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.

Marie-Frances Therese Martin was born to the holiest of parents, Louis and Zelie Martin, who endeavored to shield their children as much as possible from the influences of the world.

The sacrifices made by Louis and Zelie Martin produced five vocations to the consecrated religious life. Zelie Martin's prayers from eternity after her death assisted her husband as he raised one canonized saint and four other daughters who served Holy Mother Church as brides of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

The simplicity and love of the Little Flower teaches each of us to pursue holiness as befits redeemed creatures, seeking the things of Heaven in this life so that we may spend our Heaven doing good here on earth. Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face was raised in a family that stressed the importance of withdrawing from the world. Louis and Zelie Martin were very protective of their daughters, making sure to instill within them a firm commitment to the Virtue of Modesty.

Indeed, Sister Genevieve of the Holy Face, Marie-Frances Celine Martin, was shocked at the immodesty that had overtaken France with the Allied bombing of Normandy forced the cloistered Carmelites of the Carmel out of their cloister and into the world in June of 1944. She noted this in a letter to Mother Agnes Mary that was dated July 7, 1944:

"After fifty years of eremetical living, to find myself all of a sudden uprooted and thrown into the midst of the world, with veil raised, is a true martyrdom for a recluse like me. It seems to me as if we're in a station where everybody is crowding around and intermingling. We sleep fully clothed on benches; we take our meals in haste, standing up in the dark; we look with astonishment and grief at the feminine styles stripped of all dignity." (As quoted in Celine: Sister Genevieve of the Holy Face, Sister and Witness of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, by Father Stephane-Joseph Piat, O.F.M., p. 130.)

What would Saint Therese and Sister Genevieve say today about the feminine attire that is considered "modest" and "acceptable" in Catholic chapels all across the vast expanse of the ecclesiastical divide where some version of the Immemorial Mass of Tradition is offered or simulated?

They would not have been approving, and that is because their holy parents taught them Catholic right from wordily wrong.

Why is this so difficult for many traditionally-minded Catholic parents to understand, accept and abide by today?

The next original article is chugging away. I expect it to be posted in time for viewing on Wednesday, October 5, 2022, the Feast of Saint Placidus and His Companions.

Please continue to pray for the repose of the soul of the late Mrs. Rebecca Adams Dupree and the consolation of her husband, chiildren, parents, and siblings. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Therese of Lisieux, pray for us

This reflection on our Holy Guardian Angels is brief. Our devotion to and reliance upon our Guardian Angels, however, must be lifelong. 

Work continues, albeit at a snail's pace, on the next original commentary. 

Rebecca Adams Dupree, the young lady for whom prayers were requested two days ago, died in Amman, Jordan, on Friday, September 30, 2022, the Feast of Saint Jerome. Please pray for the repose of her immortal soul and for the consolation of her parents, husband, two children, and three siblings.  A Melkite Rite Divine Liturgy funeral will be offered on Monday, October 3, 2022, at the Cathedral of Saint George in Amman, Jordan.

Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her. May her soul and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

Our Lady of the Angels, pray for us.

Our Holy Guardian Angels, pray for us.

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?

Urgent prayers to Our Lady, Health of the Sick, to Saint Joseph, Hope of the Sick, Saint Philomena the Wonder Worker, and Saint Jude, the Patron of Impossible Causes, are requested for the recovery of the daughter of readers of this site, Michael and Sandra Adams, so that she, Rebecca, who is very ill with diabetes in a hospial in Amman, Jordan, will recover and be restored in good health to her husband and two children. Rebecca's parents have surrendered this serious situation into the hands of Our Lady and are ready to accept the Holy Will of God with a serene acceptance. With God all things are possible, of course, and thus the family asks for the prayers of this site's readership for Rebecca's recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Adams are being advised by Dr. Paul Byrne, who was apprised of Rebecca's situation a few days ago. Let us storm Heaven for Rebecca and her family by praying a special Rosary for her over the course of gthe next nine days.

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

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Jerome, pray for us.

As promised in my reflection on today's Feast of the Dedication of the Church of Dedication of Saint Michael the Archangel, I am hereby publishing Father Francis X. Weninger's sermon for today's feast. 

Our Lady of the Angels, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us and defend 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, Thursday, September 29, 2022.

Our Lady of the Angels, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us and keep 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 latest original article, Jorge Mario Bergoglio Would Have Urged Catholics to "Dialogue" with Diocletian, part four, was published yesterday, Tuesday, September 27, 2022, the Feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Wenceslaus, pray for us.

This commentary concludes my four-part study about how our true popes opposed error and defended Catholics being persecuted by its propagators. The focus of this concluding part is on the eventful pontificate of Pope Pius XII, whose forceful denunciation of Communism and defense of Catholics suffering it stands as quite and contrast to and rebuke of the refusal of Jorge Mario Bergoglio to do so.

Although much of this study’s first half may be familiar to longtime readers as it has been adapted from previous commentaries, albeit with a good deal of original commentary, the second half is a detailed examination of Pope Pius XII’s first encyclical letter, Summi Pontificatus, October 20, 1939, and his last encyclical letter, Meminisse Iuvat, July 14, 1958, which was a no-holds barred defense of Catholics under attack Communist regimes in Eastern Europe and Asia, most particularly, of course, in Red China. My own interjections at various points discuss the relevance of Meminisse Iuvat to our present circumstances today as Communism in fact has taken hold in much of the so-called “civilized West,” including here in the United States of America.

A suggestion is made near the end of this study that our true priests should consider offering a Votive Mass of the Holy Face of Jesus, which was authorized by Pope Pius XII just five months before his death on October 9, 1958, on the next free day liturgically, Wednesday, October 12, 2022. Our Lord requested devotion to His Holy Face to make reparation for blasphemy, heresy, and Communism, making it, after Holy Mass, Eucharistic piety, Our Lady’s Most Holy Rosary, and devotion to her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, one of the most relevant, if not the most relevant, devotions of our times. Mind you, this is just a suggestion. However, I do hope that a few true priests will take it to heart.

Finally, it has been over thirteen months since G.I.R.M. Warfare: The Conciliar Church's Unremitting Warfare Against Catholic Faith and Worship was published. The book has received two formal reviews and three ratings. A recent reviewer wrote the following:

Discovered more about the holy Mass than I ever have over 60 odd years of assisting.
A thorough dismantling of the "bogus" Novus Ordo "Mess''.

Only sixty-one purchases of the book have been made, and some of those are mine! Please consider making a purchase if you have not done so already and as noted recently, non-tax-deductible financial gifts are needed at this time.

The next original article on this site should appear within a week. It will be about events in the world, particularly those here in the United States of America, a land founded on errors galore  that have led to bitter divisions along party lines without any thought of pleasing God as He has revealed Himself to us through His true Church, the Catholic Church, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there can be no true social order.  

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Cosmas and Damian, pray for us.

Today, Monday, September 26, 2022, 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, here in the United States of America and the Commemoration of Saints Cyprian and Justina.

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.

It is my expectation that part four of "Jorge Mario Bergoglio Would Have Urged Catholics to 'Dialogue' With Diocletian" will be published tomorrow, Tuesday, September 27, 2022, the Feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian. Much work was done on Saturday, September 24, 2022, the Feast of Our Lady of Ransom, and much was done yesterday, Sunday, September 25, 2022, the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost. There is another full day of work on the study, but I anticipate its posting around this time tomorrow. Thank you for your patience as I make another request for non-tax-deductible financial gifts. 

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.

Part four of my current series is proceeding slowly as there is much meticulous detail and analysis that requires careful attention and special diligence. It is my hope to have the study completed by Tuesday, September 27, 2022, the Feast of Saints Cosmas and Daman.

What I can present you, however, is a brief, republished reflection on the Feast of Our Lady of Ransom.

Our Lady of Ransom, pray for us.