Today is the Solemnity of Saint Joseph in Paschaltide, a feast that originated under the title of “The Patronage of Saint Joseph” in 1847 by Pope Pius IX before being given its current name in 1911 and then repositioned two years later on the Wednesday following the Second Sunday after Easter by Pope Saint Pius X. This reflection is by way of an annual reminder, slightly revised, to trust in Saint Joseph, the Patron of the Universal Church and the Protector of the Faithful, in these times of persecution by the forces of Antichrist in the world and in the counterfeit church of conciliarism. 

As I have now published volume three of To Live in Light of Eternity (purchasing information can be found here and here), I am no longer republishing most of the reflections on various feast days that have been incorporated into the first three volumes of the current series of anthologies. 

Thus, my reflection on the life of Saint Peter of  Verona, O.P., the Protomartyr of the Order of Preachers, can be found at:  In His Own Blood.

Work continues on part four of "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavius," which will take another three to four full days of writing before it is completed. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church and Protector of the Faithful, pray for us. 

Saint Peter Martyr, pray for us.

Yes, another original article. Things just move a little more slowly when one has a slight concussion. I apologize for the delay. 

Additionally, a great deal of time has been spent on trying to get the cover for Volume 3 of To Live in Light of Eternity accepted for publication. A reader with more technological ability that I possess, which is less than zero, spent lots of time on this project before achieving success only Saturday, April 25, 2020, the Feast of Saint Mark the Evangelist. I am very grateful for the help that this individual provided me.

This is as good a time as any, therefore, to let the “vast” readership of this site know that volume 3 is now available for purchase in print form. The only way to under the book as of this writing is to send $21.00 in care of this site’s PayPal button. I will then place each order by ordering “author’s copies.” Shipping is included in the twenty-one dollar purchase price, and books should arrive two to three weeks after they are ordered, if not sooner.

The new volume covers the major liturgical feasts that following Pentecost Sunday (Trinity Sunday, the Solemnity of Corpus Christi and the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus) and then the feast days of Our Lady and various saints from April 5, Saint Vincent Ferrer, O.P., to July 31, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, S.J. Volume four will be published in June, God willing and Our Lady interceding, although I have three other book projects to complete between now and then.

As to the current new commentary, suffice it to say that the title is pretty self-explanatory as there are even some fully traditional Catholics who refuse to recognize the ecclesiogensis that occurred at the “Second” Vatican Council was centuries in the making. Things just didn’t “happen” at the “Second Vatican Council.

Circumstances require another—and relatively brief—part four of the “Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus” in a few days before work begins on the next book project.

Thank you.

Our Lady of Good Counsel, pray for us.

Pope Saints Cletus and Marcellinus, pray for us.

Saint Peter Canisius, pray for us.

Saint Paul of the Cross, pray for us.

Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort, pray for us.

Although this is Paschaltide, penance is always  in season, and I have being doing a great deal of penance these past six days by attempting to get Volume 3 of To Live in Light of Eternity uploaded according to the cover specifications of Kindle Direct Printing. I have been assisted in this effort by a generous soul who has the sort of computer/graphic skills that I lack, and even he has been frustrated by the repeated stalls over the course of the past six day, during which time I have been working on another article that I hope can be posted by tomorrow, the Feast of Saint Mark the Evangelist. 

In the meantime, I am offering a republished reflection on the life and martyrdom of Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, O.F.M., Cap.,whose feast is celebrated today, Friday, April 24, 2020.

Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, O.F.M., Cap. opposed false ecumenism with his very life. Unlike the conciliar "popes" and their "episcopal" henchmen, Saint Fidelis came to "extirpate heresy, not to embrace it."

Another article in the "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus" series may appear by the end of the coming week, if not sooner. There is not a whole lot more to say than what I have written in the first three parts. However, there it should be very apparent by now that we are being taken for fools by the medical/scientific industry to do the bidding of leftist totlatarians, who are expecting to condition us all into accepting open slavery at their hands, stained by the blood of millions upon millions of innocent babies and untold thousands of those who have been and are being killed by utilitarians in the name of "palliative care."

Killers in white coats abound in the world today. This stands to reason as we live in a world formed by the lies of Martin Luther and the scions of Judeo-Masonry, and the whole fabric of the ecclesiology and pastoral practice of the counterfeit church of conciliarism is based upon an “official reconciliation” with those lies. God will visit a major chastisement upon the “civilized” world for its warfare against truth, which is nothing other than a warfare against Him and His Divine Revelation.

May God have mercy on us all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, pray for us.

The dominance of the China/Chinese/Wuhan/Covid-19/Coronavirus has been such as to delay other writing projects, including putting the final touches on Volume 3 of “To Live in Light of Eternity,” which I to have available for sale for the vast multitudes of those who will purchase it by the end of this coming week.

For the moment, though, I have been able to complete a commentary on the “shock” and “outrage” exhibited by “Archbishop” Carlo Maria Vigano about the fact that Jorge Mario Bergoglio relegated the title of “Vicar of Christ” as something merely “historical” in nature and not signifying the office he thinks he holds.

Obviously, Bergoglio is not the Vicar of Christ as he is the sixth in the current line of antipopes. However, the Sherlock Holmeses, Perry Masons, Jacques Clouseaus, Maxwell Smarts and Robert T. Ironsides amongst the rank of “conservative” and semi-traditional Catholic continue to strain to find “clues” to discover what Jorge Mario Bergoglio thinks of the papacy and the Catholic Faith.

This commentary, which is not as long as my trilogy on the coronavirus, is intended to provide a rather through set of reminders that the problem we face is a false church. The conciliar “popes” have simply been and continue to be the “front men” for an enterprise that is of, by and for Antichrist.

Please continue to pray the fifty-four day Rosary Novena, now in its twenty-fifth day (Joyful Mysteries today, Easter Saturday), for an end to the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical service (and the false conciliar religion which produced it and is expressed therein) and for the restoration of a true pope on the Throne of Saint Peter.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

[An Easter Wednesday Update: Although I am not going to revise the text of this current article again, I did discover two interesting pieces of information that support the general conclusions included in parts two and three of this three-part series.

The first piece of information concerns a report that underscores the judgments that had been reached by Dr. Francis Boyle that he offered to Geopolitics & Empire that were reprinted in the March 2020 issue of Christian Order and included in part two of this seires. 

Specifically, a writer named Ben Lowsen is questioning whether Xi Jinping Sickened the World Deliberately. I think that the answer is in the affirmative as Xi Jinping knows that he has a veritable fifth column of support in the American academic, journalistic, political, bureaucratic, entertainment, sports, banking, financial, commerical and medical communities. Look, the United States of America is on  on the "fast track" to becoming the kind of surveillance state that exists in Red China.

Secondly, it turns out that Dr. Anthony Fauci is a huge admirer of Madame Defarge (aka Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton): Leaked E-mails Show Fauci Called "Hillary's Doctor Admirer" and Wanted Her to Know "We  All Love Her. Just another reason not to trust Dr. Anthony Fauci over and above the bogus information and supposed medical expertise that he has been offering to the administration of President Donald John Trump.]

I hereby present to you part three of “Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus," which has undergone a few revisions late on Easter Tueday that provide more documentation for the simple fact that we are witnessing a major fraud being committed upon the people of the United States of America and the rest of the world.

Work now resumes on a Bergoglio-themed commentary.

A continued blessed Easter to you all!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

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

Alleluia! He is Risen! Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has made manifest His Easter Victory over sin and eternal death. “O death, where is Thy victory. O death, where is thy sting?”

We shall all indeed rise again: but we shall not all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall rise again incorruptible: and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption; and this mortal must put on immortality. And when this mortal hath put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?

Now the sting of death is sin: and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who hath given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast and unmoveable; always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. (1 Cor. 15: 51-58)

Our Lord made His Easter Victory over sin and eternal death manifest first to His Most Blessed Mother, who stood so valiantly at the foot of His Most Holy Cross as she cooperated completely in His Redemptive Act, bringing us forth as the spiritual sons and daughters of the living God in great pain by means of adoption. W need to rely on the help of Our Lady as the consecrated slaves of Her Divine Son through her own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart so that we may persevere in a state of Sanctifying Grace with perfect contrition for our sins until the moments of our deaths so that our bodies and souls will be resurrected on the Last Day at the General Judgment of the Living and the Dead and counted among those destined for the enjoyment of an unending Easter Sunday of glory in Paradise.

Nothing else matters if we save our souls by cooperating with the graces won for us by the shedding of every single drop of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's Most Precious Blood 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. Nothing else matters if we fail to soul our souls.

This glorious day of Easter rejoicing is meant to be but a foretaste of Heaven. Let us live as redeemed creatures as we reject the naturalism of Modernity and the Modernism of the soul-killing agents of the counterfeit church of conciliarism. This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad!

A blessed Easter Sunday to you all!

Alleluia! Christ is Risen!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Silence filled the earth in the forty hours between the death of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ on the wood of the Holy Cross yesterday, Good Friday, and His glorious Resurrection at dawn on Easter Sunday. Silence filled the earth as the God-Man went down into Limbo to announce the news of His Redemptive Act to the souls of the just who had awaited His Coming and His Sacrifice in atonement for the sins of all men from the beginning until the end of time.

Christ the King is the Light of the World. It is His light that is symbolized by the Easter fire that is lit at the beginning of the Easter Vigil. The Light of Christ breaks through the darkness of sin and eternal death, leading us by the fire of His bright, burning love as we continue our desert journey of life to the Promised Land of the New and Eternal Canaan made possible by His immolation on the wood of the Holy Cross yesterday, Good Friday. We must follow the Light of Christ as He, the New Moses, leads us as the first Moses led the Hebrew people as he followed a column of cloud during the day and a column of fire during the night, as we reminded once again during the Prophecies that are read during the Easter Vigil.

The Light of Christ, Our Crucified and Resurrected Saviour, will penetrate the souls of those who are baptized today and of those who are confirmed. It will penetrate the souls of those of us who were unable to receive Him in Holy Communion yesterday at the Mass of the Presanctified. It will penetrate the souls of those who are regenerated once again in the Sacred Tribunal of Penance. The Light of Christ that is symbolized by the Paschal Candle is meant to permeate every aspect of our lives without any exception at any time for any reason.

The Light of Christ has indeed broken through the darkness of sin and eternal death. Our Lord is making manifest His Easter Victory over the power of sin and eternal death. A fifty day period of glorious celebration is about to break upon us. Although the Easter Vigil is a long ceremony, eternity is forever. We can certainly spend five hours basking in the glories of the Sacred Liturgy that are, after all, a foretaste of eternal glories, can we not? The rewards are truly Heavenly, rewards that we could not have unless the Co-Eternal and Co-Equal Son obeyed His Heavenly Father out of love for him and out of love for us so that we could have access to the treasures of His Most Sacred Heart here through the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

A blessed Holy Saturday to you.

These devotions to Our Lady in her desolation are found in Behold Thy Mother: A Servite Manual of Prayers, Chiefly in Honor Our Lady's Sorrows. They are to be prayed betweeen 3:00 p.m. today, Good Friday, and 10:00 a.m. tomorrow, Holy Saturday.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Although I did decide to republish my Good Friday reflection (scroll below) as this is the most solemn day of the year, I am also offering anyone who accesses this site today, Good Friday, April 10, 2020, a sermon given by Father Francis Xavier Weninger, S.J., nearly one hundred forty years ago. His is the superior reflection!

We adore Thee, O Christ, and we praise Thee, because by Thy Holy Cross Thou hast redeemed the world.

Hail, O Holy Cross, our own glorious and precious hope.

Our Lady, Queen of Martyrs and Mother of Sorrows, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint Mary Magdalene, pray for us.