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 fifteen 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 service 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 miss you, Father!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Lucy, pray for us.

Two articles on Our Lady of Guadalupe are being republished today. Each has been slightly revised and, of course. In addition to this article, there is also "We Must Be Made As Simple and Trusting" that was published in four parts back in 2010.

A fuller description of today’s feast is found in the introduction to “We Must Be Made as Simple and Trusting” below, which also includes an appeal necessitated by a piece of mail we received yesterday on the Feast of Pope Saint Damasus I.

Finally, please pray for my younger brother (and only sibling), who turns sixty-four 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.

Viva Cristo Rey!

Viva La Virgen de Guadalupe!

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

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

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 486 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. Viva Cristo Rey!

Yes, I am making progress on part three of “Jerusalem Belongs to Christ the King and His True Church.” Work on the commentary consumed all of Sunday afternoon and evening and par tof Monday evening. However, it was necessary to be away from the computer for about six hours on Monday afternoon and evening, at which point only a bit more work was able to be one. As there are many qualifications that need to be made, I am not going to rush the commentary to completion, although I certainly do hope to make more headway on it today, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and, if necessary, tomorrow, the Feast of Saint Lucy. Thank youyou’re your patience.

Finally, I have gotten hit with my part of the $13,000 that the recent medical tests (echo-cardiogram, nuclear stress test, office visits; my part of the heart catheterization had to be paid upfront on November 16, 2017, and a good friend of ours made that possible). As I do not have the five hundred dollars necessary to pay the bill, it is necessary to ask the “vast” readership of this site to consider an early Christmas gift in the form of a non-tax-deductible financial gift. Thank you for your consideration.

Viva Cristo Rey!

Viva La Virgen de Guadalupe!

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

Although the details are sketchy, it appears that a conciliar “cardinal,” Leonardo Sandri, the prefect of the conciliar Congregation for the Oriental Rites, recently yelled at the lay Jesuit revolutionary from Argentina, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who is busy appointing lavender-colored presbyters as “bishops” in his own native land an as the “archbishop” of Paris, France, saying something to the effect that “We elect you to make reforms, not to destroy everything.”

The Argentine Apostate/Dictator “Pope,” however, is only bring conciliarism’s work of destruction to its logical conclusions.

Work continues on “Jerusalem Belongs to Christ the King and His True Church, part three.” It is my hope to have it ready for posting by Monday, December 11, 2017, the Feast of Pope Saint Melchiades. I will write one more commentary before spending most of the coming week finalizing work on several anthologies of these articles.

Our Lady of Loreto, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

Pope Saint Damasus, pray for us.

I AM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION." Those words, uttered by the Mother of God herself to Saint Bernadette Soubirous in the Grotto of Massabielle near Lourdes, France, on March 25, 1858, was a Heavenly ratification of the solemn, infallible proclamation of the doctrine of her Immaculate Conception by Pope Pius IX on December 8, 1854, in the Bull Ineffabilis Deus.

"I AM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION."

Our Lady was conceived in the womb of her holy mother, Good Saint Anne, without any stain of Original or Actual Sin in anticipation of the merits that would be won by her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, on the wood of the Holy Cross. She, the Singular Vessel of Devotion, had the perfect integrity of Adam and Eve before their Fall from Grace in the Garden of Eden.

It is important, therefore, to get the doctrine of Original Sin right in order to understand the great miracle worked by God in the soul of the fairest flower of our race, Our Lady, from the very first moment of her Immaculate Conception. To get anything about the doctrine of Original Sin wrong leads to the efforts on the part of Modernists to deconstruct the doctrinal definitions of Original Sin and of the Immaculate Conception.

Alas, the Catholic Church, our Holy Mother on earth, our Mater and Magister, is as spotless as the Immaculate Blessed Virgin Mary. Holy Mother Church does not deconstruct infallible dogmatic definitions. Holy Mother Church cannot do so, which is why we need to pray to Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces and our Immaculate Queen, to help us to make no concessions to the counterfeit church of conciliarism that has promulgated an abominable "liturgy" and whose officials feel feel to "reinterpret" dogmatic truths according to Modernist propositions that have been condemned by the authority of our spotless Mother on earth, Holy Mother Church.

Mindful of the effects of our own sins on our immortal souls and of our need to make reparation for them to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through Our Lady's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, may we make the Secret prayer for today's Holy Mass our own:

"Receive the saving Victim we offer to Thee, O Lord, on the solemn feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary: and grant that, as we confess that by Thy prevenient grace she was kept free from every stain of sin; so, by her intercession, we may be delivered from all our offenses. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God."

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

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

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

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

The release of The Dictator "Pope" is causing quite a stir. With this in mind, therefore, I want to remind the readers of this site of two articles that appeared on this site in 2013.

The first is Francis, The Talking Apostate, which was published on March 14, 2013, and contained a bit of information about Jorge's thuggish ways in Buenos Aires.

The second, Francis: The Latest In A Long Line Of Ecclesiastical Tyrants, was pubished on August 19, 2013.

Although I will have my own commentary on the new book soon enough, I do want to complete part three of "Jerusalem Belongs to Christ the King and His True Church," which should be poste don the First Sunday of Advent.

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

Although there was a good analysis on Novus Ordo Wire last month about Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s speculating that Judas Iscariot was saved, there are a few points on the subject that I have desired to make but have not had any time to do so until now.

As the hour is late and much has been happening in the past week, suffice it to say for the moment that there is now a need to write part three of “Jerusalem Belongs to Christ the King and His True Church” in light of today’s expected announcement by the Trump administration to move the embassy of the United States of America in the Zionist State of Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem over the course of time.

For the moment, therefore, it might be good for those readers who are still accessing this site to re-read Jerusalem Belongs To Christ the King, part one and Jerusalem Belongs to Christ the King and His True Church, part two.

Saint Nicholas of Myra, pray for us.

Saint Nicholas of Myra, whose feast is celebrated today, Wednesday, December 6, 2017, was a Successor of the Apostles who had a generous, loving heart in the pattern of the Most Sacred Heart of the Good Shepherd Himself, Christ the King, but who was also a firm and unequivocal foe of the heretic Arius and his heresy, Arianism.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio inserted his infamous letter to the conciliar "bishops" of his native Buenos Aires affirming their "guidelines" for interpreting Amoris Laetitia as the one and only authentic interpreation of his desire to admit those engaged in adultery (or fornication or sodomy) admitted to what purports to be Holy Communion in the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical service into his Acta Apostolicae Sedis. Bergoglio even made it part of his "authentic magisterium."

Those within the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism who think that they can ignore or oppose only their "pope's" teaching have to reckon with the theological judgment of Monsignor Joseph Clifford Fenton concerning the binding nature of what a true pope causes to be inserted into his Acta when he means to clarify some point of doctrine. This is what the heretic from Buenos Aires has done, save for the fact that he is not a true "pope."

A revised article on Saint Francis Xavier, S.J., whose feast was commemorated today, the First Sunday of Advent, will have to wait until later tomorrow or Tuesday.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Peter Chrysologus, pray for us.

Saint Barbara, pray for us.

This is a revised Advent reflection.

A revised reflection on Saint Francis Xavier's missionary work should be posted by late tomorrow afternoon. Work proceeds as well with my next original article.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Bibiana, pray for us.

Saint Francis Xavier, S. J., pray for us.

This is a slight revision of a reflection on the life and martyrdom of Blessed Edmund Campion, S.J., who was tortured and killed on this day, December 1 four hundred thirty-six years ago, that is, on December 1, 1581.

Blessed Edmund Campion was put to death on orders of "not so good" Queen Bess, that is, the wretched Queen Elizabeth I. Blessed Edmund did not give "joint blessings" with Anglican ministers have the conciliar "popes," and it is interesting to note that the  four "cardinals" (two of whom are now dead) whose red hats were said to be in jeopardy for going public with their dubia about Amoris Laetitia never said a word in protest about any of those "joint blessings" and other ecumenical travesties.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Blessed Edmund Campion, pray for us.