Today is the commemorated Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua on the sixth day in the Octave of Corpus Christi.

This is but a brief, revised reflection on Saint Anthony, who is near and dear to the hearts of a preponderance of Catholics today no matter where they might fall along the vast expanse of the ecclesiastical divide in this time of apostasy and betrayal.

Perhaps I should note, however, that Saint Anthony of Padua would be hammering the heretics of the counterfeit church of conciliarism today just as he did in his own day nine hundred years ago.

An original article, Christ the King Alone Has One Set of Laws That He Will Apply to Everyone When They Die, was published about thirty-six hour ago. A follow-up to that commentary will be published in about five or six days. However, it is my hope to publish part one of a two-part commentary on the aggressive advance of perversity in all walks of social life here in the United States of America and around the world.

Thank you.

Our Lady of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.

Saint Anthony of Padua, pray for us.

Another late/early hour has come upon me.

This commentary, whose writing was completed just a short while ago after having spent most of yesterday composing it, is about a recent news item that perhaps you might have seen, namely, the second indictment in less than three months of former President Donald John Trump.

As this commentary is written from the perspective of the Catholic Faith and not the exigencies of partisan politics, although there is a great deal of discussion about the hyprocrisy and double-standards that abound in this world that rejects Christ the King and is thus captive to the devil, I am sure that parts of this long commentary will displease a lot of people. 

The next commentary on this site will be about pleasing God by rejecting the march of perversity that is a malignancy spreading so rapidly that it might very well signal the death knell of nations, including the United States of America, as Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will not let nations who defy Him in such a manner go unpunished. Indeed, all the political agitation of the moment is a punishment in and of itself. 

Our Lady of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.

Saint John of San Facundo, pray for us.

Saints Basilides, Cyrinius, Nabor, and Nazarius pray for us.

Today is the great Feast of Corpus Christi. This article, written a long time ago now and slightly revised over the years, is an exhortation to the readers of this site to spend more and more time in adoration before Our Beloved before His Real Presence in the Most Blessed Sacrament if this is at all possible in your area. 

The sickness that is as yet ongoing kept me from writing about Sister Mary Wilhelmina Lancaster for a bit longer than I would have liked. 

This commentary may not please a lot of this site's few remaining readers. However, Sister Mary Wilhemina Lancaster fought to maintain Catholic tradition and Catholic religious life with joy and charity even as she persisted in the structures that we know are controlled by revolutionaries who hate the Faith and who have mocked examples such as Sister's repeatedly, none more hatefully, though, than Jorge Mario Bergoglio himself.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Today is Trinity Sunday and the Commemorations of the Feast of Saint John of San Facundo, of the First Sunday after Pentecost, and of Saints Basilides, Cyrinius, Nabor, and Nararius, thus beginning the second half of the liturgical year that began with the First Sunday of Advent.

The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity was revealed to us by Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Although there are clear references in the text of the Old Testament to a plurality of Persons in the Divine Godhead ("Let us make man in our own image"), human reason, which can come to the conclusion that God exists, is insufficient to know about the existence of the Most Blessed Trinity. Our Lord Himself, the Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity made Man in Our Lady's Virginal and Immaculate Womb, had to reveal this to us. The doctrine of the Most Holy Trinity is rejected by all infidels and misrepresented by most Protestant sects.

To wit, many Protestants, especially in the evangelical and fundamentalist sects, are "baptized" in "the name of the Lord Jesus," not in "The Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost," which is invalid on its face. This means that many hundreds of thousands of Protestants are not even Christians despite their thinking that they are. We must defend the doctrine of the Most Blessed Trinity with our very lives if necessary, having frequent recourse to the making of the Sign of the Cross throughout the day. This is a custom that is held dear by many Spaniards and Latin Americans.

Remember, Jorge Mario Bergoglio did not want to give a "blessing," not that he is capable of giving one as a lay Jesuit revolutionary, that is, when address the crowd on the Capitol Mall in Washington, District of Columbia, on Thursday, September 24, 2015, the Feast of Our Lady of Ransom, for fear of offending "unbelievers." We must be afraid of offending the Most Holy Trinity by means of our sins of commission or, like Senor Jorge himself, sins of omission. 

Also, a sickness that began as a sore throat, cough and congestion that began over a month ago appeared to go away before I developed conjunctivitis (pink eye) in my right eye seventeen days. Despite almost immediate treatment with antibiotic eyedrops, though, it was within the Providence of God for the infection (a local physician says bacterial, an ophthalmologist says viral) to spread to the lymph nodes on the right side of the face and neck.

The condition, which is, of course, a blessed and most welcome penance that I recognize full well as gift from the good God to be given back unto Him as the consecrated slave of His Co-Eternal Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, has worsened to the point where the entire right side of my face is swollen. This is all accompanied by an incredible fatigue, which has made it difficult to write this past week other than to respond to a few emails.

I am trying to work on a new article that I had meant to start a week ago today before this all began to worsen. It is my hope to make substantial headway on the commentary today and to have it posted by the Feast of Saint Norbert, Tuesday, June 6, 2023.

Finally, there is a person who has a much more serious health concern: Father Louis J. Cambpell, ordained on September 3, 1961, who has been the pastor of Saint Jude Shrine in Houston, Texas, since 2001. 

Father Campbell was hospitalized on Pentecost Sunday with chronic dehydration. An email alert I received from Saint Jude Shrine on Whit Friday evening provided the information that he has returned home and is recoving. Please continue to pray for the full recovery of our own friend and the friend of all believing Catholics, the tireless worker in Our Lord's vineyard, Father Louis J. Campbell, who took his name in religious life as an Augustinian in honor of Saint Louis de Montfort, the author of True Devotion to Mary. God bless and Our Lady keep, Father Louis J. Campbell!

A blessed Trinity Sunday to you all.

Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, pray for us.

Saint Francis Caracciolo, pray for us.

This commentary is less about the John Durham report itself as it is about what the eternal fate of those named it will be if they believe that, having escaped any legal consequences for their scheming and lying, they can escape them when they die. Not so.

Another commentary will follow in a few days.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Mary Magdalene de Pazzi (whose feast is impeded this year by Whit Monday), pray for us.

The sermons delivered by Father Francis Weninger, S.J., as part of his missionary work here in the United States of America one hundred fifty years ago should always be given prominence whenever possible.

Thus, I hereby present two Father Weninger's three sermons for Pentecost Sunday. 

A continued blessed Pentecost Sunday to you all!

Our Lady of the Cenacle, pray for us.

Today is Pentecost Sunday, the birthday of Holy Mother Church, the upon which the first pope, Saint Peter, who was vivified as the Vivifier Himself, God the Holy Ghost, descended upon him and Our Lady and the other Apostles (and the rest of the disciples) gathered in the Upper Room in Jerusalem as they completed their Novena to God the Holy Ghost ten days after Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's glorious Ascension to His Father's right hand on Ascension Thursday. Saint Peter wasted no time in doing something that is forbidden, at least in a de facto sense, in the counterfeit church of conciliarism: he preached to the Jews about the necessity of their converting to the true Faith.

The missionary work of the Church to seek with urgency the unconditional conversion of all men and all nations to the her maternal bosom, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there is no true social order, brought us glorious missionaries who were willing to embrace many sacrifices, including martyrdom itself, to spread the Faith of the Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, so that men and all nations would be able to order themselves rightly according to the Deposit of Faith that He has entrusted exclusively to Holy Mother Church for Its eternal safekeeping and infallible explication and by means of a fervent cooperation with the graces won for us by the shedding of Our Lord's Most Precious Blood and that flow into our hearts and souls through the loving hands of Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of all Graces. The work of conversion does not end when one is Baptized or Confirmed.

The work of conversion away from our sinful selves to become more conformed to the Cross of the Divine Redeemer and the merciful designs of His Most Sacred Heart for us is one that is constant. Every beat of our hearts, consecrated as they must be to that same Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, must burn with fire for the love of God as He has revealed Himself to us through His true Church and as we seek to grow in holiness and to make reparation for our sins and those of the whole world. It is useless for us to be converted in the Baptismal font unless we are willing to let God the Holy Ghost help to convert us every day to cooperate more fully with His Seven Gifts and Twelve Fruits. Saint Paul the Apostle explained that the spiritual man, the one who is filled with Sanctifying Grace, cannot be understood by the sensual or worldly man:

For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is in him? So the things also that are of God no man knoweth, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit that is of God; that we may know the things that are given us from God. Which things also we speak, not in the learned words of human wisdom; but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God; for it is foolishness to him, and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined. But the spiritual man judgeth all things; and he himself is judged of no man. (2 Cor. 2: 11-15)

We must keep this in mind when our relatives and friends and associates do not understand how we can refuse to keep our silence when a putative "pontiff" calls a mosque as a "jewel" or as a "sacred" place or as he prays as a Jew without mentioning the Holy Name of the Divine Redeemer (doing voluntarily what the leaders of Sanhedrin tried to force the Apostles to do, that is, to mention the "name of that man no more") and has he praises the nonexistent ability of false religions to help build the "better world."

We cannot care about what others think of us. We must say and do only those things that are pleasing God, never fearing to raise our voices to defend His greater honor and glory and majesty when these are offended by one claiming to speak for the Catholic Church on earth. The Mystical Bride of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Holy Mother Church, is as spotless and as immaculate as Our Blessed Mother herself.

The Catholic Church did not give us "hootenanny" liturgies before the aftermath of the "Second" Vatican Council. She did not give us "inter-religious dialogue" and "inter-religious" prayer services. She gave us liturgies that came from God the Holy Ghost, not travesties that reaffirm people in the spirit of the world.

The Catholic Church can only give us clarity of doctrine, not ambiguity and complexity that took one "clarification" after another to attempt to make "clear." Holy Mother Church has always mirrored Our Blessed Mother's hatred of heresy and error, which was part of the meditation written by the late Father Frederick Faber on the Sixth Dolor of Our Lady:

In the judgment of the world, and of worldly Christians, this hatred of heresy is exaggerated, bitter, contrary to moderation, indiscreet, unreasonable, aiming at too much, bigoted, intolerant, narrow, stupid, and immoral. What can we say to defend it? Nothing which they can understand. We had, therefore, better hold our peace. If we understand God, and He understands us, it is not so very hard to go through life suspected, misunderstood and unpopular. The mild self-opinionatedness of the gentle, undiscerning good will also take the world's view and condemn us; for there is a meek-loving positiveness about timid goodness which is far from God, and the instincts of whose charity is more toward those who are less for God, while its timidity is searing enough for harsh judgment. There are conversions where three-quarters of the heart stop outside the Church and only a quarter enters, and heresy can only be hated by an undivided heart. But if it is hard, it has to be borne. A man can hardly have the full use of his senses who is bent on proving to the world, God's enemy, that a thorough-going Catholic hatred of heresy is a right frame of mind. We might as well force a blind man to judge a question of color. Divine love inspheres in us a different circle of life, motive, and principle, which is not only not that of the world, but in direct enmity with it. From a worldly point of view, the craters in the moon are more explicable things than we Christians with our supernatural instinct. 

We must therefore permit God the Holy Ghost to come into our souls with His bright burning flames at every moment of our lives so that we will filled with love of God and hatred of our own sins as we seek to cooperate with the graces He sends us through the loving hands of His Spouse, Our Lady, making sure to honor His Spouse as we pray as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit. May this be our prayer this day and every day our own lives:

Come, Holy Ghost, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love.

V. Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created.

R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.

Let us pray. O God, Who didst instruct the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Ghost, grant us in the same Spirit to be truly wise, and ever to rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

A blessed Pentecost Sunday and Octave to you all!

Our Lady of the Cenacle, pray for us.

Although I have a new commentary ready for posting, I will hold off until Whit Monday to publish it as the great Feast of Pentecost tjat demands our complete attention.

Thus, the best that I can do for you today is offer this slightly revised reflection for the Vigil of Penecost, which is a day of fast for those between the ages of twenty-one and fifty-nine and a day of partial abstinence for those seven years of age or older. This does not mean that those of us over the age of fifty-nine should not fast if able to do so, only that it is not morally obligatory to fast. We should keep in mind that God is most pleased with the souls who give Him more than the minimum required by Church law. We must give Him our all as the consecrated slaves of His Co-Equal, Co-Eternal Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. 

Our Lady of the Cenacle, pray for us.