Yes, part six of "Sober Up" will come along soon.

As there has been a great deal of talk by naturalists about "hope" and "hopelessness" lately, time has been taken to deal with such talk in the context of this Fourth Week of Advent.

Our hope is not to be found in the "right" or the "left." It is to be found solely in Christ the King and His Holy Catholic Church.

Vivat Christus Rex!

Viva Cristo Rey!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

[Ember Saturday Update: Part six of "Sober Up" is still a work in progress. I hope to have it done for posting on Monday, although there should be a spiritual reflection ready for posting tomorrow, the Fourth Sunday of Advent. Thank you for your patience.]

A presbyter in Italy has removed a Nativity scene from a cemetery near Milan for fear of offending Mohammedans. Such an act of cowardly betrayal, which will receive no rebuke from Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who might even call the presbyter to said he has acted correctly, as the conciliar religion itself is a betraya of Christ the King and His Catholic Church.

This is a very short commentary.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

This article, which was published during the overnight hours, has been revised slightly since its initial posting.

Although I had wanted to focus on Jorge Mario Bergoglio's role in aiding and abetting the agents of the false opposite of the naturalist "left," which the adversary uses to engender sympathy among "conservative" Catholics for agents of the false opposite of the naturalist "right," this part of my continuing series deals with the hypocrisy of the "left," whose adherents never believe that anything is "settled" unless it is "settled" on their terms. To be sure, Jorge gets a mention at the end. However, he will be the sole star of part six.

I thank you for your patience as the production of these articles is dependent at present on my ability to work on the computer with the effects of a concussion.

A republished reflection on Saint Lucy can be found below.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Lucy, 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 fourteen 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 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 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.

Today is a great feast day in the Americas as it was on this day 485 years ago that Our Blessed Mother gave us two great miracles.

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 built 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 485 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, please pray for my younger brother (and only sibling), who turns sixty-three 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.

As noted just below, I can only work at the computer for several hours at a time because the symptoms from the concussion that I suffered five days ago worsened on Saturday evening. I did some work on the next original article yesterday, and hope to be able to complete part five today as I need also write part six, which will focus on some of the incoming administration's Cabinet selections. All that I will say on that score for the moment is this: Rex Tillerson=Exxon Mobil=Planned Barrenhood=Foggy Bottom's Bloody Tradition of "Family Planning" will continue.

What was that I was saying about false opposites?

Viva Cristo Rey!

Viva La Virgen de Guadalupe!

Our Blessed Mother gave us two great miracles on this day 485 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 built 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 484 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!

Readers, especially those who are new to this site, might also be interested in a series on the apparitions of Our Lady to Juan Diego that was written six years ago now: May We Be Made As Simple and Trusting, part one, May We Made As Simple and Trusting, part two, May We Be Made As Simple and Trusting, part three and May We Be Made As Simple and Trusting, part four.

Also, I ask for your prayers today for my brother, who turns sixty-three years of age on this Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Yes, I am making progress on part five of "Sober Up." However, the concussion symptoms worsened considerably on Saturday evening, December 10, 2016, and have gotten a bit worse since then. This is not unusual as it sometimes happens that the full effects of a concussion take several days to manifest themselves, and they have done so in a penitential way that I so richly deserve as but a small way to pay back God for the debt that I owe Him because of my many sins. Deo gratias!

As a result of the headaches and general, all-around heaviness of head, I can only work at the computer for several hours at a time. I did so yesterday, and hope to be able to complete part five as I need also write part six, which will focus on some of the incoming administration's Cabinet selections. All that I will say on that score for the moment is this: Rex Tillerson=Exxon Mobil=Planned Barrenhood=Foggy Bottom's Bloody Tradition of "Family Planning" will continue.

What was that I was saying about false opposites?

Viva Cristo Rey!

Viva La Virgen de Guadalupe!

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 cleave to true bishops and true priests in the catacombs who 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!

Although this revised reflection does make more than casual references to the conciliar revolutionaries, I am not addressing today Jorge Mario Bergoglio's "Jubilee Year of Mercy" until Thursday or Friday, as our focus must be on the fairest flower of our race who was unspotted by any stain of sin. Like his predecessors before him in the counterfeit church of conciliarism, Bergoglio has no conception of the horror of personal sin and, believing as the naturalist that he is, thinks that it is actually counterproductive to urge those living in states of Mortal Sin in the objective order of things to change as they might be offended and walk away from what he thinks is the Catholic Church. No one who loves God as He has revealed Himself to us exclusively through His true Church, the Catholic Church, can be indifferent to the horror of sin, which caused Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to suffer unspeakable horrors in His Sacred Humanity during His Passion and death on the wood of the Holy Cross and caused the Swords of Sorrow to be thrust through and though the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of His Most Blessed Mother, she is is our Immaculate Queen of Heaven and of Earth.

May God have mercy on us all in this era of apostasy and betrayal.

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.

It is my hope to part five of "Sober Up" posted by tomorrow morning. The reigning caesar and the Argentine Apostate will have starring roles in the commentary. commentary.

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

This is a very brief reflection on Saint Nicholas and Saint Ambrose, both of whom should inspire us to be uncompromising in our defense of the Holy Faith and unswerving in our refusal compromise in the slightest to the spirit of a world filled with every error and heresy imaginable.

Part five of "Sober Up," which deals with the "leftist" hypocrisy concerning the American presidential election, should appear by Friday, December 9, 2016.

Finally, although we have received two non-deductible financial gifts recently that made possible the payment of pressing bills, we are in need of further and quite immediate assistance, and thus it is that I ask those who support the work of this website and have the means to do so (exempting those who have given to us recently, of course!) to make a non-tax deductible financial gift at this time.

Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Nicholas of Myra, pray for us.

Saint Ambrose of Milan, pray for us.

This article, which, despite the time stamp (which in this instance indicates when I saved an unpublished draft) was published a little It is too late (or early) to do anything other than after two o'clock this morning. It has undergone a few revisions in various places, including taking note of the visit paid by the Ozone Man himself to Trump Tower today, Talk about false opposites! This article is very long and details.

Part five of this continuing series will focus on the reaction of the false opposite of the naturalist "left"--a category that includes both Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro and, of course, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, to the results of the American presidential election.

This part of the series focuses on some simple facts that are designed to help those who are lost in the thrall of the moment to sober up as naturalism can never be used as any kinds of means to fight the evils engendered by naturalism.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Sabbas, pray for us.