to adhere to everything taught by Holy Mother Church from time immemorial. Saint Wenceslaus was a king who was prostrate before THE King, Christ the King, in life who adores him in Heaven face to face. 

My next original article should appear in a day or two.

Oh, no, I spent no time last evening paying any attention to naturalists of any kind, but that won't stop me from writing about the futility of naturalist dog and pony shows. Or wll it? Stay tuned.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Wenceslaus, pray for us.

We are living in a world filled with ironies, among which is the fact yesterday's self-professed "loyal dissenters" within the counterfeit church of conciliarism have become today's militant "doctrinal enforcers."

Our Lady of the North American Martyrs, pray for us.

Our Lady of the North American Martyrs, pray for us.

Saint Isaac Jogues, pray for us!

Saint Rene Goupil, S,J.,  pray for us.

Saint John Lalande, S,J., pray for us.

Saint Gabriel Lalemant, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Noel Chabanel, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Charles Garnier, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Anthony Daniel, S.J.,  pray for us.

Saint John De Brebeuf, S.J., pray for us.

Saints Cyprian and Justina, pray for us.

Today, Tuesday, September 26, 2023, is the Feast of the North American Martyrs, the eight Jesuits who gave up their lives for the Holy Faith in what are now parts of Canada and upstate New York between 1642 and 1649, and the Commemorations of the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost and of Saints Cornelius and Cyprian here in the United States of America.

This brief reflection speaks volumes about the contrast between the life and martyrdom of the eight men killed between 1642 and 1649 and the conciliar "saints". Each of the North American Martyr (Isaac Jogues, Rene Goupil, Jean Lalande, Gabriel Lalemant, Noel Chabanel, Anthony Daniel, Charles Garnier, and John de Brebeuf) shed their blood to Catholicize the upper reaches of North America. They were not interested in "inculturating" the Catholic liturgy with the pagan superstitions and barbaric practices of the Iroquois. They were concerned only about attempting to convert the heathens to the true Faith and to plant the seeds for the conversion of the land in which their noble missionary work had taken them.

Can we do any less than they?

We must seek to "keep it Catholic" at all times as we seek to plant the seeds for the conversion of this nation to become the Catholic States of America.

An original commentary will be posted within fifteen mintues. Thank you. 

Our Lady of the North American Martyrs, pray for us.

Saint Isaac Jogues, pray for us!

Saint Rene Goupil, S,J.,  pray for us.

Saint John Lalande, S,J., pray for us.

Saint Gabriel Lalemant, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Noel Chabanel, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Charles Garnier, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Anthony Daniel, S.J.,  pray for us.

Saint John De Brebeuf, S.J., pray for us.

Saints Cyprian and Justina, pray for us

Work continues on the next original commentary for this site. It will be posted in a day or two.

I am, however, offering readers a brief reflection on the Feast of Our Lady of Ransom (Mercy), which is commemorated today, Sunday, September 24, 2023, the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost. 

Our Lady of Ransom, pray for us.

This is the concluding part of a two-part series, focusing principally on former President Donald John Trump’s disastrous discussion of surgical baby-killing after spending a bit of time summarizing the reasons why Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., disqualified himself from holding public office fifty years ago.

The next original commentary may take several days to complete as it deals with a recent interview that Victor Manuel Fernandez gave to the National Catholic Register.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Saint Thomas Villanova, pray for us.

Saint Maurice and Companions, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of Saint Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist.

Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ called Levi from his duties as a collector of tribute for Caesar to follow Him. Levi quit his position as a tax collector to become a collector of souls for God and His true Church. Saint Matthew wrote His Gospel to convince his fellow Jews to accept Our Lord as the Divine Redeemer and to convert to the true Faith, Catholicism.

This is quite a contrast with the work of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who esteems Talmudic Judaism as an instrument of "justice" although it denies the Sacred Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ and wages warfare upon those who seek to restore the Social Reign of Christ the King, to say nothing of the fact that many of its rabbis,including his pal Abraham Skorka, support abortion and perversity under cover of the civil law. Quite a difference. It's the difference between fidelity and apostasy, between Catholicism and conciliarism.

The next original conmentary is being written. However, given the fact that methodically dissecting former President Donald John Trump's recent  interviews with Kristen Welker and Megyn Kelly, I may need another full day and then some before it can be posted. Thank you for your patience.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Matthew the Apostle, pray for us.

This is a brief reflection on the martyrdom of Saint Eustace and Companions (his wife and two sons), a feast that is celebrated today, Wednesday, September 20, 2023, along with the commemorations of Ember Wednesday in September and of the Vigil of Saint Matthew the Apostle.

Unlike the conciliar revolutionaries, Saint Eustace and his family refused to offer even one grain of incense to the idols and preferred death rather than to compromise on any point of their abiding Faith in Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The martyrdom of Saint Eustace should provide us with inspiration in these trying times, especially since Saint Eustace had been involuntarily separated from his wife and sons for some time prior to their joint martyrdom, which made possible their entry into Heaven together.

Part two of my current series is still being written. I am just too tired to continue work on it at this time. 

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Saint Eustace and Companions, pray for us.

This commentary is meant to serve as an introduction of some basic principles to those readers who either do not retain the points about the futility of partisan politics in a world where people are divided by error but united in amorality or need a “refresher” to pull them back from falling over the precipice of agitation about this or that latest crisis or this or that candidate for elected office.

Part two of this commentary, which should appear tomorrow, the Feast of Saint Eustace and his Companions and the Commemorations of Ember Wednesday and of the Vigil of Saint Matthew the Apostle, will deal specifically with the errors promoted and the amorality practiced by Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and Donald John Trump, who are divided by various errors but are  nevertheless united in their use of amorality to “solve” problems that neither recognizes are caused by Original Sin remotely and the Actual Sins of men proximately.

In addition to this current commentary, anyone who has the time or inclination to do so can review Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.'s., Ultimate Treason is Against Christ the King and Memorandum to Donald John Trump: The Inviolability of Innocent Human Life is Non-Negotiable as “sneak previews” into tomorrow’s commentary. 

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Saint Januarius and his Companions, pray for us.