This is a very long commentary about the Russo-Ukrainian War and President Donald John Trump’s to end it.

As the situation is fraught with complexity and intrigue and not easily reduced to simple summaries nor easy solutions (the road to an actual peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine will be very hard to traverse), I have included summaries of the more recent history that led up to the present conflict but, very importantly, the history of Russia’s longstanding persecution of Catholics in Ukraine and Pope Pius XII’s firm denunciation of such persecuted is included in Appendix B, which follows an appendix containing a brief reflection about the Apostle of the Most Pure Heart of Mary, Saint John Eudes.

Our Lady of Ukraine, pray for us.

Saint John Eudes, pray for us.

Today, Sunday, August 17, 2025, is the Commemorated Feast of Feast of Saint Hyacinth, O.P., the great Apostle of the Northland and one of the first members of the Order of Preachers founded by Saint Dominic de Guzman. (Today is also the third day within the Octave of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Octave Day of Saint Lawrence the Deacon.)

Saint Hyacinth's great zeal for souls and his desire to convert pagans out of their diabolical superstitions into the true Faith, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there can be no true social order. Saint Hyacinth, who had such a great and abiding love for Our Lady, who favored him with apparitions, stands in quite a contrast with the late Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI and his successor, the equally late and entirely non-lamented demon by the name Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Both of these heretics praised the very false religions that Saint Hyacinth—and every other Catholic missionary—sought to eradicate from the face of the earth by seeking the unconditional conversion of their adherents to the false religion. The difference between Saint Hyacinth's fidelity and apostasy of the conciliar "popes" is stark. It is right there in black and white for all who have the grace to see, and Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV is carrying on this "tradition" very diligently.

An original article, Boy, If Only Leo Knew, Huh?, part five, was published around 2:30 a.m. today

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Hyacinth, O.P., pray for us.

Saint Lawrence the Deacon, pray for us.

It is enough to write an original article for posting at a late/early hour without having to write an extensive introduction.

Suffice it to say that this commentary is about Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV’s false conciliar sect and its continued embrace of the lavender agenda (and the protection it affords to those within their ranks who practice it) and connection between efforts by various conciliar “bishops'” hatred for anything remoting resembling Catholic Tradition, which is antithetical to their support of sodomy and sodomites.

I need to spend some time revising my annual reflection about Saint Hyacinth, the Apostle to the Northland. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Hyacinth, pray for us.

Saint Lawrence the Martyr, pray for us.

Saint Joachim, the father of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God and the Mediatrix of All Graces, knew the contempt that would be visited upon His Divine Grandson, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, sent himself into voluntary exile after he was denounced by a priest of the Old Dispensation for not producing a child after twenty years of marriage to his wife, our good Saint Anne.

It was during his exile that Saint Joachim was visited by an angel, who reminded him of the fact that Abraham's wife, Sarah, did not conceive a child until she was ninety years old, telling him that his wife, Saint Anne, would conceive a daughter named Mary, who would be the Mother of God. Saint Joachim and Saint Anne brought their daughter to the Temple when she was three years old, giving their long-awaited child back to the good God Who had given them to her so that she could be the Mother of their own Saviour, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. This should teach us to do everything possible to foster vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated religious life among our children, so that we can give them back to God so as to yield a spiritual bounty of souls in His service, especially in this time of apostasy and betrayal.

The next new article is being written. My continuing sickness continues to vary in intensity from one day to the next. Please bear with me. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joachim, pray for us.

Saint Anne, pray for us.

Saint Roch, pray for us.

My shelf-life is about to expire as, even though I am less fatigued than I have been in the past few days, I am still under the weather with a bad cough, fever, and fatigue.

Thus, suffice it to say that is part twenty-three of this series of commentaries. Part five of "Boy, If Only Leo Knew" will appear tomorow, August 16, 2025, the Feast of Saint Joachim and, in some places, the Commemoration of Saint Roch. A commentary on President Donald John Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin should appear by Sunday or Monday.

I am sorry for the delay, but I have been very fatigued the past few days. Yesterday was the first day I did not find myself in a covid-like fog. (I do not know for sure if I do have that virus However, it sure seems similar to the three times I did have it.) Penance is better than ever in 2025.

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

Our Lady, Queen Assumed into Heaven, pray for us.

Today is the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She who was conceived without stain of Original Sin and who committed no Actual Sins in her life did not have to have her body undergo the corruption of the grave, although she truly died and was buried after her death.

Separated physically from her Divine Son after His Ascension into Heaven on Ascension Thursday, although she received Him in Holy Communion, Our Lady was Assumed body and soul into Heaven to plead for us with her Divine Son as the Queen of Heaven and of Earth, the Queen to whom every man must pledge his heart's oblation, the Queen whom every nation must honor publicly with Rosary Processions.

 Our Lady wants us to be in Heaven with her for all eternity. She wants our bodies to rise up incorrupt and glorious from the grave on the Last Day at the General Judgment of the Living and Dead so that our bodies can be reunited with our souls for all eternity in the glory of Heaven.

We need to ask her to help us make such perfect reparation for our sins in this passing, mortal vale of tears that we will pay the debt of what we our for our sins now rather than in the fires of Purgatory. We need to ask her to help us to be serious about seeking sanctity as the consecrated slaves of her Divine Son through her own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart.

What are we waiting for?

Also available for reading on this feast day are: Three Sermons for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J. 

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

Our Lady, Queen Assumed into Heaven, pray for us.

This is a republished reflection on the life of Saint Clare of Assisi that was published oringinally seven years ago. The reflection speaks to the timeless virtues of detachment from the world, self-denial, modesty and a total embrace of holy poverty for love of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and His Holy Church.

This reflection emphasizes Saint Clare’s rejection of worldliness and worldly pleasures. No matter what our own sins and failings with respect to worldliness might be now and have been in the past, Saint Clare’s life and holy example inspires us to quit the world once and for all and to prepare for the world to come by storing up treasures in Heaven that do not rust or fade away, and that no thief can take away from us. 

I will have an update later today concerning the next original commentary. I did publish one such commentary on Sunday, August 11, 2024, the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost and the Commemorations of Saints Tiburtius and Susanna and, in some places, Saint Philomena and Saint Emigdius. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Clare of Assisi, pray for us.

Saint Francis of Assisi, pray for us.

Blessed Agnes of Prague, pray for us.

With all that is happening in the world now President Donald John Trump is considering declassifying the harmful hallucinogen called marijuana as a “less dangerous” drug, and he is considering doing this at the behest of marijuana growers and retailers without having any qualm about physical harm caused by drug and, of course, without even a clue about this substance’s moral harm.

Finally, there is a very urgent need to raise $1500 by Friday, August 15, 2025. the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Non-tax-deductible financial gifts are thus needed at this time. Thank you in advance for your generosity.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Philomena, pray for us.

Saints Tiburtius and Susanna, pray for us.

This is a brief reflection, written originally in 2009 and revised over the years, to honor our great Wonder Worker, Saint Philomena and also the commemoration of the feast of Saints Tiburtius and Susanna.

Although our Wonder Worker is not on the universal calendar of the Roman Rite, her cultus was confirmed by none other than Pope Saint Pius X. That's good enough for me! Jansenists and rationalists will have to find some other website to surf as this one makes no room for any skepticism about Saint Philomena and the honor and power with which she has been crowned by Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

This reflection includes text from a 1945 book, Wonder Worker: Saint Philomena, Virgin Martyr, which was written by Cathy Hallack and published with ecclesiastical approbation of the Archdiocese of Dublin, Ireland, in 1945, which takes note of Saint Philomena's vow of virginity, which she made at eleven years of age, and mentions the fact that Diocletian was married to Prisca from 286 A.D. to the time he resigned as Roman emperor in 305 A.D. This means that Diocletian's proposal of marriage was indeed adulterous and bigamous, analogous to that of Herod the Tetrarch himself.

It was thus very touching for us to receive Mass propers for the Wonder Worker's feast from an 1898 Missal that included an entire Mass in her holy honor. This gift was sent to us by a friend of ours, one who does not agree with us concerning the true state of the Church Militant in this time of apostasy and betrayal but has not cast us out into the wilderness and down the Orwellian memory hole as lunatics These Mass propers are a tremendous treasure, one that our friend wanted us to share with true priests so that they can offer her Mass, perhaps as a votive Mass on a ferial day, in honor of our Wonder Worker, Saint Philomena. We thank our friend very much for making these propers available for those true priests who may not have had them prior to now. The link to the Mass text can be found within the body of the republished reflection: Feast of Saint Philomena Mass Propers. A Latin-English translation of these propers completed by Mr. Michael Creighton can be found by clicking here--Latin-English Mass Propers for the Feast of Saint Philomena.)

We are very devoted to Saint Philomena and pray the chaplet in her honor as a family every Saturday evening after Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary. I pray her chaplet every day. 

Pope Saint Pius X, who raised the Confraternity of Saint Philomena to an Archconfraternity, told Italian priests in an allocution given in 1912 that no one could claim to be holy while dissenting from the pope:  

Therefore, when we love the Pope, there are no discussions regarding what he orders or demands, or up to what point obedience must go, and in what things he is to be obeyed; when we love the Pope, we do not say that he has not spoken clearly enough, almost as if he were forced to repeat to the ear of each one the will clearly expressed so many times not only in person, but with letters and other public documents; we do not place his orders in doubt, adding the facile pretext of those unwilling to obey – that it is not the Pope who commands, but those who surround him; we do not limit the field in which he might and must exercise his authority; we do not set above the authority of the Pope that of other persons, however learned, who dissent from the Pope, who, even though learned, are not holy, because whoever is holy cannot dissent from the Pope. (Pope Saint Pius X, Allocution Vi ringrazio to priests on the 50th anniversary of the Apostolic Union, November 18, 1912, as found at: “Love the Pope!” – no ifs, and no buts: For Bishops, priests, and faithful, Saint Pius X explains what loving the Pope really entails.)

"Whoever is holy cannot dissent from the Pope."

How ironic it is that those within the Society of Saint Pius X (and the groups or priests who have splintered off from it while maintaining the false, Gallican "resist while recognize" position) and others in the "resist while recognize" movement claim that the conciliar "popes" have been true and legitimate Successors of Saint Peter while dissenting vocally--and very publicly so--from their teaching and disciplinary decisions.

Saint Philomena wants us to be holy, and no one who is holy can dissent from a true pope no matter how many times they protest that they can and not matter how many decades it has been that oneself or one's group has taken a position that is based on a false ecclesiology that has done, if possible, more harm to the authentic Catholic teaching on the papacy than that done by the conciliar revolutionaries themselves.

We are very devoted to Saint Philomena and pray the chaplet in her honor as a family every Saturday evening after Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary. I pray her chaplet every day. 

Our Lady of the Universal Living Rosary Association, pray for us.

Saint Philomena, pray for us.

Saints Tiburtius and Susanna, pray for us.

This is a very brief reflection for this feast of Saint Lawrence the Martyr. 

I hope to have another original commentary tomorrow, the Feast of Saint Philomena and the Commemoration of Saints Tiburtius and Susanna and, although not on the universal calendar, the Commemoration of Saint Emigdius. I continue to battle with the sickness that is refusing to away after hanging around for the past sixteen days. Yes, penance is better than ever in 2025.

Today is also the one hundred forty-first anniversary of the birth of my late paternal grandfather, Edward Martin Droleskey in Elmira, New York. Please pray for the repose of his immortal soul. Thank you. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Lawrence Martyr, pray for us.