Today is the magnificent feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to her cousin, Saint Elizabeth, and her preborn Divine Son’s preborn Precursor, Saint John the Baptist.

This date, July 2, marks the end of the period of Our Lady’s Visitation, which began on April 2, lasting until the day after the octave day of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist. Our Lady’s perfect Charity for her cousin and her Divine Son’s Precursor should prompt us to perform the Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy at all times, making sure as well to proclaim the Holy Name of Mary, she whom all generations are duty bound to call blessed, as the Mother of God who made possible our salvation by her perfect fiat to the will of God the Father at the Annunciation and who is the Queen of Heaven and on earth, the very Immaculate Conception who prays for us now and at the hour of our deaths.

A new commentary, which discussses Jorge Mario Bergoglio's appointment of the egregious Victor Manuel Fernandez as the prefect of the counterfeit church of conciliarism's quite misnamed Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, is being written. I hope to have it published within twenty-four hours. Thank you.

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

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Processus and Martinian, pray for us.

The Most Precious Blood of Jesus is our laver of redemption, as our own sins, each and every single one of them, caused It to be shed during the events of Holy Thursday and Good Friday.

It was the thought of coming into contact with the horror of our sins, the very antithesis of His Sacred Divinity, that caused Our Lord to sweat droplets of His Most Precious Blood in His Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane.

It was our sins that caused the Most Precious Blood of Jesus to be shed so terribly during His cruel scourging at the Pillar.

It was our sins that caused the Most Precious Blood of Jesus to be shed as He was crowned with thorns to mock His Sacred Kingship over men and their nations.

It was our sins that caused the Most Precious Blood of Jesus to continue to be shed from the scourging and the crowning as He walked up the steps to be judged by the Roman procurator, Pontius Pilate. Droplets of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus are still venerated by pilgrims as proceed on their knees up the Sancta Scala in Rome right across from the Basilica di San Giovanni Laterano.

It was our sins that caused the Most Precious Blood to be shed as Our Lord’s hands and knees were crucified. It was our sins that caused the Most Precious Blood of Jesus to be shed unto Its last drop as He hung on the gibbet of the Holy Holy Cross for three hours, flowing in a torrent as Our Lord’s wounded side was pierced with the lance of Saint Longinus.

What is It that is poured out onto our souls when they are Absolved by a true priest in the Sacred Tribunal of Penance?

The Most Precious Blood of Jesus.

The Most Precious Blood of Jesus strengthens us when we receive It worthily in Holy Communion.

It was the shedding of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus on the wood of the Holy Cross that ratified the New and Eternal Covenant He inaugurated at the Last Supper, thereby obliterating forever the old sacrifices of the blood of bulls and goats and lambs in Temple worship, thus superseding he Old Covenant of the Jews.

We must celebrate this great Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus, which was pumped through Our Divine Redeemer’s Sacred Body by His Most Sacred Heart, the very font of Mercy, with gratitude that we, sinners who caused It to be shed in torrents under the most unspeakably cruel conditions, are bathed unto our redemption by Its merits.

May we never take the Most Precious Blood of Jesus for granted.

A blessed Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ and Octave Day of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist to you all! Today is also the First Friday of July, the month of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Although it is late in the day, it is still the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul.

This commentary discusses the simple fact that it would never be necessary for well-meaning Catholics as Joseph Strickland, the conciliar “bishop” of Tyler, Texas (where we had lived for six months starting on June 29, 2013, before moving to rural north central Texas) to “correct” a true pope, who is the guarantor of Catholic orthodoxy. The fact that they feel compelled to do so with Jorge Mario Bergoglio should be enough to convince them to realize that Senor Jorge is not a true pope and that the conciliar religion is nor Catholicism.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Perer and Paul, pray for us.

Once Catholic Europe arose from the ruins of pagan idolatry and barbarian hedonism over the course of the First Millennium. The Christ-centered world of Christendom provided glories to God through the ministrations of His true Church that were summarized by Pope Leo XIII in Immortale Dei, November 1, 1885:

[Update on Monday evening, June 26, 2023: An unexpected storm system tore through our area and, among other things, felled upwards of eight trees (damaging some fencing) and knocked out our electricity and internet service, thus interrupting work on my next article. Although I wrote a bit more after the electricity was restored twenty-eight hours after it went off in the midst of a scorching heat wave, I will have to resume work on the commentary in the morning so that I can have it completed for posting either by late tomorrow evening or early Wednesday, June 28, 2023, the Feast of Saint Irenaeus and the Commemoration of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist and the Vigil of Saints Peter and Paul. I will explain the need to raise a thousand dollars to pay for our insurance deductible to clear the trees and repair the fencing when I post the next commentary. Penance is better than ever in 2023! Deo gratias! Thank you.]

Today's great feast, coming as it does six months, one day prior to Christmas Day, is only one of three in the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church that commemorates a physical birth (or Nativity). Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's Nativity in Bethlehem in celebrated on Christmas Day, December 25. Our Lady Nativity is celebrated on September 8. And Our Lord's Precursor, the son of Saint Elizabeth, Saint John the Baptist, is privileged to have his own Nativity celebrated this very day. This is a tremendous feast day in the life of the Catholic Church. 

Saint John the Baptist, the last of the Old Testament prophets, prepared the way for the coming of Our Lord prior to the assumption of His Public Ministry. Freed from Original Sin in the womb of his mother, Saint Elizabeth, who was Saint Anne's cousin, at the moment of Our Lady's Visitation, Saint John the Baptist preached fearlessly to convert sinners from their sinful ways and to prepare them to accept his Cousin, God Incarnate, as their Redeemer. He also knew that he had to decrease in stature in the world as Our Lord increased following His symbolic baptism in the Jordan River, during which, of course, God the Father sent a dove, symbolizing God the Holy Ghost, spoke to tell us in no uncertain terms, "This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3: 17), a proclamation that would God the Father repeated at Our Lord's Transfiguration (Matthew 17: 5).

Saint John the Baptist fearlessly proclaimed the truth. He lost his head for doing so. In like manner, of course, we must proclaim the truth, doing so out of fidelity to Our Lord as He has revealed Himself to His true Church, and in true Charity for the eternal good of others, recognizing at all times that we are but weak vessels of clay, full of faults and failings, who must make much reparation to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary for our sins.

It is not easy to speak truth to those in power. Saint John the Baptist knew this.

Those in power, such as King Herod the Tetrarch, who was married illicitly to his brother's wife even though his brother was still very much alive, frequently believe themselves to be beyond criticism and that each of their decisions are binding upon the consciences of all others, a power that Our Lord has given exclusively to true popes, who can indeed bind our consciences.

Those in civil power, however, tend to think of themselves as demigods whose musings on this or that subject carry great significance. No matter who the President of the United States of America is, for example, it is invariably the case that some sort variation of one false, naturalistic presupposition after another is supposed to be accepted by the populace as the foundation for the common good domestically and for peace internationally. These "demigods" can't possibly be wrong, of course. They believe that their shallow words and empty and sometimes contradictory statements are received from on high (actually, their words and actions come from below!) and anyone who dares to dissent from them is suspect of being a "domestic terrorist." For my latest explication of this, please see Men Who Defy Christ the King and His Laws Are Their Own Worst Enemies, Now and For Eternity, which was published yesterday, Friday, June 23, 2023, the Octave of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Commemoration of the Vigil of Saint John the Baptist.

Another commentary about Saint John the Baptist can be read by clicking: Saint John the Baptist: Everything That Jorge Mario Bergoglio Is Not and Will Never Be.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

This is a commentary about the ongoing descent of the United States of America into a totalitarianism to which it was destined to experience as a consequence of the false premises upon which the nation was founded.

The title is otherwise self-explanatory as I am about to lose internet service for eight hours.

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

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint Paulinus of Nola, pray for us.

Saint Alban, the British Protomartyr, pray for us.

As it will take me several more days to complete the next orignal article for this website, I believe that it is appropriate, especially given my own attachment and devotion to Saint Aloysius Gonzaga since entering Saint Aloysius School in Great Neck, New York, on September 10, 1956, to present this reflection to you.

Saint Aloysius Gonzaga was a great lover of the Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in His Real Presence in the Most Blessed Sacrament and of Our Lady. Saint Aloysius was intensely united to the sufferings that Our Lord endured in His Passion and Death, offering up his own sufferings prior to death, sufferings that he contracted as a result of helping a man with the plague in Rome, in union with that of Our Lord's own Passion and Death.

Saint Aloysius was also devoted to the angels, which makes sense as he had an angelic purity of his own. We need to invoke his holy intercession to help us to have as a pure a heart as he did as we attempt to make reparation to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary for our own sins, especially any and all against Holy Purity.

As it was at the aforementioned Saint Aloysius School in Great Neck, New York, where I learned the truths of the Catholic Faith as they were taught with clarity by the Reverend Sisters of Mercy (and one lay teacher, Miss Greta McCarthy, a young Irish immigrant who knew the Holy Faith very well, who became Mrs. Greta Foley after the end of the 1961-1962 school year; she died in 2012), I owe Saint Aloysius so very much. I have been devoted to him from the time that I entered Kindergarten in September of 1956.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, pray for us.

Saint Paulinus of Nola, pray for us.

Saint Alban, pray for us.

This is the concluding part of a two-part series.

Another commentary should appear by the Feast of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, S.J., Wednesday, June 21, 2023.

Finally, please pray for Father Adan Rodriguez, who has been the pastor of Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel in Monroe, Connecticut, since 2011. I was informed yesterday that Father Rodriguez, who is a very zealous priest, has to undergo surgery. Please pray for his full and expeditious recovery. Thank you.

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

Saint Juliana Falconieri, pray for us.

Saints Gervase and Protase, pray for us.

Dr. Paul Byrne has requested that I both participate in and circulate widely an effort to send action letters to the Uniform Law Commission on the "universal deternination of death."

Dr. Byrne and Dr. Christine Zainer explained the goal of the action letter as follows:

5-19-23 

We lose internet service every day around 12:30 a.m. until 8:00 a.m.

Thus, this commentary's title will have to speak for itself until a bit later on today, the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Various commentaries on this feast day have been republished. Please scroll below.

A blessed Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus to you all!

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