Although there is much going on in the world at this time, some of which I covered in Fear Not Those Who Can Destroy the Body, Fear Not the Likes of Merrick Garland eight days ago, the firing of a New York University (New York University is a private, not state, university much in the same manner as the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) professor because his organic chemistry courses were said to be “too hard” is of great interest to this former college professor, whose return to college teaching in 2014 was truncated prematurely because of parental complaints about my being “too hard.”

Many students today, coddled in an ethos of entitlement and brainwashed by purveyors of false grievances and the Marxist spirit of victimology, believe that they should get whatever it is they desire without working for it, including getting “good grades” even though they neither worked hard nor showed any comprehension of the subject matter on their examinations.

Assignments?

As an adjunct professor whom I knew from my time teaching on Long Island said to a mutual friend about ten years, the students were indignant that he expected them to show up for class and to do their assignments. One such student said, “Why are you bothering us with all this stuff.”

This is reminiscent of a student who was enrolled in a political science course of mine in the Spring Semester of 1999 who almost never showed up for class and, on the few times he bothered to show up, wore dark sunglasses and slept after entering the lecture hall about a half hour after class had begun. I approached this young man on the next-to-last day of the semester to ask him why he missed and was late so frequently for class lectures, whereupon he said, “I’ve got ‘stuff’ to do.” I told him that the “stuff” he had to do after signing up voluntarily to take a course, was to attend class, be in his seat on time, take diligent class notes, study those notes regularly, and be prepared for examinations when they are administered.” I never saw him again.

We are living in a world where most people have no concept how to act as redeemed creatures because most people alive today do not realize that (a) they are redeemed creatures; or (b) have any concept what it is to be a redeemed creature even if they have some inchoate recognition that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has redeemed us by the shedding of every single drop of His Most Precious Blood during His Passion and Death on the wood of the Holy Cross on Good Friday. As redeemed creatures, we are supposed to work hard at all times, starting the hard work of cooperating with graces Our Lord won for us by means of His Redemptive Act and that flow into our souls through the loving hands of Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces, and to pursue excellence in all our endeavors, where spiritual or temporal.

Thus, this commentary deals with Modernity’s embrace of ideology as the sterile substitute for the true Faith and how it has engendered sloth among the young, who expect to be coddled from the cradle to the grave.

Another long commentary on the madness and utter absurdity of naturalism will follow in four or five days barring any more falls and as various medical tests scheduled for this week permit.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Hedwig, pray for us.

his is a reflection of the life and the incomparable work of Saint Teresa of Jesus, the indomitable, incomparable reformer, foundress and model of spiritual perfection, Saint Teresa of Avila.

Although x-rays on my right hand are as of yet inconclusive as one set appears to show at least one break while another set shows no breaks, the fingers are still penitentially painful while awaiting what should be a more conclusive report after a magnetic resonation image is taken on Wednesday, October 19, 2022, the Feast of Saint Peter of Alcantara, who figures prominently in this republished reflection. It is very difficult to type. However, I was about to make progress on the next original article for this site yesterday and hope to do subsntially more today, Saturday, October 15, 2022. Thank you for your patience. 

As a reminder, tomorrow, Sunday, October 16, 2022, in addition to being the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost and the Commemoration of of Saint Hedwig, is also, although not universally, the commemorated feast oof the Purity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Teresa of Jesus, pray for us.

This reflection, which was written fivw years ago, on the message of Our Lady of Fatima includes brief reflections on the liturgical feasts that took place (or were to take place in the future) on each of the dates of Our Lady’s apparitions to Jacinta and Francisco Marto and Lucia dos Santos in the Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal.

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.

Saint Edward the Confessor, pray for us.

This is a reflection on the one hundred fifth anniversary of the final apparition of Our Lady in the Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal, as the Miracle of the Sun occurred and she, clothed in the garment of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, proclaimed herself to be Our Lady of the Rosary.

We need to heed Our Lady's Fatima Message as it is nothing other than Heaven's own Peace Plan. 

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.

Saint Edward the Confessor, pray for us.

This is the feast day of one of the great exemplars of the Social Reign of Christ the King: Saint Edward the Confessor, and this is the one hundred fifth anniversary of Our Lady's Fatima sixth and final Fatima apparition during which the Miracle of the Sun occurred.

Today, Wednesday, October 12, 2022, is the five hundred thirtieth anniversary of Christopher Columbus's planting the Cross of the Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, on the island of San Salvador. 

How diabolical it is that that the work of Columbus is rejected today by ignoramuses who hate the fact that he brought the Catholic Faitih to the Americas.

Viva Cristo Rey!

Viva La Virgen de Guadalupe!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Divine Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Council of Ephesus (431 A.D.) declared Our Lady to be the Mother of God. This is a doctrine that that the devil particularly hates, which is why he has raised up all manner of Protestant sects to attack it with a fury, requiring us to defend the doctrine of the Divine Maternity of Our Lady with all of the graces that she sees fit to send us through her loving hands as the Mediatrix of All Graces.

As Father Benedict Baur, O.S.B., explained in The Light of the World, Volume II:

"Fifteen hundred years have passed since Nestorius, a Patriarch of Constantinople, launched the heresy which taught that the person of Christ was different from the person of the Son of God. Nestorius asserted that Mary did not conceive nor bring forth the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, but only the man Christ. According to his teaching she was not the Mother of God, not a God-bearer, but only the mother of a mere man, in whom God dwelt only as in a temple.

A few years later after the beginning of the Nestorian heresy, a council was assembled at Ephesus (431 A.D.), which proclaimed that Mary had given birth to Jesus, who was, at one and the same time, God and man, having two natures but one person. God does not live in Him merely as in a temple, but the man Jesus is at the same time God. Mary is mother, not only of the humanity of Christ, but of the Son of God also. She is the Mother of God. The people of Ephesus awaited the decision of the council hall were opened and the decision was made known, the people greeted the Fathers with great rejoicing and accompanied them to their dwellings with flaming torches, crying out: 'Mary is the bearer of God; Mary is the Mother of God.' 

Today, fifteen hundred years later, we make the same joyful confession. "Mary is the mother of Jesus, the Son of God. The Gospel recounts an incident of His childhood during which He first refers to His divine origin. When Jesus was twelve years old, Joseph and Mary went to Jerusalem to offer sacrifice. 'When they returned, the child Jesus remained in Jerusalem, and His parents knew it not.' They believed Him to be in the company of relatives. But they were mistaken. After a long and anxious search they found Him in the Temple, sitting among the doctors of the law. 'And His mother said to Him: Son, why hast Thou done to so us? Behold Thy father and I have sought Thee sorrowing.' This rebuke shows the concern of a mother who has borne suffering with love. But Jesus meekly answers: 'Did you not know that I must be about My Father's business?' He refers to His Heavenly Father, for He is Son of God. He was conceived, not by the power of man, but by the power of God (Offertory). When the angel had first brought the message to Mary, she had answered: Behold the handmaid of Lord; be it done unto me according to thy word" (Luke 1: 38). And at her word, the only-begotten Son of God was made flesh in the womb of the Virgin Mother. We pray tribute to this mystery at the Communion, when we confess, 'Blessed is the womb of the Virgin Mary, which bore the Son of the eternal Father.' Blessed art thou, O holy Mother of God, who wert united to the Son of God in a most intimate union when thou didst bear Him in thy womb. "Mary provided the body for the Son of God, and he in return Christ filled the soul of Mary with the fullness of His spirit. Mary became wholly absorbed in Him and became like Him. She became united to Him in a most intimate union. 'Alleluia, alleluia. Virgin Mother of God, He whom the whole world cannot contain, enclosed Himself in thy womb, being made man, Alleluia.' 'Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.' " 'As the vine, I have brought forth a pleasant odor, and my flowers are the fruit of honor and riches' (Epistle). The blossoms on this vine are the precious virtues of faith and humility which the Virgin exhibited when she received the message of the angel. She was resolute in her attachment to her virginity: "I know not man" (Luke 1: 34). Yet she is obedient to the will of God and speaks her fiat: "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done unto me according to thy word" (Luke 1: 38). "My flowers are the fruit of honor and riches," Christ the Lord. "There shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse," Mary, who is sprung from the house of David; "and a flower shall rise up out of his root," Christ, the Son of Mary (Gradual). Humanity and divinity are united in this one person. 'Come over to me, all yet that desire me, and be filled with my fruits' (Epistle). Mary does not keep her child for herself; she bequeaths Him to us when He is born at Bethlehem, when He is offered in the Temple, and when He offers Himself up on the cross. She gives Him to us again daily in Holy Communion. Mary has borne Christ for us. Together with her Divine Son, she has given us salvation and an abundance of grace. She stands even today at the throne of God as our advocate and or all-powerful intercessor, armed with irresistible intercessory power, the mother of all those who are in the state of sanctifying grace. "We renew our faith in the mystery of Mary's divine motherhood. 'Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.' God is thy child, having taken His humanity from thy flesh. " 'Come over to me . . . and be filled with my fruits,' for it is Christ Jesus whom I give you. He was first given to us when we were reborn through baptism: He is given to us today at Mass and Holy Communion: 'Hath He not also with Him given us all things?' (Rom. 8: 32.) Since Mary has given us all things through Christ, we today express our gratitude to her." (Father Benedict Baur, O.S.B., The Light of the World, Volume II, B. Herder Book Company, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1954, pp. 440-442.) 

As a broken right hand >(yes, another penitential fall) replete with three dislocated (and possibly broken) fingers (middle, ring, and pinky) require additional imaging and examination today, October 11, 2022, I will not be able to complete the next original article unil later this week. However, I will posting five of six republishced reflections in the meantime. Thank you. Penance is better than ever in 2022. Deo gratias!

A blessed Feast of the Divine Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary to you all!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us

This commentary was posted shortly before Midnight this morning, October 9, 2022, the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost and the Commemoration of Saint John Leonard and of Saints Dionysius, Rusticus, and Eleutherius.

Suffice it for the moment to state that this commentary is about Merrick Garland's recent efforts to intimidate pro-life Americans.

The next original article should appear within three or four days. This one took a bit of time to complete. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Leonard, pray for us.

Saints Dionysius, Rusticus, and Eleutherius, pray for us.

We must never tire of reminding our fellow Catholics that Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary is, after the perfect prayer, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the most powerful prayer we have to make reparation for our own sins and those of the whole world as we seek the conversion of all men to the true Faith, the Catholic Faith, before they die and to fight the heresies of Modernity in the world and Modernism in the counterfeit church of conciliarism.

We must promote the Rosary and pray it with fervor and devotion. Our Lady implored us at Fatima to pray the Rosary daily. How can we refuse her?

The next original article needs another day or two before completion. It is coming along very well. However, it takes me longer to write a fewer number of articles. However, I do try to make the articles I can get written a means ot help the readership of this site to see the world more clearly through the eyes of the true Faith.

Thank you.

A blessed Feast of Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary to you all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Mark I, pray for us. 

Saints Sergius, Bacchus, Marcellus, and Apuleius, pray for us.

Today, Tuesday, October 4, 2022, is the Feast of the Seraphic Saint, Saint Francis of Assisi, who was born as Giovanni di Bernardone in 1182 (some say 1181).

This revised article is a poor way to pay tribute to the follower of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who gave up earthly riches to embrace Lady Poverty, earning himself eternal riches in the process, eternal riches that helped to save the Church Militant on earth from falling down at a time of great clerical corruption. It is my hope, however, that this poor tribute to Saint Francis, a saint of profound Eucharistic piety and deep, tender devotion to the Mother of God who rejoiced in the midst of trials and sufferings and insults and even the rejection of his own father and brother, will provide some food for meditation about the glorious life of this joyful saint of prayer and penance.

Saint Francis of Assisi, pray for us!

A blessed feast day to our friends to all Franciscans, including those of the Third Order.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Francis of Assisi, pray for us.