Although Holy Week began with First Vespers for Palm Sunday last evening, Saturday, April 1, 2023, I have, in addition to republishing my annual reflection on the events of our salvation from Eden to Palm Sunday that I might get around to enhancing one year, completed the text of “Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part twenty-two,” for your consideration and review.

Obviously, there is no need for anyone to take time away from their preparations for the Paschal Triduum, which begins with Tenebrae on Wednesday in Holy Week, April 5, 2023. However, the article will be here after Easter for those would like to read it.

As has been the case with past articles in this series, my goal in part twenty-two is to provide those who access this website with an aggregate of information culled from a variety of sources and bridging that factual information with the efforts of this septuagenarian Catholic to provide a supernatural perspective that those who presented the unadulterated truth about the virus and the “vaccines” do not possess and thus cannot offer their own readers.

It is my goal to complete my commentary about the putsch by the conciliar “bishops” in the Federal Republic of Germany to proceed along the “synodal path” to reform the irreformable and to change the unchangeable by Spy Wednesday, April 5, 2023. The commentary will be published on Easter Monday if I cannot complete it before the Paschal Triduum.

A blessed Palm Sunday and Holy Week to you all.

Our Mother of Sorrows, pray for us.

Saint Francis of Paola [whose feast is suppressed this year], pray for us.

Today is Palm Sunday.

We have now entered into the most solemn week of the year as we withdraw more and more from the world and its false allurements to unite ourselves as never before with the events of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ’s Passion and Death prior to experiencing the glory of His Resurrection following the Mass on Holy Saturday, April  8, 2023, and on Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023, thus beginning a marvelous celebration of the Octave of Easter and the Easter season.

We need Our Lady’s help to keep and to intensify our Lenten penances this week. May our reliance upon the Most Sorrowful Mysteries of her Holy Rosary aid us in understanding what our sins did to her Divine Son and to her and how grateful we must be for being the unmerited beneficiaries of the Mercy won for us on the wood of the Holy Cross and for being given from that Cross so great and wonderful and perfect a mother as she, Our Blessed Mother, is to us by Our Divine Redeemer Himself.

"From Eden to Palm Sunday" is a substantial revision of a reflection that I wrote for the printed pages of Christ or Chaos in 1997. Given the vastness of the subject, this reflection is pitifully, woefully inadequate. The revised article is really a condensed version of what was gone into in greater detail in the Living in the Shadow of the Cross lecture program. About half of the lecture program dealt with material condensed in the current article. Obviously, Holy Week is not a time to watch this lecture program! However, it is there for those who are interested at some point during the months that follow.

To greet Christ the King this Palm Sunday and every day of our lives, we must not let anything get in the way of letting Him treat us according to the tender mercies of His Most Sacred Heart, remembering that nothing anyone does to us, says about us or causes us to suffer is the equal of what one of our least Venial Sins caused Him to suffer in His Sacred Humanity during His fearful Passion and Death on the wood of the Holy Cross and that caused those Swords of Sorrow to be pierced through and through the Immaculate Heart of His Most Blessed Mother.

Our fervor during this week of weeks must be genuine, and we must beg Our Lady, especially by meditating upon the Sorrowful Mysteries of her Most Holy Rosary, to help us persist in this fervor moment by moment, day by day, week in and week out, month after month, year after year until the time when we meet Christ the King, Our Crucified and Risen Saviour, at the moment of our Particular Judgment.

Part twenty-two of "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus" will be published in an about an hour.  I once again ask readers to make a non-tax-deductible financial gift if at all possible.

A blessed Palm Sunday and a blessed Holy Week to you all.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

This contains a few reflections for your consideration on the Way of the Cross that might be useful for this great week of weeks, Holy Week. These reflections were written many a moon ago and have been revised slightly over the past three decades. 

My annual Holy Week reflection will be posted tomorrow, Palm Sunday, as will part twenty-two of the coronavirus series upon which work continued until just a few moments ago. 

A blessed Palm Sunday tomorrow and Holy Week to you all.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

This is a brief commentary about the tragic nassacre that took place in Nasbville, Tennessee, two days ago.

Work continues on part twenty-two of "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus."

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

The great saint whose feast we celebrate today, Monday, March 27, 2023, Saint John Damascene, fought the iconoclasts in his day, and while many, although far from all, of our Catholic churches are now in the hands of the conciliar iconoclasts, we can festoon our homes with images of Our Lord and Our Lady and Saint Joseph and other saints as we use these images to remind us that we are united to the saints represented in these images by means of the Communion of Saints that we hope to share Heaven with them for all eternity in the glory of the Beatific Vision.

Today, course, is our daughter Lucy’s twentieth-first birthday and the fifteenth anniversary of her First Holy Communion.

Please do pray for Lucy Mary Therese Norma Droleskey on her birthday today. Thank you.

Finally, considerable progress was made on part twenty-two of "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus as I made some some good headway on it yesterday. All I can tell you is that I am being methodical in the composition of the next commentary and hope to have it completed by Wednesday of Passion Week, March 29, 2023.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Damascene, pray for us.

This is my annual Passiontide reflection. 

Work on part twenty-two of "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus" is proceeding more slowly than I would like, partly because of a fully penitential flare-up of the rheumatoid arthritis in my right hand (and I am right handed). It appears as though Wednesday of Passion Week, March 29, 2023, is the most realistic date on which the commentary will be published. 

A blessed Passiontide to you all.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

This is a brief follow-up to We Have No "Rooting" Interest in the Russo-Ukraine War Other Than for a Just Peace that also discusses the similarities between the American involvemen in Ukraine presently and the flawed neoconservative delusions that ignite the Iraq War twenty years ago. 

Part twenty-two of "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus" should be published no later than the Feast of Saint John Damascene, Monday, March 27, 2023, and a commenatary on the current implosion taking place within the counterfeit church of conciliarism should follow by the Feast of the Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lent, Friday, March 31, 2023. 

As I noted about a week ago now, I will not be offering any further commentary about New York County Alvin Bragg's politically motivated campaign to indict former President Donald John Trump on truly baseless ground until after Easter, but for the moment I want to remind the very few remaining readers of this website that Donald John Trump has been, is now, and will ever be his own worst enemy (see the details in Trump won't change, and that shows he can't win.

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

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

The Russo-Ukraine war is nearly thirteen months old.

This is an updated and revised (with new commentary based upon recent event) of a three-part series published a year ago on this ongoing tragedy.

This commentary is lengthy, However, I urge readers who are “rooting” for one side or another to make a bit of time available so that they can consider the material included therein.

The next commentary on this site will be a retrospective on the needless, unconstitutional, and immoral invasion, occupation, destruction, and reconstruction of Iraq that began twenty years ago yesterday, that is on March 20, 2003, local Baghdad time. Part twenty-two of “Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus” will follow a few days thereafter, followed by a commentary about the conciliar “bishops” in Germany and their “synodal” path about which Jorge Mario Bergoglio is doing precisely nothing.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Benedict of Nursia, pray for us.