This is a brief commentary discussing outgoing president in name only Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.'s, bestowing the Presidential Medal of Freedom upon Jorge Mario Bergoglio. The citation accompanying the medal said Jorge was like no one before him.

Ain't it da truth.

A blessed Octave Day of the Epiphany to you all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Holy Family of Nazareth and the Commemoration of the First Sunday after the Epiphany within the Octave of the Epiphany. 

Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ chose to become Man in His Most Blessed Mother's Virginal and Immaculate Womb by the power of the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, God the Holy Ghost, and place Himself, the Co-Equal and Co-Eternal Son of God the Father, under subjection to mere creatures His Most Blessed Mother, the fairest flower of our race, and to Good Saint Joseph, his foster-father.

The subjection of the God-Man to the authority of His Most Blessed Mother and his foster-father, whom He had chosen from all eternity to provide Him with the earthly love and care and stewardship of a father seeking only to please God with his every thought, word and deed, teaches us that we, who came from families and who, in many instances, are raising families of our own, must be subject to all legitimate authority, duly constituted, in all things that do not pertain to sinful commands. Children are supposed to learn this subjection in the household from their tenderest days, seeing in their fathers the image of Saint Joseph and in their mothers the image of Our Lady.

Children are supposed to realize that God in the very Flesh obeyed His creatures in the Holy Family of Nazareth. So must they.

Parents must, for their part, foster an atmosphere within the family of selflessness, charity, forgiveness and joy, centering the family's life on daily assistance at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (if at all possible), regular time spent in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, the daily recitation of Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary, supplications to Our Lady's Most Chaste Spouse, Saint Joseph, home enthronement to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Total Consecration to Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the same Immaculate Heart of Mary, Scriptural reading and family reading time, especially about the lives of the saints, and a refusal to participate in the rot of popular culture.

This requires sacrifice and the willingness to be misunderstood, calumniated and rejected even by one's own family members as we protect our children from those cultural currents that come from the devil and are designed to lead each of us to Hell for all eternity. To eschew worldliness one must be ready to embrace the Holy Poverty of the Holy Family of Nazareth, detaching oneself from the material acquisitiveness of our consumer society, shaped by Judeo-Calvinist materialism, and to live in light of First Things and Last Things as we week to acquire the only thing that matters: Sanctifying Grace in this life and eternal life in the glory of the Beatific Vision of Father, Son and Holy Ghost in Heaven. 

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, we love you, save souls!

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, pray for us now and in death's agony.

A blessed Feast of the Holy Family of Nazareth to you all. 

P.S.  “Woke” Produces Sloth, Incompetence, Malfeasance, Ignorance, and Mismanagement was published about nineteen hours ago. I will have new commentary tomorrow, January 13, 2025, the Octave of the Epiphany of Our Lord that contains the Gospel account of His second manifestation, that to His cousin, Saint John the Baptist, the last of the Old Testament Prophets, to receive a symbolic baptism He did not need but submitted Himself thereto to fulfill every word that He had caused to be written about Himself in the Old Testament, to give us an example of obedience and humility we must follow, and to sanctify the waters of the Jordan--and hence of the world--for the Baptism of regeneration that He would make possible for us by the shedding of every single drop of His Most Precious Blood during His Passion and Death on the wood of the Holy Cross on Good Friday.

This is a follow-up to the commentary published on this site two days ago.

Although I do not want to do so, I suppose that I must give Senor Jorge and his false religious sect some attention in my next original commentary, which will be followed by my long-delayed commentary on the coronascam five years after it began.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Hyginus I, pray for us.

This is a brief reflection on the terrible wildfires afflicting southern California at this time.

While praying for all those who lost their lives and those who have lost their homes and belongings or are at risk of such loss, we must always remember that disasters of this sort are meant to remind us to fear the loss of Heaven and the pains of hell, those pains being principally the eternal loss of the Beatific Vision of the Most Holy Trinity as the souls are the damned are tortured without cease by pains of eternal hellfire that, unlike wildfires that are either put out or burn out on their own, can never be quenched.

Our Lady, Queen of Mary, pray for us now, and at the hour of our death.

Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.

This is final part of the current two-part series.

As the hour is late and I have been overtaken with a slight cold and its penitential accompaniments, I must take my leave now. However, I should have another original commentary in two or three days. Thank you for your patience.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar, pray for us.

Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was made manifest on Christmas Day to the handful of Jewish people, including the shepherds in the field who were sent to adore Him by the angels who had announced the following:

And there were in the same country shepherds watching, and keeping the night watches over their flock. And behold an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the brightness of God shone round about them; and they feared with a great fear. And the angel said to them: Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, that shall be to all the people: For, this day, is born to you a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord, in the city of David. And this shall be a sign unto you. You shall find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army, praising God, and saying: Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will. And it came to pass, after the angels departed from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another: Let us go over to Bethlehem, and let us see this word that is come to pass, which the Lord hath shewed to us. And they came with haste; and they found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger. And seeing, they understood of the word that had been spoken to them concerning this child.And all that heard, wondered; and at those things that were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God, for all the things they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them. (Luke 2: 6-20.)

Today's feast, the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord, known colloquially in Ireland as "Little Christmas" and in many other places as Three Kings' Day, celebrates Our Lord's manifestation to the whole world through the Gentiles.

Indeed, the Offertory for today's Mass explains that all kings shall adore Christ King and that all nations shall serve Him:

"The kings of Tharsis and the islands shall offer presents: the kings of the Arabians and of Saba shall bring gifts: and all kings of the earth shall adore Him: all nations shall serve Him."

The United States of America is no exception to this. We must pray for the day when the leaders of this country, founded on the falsehoods of Protestantism and Judeo-Masonry that are so hateful to Our King, will adore Him as their King and the day when this nation will serve Him as it acknowledges His Social Kingship over it by submitting in all that pertains to the good of souls to the authority of the Catholic Church that He Himself founded upon the Rock of Peter, the Pope.

We are suffering at the hands of statists today because the men of Modernity who believed that they had no obligation to offer public worship to Christ the King through His true Church set us on a course that can result only in the triumph of the civil state over the King of Kings Who was made manifest to Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar on this day.

We must make Him manifest in our own lives at at all times, never fearing to suffer in behalf of the truths of the Holy Faith or to suffer in the cause of justice when souls are placed into jeopardy needlessly even by some of our own true shepherds.

Part two of my current two-part series requires more work than I am able to devote to it at this hour. Manana. Maybe!

A blessed Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord to you all!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar, pray for us.

Today, Sunday, January 5, 2025, is the Feast of the Holy Name, which is celebrated on the Sunday between the Feast of the Circumcision and the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (or January 2 if there is no intervening Sunday as was the case in 2024), and also the Commemorations of the Vigil of the Epiphany (which is the only vigil that is ever commemorated on a Sunday during the liturgical year if the Feast itself falls on a Monday as it does this year) and of Pope Saint Telesphorus.

This brief reflection reminds readers that the heretical blasphemer named Jorge Mario Bergoglio keeps his silence about the Holy Name of Jesus when speaking before groups that might include as few as one person who rejects Our Lord’s Sacred Divinity. Such is the warped, twisted man of an apostate, a man whose long-held false beliefs expelled him from the bosom of Holy Mother Church in his youth.

It is my hope that the part two of my current commentary will be posted by tomorrow on the Feast of the Epiphany. Part one, No Security in the Womb? Then No Security Anywhere Else at Anytime, was published about twenty-three hours ago. 

A blessed Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus to you all!

Holy Name of Jesus, have mercy on us.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Today’s commentary is about the terrorist attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, on the Feast of the Circumcision, Wednesday, January 1, 2025, that took the lives of fourteen people and injured many others.

Part two of this two-part series will discuss the epidemic of violence in the abortion capital of the United States of America, the City of New York, New York.

No safety in the womb?

No safety anywhere else.

Today is the First Saturday in the month of January, the month of the Holy Name of Jesus. Please remember to fulfill Our Lady’s request for us to make reparation to her Immaculate Heart this day and the First Saturday of every month in this New Year of Our Lord 2025.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

The Holy Innocents, pray for us.

[Late Janauary 1, 2025, update: The commentary I have been working on the for the last several days will appear a day or two later than I had expected because I have commenced work on a commentary about today's terrorist attacks in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Las Vegas, Nevada. The commentary also will include discussions of the recent terrible crimes committed in the New York City subway system and the assassination the late chief executive officer of United Health Brian Thompson that is being heralded by nihilists of various ages. 

[As the hour is late and I need to arise relatively early in the morning for medical appointment, I will resume work on the article later on the Octave of Saint Stephen the Protomartyr with the expectation of its being completed in less than twenty-four hours from now, that is at 11:40 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. 

[Pray for the repose of the souls who have been killed and to Our Lady under the title of her Immaculate Conception for the conversion of this nation as she was named the Patroness of the United States of America in 1846 under the title of her Immaculate Conception.]

[Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.]

This is a brief reflection on the supernatural aspects of new calendar year, which begins approximtely four weeks after each new liturgical year.

The next original should be published by this time tomorrow, the Octave Day of the Feast of Saint Stephen the Protmartyr, January 2, 2025.

A blessed New Year of Our Lord 2025 to you all!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

The Holy Innocents, pray for us.