Today, Monday, December 22, 2025, is the the transferred Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle and the Commemoration of Moday in the Fourth Week of Advent.

Saint Thomas did not believe that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ had risen from the dead on Easter Sunday. Our Lord told the doubting Apostle to press his finger into His nail marks and to press his hand into His wounded side. Saint Thomas believed. Along with the other Apostles, including the one who replaced Judas Iscariot, Saint Matthias, Saint Thomas became a bold proclaimer of the Catholic Faith, going to India, where he sacrificed his life for the Holy Faith. Saint Thomas the Apostle touched the flesh of the Risen Saviour with his own hands. He then went on to touch the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of that same Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ with his own priestly hands as he uttered the words at Holy Mass that made the Messias incarnate under the appearances of bread and wine. The very words Saint Thomas uttered after he had touched Our Lord on Low Sunday, Dominus meus et Deus meus, are what we pray every time a true priest utters these words at Holy Mass: "Hoc Est Enim Corpus Meum." As we prepare the celebration of Christmas Day four days from now, we should ask Saint Thomas to help us reverence Our Lord in His Real Presence with greater fervor as we grow stronger in the Faith with every passing day, consecrated as we are to Our Lord through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

This reflection has been expanded slightly to include Father Francis X. Weninger's sermon on Saint Thomas the Apostle. Indeed, his second "practical consideration" for this feast day has very practical applications to the state of the Church Militant today during this time of apostasy and betrayal:

II. Thomas is called unbelieving by Christ, although he disbelieved only one article, the resurrection. Hence, it is clear that he who doubts, or rejects only one article of faith, cannot be counted among true Catholics, although he believes all the others. A Catholic must believe every truth revealed by the Almighty, be it great or small, as God cannot fail either in small things or great. The offence which we do to God by denying even the smallest article of faith, is as great as if we denied an important one, or all of them together; for, it is just as if we said: God has been deceived, or He has deceived us in revealing this article. Whether this is said of great and important articles, or of one that is small, makes but little difference; or if we desire to make a difference, we must say that it is a greater offence to God to ascribe to Him a fault in a small matter than in a great; for, what can be more blasphemous than to maintain that the Almighty has been deceived in a trifling matter, or that He intends to deceive us? They should ponder on this, who sometimes entertain doubts about an article of faith, or even go so far as to say that in some matters, they agree with non-Catholics, and consider them right. These are no longer Catholics. Their faith is lost; and if they do not repent, as St. Thomas did, they will go to perdition, because they are incredulous. They are disobedient who obey nine of the Commandments but not the tenth. What is the fate of the incredulous? Christ Himself pointed it out when He said: "Who believes not in the Son, will not see life, but the wrath of God will remain with him." (John viii.) (Father Francis X. Weninger, Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle, December 21.)

Father Weninger, who wrote a book about papal infallibility from which I have quoted in at least twenty different articles, explained in his second consideration about the life of Saint Thomas the Apostle the truth that has been taught by Holy Mother Church since Apostolic times: to defect from the Faith in one thing is to defect from It in Its entirety. (See the appendix below for reminders of this consistent teaching.)

Saint Thomas the Apostle disbelieved in the Resurrection of His Divine Master, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ for eight days until Our Lord Himself show mercy upon him and restored His faith. Unlike Saint Thomas the Apostle, however, the conciliar “popes” have denied many articles of the Faith (the unicity of the Church, the “goodness” of non-Catholic religions, the denial that the Old Covenant was superseded by the New and Eternal Covenant Our Lord ratified upon shedding every single drop of His Most Precious Blood and breathed His last, denying the immutability of Catholic doctrine, supporting condemned errors such as religious liberty and separation of Church and State, inverting the ends proper to Holy Matrimony, engaging in the forbidden practice of inter-religious prayer services, giving outright support to those living in Mortal Sin and admitting them to what purports to be Holy Communion in the Novus Ordo liturgy, etc.). Only those who do not want to see the truth and/or those who are simply intellectually dishonest want to recognize the simple fact that the conciliar “popes” and their cohorts are not Catholics and thus do not hold the positions they claim to hold.

Truth is simple, and the simple truth is that no one who defects from even one article of the Faith is a member of the Catholic Church.

I am writing part part twenty-seven of "Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomini Domine, Hosanna in Excelsis," and hope to have the commentary completed by this time tomorrow. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Thomas the Apostle, pray for us.

Even as more and more studies continue to prove the harmful effects of marijuana, Donald John Trump, who is oblivious to facts about marijuana and the Wuhan Virus jabs, has reclassified marijuana from a Schedule I illegal substance to a Schedule III illegal substance. Such as classification is supposed to mean that a substance is not addictive nor can lead to psychotic episodes. As the articles referenced in this commentary demonstrate, however, marijuana is harmful and does indeed lead to long term mental and bodily harm.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

NMuch is happening within the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism, and not of it is good.

The hour is late. Suffice it to say that this commentary deals with such matters as Ronald Hicks's appointment to succeed Timothy Michael Dolan in New York, where the pro-abortion, pro-sodomite Catholic governor, Kathleen Hochul, is about the sign the so-called Medical Assistance in Dying (assisted suicide) bill into law, to Ramon Bejarano's appoint as the conciliar "bishop" of Monterey, Mexico, to the Chilean "bishops's" chilly reaction to the election of the pro-life Catholic father of nine children, Jose Antonio Kast, as president of Chile by defeating a Communist by a margin of fifty-eight percent to forty-two percent fifty-five years after Chileans had made Salvador Allende the first elected Communist president in the Americas. This is a busy commentary.

A blessed Feast of the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to you all!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

This is a brief commentary about President Donald John Trump’s “Truth Social” post concerning the murders of Robert and Michelle Reiner. While the Reiners supported and funded every moral evil imaginable and vehemently opposed President Trump, they were murdered by their son, not because “many people were angry” with Robert Reiner because of his belief in every disproved allegation made against the president.

A narcissist of Trump’s magnitude cannot forgive others and knows nothing about how to respect the tragic circumstances concerning a son’s brutal murder of his parents.

May the Ember Days today, Friday, and Saturday help us to be ground into dust so that we may be ready to celebrate the Feast of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ’s Nativity in just eight days.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

This is a commentary about the tragic mass murder committed on Bondi Beach in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on Sunday, December 14, 2025, the Third Sunday of Advent, by two Mohammedan men, a father and a son, who were being completely faithful to the precepts of their false, blasphemous religion, who were in Australia because of its lax immigration policies, especially regarding the entrance of Mohammedans.

Yet it is, of course, the Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV, denounced those who had a “fear” of Mohammedan migrants.

We need Our Lady’s help more now than ever.

A blessed Octave of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary to you all.

O Mary, Queen without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

O Mary, Queen without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

O Mary, Queen without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

Thursday, December 11, 2025, was the one hundredth anniversary of Pope Pius XI’s issuance of Quas Primas on the Social Reign of Christ the King.

This is a reflection about the encyclical and its relevance to us as Catholics today.

The appendices contain reflections about Gaudete Sunday today and the O Antiphons, which begin on Ember Wednesday, December 17, 2025.

A blessed Gaudete Sunday to you all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

The saint whose feast we celebrate today, Saint Lucy, resisted all efforts made by the civil authorities to induce her to worship the idols when a suitor, who was angered by her rejection of him after she had given away her riches to the poor, betrayed her as Christian to the pagan officials of the Roman Empire in Syracuse, Sicily, at the beginning of the Fourth Century A.D., in the year 304 A.D.

Saint Lucy could have saved her life if only she worshiped the idols. Unlike the conciliar "pontiffs," men who have esteemed the symbols of various and sundry false religions, with their own consecrated hands, Saint Lucy refused to do so and was immovable when taken to a house of sin. She refused even to look upon the vice that was before her.

May this immovable foe of religious liberty help us to see more clearly with the eyes of our immortal souls that the Catholic Church cannot be in the least responsible for the abominations and blasphemies and sacrileges and defections from the Faith perpetrated by the counterfeit church of conciliarism.

May Saint Lucy, a model of purity and gentleness and grace and courage, help us to see so clearly that we flee to the catacombs where the Faith is protected without any concessions to conciliarism.

A blessed Feast of Saint Lucy to all who are named after this great witness to the Faith, especially my dear wife, who took Saint Lucy as her patron at Baptism, and our dear daughter, Lucy Mary Therese Norma, who has, of course, a special devotion to the virgin and martyr from Syracuse, Sicily.

I ask your prayers also for the repose of the soul of the late Father Salvatore V. Franco, who died on this day twenty-three years ago now. Father Franco, who suffered from serious heart problems but died of a form of leukemia that he only found out he had weeks before he died, was good enough to offer us refuge in his kitchen in Westbury, Long Island, New York, in April of 2002 until November of 2002 as he offered the Immemorial Mass of Tradition for us each weekday.

Although I had long before abandoned the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical abomination on Sundays as I moved in "indult" circles, we made the decision to abandon all putative "offerings" of this abominable travesty during the week when Father Franco took ill and before he died. Father Franco, who was ordained as a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn in June of 1953, had a heart attack in 1963 at the age of thirty-seven, an act of God's Divine Mercy that kept him from being immersed in parish life as the conciliar revolution proceeded apace. Father Franco kept active, however, offering Mass and helping souls. We will be forever grateful to him for providing us with the refuge that he did in the months after Lucy's birth. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen. We still miss you, Father Salvatore V. Franco!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Lucy, pray for us.

A blasphemous nativity display in Vienna, Austria, prompted some Catholics to pray the Rosary publicly in reparation for this offense.

Lippy Leo Prevost, however, has plenty to say about Donald John Trump’s policies but his lips are zipped when it comes to blasphemous displays such as in Austria.

Then again, it is never easy for one who has reaffirmed leaders of false religions to denounce offenses against Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and Our Lady in the secular world when is so ready to do so himself.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us.

Two articles on Our Lady of Guadalupe are being republished today, Friday, December 12, 2025, Each has been slightly revised and, of course. The commentary is also included in To Live in Light of Eternity, Volume 1 (Revised).

A fuller description of today’s feast is found in the introduction to republished reflection below. A Spanish language translation of this commentary that was prepared by the late Mr. Juan Carlos Areneta eleven years ago can be read at: Las Américas Pertenecen a Nuestra Señora.

Finally, please pray for my younger brother (and only sibling), who turns seventy-two years of age today. Our late mother died on March 18, 1982, and our father died on September 5 1992. The years have certainly passed quickly.

The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is not on the universal calendar of the Catholic Church nor is it a mandated feast in the United States of America except in the Archdioceses of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Santa Fe as well as in the Dioceses of Monterery, Fresno, Tuscson, and El Paso. We can nevertheless celebrate with joy on the Advent ferial day.

A new commentary will be published within ten minutes of this posting.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us.

[N.B. The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is not on the General Calendar of the Catholic Church. According to the General Roman Calendar of 1954, this feast is particular to the Archdioceses of San Francisco and Los Angeles and to the Dioceses of Monterey, Fresno, El Paso, San Diego, and Tuscon. This having been noted, however, today is an Advent ferial day upon which a votive or requiem Mass may be offered. Thus, this Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe should celebrated as widely as possible.]

Our Blessed Mother gave us two great miracles on this day four hundred ninety-two years ago this very day.

Acceding to the demand of Apostolic Administrator [later Archbishop] Fray Juan de Zumarraga, O.F.M., the Mother of God saw to it that Castilian roses grew atop Tepeyac Hill so that her little "Juanito," Juan Diego, a fifty-five year-old widower to whom she had first appeared on December 9, 1531, could provide proof that it was she who had made the request of Fray de Zumarraga to build a shrine in her honor on the hill where she appeared. 

The administrator's guards, who had treated Juan Diego with such cruelty and even racism, spied those roses and tried to grab them out of Juan's tilma as he waited to see Fray de Zumarraga. The roses, quite miraculously, disappeared every time the guards sought to snatch them away from Juan Diego. Those Castilian roses were presented by Juan Diego to Fray Juan de Zumarraga, who knelt before the Indian convert to the Faith as he gazed upon the miraculous image that Juanito did not know was there: the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, who was clearly expecting the Baby Jesus. 

Remember, this was Advent in the year 1531, just forty-nine years after Christopher Columbus first set foot on the Island of San Salvador to implant the Cross of the Divine Redeemer in this hemisphere for the first time since Saint Brendan the Navigator had done so in the First Millennium.

Our Lady's miraculous image showing her expecting the Baby Jesus is quite symbolic of the expectant desire she had then—and has now—for the conversion of the peoples of the Americas to the true Faith, that each person and each nation be born anew as they submit themselves to Christ the King through His Catholic Church. Over nine million indigenous people converted to the true Faith within a short time following her apparition to Juan Diego on this day four hundred ninety-two years ago, almost person for person the number of people lost to the Faith as a result of the Protestant Revolt in Europe. It was almost as though God was saying to those who left, “Fine. I will have My Mother get new souls to populate Holy Mother Church and hence Heaven itself.”

The Americas were indeed converted to Catholicism, which is why the devil had to attack the Faith in Latin America with such ferocity by means of the Masonic revolutionaries who were supported in both philosophical and monetary terms by the lodges in the nascent Untied States of America. Great crimes were committed against Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and His Most Blessed Mother as a result. These crimes continue to this day, which is, of course, one of the reasons that Saint Michael the Archangel appeared with Our Lady as she spoke to Juan Diego. Our Lady has crushed the head of the serpent with her heel and Saint Michael the Archangel is our helper to crush him in our own lives and in the Americas where he reigns, albeit temporarily, in civil government and in popular culture.

May we rely upon the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Empress and Patroness of the Americas, to help us to be courageous enough to plant seeds for the conversion of the Americas, including the United States of America, to the Social Reign of Christ the King as It must be exercised by the Catholic Church.

Perhaps an extra Rosary today on this glorious feast day will help us to be more faithful and more courageous in our promotion of the Social Reign of Christ the King and Mary our Immaculate Queen. 

Finally, today is my only brother's (and my own sibling's) seventy-secondbirthday. Please pray for him today. Thank you.

Viva Cristo Rey!

Viva La Virgen de Guadalupe!

A blessed Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe to you all.