This is a relatively brief commentary about how many well-meaning Catholics who are attached to the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism in the tragically mistaken belief that they are “fighting within the Catholic Church” use the tools of “democracy” to fight the conciliar sect’s “synodality” without realizing that the “people” have no more say over the decisions of a true bishop to get him to “convert” or to cease from disciplining a “good” presbyter than the “people” have to “decide” Catholic doctrine.

Reflections on the Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost, which is resumed today after having been downgraded to a commemoration this past Sunday, October 18, 2026, the Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist, are found in the two appendices at the end of this commentary.

Now, I must explain that it is has been difficult to complete articles in the past few days because of my left knee, which was diagnosed as in end-stage, bone-on-bone osteoarthritis three years ago, collapsed while I was walking in a public facility on Friday, October 16, 2026, the Feast of Saint Hedwig. The “discomfort” continues to be debilitating, and I can only walk with the assistance of a cane. Knee replacement surgery seems to be in my future, although I won’t know for sure until further examinations are completed.

Thus, please forgive the slow pace of new commentaries, although I plan to have one or two more in the coming days.

Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

A Brazilian bishop, Jose Mauricio de Rocha, returned from the “Second” Vatican Council before its first session had concluded and told his priests that “A council of the devil is taking place in Rome right now.”

Well, summits, synods, and like assemblies of the devil take place all the time under the auspices of the counterfeit church of conciliarism, and one recently concluded summit dealt with the revolution against Catholic Faith and Morals represented by Amoris Laetitia.

Another commentary should appear by tomorrow, Tuesday, October 20, 2026, the Feast of Saint John Cantius.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Peter of Alcantara, pray for us.

Today, Sunday, October 18, 2026, is the Feast of Saint Luke and the Commemorations of the Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost and of Mission Sunday.

This is a brief reflection on the evangelist who is symbolized as a winged ox. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Luke the Evangelist, pray for us.

Do you think that you have sufferings from family members or associates?

The saint whose feast is celebrated today, Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, was favored with visions of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in her childhood, and he believed this to have been a normal experience that any child might have. Even as a child, therefore, this favored child of Our Lord's was blessed with tremendous sufferings from a pair of domineering paternal aunts, who persecuted her and her mother after her father's death. This early childhood suffering, which was accompanied by a physical affliction that left her bedridden for four years, was just a preparation for the suffering that Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque endured to spread public devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus at the specific request of Our Lord Himself.

The hearts of men had grown cold because of Jansenism when Our Lord revealed the secrets of His Most Sacred Heart to Sister Margaret Mary Alacoque in the Visitation Convent in Paray le Monial, France, between December of 1673 and June of 1685. We cannot let our own love for the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus grow cold in our hearts. We must forgive as we are forgiven, and we must remember the high price of infidelity that France paid for the refusal of King Louis XIV to consecrate the whole of France, and not just Paris, to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (as is related in an appendix to this article).

Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, an intimate of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and a faithful client of Our Lady through her Most Holy Rosary, pray for us.

This commentary addresses those recommendations, which come even as the empirical and anecdotal evidence of the harm done by the poisoned jabs continues to mount.

As tomorrow is the Feast of Saint Hedwig, I have included an appendix that is taken from Dom Prosper Gueranger’s The Liturgical Year in honor of this truly valiant noblewoman.

Another new commentary should appear on Sunday, October 18, 2026, the Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost, the Commemoration of Saint Luke the Evangelist and Mission Sunday.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Teresa of Jesus, pray for us.

Saint Hedwig, pray for us.

This is a reflection of the life and the incomparable work of Sain't Teresa of Jesus, the indomitable, incomparable reformer, foundress and model of spiritual perfection, Saint Teresa of Avila.

Here are references to two books about Saint Teresa of Avila apart from her works that are cited in my own reflection:

The Life of Saint Teresa (by a Carmelite nun; preface Mons. R. H. Benson) – pdf, text, kindle format

The Life and Letters of St. Teresa (Fr. H. J. Coleridge) – pdf, text, kindle format: vol. I, vol. II, vol. III

A new commentary continues to be written. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Teresa of Jesus, pray for us.

This is a reflection on the one hundred ninth anniversary of the final apparition of Our Lady in the Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal, as the Miracle of the Sun occurred and she, clothed in the garment of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, proclaimed herself to be Our Lady of the Rosary.

We need to heed Our Lady's Fatima Message as it is nothing other than Heaven's own Peace Plan. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.

Saint Edward the Confessor, pray for us.

This reflection, which was written nine years ago, on the message of Our Lady of Fatima includes brief reflections on the liturgical feasts that took place (or were to take place in the future) on each of the dates of Our Lady’s apparitions to Jacinta and Francisco Marto and Lucia dos Santos in the Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal.

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.

Saint Edward the Confessor, pray for us.

A commentary of this sort takes time to complete.

At long last, therefore, part forty-three of this series is now available for you to read.

The next original commentary should appear on Thursday, October 15, 2026, the Feast of Saint Teresa of Avila.

Non-tax-deductible financial gifts are very much needed now. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Today, Monday, October 12, 2026 (on which the Mass of the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost is celebrated, is the five hundred thirty-fourth anniversary of Christopher Columbus's planting the Cross of the Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, on the island of San Salvador. 

How diabolical it is that that the work of Columbus is rejected today by ignoramuses who hate the fact that he brought the Catholic Faith to the Americas.

My next new commentary should appear within twenty minutes after this posting. Thank you.

As always, non-tax-deductible financial gifts are always necessary.

Viva Cristo Rey!

Viva La Virgen de Guadalupe!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.