Unable to complete my next article, which is about conciliarism, two very short and woefully inadequate reflections on lives of two saints who had a common denominator in fervent devotion to the Mother God, Saint John Eudes and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, are being offered. It had been my intention to write more about each of these two saints. However, two days out of each of week now are pretty much unavailable for writing because of the long trips that I must make to the chiropractor for the continued treatment of the injuries I sustained a month ago now.

Most Pure Heart of Mary, pray for us.

Saint John Eudes, pray for us.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, pray for us.

Today is the 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 Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI and his successor, Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Both of these heretics have 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" stark. It is right there in black and white for all who have the grace to see. See for yourself. As considerable time was spent adding links, including a complete library of articles that have appeared about Bergoglio on this site in the fifty-three months, four days, to the preface of this revised article in order to provide readers with a useful and handy resource for those who are new to this site and want to review past articles on Jorge Mario Bergoglio, it has been impossible to add more recent examples of the endless reaffirmations that the Argentine Apostate has given to those who adhere to false religions, including Talmudism, from which he derives much of his "intellectual" and "spiritual" sustenance. In other words, "Pope Francis" is a stooge and servant of Antichrist.  

Today's original article, Victim of Its Own Iniquities, was published about a half hour after Midnight this morning. Several typograhical errors were corrected this afternoon.    

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

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

Saint Lawrence the Martyr, pray for us.

This commentary on the tragic events that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, August 12, 2017, the Feast of Saint Clare of Assisi, was published early this morning shortly after Midnight. Some typographical errors have been corrected and one sentence in the final section of the commentary has been rephrased to make its meaning clearer. 

A revised reflection on the life of Saint Hyacinth, whose feast is celebrated today, will be published either later today or tomorrow. There was just too much work to do it that could not be completed late last night. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Hyacinth, 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 revised and much enlarged text of this article also includes a reflection and description of the life of Saint Roch, whose feast is celebrated today in those churches named in his honor, as found in Dom Prosper Gueranger’s The Liturgical Year.

Also, I would like to call the attention of this site's readers to an article written by Dr. Paul Byrne, who has certainly taught me much in the past twenty-three years since I first met him in Toledo, Ohio: Was The Death of Charlie Gard Hastened?. Please do take the time to read this article.

Finally, although I had hoped to have my commentary on the terrible events that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, August 12, 2017, the Feast of Saint Clare of Assisi, it was not possible for me to complete my work yesterday, August 15, 2017, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This entire day will be spent completing the commentary.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us!

Saint Roch, pray for us.

Well, the hour is late after a long day driving to and from another chiropractic treatment on my injured spine.

Suffice it to say that the concluding part of my two-part series about Antonio Spadaro’s and Miguel Figueroa’s article in La Civilta Cattolica last month focuses on the intellectual dishonest claim that “religion” has played “more” of a role in American politics and public policy in recent decades than in the past. This is either an outright deception or demonstrative of the authors’ ignorance.

A commentary about the terrible tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia, will be written day, August 15, 2017, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

For the moment, however, my view of “white supremacist” groups was expressed very clearly five years ago in To Advocate Christ The King, Nothing Else. Such groups, filled with all manner of deceptions, are used by the adversary to foment violence and discord in a world that is the product of the anti-Incarnational errors of Modernity and thus serve a number of nefarious purposes that only agitates people the more on matters that should divide no one. We are to see the Divine impress in everyone and to treat them as we would treat Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Himself.

A full commentary, which will touch on the hypocrisies of the inhabitants of the false opposite of the naturalist “left,” will follow by tomorrow morning, God willing and Our Lady interceding.

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

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?

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

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

As yesterday, Friday, August 11, 2017, the Feast of Saint Philomena (and the simple feast of Saints Tiburtius and Susanna on the universal calendar of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church), was spent going to and from another chiropractic treatment, there is no original article to offer the readership of this site today.

What I do have, however, is a reflection on the life of Saint Clare of Assisi that was published last year and is one that 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 Hord 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.

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.

This is a brief reflection, written originally in 2009 and revised over the years, to honor our great Wonder Worker, Saint Philomena, on this her feast day, which is also 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. (Although I had problems publishing these Mass propers last year, I found a way to work around the problem by using the old Adobe Contribute platform on which this site existed for nearly ten years.)

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. 

I am still working on part two of An Unsurprising Hatred of Catholic Truth, part one. As today will be consumed in going to chiropractor, part two will not appear before Monday at the earliest.

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

Saints Tiburtius and Susanna, pray for us.

Saint Philomena the Wonder Worker, pray for us.

The hour is late.

I have decided to turn my commentary on the article about the “ecumenism of hate” that was published in La Civilta Cattolica into at least two parts. As I have noted in recent days, I have taken my time to write my commentary, and time is needed to complete part two. There is a lot more to say that I have not covered in part one. Thus it is that I beg for your patience as I have to spend most of this afternoon doing some transcription for part two.

As promised yesterday, the latest update on fourteen year-old Teresa Johnston, who was severely injured when a sixty foot tree fell on her in her family’s backyard in Irvine, California, six months ago concerned a delicate surgery that she had to replace a piece of bone in her skull that was removed during one of the earlier surgeries to remove pressure on her brain, which had swollen after the injury. The surgery carried with it a risk of infection, and this is what a friend of the family’s wrote in an e-mail to her extensive list of friends:

Teresa’s surgery was high risk for infection, and she indeed does have a bacterial infection at the site.

She is in extra pain with swelling and difficulty chewing.  She is on antibiotics for six weeks, expecting to stop the infection.

Please continue to pray for this sweet 14 year old girl who is going through so much.

We continue to pray to Saint Philomena for this victim-soul and her parents and siblings. Please join us in these prayers, especially on our Wonder Worker’s feast day tomorrow, August 11.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Lawrence the Martyr, pray for us.

Today is the feast of Saint John Mary Vianney and the Commemoration of the Vigil of Saint Lawrence the Deacon and of Saint Romanus.

Saint John Mary Vianney is the patron of diocesan priests, a man who humbly recognized that he was not the brightest pupil, that he was, to use even his own description, slow in his studies. He had great difficulty learning his Latin. Other studies came hard to him as well. He did not give up. Helped by a wonderful mentor, Father Balley, who had worked as a carpenter during the French Revolution so as to hide his identity as a Catholic priest as he offered Mass in various hideaways and without any "communion" with the bishops and priests of the "constitutional church," John Mary Vianney persevered time and time and time again, praying to Saint John Francis Regis for help and guidance.

Yes, he was tempted to quit his studies, believing himself to unworthy of priestly ordination because of his lack of intellectual aptitude. Father Balley told him very pointedly, "You've decided to give in to the devil?"

That knocked some sense into our Saint, and it should knock some sense into any young man today who might have experienced some difficulties and perhaps even gross injustices in their own pursuit of the priesthood.

Never give up. We need priests, especially now in this time of apostasy and betrayal.

Always close to Our Lady, Saint John Mary Vianney was brought to the point of his priestly ordination on August 13, 1815. His superiors judged that his moral qualities had overcome any academic deficiencies that would have held others back from being ordained to the priesthood, and they were vindicated in their judgment by the long and devoted service that he gave to the people of Ars.

Oh yes, sure, he tried to run away from his people on three occasions, wanting to seek the solitude of a monastery. Each time, however, he responded to the pleas of his sheep who loved their shepherd, who spent so much time in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament and in the confessional to hear the confessions of the thousands of people who flocked from all over the world to the merits of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus applied to their souls through his priestly ministry, and returned home to Ars.

Saint John Mary Vianney, who knew failure in his studies for the priesthood, was a firm supporter of the "patron of failures," Pauline Jaricot, the foundress of Society of the Propagation of the Faith and the Universal Living Rosary Association, and zealously devoted to the cause of our great wonder worker, Saint Philomena.

Saint John Mary Vianney spent himself tirelessly in behalf of the flock that was entrusted to his pastoral care. We need to invoke his intercession so that our own true bishops and priests will be fortified by his example as they seek to serve faithful Catholics, the scattering and wandering sheep of this time of apostasy and betrayal, unto eternity.

Work continues in a most methodical manner on my commentary on the Antonio Spadaro and Miguel Figueroa article in La Civilta Cattolica that appeared a month ago. As the hour is too late now, the entirety of today will be spent completing my commentary. However, I am doing my best to make various points in a clear and cogent manner.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for is.

Saint John Mary Vianney, the Cure of Ars, pray for us.

Saint Lawrence the Deacon, pray for us. Saint Romanus, pray for us.

(I will publish an update about the health of Teresa Johnston, the fifteen-year-old girl who was injured when a tree fell on her in Irvine, California, nearly six months ago, when I posted my next original article. In the meantime, please continue to pray for Teresa as she is suffering very much from the report that I received two days ago now. Please also pray for parents, Dr. and Mrs. Roch Johnston. Thank you.)