Two articles on Our Lady of Guadalupe are being republished today. Each has been slightly revised and, of course. In addition to this article, there is also "We Must Be Made As Simple and Trusting" that was published in four parts back in 2010.

Today is a great feast day in the Americas as it was on this day 485 years ago that Our Blessed Mother gave us two great miracles.

Acceding to the demand of Apostolic Administrator [later Archbishop] Fray Juan de Zumarraga, O.F.M., the Mother of God saw to it that Castilian roses grew atop Tepeyac Hill so that her little "Juanito," Juan Diego, a fifty-five year-old widower to whom she had first appeared on December 9, 1531, could provide proof that it was she who had made the request of Fray de Zumarraga to built a shrine in her honor on the hill where she appeared. The administrator's guards, who had treated Juan Diego with such cruelty and even racism, spied those roses and tried to grab them out of Juan's tilma as he waited to see Fray de Zumarraga. The roses, quite miraculously, disappeared every time the guards sought to snatch them away from Juan Diego.

Those Castilian roses were presented by Juan Diego to Fray Juan de Zumarraga, who knelt before the Indian convert to the Faith as he gazed upon the miraculous image that Juanito did not know was there: the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, who was clearly expecting the Baby Jesus. Remember, this was Advent in the year 1531, just forty-nine years after Christopher Columbus first set foot on the Island of San Salvador to implant the Cross of the Divine Redeemer in this hemisphere for the first time since Saint Brendan the Navigator had done so in the First Millennium.

Our Lady's miraculous image showing her expecting the Baby Jesus is quite symbolic of the expectant desire she had then--and has now--for the conversion of the peoples of the Americas to the true Faith, that each person and each nation be born anew as they submit themselves to Christ the King through His Catholic Church. Over nine million indigenous people converted to the true Faith within a short time following her apparition to Juan Diego on this day 485 years ago, almost person for person the number of people lost to the Faith as a result of the Protestant Revolt in Europe. It was almost as though God was saying to those who left, "Fine. I will have My Mother get new souls to populate Holy Mother Church and hence Heaven itself."

The Americas were indeed converted to Catholicism, which is why the devil had to attack the Faith in Latin America with such ferocity by means of the Masonic revolutionaries who were supported in both philosophical and monetary terms by the lodges in the nascent Untied States of America. Great crimes were committed against Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and His Most Blessed Mother as a result. These crimes continue to this day, which is, of course, one of the reasons that Saint Michael the Archangel appeared with Our Lady as she spoke to Juan Diego. Our Lady has crushed the head of the serpent with her heel and Saint Michael the Archangel is our helper to crush him in our own lives and in the Americas where he reigns, albeit temporarily, in civil government and in popular culture.

May we rely upon the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Empress and Patroness of the Americas, to help us to be courageous enough to plant seeds for the conversion of the Americas, including the United States of America, to the Social Reign of Christ the King as It must be exercised by the Catholic Church. Perhaps an extra Rosary today on this glorious feast day will help us to be more faithful and more courageous in our promotion of the Social Reign of Christ the King and Mary our Immaculate Queen.

Finally, please pray for my younger brother (and only sibling), who turns sixty-three years of age today. Our late mother died on March 18, 1982, and our father died on September 5 1992. The years have certainly passed quickly.

As noted just below, I can only work at the computer for several hours at a time because the symptoms from the concussion that I suffered five days ago worsened on Saturday evening. I did some work on the next original article yesterday, and hope to be able to complete part five today as I need also write part six, which will focus on some of the incoming administration's Cabinet selections. All that I will say on that score for the moment is this: Rex Tillerson=Exxon Mobil=Planned Barrenhood=Foggy Bottom's Bloody Tradition of "Family Planning" will continue.

What was that I was saying about false opposites?

Viva Cristo Rey!

Viva La Virgen de Guadalupe!

Our Blessed Mother gave us two great miracles on this day 485 years ago. Acceding to the demand of Apostolic Administrator [later Archbishop] Fray Juan de Zumarraga, O.F.M., the Mother of God saw to it that Castilian roses grew atop Tepeyac Hill so that her little "Juanito," Juan Diego, a fifty-five year-old widower to whom she had first appeared on December 9, 1531, could provide proof that it was she who had made the request of Fray de Zumarraga to built a shrine in her honor on the hill where she appeared. The administrator's guards, who had treated Juan Diego with such cruelty and even racism, spied those roses and tried to grab them out of Juan's tilma as he waited to see Fray de Zumarraga. The roses, quite miraculously, disappeared every time the guards sought to snatch them away from Juan Diego.

Those Castilian roses were presented by Juan Diego to Fray Juan de Zumarraga, who knelt before the Indian convert to the Faith as he gazed upon the miraculous image that Juanito did not know was there: the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, who was clearly expecting the Baby Jesus. Remember, this was Advent in the year 1531, just forty-nine years after Christopher Columbus first set foot on the Island of San Salvador to implant the Cross of the Divine Redeemer in this hemisphere for the first time since Saint Brendan the Navigator had done so in the First Millennium.

Our Lady's miraculous image showing her expecting the Baby Jesus is quite symbolic of the expectant desire she had then--and has now--for the conversion of the peoples of the Americas to the true Faith, that each person and each nation be born anew as they submit themselves to Christ the King through His Catholic Church. Over nine million indigenous people converted to the true Faith within a short time following her apparition to Juan Diego on this day 484 years ago, almost person for person the number of people lost to the Faith as a result of the Protestant Revolt in Europe. It was almost as though God was saying to those who left, "Fine. I will have My Mother get new souls to populate Holy Mother Church and hence Heaven itself."

The Americas were indeed converted to Catholicism, which is why the devil had to attack the Faith in Latin America with such ferocity by means of the Masonic revolutionaries who were supported in both philosophical and monetary terms by the lodges in the nascent Untied States of America. Great crimes were committed against Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and His Most Blessed Mother as a result. These crimes continue to this day, which is, of course, one of the reasons that Saint Michael the Archangel appeared with Our Lady as she spoke to Juan Diego. Our Lady has crushed the head of the serpent with her heel and Saint Michael the Archangel is our helper to crush him in our own lives and in the Americas where he reigns, albeit temporarily, in civil government and in popular culture.

May we rely upon the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Empress and Patroness of the Americas, to help us to be courageous enough to plant seeds for the conversion of the Americas, including the United States of America, to the Social Reign of Christ the King as It must be exercised by the Catholic Church. Perhaps an extra Rosary today on this glorious feast day will help us to be more faithful and more courageous in our promotion of the Social Reign of Christ the King and Mary our Immaculate Queen. Viva Cristo Rey!

Readers, especially those who are new to this site, might also be interested in a series on the apparitions of Our Lady to Juan Diego that was written six years ago now: May We Be Made As Simple and Trusting, part one, May We Made As Simple and Trusting, part two, May We Be Made As Simple and Trusting, part three and May We Be Made As Simple and Trusting, part four.

Also, I ask for your prayers today for my brother, who turns sixty-three years of age on this Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Yes, I am making progress on part five of "Sober Up." However, the concussion symptoms worsened considerably on Saturday evening, December 10, 2016, and have gotten a bit worse since then. This is not unusual as it sometimes happens that the full effects of a concussion take several days to manifest themselves, and they have done so in a penitential way that I so richly deserve as but a small way to pay back God for the debt that I owe Him because of my many sins. Deo gratias!

As a result of the headaches and general, all-around heaviness of head, I can only work at the computer for several hours at a time. I did so yesterday, and hope to be able to complete part five as I need also write part six, which will focus on some of the incoming administration's Cabinet selections. All that I will say on that score for the moment is this: Rex Tillerson=Exxon Mobil=Planned Barrenhood=Foggy Bottom's Bloody Tradition of "Family Planning" will continue.

What was that I was saying about false opposites?

Viva Cristo Rey!

Viva La Virgen de Guadalupe!

I AM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION." Those words, uttered by the Mother of God herself to Saint Bernadette Soubirous in the Grotto of Massabielle near Lourdes, France, on March 25, 1858, was a Heavenly ratification of the solemn, infallible proclamation of the doctrine of her Immaculate Conception by Pope Pius IX on December 8, 1854, in the Bull Ineffabilis Deus. "I AM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION."

Our Lady was conceived in the womb of her holy mother, Good Saint Anne, without any stain of Original or Actual Sin in anticipation of the merits that would be won by her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, on the wood of the Holy Cross. She, the Singular Vessel of Devotion, had the perfect integrity of Adam and Eve before their Fall from Grace in the Garden of Eden. It is important, therefore, to get the doctrine of Original Sin right in order to understand the great miracle worked by God in the soul of the fairest flower of our race, Our Lady, from the very first moment of her Immaculate Conception. To get anything about the doctrine of Original Sin wrong leads to the efforts on the part of Modernists to deconstruct the doctrinal definitions of Original Sin and of the Immaculate Conception.

Alas, the Catholic Church, our Holy Mother on earth, our Mater and Magister, is as spotless as the Immaculate Blessed Virgin Mary. Holy Mother Church does not deconstruct infallible dogmatic definitions. Holy Mother Church cannot do so, which is why we need to pray to Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces and our Immaculate Queen, to help us to cleave to true bishops and true priests in the catacombs who make no concessions to the counterfeit church of conciliarism that has promulgated an abominable "liturgy" and whose officials feel feel to "reinterpret" dogmatic truths according to Modernist propositions that have been condemned by the authority of our spotless Mother on earth, Holy Mother Church.

Mindful of the effects of our own sins on our immortal souls and of our need to make reparation for them to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through Our Lady's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, may we make the Secret prayer for today's Holy Mass our own: "Receive the saving Victim we offer to Thee, O Lord, on the solemn feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary: and grant that, as we confess that by Thy prevenient grace she was kept free from every stain of sin; so, by her intercession, we may be delivered from all our offenses. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God."

A blessed Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary to you all!

Although this revised reflection does make more than casual references to the conciliar revolutionaries, I am not addressing today Jorge Mario Bergoglio's "Jubilee Year of Mercy" until Thursday or Friday, as our focus must be on the fairest flower of our race who was unspotted by any stain of sin. Like his predecessors before him in the counterfeit church of conciliarism, Bergoglio has no conception of the horror of personal sin and, believing as the naturalist that he is, thinks that it is actually counterproductive to urge those living in states of Mortal Sin in the objective order of things to change as they might be offended and walk away from what he thinks is the Catholic Church. No one who loves God as He has revealed Himself to us exclusively through His true Church, the Catholic Church, can be indifferent to the horror of sin, which caused Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to suffer unspeakable horrors in His Sacred Humanity during His Passion and death on the wood of the Holy Cross and caused the Swords of Sorrow to be thrust through and though the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of His Most Blessed Mother, she is is our Immaculate Queen of Heaven and of Earth.

May God have mercy on us all in this era of apostasy and betrayal.

O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

It is my hope to part five of "Sober Up" posted by tomorrow morning. The reigning caesar and the Argentine Apostate will have starring roles in the commentary. commentary.

A blessed Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary to you all.

This is a very brief reflection on Saint Nicholas and Saint Ambrose, both of whom should inspire us to be uncompromising in our defense of the Holy Faith and unswerving in our refusal compromise in the slightest to the spirit of a world filled with every error and heresy imaginable.

Part five of "Sober Up," which deals with the "leftist" hypocrisy concerning the American presidential election, should appear by Friday, December 9, 2016.

Finally, although we have received two non-deductible financial gifts recently that made possible the payment of pressing bills, we are in need of further and quite immediate assistance, and thus it is that I ask those who support the work of this website and have the means to do so (exempting those who have given to us recently, of course!) to make a non-tax deductible financial gift at this time.

Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Nicholas of Myra, pray for us.

Saint Ambrose of Milan, pray for us.

This article, which, despite the time stamp (which in this instance indicates when I saved an unpublished draft) was published a little It is too late (or early) to do anything other than after two o'clock this morning. It has undergone a few revisions in various places, including taking note of the visit paid by the Ozone Man himself to Trump Tower today, Talk about false opposites! This article is very long and details.

Part five of this continuing series will focus on the reaction of the false opposite of the naturalist "left"--a category that includes both Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro and, of course, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, to the results of the American presidential election.

This part of the series focuses on some simple facts that are designed to help those who are lost in the thrall of the moment to sober up as naturalism can never be used as any kinds of means to fight the evils engendered by naturalism.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Sabbas, pray for us.

This a substantially revised and enlarged reflection on the life and the tireless apostolic work of the great Jesuit missionary and one the original members of Saint Ignatius of Loyola’s Company of Jesus, Saint Francis Xavier.

The title of the revised article reflects the disparaging term that Jorge Mario Bergoglio used to compare believing Catholics with modern-day faithful, believing Mohammedans who take the words of the blasphemous Koran seriously by committing acts of wanton murder against “infidels.” Saint Francis Xavier worked tirelessly for the conversion of those who belonged to false religions. Then again, he was a true Jesuit priest. Jorge Mario Bergoglio is a lay Jesuit revolutionary masquerading as a “pope," a man who expelled himself from the bosom of the Catholic Church in his youth as he mocked the Immemorial Mass of Tradition and taught to disparage Catholic doctrine as being in opposition to the Gospel of Christ the King.

This is also the First Saturday of the month of December.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Francis Xavier, S.J., pray for us.

Although I am still working on part four of "Sober Up," which is taking a very long time because of the care that needs to be taken to make various points at a time many Catholics are euphoric over the results of the elections on November 8, 2016, I took time today to revise a reflection on the life and martyrdom of Blessed Edmund Campion, S.J., who was tortured and killed on this day, December 1, four hundred thirty-five years ago, that is, on December 1, 1581.

Blessed Edmund Campion was put to death on orders of "not so good" Queen Bess, that is, the wretched Queen Elizabeth I. Blessed Edmund did not give "joint blessings" with Anglican ministers have the conciliar "popes," and it is interesting to note that the four "cardinals" whose red hats are said to be in jeopardy for going public with their dubia about Amoris Laetitia have not said a word in protest about any of those "joint blessings" and other ecumenical travesties.

Again, I am sorry for the delay in completing "Sober Up, part four."

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Blessed Edmund Campion, pray for us.

The title is self-explanatory.

"Sober Up, part four" will appear by Wednesday, November 30, 2016, the Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle, the brother of Saint Peter. It appears as though my belief, expressed at the beginning of the article posted on Saturday ("Jorge Can't Even Keep Track of His Own Heresies!), that the Clinton campaign might be cahoots with Jill Stein's recount demand in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania was entirely correct. The goal here is simple: to run out the clock on the recount so as to prevent the Republican electors in those three states from casting their ballots for Donald John Trump and Michael Pence three weeks from today, that is, on Monday, December 19, 2016. No candidate would have a majority if this happened, meaning that the United States House of Representatives (every state would have but a single vote) would elect the President on or about January 6, 2017, after the President of the United States Senate, Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., opens the electors' ballots and declares that no one has received a majority of the electoral vote. The Senate would then vote for the Vice President.(each senator would vote individually).

There will be more by Wednesday.

Although not on the universal calendar of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, the Feast of Saint Catherine Laboure may be celebrated today, an Advent ferial day. My reflection on the Miraculous Medal is found below this new article about the death the infidel named Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz and Jorge Mario Bergoglio's "sorrow" about it.

Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, pray for us.

Saint Catherine Laboure, pray for us.

Yesterday, Sunday, November 27, 2016, was the First Sunday of Advent and the Commemoration of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal. Although this feast is not observed on the General Roman Calendar of the Catholic Church, it 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 reflection was written in 2010 and published in two parts. It was a year ago now that it was combined into one part and revised slightly in a few places.

Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, pray for us.

Saint Catherine Laboure, pray fo rus.