Our annual Lenten journey into the desert begins today, Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Deo gratias!
The season that begins on Ash Wednesday is the time of penance. This is the time to withdraw from the world. This is the time to be earnest about relying upon the ineffable graces that were won for us by the shedding of every single drop of the Most Precious Blood of Our Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, during His Passion and Death and that flow into our sous through the loving hands of His Most Blessed Mother, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces.
This period of six weeks, four days until Easter Sunday (six weeks, three and one-half days until the Easter Vigil) is nearly one-ninth of an entire calendar year. May we beg Our Lady to help us make the best Lent of our lives as we do not know if it will be our last. Indeed, we do not know whether we will live to see Easter Sunday in this life on Sunday, April 20, 2025.
Now, I have been busy these past few days preparing what is either going to be a twelfth anniversary restrospective on the destuctive work that has been done by Jorge Mario Bergoglio since walking out onto the balcony of the Basilica of Saint Peter on Wednesday, March 13, 2013, or a review of that terrible work after his death. The review is almost in its final form, although there are some more points that I am going to add in the next few days presuming the Argentine Apostate will contine to remain hospitalized barring his death. The review has taken many hours to assemble, which why I have not had time to write any new commentary in the past few days.
Additionally, I am still dealing with the penitential offering called the flu of one kind or another, the most prominent feature of which, other than a nagging cough, has been and continues to be fatigue. Well, Lent has begun, and penance is better than ever in 2025!
Nevertheless, there should be a new article tomorrow on the Feast of Saints Perpetua and Felicity and the Commemoration of Thursday after Ash Wednesday.
Thank you.
Our Lady of Dolors, pray for us.