We begin the oldest of all of Holy Mother Church's Novenas, the Novena to God the Holy Ghost in preparation for Pentecost Sunday, June 5, 2022, today, Friday, May 27, 2022. The last day to pray for the Novena, of course, is on the Vigil of Pentecost, Saturday, June 5, 2022.A new article will appear tomorrow. Thank you for your patience. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Bede the Venerable.

Pope Saint John I, pray for us.

"And the eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And seeing him they adored: but some doubted. And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world." (Matthew 28: 16-20.)

'There is no "expiration" date on this command. Indeed, the commentary in the Bishop Richard Challoner version of the Douay-Rheims Bible explains that the command is in force until Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ comes in glory on the Last Day to judge the living and the dead and that His Church could never go astray, meaning, of course, that it is impossible for the Catholic Church to give any impression at all that God is pleased with false religions such as Mohammedanism and Talmudic Judaism, which is what the conciliar "popes" have done consistently in the past fifty-nine years, having reached the point of complete absurdity now under Jorge Mario Bergoglio:

18 "All power"... See here the warrant and commission of the apostles and their successors, the bishops and pastors of Christ's church. He received from his Father all power in heaven and in earth: and in virtue of this power, he sends them (even as his Father sent him, St. John 20. 21) to teach and disciple, not one, but all nations; and instruct them in all truths: and that he may assist them effectually in the execution of this commission, he promises to be with them, not for three or four hundred years only, but all days, even to the consummation of the world. How then could the Catholic Church ever go astray; having always with her pastors, as is here promised, Christ himself, who is the way, the truth, and the life. St. John 14."

The Catholic Church can never go astray. She is infallible. She does not give us any "new ecclesiology" or "hermeneutic of continuity and discontinuity" to deconstruct the meaning of dogmatic truth, thus attacking the essence of the nature of God Himself, or false ecumenism. Her pastors do not esteem the symbols and values and places of false religions and they do not engage in "inter-religious" "prayer" services. Her pastors do not teach that false religions have a "right" from God to propagate their false beliefs publicly and they do not praise those false beliefs for being "able" to "contribute" to the building of a "better" world. Pastors of the Catholic Church insist always and at all times that Catholicism is the one and only foundation of personal and social order with no equivocation, uncertainty, ambiguity or obscurity of any kind. As Pope Pius XI noted in Mortalium Animos, January 6, 1928, there is need to "strain" to "find" Catholicism in the pronouncements made by Holy Mother Church:

"For the teaching authority of the Church, which in the divine wisdom was constituted on earth in order that revealed doctrines might remain intact for ever, and that they might be brought with ease and security to the knowledge of men, and which is daily exercised through the Roman Pontiff and the Bishops who are in communion with him, has also the office of defining, when it sees fit, any truth with solemn rites and decrees, whenever this is necessary either to oppose the errors or the attacks of heretics, or more clearly and in greater detail to stamp the minds of the faithful with the articles of sacred doctrine which have been explained. " (Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos, January 6, 1928.)

How has the integrity of the doctrine of the First Commandment been stamped on "minds of the faithful" by the words and deeds of the conciliar "popes"?

Christ the King has taken His throne in Heaven. We must ascend with Him in our thoughts and prayers at all times as we refuse to have our minds and hearts poisoned by the words and the deeds of the false shepherds of the counterfeit church of conciliarism who dare to blaspheme God so regularly and so openly and/or who refuse to open their mouths in defense of the honor and majesty and glory of God when He is so blasphemed and offended.

As the angel made clear to the Eleven as they looked into the sky as Our Lord disappeared from their sight on this day, there is work for us to do:

"They therefore who were come together, asked him, saying: Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? But he said to them: It is not for you to know the times or moments, which the Father hath put in his own power: But you shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth. And when he had said these things, while they looked on, he was raised up: and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they were beholding him going up to heaven, behold two men stood by them in white garments. " Who also said: Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come, as you have seen him going into heaven. Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount that is called Olivet, which is nigh Jerusalem, within a sabbath day's journey. And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Jude the brother of James. All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren." (Acts 1: 6-14.)

Yes, we can't stand around all day long looking into the sky. There is work for us to do before Our Lord comes for us at the moment of our own Particular Judgments, which can come at any hour and on any day, and at the end of the world to judge the living and the dead. 

The work that we have to do is to sanctify and to save our immortal souls as members of the Catholic Church, work that requires us to be attentive to the graces that were won for us on the wood of the Holy Cross by the shedding of every single drop of Our Blessed Lord Saviour Jesus Christ's Most Precious Blood and the flow into our hearts and souls through the loving hands of Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces. And to cooperate with the graces that Our Lady sends we must be fortified in prayer, which is one of the reasons that we must keep most assiduously the first Novena in the history of the Church, the Novena to God the Holy Ghost. Our Lady was separated from her Divine Son when He Ascended to Heaven. She was united to Him, however, by means of her reception of His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in Holy Communion. She was united to the Apostles and the others who prayed in the same Upper Room where He had instituted the Holy Priesthood and the Holy Eucharist at the Last Supper on Maundy Thursday. She is united to us. She is our Blessed Mother. We need to ask her for all the graces that we need to save and to sanctify our souls as we eschew worldliness, which is the theme of today's substantially revised article, and as we refuse to participate in the fraud of a false religion, conciliarism, that is replete with daily outrages given to her Divine Son, starting with the outrage that is the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical service, and as we make much reparation for our sins and those of the whole world as the consecrated slaves of her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

A new article is being written. There have been lots of internet disruptions this week. I am hoping for the new article to be completed in time for posting on the Feast of Saint Augustine of Canterbury within the Octave of the Ascension. More will follow next week.

A blessed Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ to you all on Thursday, May 26, 2022.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

The Holy Apostles, pray for us.

Salvatore Cordileone, the conciliar “archbishop” of San Francisco, has banned Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro Pelosi from receiving what purports to be “Holy Communion” in the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical abomination.

This commentary assesses Cordileone’s actions and assesses them in light of the fact that his “pope,” Jorge Mario Bergoglio, authorized the prefect of the misnamed Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to warn the American “bishops” about denying what is thought to be Holy Communion to anyone in public life who supports the slicing and dicing of the innocent unborn.

Although I have two other commentaries to write in the few days, such work will be put aside if the Supreme Court of the United States of America announces its ruling in the case of Thomas Dobbs, Mississippi Health Commissioner v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization today, Monday, May 23, 2022, Rogation Monday and, in some places, the Feast of Saint John Baptist de Rossi.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Baptist de Rossi, pray for us.

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton has her "deplorables," and I contend that her ideological soul mate, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, has his "expendables," that is, those within his conciliar clergy who are not "open" to "progress" and criticize him openly. 

One of these is the retired conciliar "archbishop" of Hong Kong, Joseph Zen, whose arrest last week was denounced even by the United States Department of State but only with a mild statement of regret from the conciliar Vatican's secretairy of state, Pietro The Red Parolin, and complete silence from Jorge Mario The Red Bergoglio, whose silence has emboldened the Chicom tyrants to do anything they want without any fear of "papal" condemnation.

Pray for our true pope daily.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Peter Celestine, pray for us.

Saint Pudentiana, pray for us.

Mrs. Randy Engel, the founder and director of the U.S. Coalition for Life, which is the oldest pro-life research organization in the world, has issued a call for citizens to write to the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States of America to refocus the Court’s attention on the humanity of the unborn child. She has included a number of excellent points for the composition of such letters.

Although the letters are not like to affect the outcome of the Court’s decision in the case of Thomas Dobbs, State Health Commissioner v. Jackson Women’s Organization, they can singe the consciences of a justice or two, especially the Catholics on the Court who are content to let the “the people” “decide” that over which they have no authority. The binding precepts of the Fifth Commandment.

Merchants of Murder and Mendacity, part two was published after Midnight on Monday, May 16, 2022, the Feast of Saint Ubaldus and (in some places) the Feast of Saint John Neupomocene.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Ubaldus, pray for us.

Saint John Neupomocene, pray for us.

As strong storms are heading our way, all that I shall write at the moment is that, at long last, I hereby present to you part two of “Merchants of Murder and Mendacity.”

If the Supreme Court of the United States of America issues its decision in the case of Thomas Dobbs, Mississippi State Health Officer, v. Jackson Women’s Organization today, as some believe is possible, my commentary, which will take some days to complete, will focus on the dissenting opinions as there will be no need to do anything except summarize the points about Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion, the draft version of which may be, allowing for various changes to address the dissenting opinions, what the substance of his issued opinion looks like.

Barring that, however, the next article on this site will deal with the recent arrest of Joseph “Cardinal” Zen by the Communist authorities in Hong Kong, followed by another article on the killing of the innocents in Ukraine and then part eighteen of “Sin: More Dangerous Than the Coronavirus.”

Finally, Mrs. Randy Engel, the founder and director of the U.S. Coalition for Life, that I have formatted and published. Please scroll below for her alert. Than you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Ubaldus, pray for us.

This is a brief "root causes" reflection of the horrific massacre that took place in Buffalo, New York, yesterday, May 14, 2022, Our Lady's Saturday in Paschaltide and the Commemoration of Saint Boniface Martyr.

Another day of writing is needed for part two of "Merchants of Murder and Mendacity." Indeed, work continued on it until shortly before the posting of this commentary and will continue later this afternoon,

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Baptist de la Salle, pray for us.

Saint Isidore the Farmer (whose feast day this is in Spain), pray for us.

This Feast of Saint Robert Bellarmine is an excellent opportunity to give readers of this website access to Saint Robert Bellarmine's two-part sermon On Tribulations. 

The text of the Saint Robert Bellarmine's sermon can be found below Father Kenneth Baker's synopsis of it. Our Saint's explanation of the tribulations that must afflict all men during their lifetimes here in this mortal vale of tears is very timely in our age of barbarism and statism, of amorality, hedonism, rank materialism and the worship of everything except the true God of Divine Revelation, the Most Holy Trinity.

Please say a Hail Mary for Sharon, who transcribed the text below from Sermons of St. Robert Bellarmine, S.J., Sermons 68, On Tribulation, translated from the Latin by Father Kenneth Baker, S.J., and published in 2017 by Keep the Faith, Inc., Ramsey, New Jersey.

Today is also the one hundred fifth anniversary of Our Lady's first apparition to Jacinta and Francisco Marto and their cousin Lucia dos Santos in the Covia da Iria near Fatima, Portugal. An article from 2020 explains the importance of Our Lady's  Fatima apparitions and why they have been attacked so relentlessly by the conciliar officials: Only the Adversary and His Fellow Minions Attack Our Lady and Her Fatima Message.

Work proceeds quite methodically on part two of Merchants of Murder and Mendacity. My prognosticating abilities concerning when articles will be complete are nonexistent these days. Reasonably speaking, though, I may need another three full days of writing. Thank you.

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.

Saint Robert Bellarmine, S.J., pray for us.

The clock is about to strike twelve midnight and to quote the fictional Lucille Ricardo as she stomped grapes with a feed in a vat, "I am a poop-ed."

This commentary is part one of a two-part study of the unprecedented leak of a draft opinion written by a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America. 

Part two, which should be published by Thursday, May 12, 2022, the Feast of Saints Nereus, Pancratius, Achelleus, and Domatilla, will examine the draft opinion itself and its ramifications.

Thank you for your patience as there were many unexpected penances within the past week, including raising funds privately for a new outside air conditioning unit after the one we had took a direct hit from lightning during violent storms on Thursday, May 5, 2022, the Feast of Pope Saint Pius V. 

Penance is indeed better than ever in 2022.

All to thee, Blessed Mother. All to thy Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I love you. Save souls!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Gregory Nazianzen, pray for us.

This is a republished version of a reflection on the saintly life and work of  the great Dominican, Pope Saint Pius X, who is indeed quite a contrast to the life and the work of the conciliar revolutionaries. 

The next original article on this site should be posted by Tuesday, May 9, 2023.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Pius V pray for us.