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.

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 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.

Much has happened since the last original commentary for this site was posted.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been to Kazakhstan, where he engaged in his usual acts of apostasy and betrayal, although Red Chinese dictator Xi Jinping refused Jorge’s invitation to meet with him even though both were in Kazakhstan at the same time. Bergoglio also refused to defend the retired conciliar “bishop” of Hong Kong, Joseph “Cardinal” Zen, more or less damning him by saying that Zen chose the path of “confrontation,” not “dialogue,” thus throwing Zen under the bus once again as was pointed out in Jorge's Expendables four months ago. (Bergoglio also proved the relevance of my current “Jorge Mario Bergoglio Would Have Urged Catholics to ‘Dialogue’ with Diocletian” series that will conclude either late this week or early next week.)

There have also been the usual cacophony of events involving American politics and misgovernance that will be examined after part four of the current series is posted.

However, this commentary focuses on the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the accession of her eldest son, the adulterous globalist, population-controller, environmentalist alarmist ideologue, Philip Arthur George, as her successor.

As the title notes, it is generally not advisable to die as the head of a false religious sect.

This website does not exist to promote a sentimental view of the world and the people in it.

Everything must be view through the eyes of the true Faith.

Everything means everything.

I apologize for the delay in getting this new article complete. However, I have been working on it for four days but was slowed by what my cardiologist believes was a rebound case of the virus that had caused tremendous fatigue along with other symptoms. The “fog” seems to be abating and the fatigue, though still present, is not as debilitating as it was last week.

Thank you for your patience.

Appendix D of this commentary contains a reflection about the martyrdom of Saint Eustace and his family.

Finally, there remains a need for non-tax-deductible financial gifts.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Eustace, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary in September and the Commemorations of Ember Wednesday and of Saint Nicomedes.

We are called to meditate on the Seven Dolors of Our Lady every day of our lives. While there are many good meditations on the sufferings of Our Lady, including those provided by the revelations of Anne Katherine Emmerich and the Venerable Mary of Agreda, the late Father Frederick Faber has given us much food for inspirational meditation in his The Foot of the Cross, published originally as The Dolors of Mary in 1857. Consider this brief excerpt from Father Faber's reflections:

"But let us make the world stand still, and see how it looks. If our common love for God, which is so poor, is irritated by the sight, what must Mary have suffered? For what is irritation to our weakness to her would be the most deep and transcending sorrow. God comes to His creation. It does not stir. It cannot. It lies in the hollow beneath Him, and has no escape. He comes in the beauty of a mercy, which is almost incredible, because it is so beautiful. But seemingly it does not attract the world. He draws nigh. Creation must do something now. It freezes itself up before His eye. He may have other worlds, more fertile, more accessible to Him, than this. In the spiritual tropics, where the angels dwell, He may perhaps be welcome. But not here. This is the North Pole of His universe. He shed His life's blood upon it, and it would not thaw. It is unmanageable, unnavigable, uninhabitable for Him. He can do nothing at all with it, but let His sun make resplendent colored lights in the icebergs, or bid the moon shine with a wanner loveliness than elsewhere, or fill the long-night sky with the streamers of the Aurora, which even the Esquimaux, burrowing in his hut, will not go out to see. The only difference is that the material pole understands its business. which is to make ice in all imaginable shapes; whereas we men are so used to our own coldness, that we do not know how cold we are, and imagine ourselves to be the temperate zone of God's creation." Our sins helped to thrust those Seven Swords of Sorrow through and through Our Lady's Immaculate Heart at various points during her life, including during her Divine Son's Passion and Death. We must resolve never to grieve her Immaculate Heart again as consider our joy and our privilege to live penitentially as the consecrated slaves to her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the same Immaculate Heart. (Father Frederick Faber, The Foot of the Cross, the Dolors of Mary.)

We can help to make reparation for our sins that have grieved the Immaculate Heart of Mary if we pray more and more Rosaries each day, if we help to propagate devotion to her Seven Dolors. Indeed, Our Lady promises us the following graces if we promote devotion to her Seven Dolors:

1) I will grant peace to their families

2) They will be enlightened about the divine mysteries.

3) I will console them in their pains and I will accompany them in their work.

4) I will give them as much as they ask for as long as it does not oppose the adorable will of my divine Son or the sanctification of their souls.

5) I will defend them in their spiritual battles with the infernal enemy and I will protect them at every instant of their lives.

6) I will visibly help them at the moment of their death, they will see the face of their Mother.

7. I have obtained (This Grace) from my divine Son, that those who propagate this devotion to my tears and dolors, will be taken directly from this earthly life to eternal happiness since all their sins will be forgiven and my Son and I will be their eternal consolation and joy.

As a terrible sinner, I am counting on my own promoting of devotion to the Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary to help me just a little bit at the moment of my Particular Judgment.

What about you?

The next original article to be posted will be completed by early next week. 

Finally, please remember the soul of the late Father John Joseph Sullivan, who was my seminary professor at Holy Apostles Seminary in the 1983-1984 academic year, on this day, which would have been his one hundred sixth birthday had he not died in May of 2000.

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

A blessed Feast of the Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary to you all.

(As I have been felled once again by a virus, which my cardiologist believes is a "rebound" case, a view not shared by others, however, that has made me very fatigued, I am doing the best that I can to complete the next original article for this website. Thank you for your patience.)

Our Lady of Dolors, pray for us.

Saint Nicomedes, pray for us.

The Saviour of the world hung on the wood of the Holy Cross:

Ecce lignum Crucis, in quo salus mundit pependit (Behold the wood of the Cross, on which hung the Saviour of the world. (Adoration of the Cross, Good Friday Liturgy.)

The Cross of the Divine Redeemer was displayed prominently on street corners and in the nooks and crannies of every village in Europe during the era of Christendom. There is no "expiration date" on the Cross of the Divine Redeemer's relevance to the life of any man or of any nation.

We must lift high the Cross in our own daily lives and we must plant it firmly in the soil of our nation without any apology whatsoever as Catholicism is the one and only foundation of personal and social order.

We must also remember that Our Lady stands at the foot of her Divine Son's Most Holy Cross in every true offering of Holy Mass just as she stood at the foot of the Holy Cross on Good Friday. She stands with us as we bear our own crosses in our daily lives. We must, therefore, seek the assistance of the Mother of God in lifting high her Divine Son's Holy Cross in our daily lives, praying as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit.

The cross is ever present in each of our lives, and for this we must say with Saint Francis of Assisi, Deo gratias!

Penance is the path to Heaven.

We do our penances by carrying our crosses with gratitude.

Isn't it great to be a Catholic?

Hail, O Holy Cross! Hail!

A blessed Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross to each of you.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

A new commentary will be published no later than Saturday, September 17, 2022, the Feast of the Impression of the Stigmata upon Saint Francis of Assisi

What started out to be a two-part commentary has turned into what will be a four-part commentary studying how some of our true popes stood up to those attacking the Holy Faith as well as defending right principles when necessity compelled them to do so. 

Part three examines the work of Popes Benedict XV and Pius XI. The final part will review the eventful pontificate of Pope Pius XII, whose firm support for Catholics under persecution by Communist tyrants contrasts greatly with the words and inaction of most of the conciliar "popes," none more so than Jorge Mario Bergoglio, although Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini wins a very well deserved honorable mention. 

Holy Name of Mary, be ever our lips.

Today is the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary, commemorating the victory won by King Jan Sobieski of Poland over the Mohammedans at the Gates of Vienna on September 12, 1683.

The troops under the command of Jan Sobieski exclaimed "Jesus, Mary, Sobieski!" as they prayed their Rosaries and routed the Turkish forces.

Each of us does battle every day with the Turks, that is, with the forces of the world, the flesh, and the devil. We must call upon the Holy Name of Mary, something we do at least one hundred fifty-three times every day if we pray all fifteen mysteries of Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary.

This sweet name of the Mother of God must ever be on our lips, and it must be exclaimed by public officials as she is honored as the Queen of Heaven and on earth, yes, of each and every nation on earth, including the United States of America. No one should be ashamed at any time to proclaim the Holy Name of Mary publicly. 

Indeed, we must do so with joy and confidence. Saint Louis de Montfort taught us in True Devotion to Mary that those who are the consecrated slaves of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary should address others with a Marian salutation.

How felicitous it is, therefore, to greet others with Ave Maria! or a Salve Regina!

How glorious it is to make invocations such as "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, we love you, save souls!" or "Sweet Heart of Mary, be my salvation" or "Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and the hour of our death."

May Our Lady, she who is our life, our sweetness and our hope, help us to grow in this virtue, especially in this time of apostasy and betrayal.

Part three of my current series will be published within thirty minutes of this republished reflection's posting.