As Saint Basil the Great Once Said to an Arian: "Perhaps You Have Not Met A Catholic Bishop Before

Today's republished article, which was written twelve years ago now and revised again in 2018, attempts to draw comparisons between Saint Basil the Great's battles with the Arians and our own battles with the lords of the counterfeit church of conciliarism and their apologists. I had forgotten, prior to re-reading the article, just how many little nuggets from Dom Prosper Gueranger's The Liturgical Year are contained in its text.

Here is one just nugget:

"Peace is just what Basil desired as much as anybody; but the peace for which he would give his life could be only that true peace left to the Church by our Lord. What he so vigorously exacted on the grounds of faith proceeded solely from his very love of peace. And therefore, as he himself tells us, he absolutely refused to enter into communion with those narrow-minded men who dread nothing so much as a clear, precise expression of dogma; in his eyes their captious formulas and ungraspable shiftings were but the action of hypocrites, in whose company he would scorn to approach God's altar. As to those miserably misled, 'Let the faith of our fathers be proposed to them with all tenderness and charity; if they will assent thereunto, let us receive them into our midst; in other cases, let us dwell with ourselves alone, regardless of numbers; and let us keep aloof from equivocating souls, who are not possessed of that simplicity without guile, indispensably required in the early days of the Gospel from all who would approach to the the faith. The believers, so it is written, had but one heart and one soul. Let those, therefore, who would reproach us for not desiring pacification, mark well who are the real authors of the disturbance and so not point the question of reconciliation on our side any more.'"(Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year.) 

The authors of disturbance today are not those of us who point out the errors and blasphemes and sacrileges of the conciliar "popes," including Jorge Mario Bergoglio, but those who are silent about and/or enable these offenses, a silence that prevails these days among so many "conservative" and "traditionally-minded" priests and presbyters in the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism.

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It will take me most of the rest of this week to complete part eighteen of "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus" no matter what decisions the Supreme Court of the United States does or does not issue this week. The writing of any Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, as seems probable, will take a considerable amount of time as it is my intention to analyze the opinion of each justice, including that of Associate Justice Samuel Alito.

Pray for the safety of the justices who are being targeted by the pro-death crowd, whose protests in front of their homes is in full violation of a Federal law that the ideological hack named Merrick Garland, the current Minister of Injustice of the United States of America, refuses to enforce. 

May God have mercy on us all in this time of chastisement.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Basil the Great, pray for us.

On the Feast of Saint Anthony, Hammer of Heretics

Today is the Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua.

This is but brief, revised reflection on Saint Anthony, who is near and dear to the hearts of a preponderance of Catholics today no matter where they might fall along the vast expanse of the ecclesiastical divide in this time of apostasy and betrayal.

Perhaps I should note, however, that Saint Anthony of Padua would be hammering the heretics of the counterfeit church of conciliarism today just as he did in his own day nine hundred years ago.

An original article, Arsenic Jorge and Old Lace, was published about twenty-two and one-half hours ago.

Thank you.

Our Lady of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.

Saint Anthony of Padua, pray for us.

Arsenic Jorge and Old Lace

Jorge Mario Bergoglio recently disparaged the use of lace in liturgical vestments when speaking to priests/presbyters in Sicily. Although he rightly denounced the mobsters in Sicily, he acted like one when seeking to humiliate priests/presbyters for wearing "grandmother's lace." He is a mocker. This commentary deals with Bergoglio's contempt of the true honor and glory that belong to the Most Holy Trinity in Divine Worship and at all times.

A blessed Trinity Sunday to you all.

Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, pray for us.

Saint John of San Facundo, pray for us.

 

Saints Basilides, Cyrinius, Nabor, and Nazarius, pray for us.

Revised and Expanded: De Deo Uno et Trino

Today is Trinity Sunday and the Commemorations of the Feast of Saint John of San Facundo, of the First Sunday after Pentecost, and of Saints Basilides, Cyrinius, Nabor, and Nararius, thus beginning the second half of the liturgical year that began with the First Sunday of Advent.

The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity was revealed to us by Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Although there are clear references in the text of the Old Testament to a plurality of Persons in the Divine Godhead ("Let us make man in our own image"), human reason, which can come to the conclusion that God exists, is insufficient to know about the existence of the Most Blessed Trinity. Our Lord Himself, the Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity made Man in Our Lady's Virginal and Immaculate Womb, had to reveal this to us. The doctrine of the Most Holy Trinity is rejected by all infidels and misrepresented by most Protestant sects.

To wit, many Protestants, especially in the evangelical and fundamentalist sects, are "baptized" in "the name of the Lord Jesus," not in "The Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost," which is invalid on its face. This means that many hundreds of thousands of Protestants are not even Christians despite their thinking that they are. We must defend the doctrine of the Most Blessed Trinity with our very lives if necessary, having frequent recourse to the making of the Sign of the Cross throughout the day. This is a custom that is held dear by many Spaniards and Latin Americans.

Remember, Jorge Mario Bergoglio did not want to give a "blessing," not that he is capable of giving one as a lay Jesuit revolutionary, that is, when address the crowd on the Capitol Mall in Washington, District of Columbia, on Thursday, September 24, 2015, the Feast of Our Lady of Ransom, for fear of offending "unbelievers."

The next article for this site will be posted with in fifteen mintues of this revised and expanded reflection. 

A blessed Trinity Sunday to you all.

Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, pray for us.

Saint John of San Facundo, pray for us.

Saints Basilides, Cyrinius, Nabor, and Nazarius, pray for us.

An Unbroken Chain of Antipopes (or One Antipope Resigns or Dies, They Make Another Antipope), part one of a periodic series

Clever apostate that he is, Jorge Mario Bergoglio has set the tongues of many Catholic commenators wagging with the news of his visit to the cathedral in L'Aquila, Italy, where Pope Saint Peter Celestine is entombed, fueling speculation that an antipapal resignation is near.

I do not think that such a resignation is near as the Argentine Apostate still has what he considers is important work to accomplish before he dies or resigns, work that entails as much destruction of the remaining vestiges of Catholicism within his false religious sect as possible in as short a period of time as possible. 

However, given the fact of the speculation, I want to remind the few readers of this website that the problem is not with this or that conciliar "pope" but with the false conciliar religion. 

Part eighteen of "Sin: More Deadly than the Coronavirus" will be published within the next week and remarks about the attempt to kill Associate Justice Brett Michael Kavanaugh will be made part of the very long, multi-part analysis  of the decision of the United States of America in the case of Thomas E. Dobbs, Mississippi State Health Officer, et al. v. Jackson Women's Health Organization after it is issued by the Court. "Naturally Absurd," part eight, will be published in early July.

Thank you for your patience.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Margaret of Scotland, pray for us.

Evade Justice in This Life, Prepare to Meet Up with Divine Justice in the Next

Another one of Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton’s confederates skated after a jury filled with her supports acquitted him of lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.). Although the jury had help from a Federal judge Christopher Cooper, who denied prosecutors from Special Counsel John Durham’s office permission to tie defendant Michael Cooper directly to Madame Defarge’s 2016 presidential campaign’s cooked-up Russian Collusion hoax, the jurors did not care about the evidence as they engaged in jury nullification.

This commentary explores the long history of those on the “left” evading justice in this life without realizing that they, just like the rest of us sinners, will face Divine Justice Himself, Christ the King, in the next.

Another new commentary will appear later this week.

Our Lady, Queen of Apostles, pray for us.

Saint Norbert (whose feast is suppressed today), pray for us.

Reprising Father Francis X. Weninger's Third Sermon for Whit Monday

I am presenting to you a transcription of a very powerful sermon on Whit Monday that was written and delivered by Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J., here in the United States of America in the early 1880s. This sermon has great relevance to contemporary events unfolding right before our very eyes, and I will provide a bit of commentary on this sermon in one of my next original articles on this site.

For the moment, though, suffice it to consider the impact that Father Weninger’s books and sermons had upon Americans, including a Jewish man who converted to the Catholic Faith because of Father Weninger’s writings:

Weninger’s writings during his life time were extensive and varied across a wide spectrum of topics, including, but not limited to, scripture commentaries, works on canon law, sermons, mission techniques, and musical compositions. These works had a great impact their readers, as shown in a letter that was sent in memoriam by a Jewish man from New Orleans. In the letter, he writes:

“To my sincere sorrow, I read in to-day’s paper of the demise of Fr. Weninger of Cincinnati. Not having had the pleasure of knowing him personally, I have learned to love him from studying some of his works, and it was for some time a favorite idea of mine, when passing through Cincinnati, to call on him and that him for the great spiritual benefit I derived by perusing his books. His picture is hanging over my desk, and if the prayers of a poor sinful Hebrew convert, whom by his writings he has helped by to find again the true and only way that leads to salvation, are acceptable toward the repose of his soul, I will thus try and show him my gratitude.” “Father Weninger,” Woodstock Letters 18, no. 1 (1889): 123 (As found at Jesuit Archives: The Digital Collection of Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J. .)

The next orginal article on this site will be published within thirtyminutes of this republished sermon.

Our Lady, Queen of the Apostles, pray for us.

Saint Norbert (whose feast is suppressed this year), pray for us.

Pentecost Sunday (2022)

Today is Pentecost Sunday, the birthday of Holy Mother Church, the upon which the first pope, Saint Peter, who was vivified as the Vivifier Himself, God the Holy Ghost, descended upon him and Our Lady and the other Apostles (and the rest of the disciples) gathered in the Upper Room in Jerusalem as they completed their Novena to God the Holy Ghost ten days after Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's glorious Ascension to His Father's right hand on Ascension Thursday. Saint Peter wasted no time in doing something that is forbidden, at least in a de facto sense, in the counterfeit church of conciliarism: he preached to the Jews about the necessity of their converting to the true Faith.

The missionary work of the Church to seek with urgency the unconditional conversion of all men and all nations to the her maternal bosom, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there is no true social order, brought us glorious missionaries who were willing to embrace many sacrifices, including martyrdom itself, to spread the Faith of the Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, so that men and all nations would be able to order themselves rightly according to the Deposit of Faith that He has entrusted exclusively to Holy Mother Church for Its eternal safekeeping and infallible explication and by means of a fervent cooperation with the graces won for us by the shedding of Our Lord's Most Precious Blood and that flow into our hearts and souls through the loving hands of Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of all Graces. The work of conversion does not end when one is Baptized or Confirmed.

The work of conversion away from our sinful selves to become more conformed to the Cross of the Divine Redeemer and the merciful designs of His Most Sacred Heart for us is one that is constant. Every beat of our hearts, consecrated as they must be to that same Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, must burn with fire for the love of God as He has revealed Himself to us through His true Church and as we seek to grow in holiness and to make reparation for our sins and those of the whole world. It is useless for us to be converted in the Baptismal font unless we are willing to let God the Holy Ghost help to convert us every day to cooperate more fully with His Seven Gifts and Twelve Fruits. Saint Paul the Apostle explained that the spiritual man, the one who is filled with Sanctifying Grace, cannot be understood by the sensual or worldly man:

For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is in him? So the things also that are of God no man knoweth, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit that is of God; that we may know the things that are given us from God. Which things also we speak, not in the learned words of human wisdom; but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God; for it is foolishness to him, and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined. But the spiritual man judgeth all things; and he himself is judged of no man. (2 Cor. 2: 11-15)

We must keep this in mind when our relatives and friends and associates do not understand how we can refuse to keep our silence when a putative "pontiff" calls a mosque as a "jewel" or as a "sacred" place or as he prays as a Jew without mentioning the Holy Name of the Divine Redeemer (doing voluntarily what the leaders of Sanhedrin tried to force the Apostles to do, that is, to mention the "name of that man no more") and has he praises the nonexistent ability of false religions to help build the "better world."

We cannot care about what others think of us. We must say and do only those things that are pleasing God, never fearing to raise our voices to defend His greater honor and glory and majesty when these are offended by one claiming to speak for the Catholic Church on earth. The Mystical Bride of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Holy Mother Church, is as spotless and as immaculate as Our Blessed Mother herself.

The Catholic Church did not give us "hootenanny" liturgies before the aftermath of the "Second" Vatican Council. She did not give us "inter-religious dialogue" and "inter-religious" prayer services. She gave us liturgies that came from God the Holy Ghost, not travesties that reaffirm people in the spirit of the world.

The Catholic Church can only give us clarity of doctrine, not ambiguity and complexity that took one "clarification" after another to attempt to make "clear." Holy Mother Church has always mirrored Our Blessed Mother's hatred of heresy and error, which was part of the meditation written by the late Father Frederick Faber on the Sixth Dolor of Our Lady:

In the judgment of the world, and of worldly Christians, this hatred of heresy is exaggerated, bitter, contrary to moderation, indiscreet, unreasonable, aiming at too much, bigoted, intolerant, narrow, stupid, and immoral. What can we say to defend it? Nothing which they can understand. We had, therefore, better hold our peace. If we understand God, and He understands us, it is not so very hard to go through life suspected, misunderstood and unpopular. The mild self-opinionatedness of the gentle, undiscerning good will also take the world's view and condemn us; for there is a meek-loving positiveness about timid goodness which is far from God, and the instincts of whose charity is more toward those who are less for God, while its timidity is searing enough for harsh judgment. There are conversions where three-quarters of the heart stop outside the Church and only a quarter enters, and heresy can only be hated by an undivided heart. But if it is hard, it has to be borne. A man can hardly have the full use of his senses who is bent on proving to the world, God's enemy, that a thorough-going Catholic hatred of heresy is a right frame of mind. We might as well force a blind man to judge a question of color. Divine love inspheres in us a different circle of life, motive, and principle, which is not only not that of the world, but in direct enmity with it. From a worldly point of view, the craters in the moon are more explicable things than we Christians with our supernatural instinct. 

We must therefore permit God the Holy Ghost to come into our souls with His bright burning flames at every moment of our lives so that we will filled with love of God and hatred of our own sins as we seek to cooperate with the graces He sends us through the loving hands of His Spouse, Our Lady, making sure to honor His Spouse as we pray as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit. May this be our prayer this day and every day our own lives:

Come, Holy Ghost, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love.

V. Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created.

R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.

Let us pray. O God, Who didst instruct the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Ghost, grant us in the same Spirit to be truly wise, and ever to rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

A blessed Pentecost Sunday and Octave to you all!

Our Lady of the Cenacle, pray for us.

On the Vigil of Pentecost (2022)

Although I am slowly completing work on my next commentary, the best that I can do for you today is offer this slightly revised reflection for the Vigil of Penecost, which is a day of fast for those between the ages of twenty-one and fifty-nine and a day of partial abstinence for those seven years of age or older. This does not mean that those of us over the age of fifty-nine should not fast if able to do so, only that it is not morally obligatory to fast. We should keep in mind that God is most pleased with the souls who give Him more than the minimum required by Church law. We must give Him our all as the consecrated slaves of His Co-Equal, Co-Eternal Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. 

Our Lady of the Cenacle, pray for us.

A “Lesser Evil” Here, A Lesser “Evil” There, Soon One Gets Quite Comfortable with All Evil

Several recent articles, including one on Lifesite News, examined the mainstreaming an easygoing acceptance of sodomy in the rarified stratosphere of “conservative” “elites.”

This commentary explains that it is precisely because so many Catholics look to “conservatism,” not Catholicism, to “solve” the problems of the world, each of which is traceable to fallen human nature, and to accept the so-called “lesser evil” as the means of retarding supposed greater evils without realizing that, sooner rather later, there is going to be the triumph, however temporary within the Providence of God, of just plain evil without any distinction.

A commentary on the acquittal of deep sent provocateur Michael Sussman will follow in a few days.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Angela Merici, pray for us

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