Today, Wednesday, October 4, 2023, is the Feast of the Seraphic Saint, Saint Francis of Assisi, who was born as Giovanni di Bernardone in 1182 (some say 1181).

This revised article is a poor way to pay tribute to the follower of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who gave up earthly riches to embrace Lady Poverty, earning himself eternal riches in the process, eternal riches that helped to save the Church Militant on earth from falling down at a time of great clerical corruption. It is my hope, however, that this poor tribute to Saint Francis, a saint of profound Eucharistic piety and deep, tender devotion to the Mother of God who rejoiced in the midst of trials and sufferings and insults and even the rejection of his own father and brother, will provide some food for meditation about the glorious life of this joyful saint of prayer and penance.

I have been busy with medical appointments week. However, as I only one scheduled for this morning, I do hope to make more progress on my next orignal article upon my return home. I have two other appointmens on Thursday, including one to set the date for the first of two cataract removl surgeries. Penance is better than ever in 2023.

Oh, I forgot that Senor Jorge is going to issue that sequel to Laudato'Si today. I have plenty of material ready to use once I review its text, but I will complete my current series before tackling that project.

Saint Francis of Assisi, pray for us!

A blessed feast day to our friends to all Franciscans, including those of the Third Order.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Francis of Assisi, pray for us.

Marie-Frances Therese Martin was born to the holiest of parents, Louis and Zelie Martin, who endeavored to shield their children as much as possible from the influences of the world.

The sacrifices made by Louis and Zelie Martin produced five vocations to the consecrated religious life. Zelie Martin's prayers from eternity after her death assisted her husband as he raised one canonized saint and four other daughters who served Holy Mother Church as brides of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

The simplicity and love of the Little Flower teaches each of us to pursue holiness as befits redeemed creatures, seeking the things of Heaven in this life so that we may spend our Heaven doing good here on earth. Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face was raised in a family that stressed the importance of withdrawing from the world. Louis and Zelie Martin were very protective of their daughters, making sure to instill within them a firm commitment to the Virtue of Modesty.

Indeed, Sister Genevieve of the Holy Face, Marie-Frances Celine Martin, was shocked at the immodesty that had overtaken France with the Allied bombing of Normandy forced the cloistered Carmelites of the Carmel out of their cloister and into the world in June of 1944. She noted this in a letter to Mother Agnes Mary that was dated July 7, 1944:

"After fifty years of eremetical living, to find myself all of a sudden uprooted and thrown into the midst of the world, with veil raised, is a true martyrdom for a recluse like me. It seems to me as if we're in a station where everybody is crowding around and intermingling. We sleep fully clothed on benches; we take our meals in haste, standing up in the dark; we look with astonishment and grief at the feminine styles stripped of all dignity." (As quoted in Celine: Sister Genevieve of the Holy Face, Sister and Witness of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, by Father Stephane-Joseph Piat, O.F.M., p. 130.)

What would Saint Therese and Sister Genevieve say today about the feminine attire that is considered "modest" and "acceptable" in Catholic chapels all across the vast expanse of the ecclesiastical divide where some version of the Immemorial Mass of Tradition is offered or simulated?

They would not have been approving, and that is because their holy parents taught them Catholic right from wordily wrong.

Why is this so difficult for many traditionally-minded Catholic parents to understand, accept and abide by today?

The public release of the latest dubia sent to Jorge Mario Bergoglio by five conciliar "cardinals," including Raynond Leo Burke, who defended his support for a man who attempted to become a wonan by chemical and surgical means (see Bishop Takes Queen, necessitates taking a bit more time than I planned for the completion of part two of my current series.

Finally, I ask you to pray for the repose of the soul of the late Juan Carlos Araneta, who died yesterday morning at Westchester County Medical Center in Valhalla, New York, Please pray also for the consolation of his family at this time. 

Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine. Et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen..

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Therese of Lisieux, pray for us

Jorge Mario Bergoglio's "synod on synodality" has begun. 

As has been noted in the past, the fix is in, the cooks are cooked, the system has been rigged and booby-trapped to produce pre-determined results as happened sixty years ago during the "Second" Vatican Council. The whole thing is a charade as it is based in the belief that Holy Mother Church must conform the teaching entrusted to her by her Divine Founder, Invisible Head, and Mystical Spouse, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, to the "needs" of the "people" rather than exhorting the faithful to conform their own lives to the immutable precepts of the Divine and Natural Laws.

To accomplish this, course, Senor Jorge's handpicked synodal "leaders" must dispense with antipapal teaching just as readily as his five immediate predecessors on the conciliar seat of apostasy have disposed of the true teaching of the Catholic Church in oder to tickle the itching ears of those who want their consciences anesthetized with "sweet nothings" so that they can continue sinning grievously with "papal" impunity.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Our Holy Guardian Angels, pray for us.

This reflection on our Holy Guardian Angels is brief. Our devotion to and reliance upon our Guardian Angels, however, must be lifelong1

The next original article will be published shortly.

Our Lady of the Angels, pray for us.

Our Holy Guardian Angels, pray for us.

This is a  reflection on the life and the work of Saint Jerome, the great great Dalmatian who put the love of God above all else. Consider just one quotation from the work of this prolific writer and translator of the Bible into the Latin Vulgate:

"It is a smaller sin to follow evil which you think is good, than not to venture to defend what you know for certain is good. If we cannot endure threats, injustice, poverty, how shall we overcome the flames of Babylon? Let us not lose by hollow peace what we have preserved by war. I should be sorry to allow my fears to teach me faithlessness, when Christ has put the true faith in the power of my choice." (Saint Jerome, Prologue to the Treatise Against the Pelagians.)

How many traditionally-minded Catholics who are as of yet attached to the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism who know for certain that it is not good to praise false religions or to enter places of false worship or to treat the "clergy" of false religions as having a mission from the true God of Divine Revelation to serve and save souls refuse to do what is good, that is, to defend the honor and glory and majesty God and His Sacred Deposit Faith in order to indemnify the author of long-since repealed Summorum Pontificum, Antipope Emeritus Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, whose successor, Jorge Mario Bergoglios, has laid bare for all the world to see that he is "worried" by those who "want to return to the past"?

We must always defend what we know to be true as servants of the greater honor and glory of God.

Saint Jerome did.

What's our excuse?

I ask for your prayers for my dear wife, Sharon, who turns but a mere sixty years of age of age today. Thank you.

Finally, this is the first anniversary of the death of Rebecca Lynn Adams Dupree, the daughter of longtime readers of this site, Michael and Sandra Adams, in Amman, Jordan. Please remember Mrs. Dupree's immortal soul and the needs of her parents, two brothers and sister today. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Jerome, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Dedication of the Church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Mount Gargano, Italy. 

It is interesting to note that, given the rationalism that underlies Modernists' rejection of the supernatural, that this feast is not celebrated as such in the counterfeit church of conciliarism as it is based upon the apparition of Saint Michael the Archangel on May 8, 490. The architects of the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical service went to great lengths to edit out almost all references to apparitions, Indeed, none other than the old Rosicurcian Mason himself, Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII, suppressed the Feast of the Apparition of Saint Michael the Archangel on May 8 entirely in the first wave of his Jansenist anti-liturgical changes that went into effect on Sunday, December 3, 1960, the First Sunday of Advent, and the feast that we celebrate today, was eliminated by Annibale Bugnini and company and replaced with the combined Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. 

Believing Catholics, however, know that Holy Mother Church cannot deceive us, and that her Sacred Liturgy is guided by none other than the Third Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, God the Holy Ghost. It is thus that we celebrated the Feast of Dedication of the Church of Saint Michael the Archangel today, Friday, September 29, 2023.

Finally, I must ask the readers of this site to pray for Mr. Juan Carlos Araneta, who has been kind enough to use his time and has been generous in support of this site’s work by translating numerous articles into the Spanish language and posting many others, especially the “Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus” series on various social media platforms.

Juan Carlos, who is from The Philippines but has lived in the United States of America for quite some time now, was critically injured on Wednesday. September 27, 2023, the Feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian, as he drove a golf cart while working at a golf course in Bedford, New York. A tree limb fell on his head and caused multiple injuries, including a punctured lung. He also went into cardiac arrest after he was knocked unconscious by the tree limb. I was truly taken aback when I learned about this tragedy from a mutual friend.

Juan Carlos Araneta has been of great assistance to Father Adan Rodriguez, the pastor of Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel in Monroe, Connecticut, since he started going there in 2012. Indeed, Father Rodriguez is expected to visit him in the hospital today, Friday, September 29, 2023, the Feast of the Dedication of the Church of Saint Michael the Archangel, immediately upon his return from Argentina.

Please pray for Juan Carlos and his family, who are being advised by a Catholic physician who is an expert on the treatment of those otherwise targeted for the removal of life support and/or “comfort care,” at this time.

May Our Lady, to whom Juan Carlos Araneta is very devoted, intercede for him and for his family, who are, of course, praying for a miracle while being ready accept the ineffable will of God whatever may happen.

Thank you.

Our Lady, Queen of the Angels, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us and protect us.

Today is the feast of the great Saint Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia, who was murdered by his own brother, who hated the fact that that he, King Wenceslaus, was everything that he, Boleslaus, hated, namely, pious and devoted, a servant of Christ the King, a just ruler who ruled to advance the common temporal good in light of man's Last End. Boleslaus hated the fact that his brother, our dear saint, loved the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and baked the Eucharistic bread with his own hands. This should give us pause for reflection in our own circumstances today when so many of our own relatives and one-time friends and acquaintances might hate us simply for being Catholic, no less Catholics who try, despite our sins and failings, to adhere to everything taught by Holy Mother Church from time immemorial. Saint Wenceslaus was a king who was prostrate before THE King, Christ the King, in life who adores him in Heaven face to face. 

My next original article should appear in a day or two.

Oh, no, I spent no time last evening paying any attention to naturalists of any kind, but that won't stop me from writing about the futility of naturalist dog and pony shows. Or wll it? Stay tuned.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Wenceslaus, pray for us.

We are living in a world filled with ironies, among which is the fact yesterday's self-professed "loyal dissenters" within the counterfeit church of conciliarism have become today's militant "doctrinal enforcers."

Our Lady of the North American Martyrs, pray for us.

Our Lady of the North American Martyrs, pray for us.

Saint Isaac Jogues, pray for us!

Saint Rene Goupil, S,J.,  pray for us.

Saint John Lalande, S,J., pray for us.

Saint Gabriel Lalemant, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Noel Chabanel, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Charles Garnier, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Anthony Daniel, S.J.,  pray for us.

Saint John De Brebeuf, S.J., pray for us.

Saints Cyprian and Justina, pray for us.

Today, Tuesday, September 26, 2023, is the Feast of the North American Martyrs, the eight Jesuits who gave up their lives for the Holy Faith in what are now parts of Canada and upstate New York between 1642 and 1649, and the Commemorations of the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost and of Saints Cornelius and Cyprian here in the United States of America.

This brief reflection speaks volumes about the contrast between the life and martyrdom of the eight men killed between 1642 and 1649 and the conciliar "saints". Each of the North American Martyr (Isaac Jogues, Rene Goupil, Jean Lalande, Gabriel Lalemant, Noel Chabanel, Anthony Daniel, Charles Garnier, and John de Brebeuf) shed their blood to Catholicize the upper reaches of North America. They were not interested in "inculturating" the Catholic liturgy with the pagan superstitions and barbaric practices of the Iroquois. They were concerned only about attempting to convert the heathens to the true Faith and to plant the seeds for the conversion of the land in which their noble missionary work had taken them.

Can we do any less than they?

We must seek to "keep it Catholic" at all times as we seek to plant the seeds for the conversion of this nation to become the Catholic States of America.

An original commentary will be posted within fifteen mintues. Thank you. 

Our Lady of the North American Martyrs, pray for us.

Saint Isaac Jogues, pray for us!

Saint Rene Goupil, S,J.,  pray for us.

Saint John Lalande, S,J., pray for us.

Saint Gabriel Lalemant, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Noel Chabanel, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Charles Garnier, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Anthony Daniel, S.J.,  pray for us.

Saint John De Brebeuf, S.J., pray for us.

Saints Cyprian and Justina, pray for us

Work continues on the next original commentary for this site. It will be posted in a day or two.

I am, however, offering readers a brief reflection on the Feast of Our Lady of Ransom (Mercy), which is commemorated today, Sunday, September 24, 2023, the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost. 

Our Lady of Ransom, pray for us.