On the Commemorated Feast of Saint Fidelis of Signmaringen, April 24, 2025

I am offering a republished reflection on the life and martyrdom of Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, O.F.M., Cap., the Protomartyr of the Capuchin Franciscans and the patron saint of the Society for the Propagation of the faith, today, Easter Thursday, April 24, 2025.

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."

I was unable to complete my next original commentary for posting, but work on it will continue today, Easter Thursday, April 24, 2025.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, O.F.M., Cap., pray for us.

A False Church With False Doctrines, False Liturgical Rites, and False Cardinals Cannot Give Us True Popes

This is a follow-up to my initial home page commentary on the death of Jorge Mario Bergoglio and the reformated After the Argentine Apostate's Death: Jorge Mario Bergoglio: The End Result of Sixty-Six Years of Falsehoods.

Another original commentary will appear on Easter Thusday, April 24, 2025, which is also the Commemoration of Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Popes Saints Soter and Caius, pray for us,

After the Argentine Apostate's Death: Jorge Mario Bergoglio: The End Result of Sixty-Six Years of Falsehoods

I awoke around 6:00 a.m., this morning, Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, and found an alert from Long Island Newsday on my phone that Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who was trotted out yesterday to meet with Vice President James David Vance, and to appear on the same balcony upon which he had walked out on March 13, 2013, to begin his twelve year, thirty-nine day costume masquerade as “Pope Francis,” died at 7:35 a.m., Rome time, which was 12:35 a.m., Eastern time.

To the end, the egregious Argentine Apostate, who could readily muster the name of George Floyd but could never mention the names of Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, or Jocelyn Nungaray, issued a message that spoke about the plight of “migrants,” even mentioning that his parents were migrants. His parents, though, migrated to Argentina from Italy legally, not illegally, and they did not commit any violent crimes.

To the end, therefore, Bergoglio, who was a friend of globalists, sold out the longsuffering underground Catholics to their Red Chinese captors, excoriated those who did not take the poisoned jabs called "vaccines” while supporting the lockdown state, consulted with the likes of George Soros, Klaus Schwab, and Anthony Fauci, constantly indemnified pro-abortion, pro-perversity Catholics in public life such as Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro Pelosi, and, among others, Gerald Edmund Brown, Jr., excommunicated his “conservative” critics, removed “bishops” who, despite their support for the overall conciliar agenda, including false ecumenism, spoke out against his, Bergoglio’s unremitting schemes to normalize  adultery, sodomy and its related perversities, committed unspeakable acts of apostasy when in the presence of rabbis and pagan “holy men,” told young Catholics not to seek to the conversion of non-Catholics, was an ardent apologist for the discredited ideology of environmentalism to such an extent that he aligned himself with the anti-population goals of World Economic Forum and the Copenhagen conferences, and made war against the modernized version of the Immemorial Mass of Tradition, showed himself to be but the figure of Antichrist he had always been throughout his wretched fifty-five year career as a lay Jesuit revolutionary.

Remember, however, that Jorge Mario Bergoglio was but the product of conciliarism and the head of a counterfeit church that is the ape of the Catholic Church, she who is the spotless, virginal mystical spouse of her Divine Founder, Invisible Head, and Mystical Bridegroom. As Saint Ambrose noted, “The Catholic faith derives so much strength and support from the words of the Apostolic See, that it is criminal to entertain any doubts concerning it.”  It is ontologically impossible for what the counterfeit church of conciliarism has propagated and authorized in the past sixty-six years to come from the Catholic Church, and Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a perfect representative of this false religious entity, not the core problem facing Catholics in this time of apostasy and betrayal.

Thus, prior to developing these themes more fully later today, I have put a two-part retrospective about the train wreck that was Bergoglio’s anti-papal reign, which was published last month after I had changed references to him from the past to the present tense as I had expected him to have died before its publication, into one part for present purposes without changing the Bergoglio references to the past tense again.

Oh, yes, I have prayed for Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s soul, knowing that Our Lady will direct the fruit of those prayers to some other soul if he, having shown no sign of remorse for any of his crimes against Christ the King, His Blessed Mother, and the Catholic Faith, has learned about “accompaniment” in the most tragic manner possible.

I will have more for you by tomorrow morning.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Anselm [whose feast is suppressed today], pray for us.

April 21, 2025: Father Francis Weninger's First Sermon for Easter Monday

I am providing you with Father Francis X. Weninger’s first sermon for Easter Monday as it is every timely despite its being written and delivered around one hundred fifty years ago.

This sermon, which the book publisher explains in a prefatory note was written in German, focused on the persecution of Holy Mother Church, and believing Catholics by the thirty-third degree Freemasonic Chancellor of the German Empire, Otto von Bismarck, during the Kulturkampf that began shortly after the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. Father Weninger’s exhortation for courage in the midst of this persecution will provide Catholics today with great encouragement in the midst of the persecutions and acts of government repression that are employed here in the United States of America and elsewhere in the so-called “civilized” world during the plandemic.

Please take the time to read this truly inspirational sermon. You will not regret doing so.

An original commentary should appear on Easter Tuesday, April 22, 2025.

Alleluia! Christ is Risen!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

April 20, 2025: Easter Sunday: There is an Empty Tomb in Jerusalem: Resurrexi, et Adhuc Tecum, Alleluia!

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.

Republished: The Three Easter Sermons of Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J.

Herewith republished are three of Father Francis X. Weninger's sermons for Easter Sunday!

Alleluia! Christ is Risen!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

A Holy Saturday Reflection, April 19, 2025

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.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

A Good Friday/Holy Saturday Devotion: Hour of Mary in Desolation from Behold Thy Mother: A Servite Manual of Prayers (2025)

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 between 3:00 p.m. today, Good Friday, April 18, 2025 and 10:00 a.m., Holy Saturday, April 19, 2025.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

The Most Solemn Day of the Year: Good Friday, April 18, 2025

This is the day that our sins transcended time and played their significant parts in putting God to death. The greatest crime in the history of the world was committed this day, Deicide, and we were among the guilty parties putting God on trial and then subjecting Him to horrible and painful humiliations and scourgings before we nailed Him to the wood of the Holy Cross, upon which He paid back to His Co-Equal and Co-Eternal Father the debt of our sins.

Yes, there is no greater crime than Deicide. There is also no greater act of love in all of human history as Love Incarnate took upon Himself the guilt of our sins though He was guilty of nothing. It was out of love for His Co-Equal and Co-Eternal Father's Holy Will and His matchless love for us that He, Who had instituted the Priesthood and the Eucharist last evening at the Last Supper, that He subjected Himself to the hands of us sinful men, even going so far as to make excuses for us, His executioners, as He hung on the gibbet of the Holy Cross.

This great act of sacrificial, redemptive love of the God-Man, Who had become Incarnate in His Most Blessed Mother's Virginal and Immaculate Womb by the power of God the Holy Ghost, is re-presented in an unbloody manner on altars of Sacrifice by true bishops and true priests every day of the year except for today, Good Friday. Our focus today is on mourning for our sins and expressing our gratitude that we have been redeemed by the shedding of every single drop of the Most Precious Blood of Our Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as we ask Our Lady to help us to grow in a greater fervor for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as we grow more and more detached from even our Venial Sins and come to despise them as much as we despise any Mortal Sins that, God forbid, we may have committed.

This is a day of solemnity and sobriety, a day of total withdrawal from the world and its madness. We spend our time in church today as we keep Our Lord company at the Altar of Repose prior to noon and as we participate in the Mass of the Presanctified. Our sins put God to death. We helped to murder God in the very Flesh.

How does God repay us ungrateful and frequently lukewarm sinners? He gives us the true Church, born out of the Blood and Water that flowed forth from His wounded side when It was pierced by Saint Longinus's lance, making possible our regeneration in the Baptismal font and in the Sacred Tribunal of Penance, making it possible for us therefore to receive His very Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Most Blessed Sacrament in Holy Communion. And he give us His Blessed Mother, she who is our Co-Redemptrix, our Mediatrix and our Advocate, to be our Blessed Mother as He entrusts her to Saint John the Evangelist, whose fidelity to Our Lord on this day is meant to foreshadow our own fidelity by means of assisting at daily Mass frequently and of persevering until the point of our dying breaths in states of Sanctifying Grace by remaining a as close to Our Lady as he was.

Will we repay Our Divine Redeemer Who was nailed to the Cross this day with a true effort to amend our lives? Will we repay Our Divine Redeemer Who shed every single drop of His Most Precious Blood this day with a greater effort to take seriously our consecration to His Most Sacred Heart through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary? Will we seek to live at all times in light of First and Last Things as we bear our own crosses with love and joy and gratitude?

Our Lady stands ready to help us to bring us to Calvary every day. Sure, we must make the same kind of effort as Saint Helena made to find the site of the True Cross in the Fourth Century as the Mass has indeed been taken away by spiritual robber barons. However, Our Lady does indeed stand ready to fortify us in our resolve never to return to the muck and the mire of a false church whose "pope" mocks the Holy Cross and makes of It an instrument of socialistic "justice" and Judeo-Masonic globalism.  

May we give thanks and praise to Our Lord through His Blessed Mother's Immaculate Heart this day for the wondrous mystery of His love that has made possible our eternal salvation.

I call your attention also to Father Francis X. Weninger's Three Good Friday Sermons.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Father Francis X. Weninger's Three Good Friday Sermons

In addition to my own wholly inadequate reflections during this Paschal Triduum, I am endeavoring those who access this website reflections written by spiritual masters, and it is for this reason that I am hereby publishing on this most solemn day of the year Father Francis X. Weninger’s three sermons for Good Friday.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

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