This is a revised commentary about this holy season of Advent, which marks the beginning of a new ecclesiastical year that began with First Vespers for the First Sunday of Advent on Saturday evening, November 27, 2021. A new article will be published within thirty minutes of this posting.

O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

Although not on the General Roman Calendar, today, Saturday, November 27, 2021, is the Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal. Although not observed universally on a mandatory basis, this feast is is nevertheless an important one to commemorate as this powerful sacramental is yet another sign of the love that pours out from the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the hands of Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces, despite our own ingratitude and infidelities. [This feast is one that, traditionally, had been celebrated solemnly in the Diocese of Brooklyn, and it was within the boundaries of that diocese that I was born on Saturday, November 24, 1951, three days before this feast day that year.]

This reflection was written in 2010 and published in two parts. It was seven years ago now that it was combined into one part and revised slightly in a few places.

Work is about done on the next article, although I will need another five or six hours of writing this afternoon into the evening to complete it. 

Thank you.

Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, pray for us.

Saint Catherine Laboure, pray for us.

This is a brief reflection for the feast day of Saint Catherine of Alexandria. I am just too tired after a day out with the family on my seventieth birthday yesterday to link to some recently recorded video lectures. However, I will do so by tomorrow, Friday, November 26, 2021, the Feast of Saint Sylvester the Abbot and the Commemoration of Saint Peter of Alexandria. I will try to have an original article published by Saturday, November 27, 2021, which is, although not on the General Roman Calendar, the Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal.

By the way, I discovered that I had written the following a year ago after I had republished this current reflection:

Three other new articles are on the "flight deck." The first of those three articles will be published by Friday or Saturday. The third of the three will be a commentary on the junior varsity statists/globalists/nogoodniks who are being assembled to repopulate the District of Columbia swamp that resist draining in the past four years. As I wrote twelve years ago after the election of Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro, Chastisement Is A Silver Lining, and we are going to it get it but good this time around. 

I think that the observation about "getting it good this time around" has, most unfortunately, stood the test of time. This is a chastisement. Cling to Our Lady as never before as without her we are lost.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Catherine of Alexandria, pray for us.

This reflection on the life of Saint John of the Cross was written for and published in To Live in Light of Eternity, Volume 6, and is being offered to readers of this site for the third time.

As today, November 24, 2023, is my seventy-second birthday, I ask prayers for the repose of the souls of my late parents, Dr. Albert Henry Martin Droleskey and Mrs. Norma Florence Red Fox Droleskey. Thank you.

Our Lady of he Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John of the Cross, pray for us.

Sant Chrysognus, pray for us.

This is a republished reflection about Pope Saint Clement that includes the following passage from Dom Prosper Gueranger's The Liturgical Year:

With only one exception, all of the documents which attest Clement's intervention in the affairs of distant churches have perished with time; but the one that remains shows us in full action the monarchical power of the bishop of Rome at that primitive epoch. The church of Corinth was disturbed with intestine quarrels caused by jealously against certain pastors. These divisions, the germ of which had appeared even in St. Paul's time, had destroyed all peace, and were causing scandal to the very pagans. The Corinthians at last felt the necessity of putting an end to a disorder which might be prejudicial to the extension of the Christian faith; and for this purpose it was requisite to seek assistance from outside. The apostle had all departed this life, except St. John, who was still the light of the Church. It was not great distance from Corinth to Ephesus where the apostle resided: yet it was not to Ephesus but to Rome that the church of Corinth turned. Clement examined the case referred to his judgment by that church, and sent to Corinth five commissaries to represent the Apostolic See. They were bearers of a letter, which St. Irenaeus calls potentissimas litteras. It was considered at the time so beautiful and so apostolic, that it was long read in many churches as a sort of continuation of the canonical Scriptures. Its tone is dignified but paternal, according to St. Peter's advice to pastors. There is nothing in it of a domineering spirit; but the grave and solemn language bespeaks the universal pastor, whom none can disobey without disobeying God Himself. These words so solemn and so firm wrought the desired effect: peace was re-established in the church of Corinth, and the messengers of the Roman Pontiff soon brought back the happy news. A century later, St. Dionysius, bishop of Corinth, expressed to Pope St. Soter the gratitude still felt by his flock towards Clement for the service he had rendered. (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year.)

Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B,, understood that was and can be no such thing as "resistance" to a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter.

Finally, a glitch prevented yesterday's republished article form being published properly. The glitch has been fixed. Also, an original article, Over Fifty Years of Weasel Words and Cowardly Inaction, was published late Saturday evening.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Clement, pray for us.

Saint Felicity, pray for us.

This is a very brief, republished reflection on the heroic virtues of Saint Ceclia, whose feast is commemorated today, November 22, 2020, the Twenty-fifth and Last Sunday after Pentecost.

Work continues apace on the next original commentary, although time will be spent today completing three more video presentations that I hope to have uploaded to Bit Chute in a few days. 

An original article, Over Fifty Years of Weasel Words and Cowardly Inaction, was published late Saturday evening.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Cecilia, pray for us.

The American apostates met in Baltimore, Maryland, this past week.

This brief commentary deals with the “firmness” they exhibited when dealing how to penalize Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr, Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro Pelosi, and all other Catholics in public life who support sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance, starting with willful murder itself.

Please scroll below for a republished reflection for today's commemorated feast and for three sermons of Father Francis X. Weininger, S.J., on the Last Sunday aafter Pentecost.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Today is the Twenty-sixth and Last Sunday after Pentecost on which a Commemoration of the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is made secondarily. This is a short reflection on the feast day, which is followed by an appendix including the description of the Presentation of Our Lady as found in The New English Edition of The Mystical City of God.

The next original article for this site should be published within fifteen minutes of this posting. 

Finally, please pray for a former student of mine who turns fifty-four years of age today and for a friend of ours on Long Island who turns seventy-three years of age today. Thank you.

Our Lady, Ark of the New Covenant, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

Although a republished reflection on the Commemorated Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin May will be posted within thirty minutes of this posting, followed in quick order by an original article, I have taken the time to format Father Francis X. Weninger’s three sermons for the Last Sunday after Pentecost to provide a source of meditation on this last Sunday before Advent.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

This is a republished reflection on the suffering endured by the very first member of the Third Order of Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, who suffered much at the hands of her family members and even at the hands of the poor whose welfare she provided so generously when her husband, Louis, was the Landgrieve of Thuringia.

News reached of the death of the Reverend Patrick Perez reached me early yesterday morning. As is well known in traditional circles, we went to what we thought at the time was Holy Mass at Our Lady Help of Christians Church in Garden Grove, California, whenever we were in southern California between early-2002 and February of 2006.

Although I maintained no contact with him after I spoke with him in July of 2006 to discuss Father Anthony Cekada’s study on the invalidity of the conciliar rite of episcopal consecration (see New Bishops, Empty Tabernacles and Novus Ordo Watch’s Unholy Orders: 50 Years of Invalid Ordinations), I remembered him in my prayers every day during his life and will remember the repose of his immortal soul every day in my prayers for the Poor Souls. 

Reverend Perez was was very kind to us during our visits to Our Lady Help of Christians, and he also wrote the introduction to the second edition of my GIRM Warfare (which has been entirely revised and updated to reflect my understanding of the true state of the Church in this time of apostasy and betrayal). We are saddened to learn of his death at age sixty-one.

Even though the circumstances of the state of apostasy and betrayal are such that we may find ourselves estranged from former friends and colleagues, if not family members, we must pray every day for a good reconciliation in eternity. Reverend Perez was very close to Our Lady, and she always takes care of her own.

Please join us in praying for the happy repose of the immortal soul of Reverend Patrick Perez.

Caritas super omnia!

Requiem aeternum dona eis, Domine; et lux perpetua luceat eis. Requiescant in pace. Amen.

A new article should be ready for publication by Sunday, November 21, 2021, the Twenty-sixth and Last Sunday after Pentecost and the Commemoration of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Pontian I, pray for us.