The shadow of the Holy Cross hung over the cave in Bethlehem even as the shepherds who had been called by angels from the nearby fields adored the Infant King alongside the Mother of God and her Most Chaste Spouse, Saint Joseph.

Holy Mother Church directs our attention to this fact today as we focus on the truth that the Birth of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in Bethlehem on Christmas Day was to make possible our own spiritual rebirth in the Baptismal font and our birth unto eternal life at the moment of our deaths if we persist to the very end in states of Sanctifying Grace. The path to our salvation runs directly through the Holy Cross and it requires us to be willing to sacrifice riches and honors and pleasures and human respect and even our very lives to bear witness to Christ the King as He has revealed Himself to men exclusively through the Catholic Church that He founded upon the Rock of Peter, the Pope.

Saint Stephen the Protomartyr was willing to lay down his life as he preached the Gospel of the Divine Redeemer in an attempt to convert the Jews who were listening to him and engaging him in disputation. He exhibited the Virtue of Fortitude as he proclaimed the Gospel in the midst of insults an threats. And Saint Stephen the Protomartyr exhibited the Virtue of Charity as he prayed for his executioners, one of whom was the fire-breathing anti-Catholic zealot named Saul of Tarsus.

Saint Stephen's prayers at the time of his martyrdom and from eternity thereafter won the conversion of Saul, who became the Apostle to the Gentiles, Saint Paul the Apostle. Saint Stephen wanted to effect the conversion of his executioners. He did not seek to reaffirm them in their act of murder or to reaffirm them in the practice of Judaism. Saint Stephen did not dismiss or denigrate the gravity of their crimes. He simply did not hold those crimes against his persecutors as he prayed for their conversion.

We must pray always for those who hate us, for those who calumniate us, for those who have done us some injury in the past, for those who have rejected us for one reason or another. Praying for and forgiving those from whom we are estranged is not an option for a Catholic. It is an obligation of the interior life imposed directly by the God-Man Himself in the Sermon on the Mount.

If He forgives us so readily in the Sacred Tribunal of Penance, why are we so slow to forgive others who owe us but an infinitesimally small portion of what we owe Him for our own forgiven sins?

As the late Father John Hardon, S.J., noted in a 1996 conference in Sterling Heights, Michigan, at which I gave two presentations, "God permits us to sin so that we can forgive each other. Let me repeat myself here: God permit us to sin so that we can forgive each other."

A sinner who is contrite and thankful to God never withholds forgiveness from his fellow sinner. Saint Stephen teaches us that lesson today.

Are we going to learn it once and for all?

A continued merry and most blessed Christmas to you all.

A new article will be published within five minutes of this posting. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Stephen the Protomartyr, pray for us.

Rejoice! Venite Adoremus!

Gloria in Excelsis Deo!

Our Saviour has been born for us of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Midnight in piercing cold. Venite Adoremus!

Surrounded by the host of Heavenly angels, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity Who was made Man in His Most Blessed Mother's Virginal and Immaculate Womb by the power of the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, God the Holy Ghost, at the Annunciation nine months before is born for us this night. The long awaited Messiah comes as a helpless Infant, born in anonymity, poverty and humility. Bright radiant beams shine forth from His Holy Face, a Face that would be marred beyond all recognition by our sins as He walked on the Via Dolorosa on Good Friday to redeem us on the wood of the Holy Cross and thus make possible for us eternal life in Heaven in the glory of the Beatific Vision of God the Father, Himself, the God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.

Those bright beams that shone forth from the Newborn Baby Jesus this morning are meant to shine forth from our own souls as we grow in the graces that He won for us on the wood of the Holy Cross and that flow into our hearts and souls through the loving hands of Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces. There is no Holy Mass, where Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is born under the appearances of bread and wine every time a true bishop or a true priest utters the terrible words of Consecration, without this holy night. Just as Our Lord obeyed His Heavenly Father to become Man, so does He obey mere men when they, whose immortal souls have been conformed to His Priesthood and Victimhood, utter the words of Consecration over the mere elements of this earth, making Him Incarnate to feed our bodies and souls unto eternal life.

There is no regeneration of souls in the Baptismal font or in the Sacred Tribunal of Penance without this holy night.

There is no hope for mankind without this holy night.

There is, as the first Pope, Saint Peter, teaches us, no "salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved." (Acts 4: 12.) Only Christ the King is God. None other. Catholicism is the one and only foundation of personal and social order. None other.

We gather around Our Lady, out of whose Virginal and Immaculate Womb the Newborn Babe passed as light through crystal this morning, and her Most Chaste Spouse, Good Saint Joseph, to adore Our Saviour, the very Lamb of God Who takest away the sins of the world, including yours and, most especially, mine!

May the Joyful Mysteries we continue to pray during this Octave of Christmas help us to be ever thankful for the great, incomparable gift that Our Lady gave to us this night as she brought forth her Divine Son so that He, Who stretched out His holy arms in the Crib this night, could stretch out this holy arms on the wood of the Cross to embrace all men to lift them up to the Heavenly Father in Spirit and in Truth.

On behalf of my wife Sharon and our daughter Lucy, I wish each of you a most Blessed and Joyous Christmas. This greeting is extended to all who access this site. No matter the difficulties of the present moment as false ecclesiastical officials deny the Sacred Rights of the Social Reign of Christ the King and esteem the symbols of false religions that are hideous and loathsome in His sight, the peace of Christ the King that He has entrusted to the Immaculate Heart of His Most Blessed Mother is something that a believing Catholic must will for everyone, praying fervently for all whom God's Holy Providence has placed in his path over the years, including those, of course, from whom various events have estranged us.

May each of us, united to the Merciful Heart of the Divine Redeemer that was formed out of us and is united yet to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, help us to pray for each other as we pray for the day with all Catholics will speak with one voce (una voce) and will think with but one mind, that of the Catholic Church, she who teaches the unchanging truths of the Immutable Triune God.

A blessed Christmas to you all.

Our Lady, Mother of God, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saint Anastasia, pray for us.

This is a very brief republished reflection on the heroic missionary work of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, whose transferred feast we celebrate today, Monday, December 23, 2022, with a Commemoration of the Fourth Sunday of Advent.

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, a naturalized citizen of the United States, was the first and thus far the only citizen of this country to be canonized by a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter.

Let me try to put it to you this way: Mother Cabrini’s insistence on the highest standards of personal modesty and her concern about Italian immigrants being converted by the materialistic and decadent ways of Protestant and Judeo-Masonic American culture, to say nothing of her love of mortifications and sufferings, would have earned her an “apostolic visitator” sent by Jorge Mario Bergoglio to “reform” her “Pelagian” ways if she lived at this time of apostasy and betrayal.

Finally, I am putting off the posting of part two of my current two-part series until the Feast of Saint Stephen the Protomartyr on Thursday, December 26, 2024. As the term Decide is listed in the conciliar annotated edition of the American Jewish Committee's glossary of suppressing any opposition to Judaism or Zionism as exercises in "anti-Semitism," I am hereby providing a link to commentary published on Ash Wednesday, February 25, 2009, No Crime Is Worse Than Deicide.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, pray for us.

Also, please see Mother Cabrini's Shrine: A Pictorial Essay, for photographs taken on December 22, 2007.

It was nine days ago that the misnamed United States Conference of Catholic “Bishops” endorsed a “Catholic” version of a document produced by the American Jewish Committee entitled “Translate Hate: AJC’s glossary of antisemitic terms, phrases, conspiracies, cartoons, themes, and memes. Annotated by the Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.” 

In order to provide a background to a dissection in part two of this two-part commentary of several of the terms included this glossary, this first part reviews the evolution of the counterfeit church of conciliarism’s “reconciliation” with Talmudism, starting with how Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII requested the Sacred Congregation of Divine Rites to change the Roman Ritual’s requirement that converts from other religions, including Mohammedanism and Judaism, be given warnings during their baptism into the Catholic Faith about relapsing into their false religions. Roncalli specifically stated that wanted to “emphasize everything that unites and remove anything that unduly divides believers in God.”

No one who does not profess belief in the God of the Divine Revelation, the Most Blessed Trinity, is a “believer in God.” Roncalli thus set the stage for the apostasies to come, including those that come out of the open sepulcher that is the mouth of Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

Part two will appear tomorrow, which is the Feast of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini here in the United States of America and the Commemoration of the Fourth Sunday of Advent.

A blessed Fourth Sunday of Advent to you all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Today, Saturday, December 21, 2024, is the Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle and the Commemoration of Ember Saturday in Advent.

Saint Thomas did not believe that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ had risen from the dead on Easter Sunday. Our Lord told the doubting Apostle to press his finger into His nail marks and to press his hand into His wounded side. Saint Thomas believed. Along with the other Apostles, including the one who replaced Judas Iscariot, Saint Matthias, Saint Thomas became a bold proclaimer of the Catholic Faith, going to India, where he sacrificed his life for the Holy Faith. Saint Thomas the Apostle touched the flesh of the Risen Saviour with his own hands. He then went on to touch the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of that same Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ with his own priestly hands as he uttered the words at Holy Mass that made the Messias incarnate under the appearances of bread and wine. The very words Saint Thomas uttered after he had touched Our Lord on Low Sunday, Dominus meus et Deus meus, are what we pray every time a true priest utters these words at Holy Mass: "Hoc Est Enim Corpus Meum." As we prepare the celebration of Christmas Day four days from now, we should ask Saint Thomas to help us reverence Our Lord in His Real Presence with greater fervor as we grow stronger in the Faith with every passing day, consecrated as we are to Our Lord through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Medical appointments and a passing cold as well as a very penitential skin problem have interfered wih the completion of my next commentary. However. I will be at my post all day today, Saturday, December 21, 2024, the Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle and the Commemoration of Ember Sunday in Advent, and should have it posted by this time on the Fourth Sunday of Advent tomorrow. I am sorry for the delay.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Thomas the Apostle, pray for us.

Rather than supplement material that was contained in part seven of this series, which was published on Gaudete Sunday, December 15, 2024, and the Commemoration of the Octave of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, I have decided to add an eighth part to “Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomine Domine” series because of some developments in the past few days and then to explain once again how the conflict in the land where Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ became Man, was born, lived, conduct His Public Ministry, and  underwent His Passion and Death to redeem us and then to show forth His Easter Victory over the power of sin and death when He rose from the dead on the third day is intractable as long as adherents of false religions adhere to their falsehoods and refuse to convert to His true Church, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there can be no true social order.  

The next commentary on this site will deal with the latest effort by the Talmudists, working in collaboration with the conciliar “bishops” of the United States of America, to make any criticism of Judaism or Zionism exercises in anti-Semitism.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

A blessed Gaudete Sunday to you on this Third Sunday of Advent and the Commemoration of the Octave of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

This commentary reviews some of the more recent developments in the Middle East, an area where there will be perpetual combat between within and between different Mohammedan sects and between Mohammedanism and Zionism. Despite all their differences of religion, the Mohammedans and the Jews are united one very essential point that Catholics must never forget: a denial of the Most Blessed Trinity and of the Incarnation, Nativity, Hidden Life, Public Ministry, Passion, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of the Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity made Man in the Virginal and Immaculate Womb of His Most Blessed Mother by the power of the Third Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, God the Holy Ghost, at the Incarnation, Christ the King.

The Mohamemdans and the Jews are divided over the details of their false religions and about their territorial claims, but they are absolutely united in their rejection of Christ the King and His Catholic Church. Everyone who is soul is in a state of Original Sin is captive to the devil and thus is more prone to violence, hatred, and revenge than others. There can never be any peace anywhere, including in the Middle East and right here in the United States of America, whose war hawks have enabled the Zionists in their slaughter of both Christians and Mohamemdans in Gaza, Syria, and Lebanon in the past seventy-six and one-half years, until everyone exclaims: "Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deo Sabaoth. Pleni sunt cæli et terra gloria tua. Hosanna in Excelsis! Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomine Domini. Hosanna in Excelsis!

For those who are new to this site (and I have reason to believe that there might be a few Protestants a few Catholics fully immersed in the conciliar structures who are accessing these articles now and again), this currrent commentary may seem a bit "much" unless one reads a summary of Catholic teaching about the falsity of Judaism as found in Jerusalem Belongs To Christ the King, part one/Sober Up, part six and about the proximate causes of the conflicts in the Middle East as found in Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomine Domini, Hosanna in Excelsis, part two.

My next original commentary will deal with a related subject: the American "bishops" acceptance of a dictionary of "anti-Semitism" that is based upon an overt rejection and condemnation of the immutable teaching of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and His Holy Church prior to the first in the current line of antipopes, Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII. 

The great apostasy is staring us all right in the face! We must pray to Our Lady so that those who do not as yet accept this fact can have the supernatural eyes of their immortal souls opened to the truth and then to flee from the false conciliar sect, its false teachings, sacramentally barren liturgical rites, false pastoral practices, false Scriptural exegeses, false teaching about Catholic moraliy, and false pastoral practices and thus to find the true Catholic Church in the underground where she was to be found in her first three centuries, in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales during the Protestant Revolution, in France during the revolutionary era of the Constitutional Church, and, among other places at various times, in Red China since 1949.

Once again, a blessed Gaudete Sunday to you all!

The saint whose feast we celebrate today, Saint Lucy, resisted all efforts made by the civil authorities to induce her to worship the idols when a suitor, who was angered by her rejection of him after she had given away her riches to the poor, betrayed her as Christian to the pagan officials of the Roman Empire in Syracuse, Sicily, at the beginning of the Fourth Century A.D., in the year 304 A.D.

Saint Lucy could have saved her life if only she worshiped the idols. Unlike the conciliar "pontiffs," men who have esteemed the symbols of various and sundry false religions, with their own consecrated hands, Saint Lucy refused to do so and was immovable when taken to a house of sin. She refused even to look upon the vice that was before her.

May this immovable foe of religious liberty help us to see more clearly with the eyes of our immortal souls that the Catholic Church cannot be in the least responsible for the abominations and blasphemies and sacrileges and defections from the Faith perpetrated by the counterfeit church of conciliarism.

May Saint Lucy, a model of purity and gentleness and grace and courage, help us to see so clearly that we flee to the catacombs where the Faith is protected without any concessions to conciliarism.

A blessed Feast of Saint Lucy to all who are named after this great witness to the Faith, especially my dear wife, who took Saint Lucy as her patron at Baptism, and our dear daughter, Lucy Mary Therese Norma, who has, of course, a special devotion to the virgin and martyr from Syracuse, Sicily.

I ask your prayers also for the repose of the soul of the late Father Salvatore V. Franco, who died on this day twenty-one years ago now. Father Franco, who suffered from serious heart problems but died of a form of leukemia that he only found out he had weeks before he died, was good enough to offer us refuge in his kitchen in Westbury, Long Island, New York, in April of 2002 until November of 2002 as he offered the Immemorial Mass of Tradition for us each weekday.

Although I had long before abandoned the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical abomination on Sundays as I moved in "indult" circles, we made the decision to abandon all putative "offerings" of this abominable travesty during the week when Father Franco took ill and before he died. Father Franco, who was ordained as a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn in June of 1953, had a heart attack in 1963 at the age of thirty-seven, an act of God's Divine Mercy that kept him from being immersed in parish life as the conciliar revolution proceeded apace. Father Franco kept active, however, offering Mass and helping souls. We will be forever grateful to him for providing us with the refuge that he did in the months after Lucy's birth. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen. We still miss you, Father Salvatore V. Franco!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Lucy, pray for us.

Each of us is going to face an exacting scrutiny of all our thoughts, words, and deeds at the moment of our Particular Judgment, which is why we must make a thorough Examen of Conscience every night before we go to sleep.

Although United States Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), who is sharp as a tack at the age of ninety-one and who will be the Chairman of the United States Senate's Commiteee on the Judiciary once the one hundred nineteenth Congress convenes on Friday, January 3, 2025, has sent a withering letter to the outgoing Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, Christopher Ashley Wray, itemizing the numerous ways in which the FBI's open politicization that began under Wray's sanctimonious predecessor, James Brien Comey, continued and expanded under Wray's watch for the past seven years, Grassley's well-documented with footnotes aplenty review of the FBI's indemnification of the Obams, the Clintons, and the Bidens and its targeting of regime opponents, such as former and future President Donald John Trump, pales into insigificance with the scrutiny he will receive when bright light of Christ King shines in the darkest recesses of Wray's immortal soul at the Particular Judgment. Wray will not be able to obfuscate at that time nor will he able to say he has to fly to Atlanta, Georgia, to avoid answering for his many injustices and misuse of the public trust.

Then again, each one of us is going to be subjected to that same scrutiny. However, it is one thing to be aware of accounting we must make to Christ the King of the stewardship of the graces He has bestowed upon us, but it quite another to be smug in this life as to think that there will be no accoutability in the next. 

Pray for the conversion of the malefactors who abound in public life as we beg Our Lady for her graces every day for our own daily conversion away from sin, selfishness, and pride so that we can ever ready to face her Divine Son whenever He comes and under whatever circumstances we find ourselves when He will ask us to be that accounting of our lives.

Work on part seven of "Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomine Domini" continues. I am sorry for the delay. However, I am trying to be very methodical in its composition.

Our Lady of Guadauple, pray for us.