Venite ad Me: Robert Francis Prevost and Victor Manuel Fernandez Admit the Obvious: Almost Everything Before the “Second” Vatican Council is Irrelevant

Venite ad Me, the new set of “considerations on the transmission” of the conciliar faith “in an epochal change” is premised upon many falsehoods, including the belief that the contention that it is necessary to make what purports to be the Catholic Faith understand to contemporary men even though Holy Mother Church has faithfully transmitted the Faith throughout the ages as she knows that the nature of God and His Holy truths are unchanging and that fallen human nature is thus unchanging.

While Holy Mother Church can and has adapted her methods of reaching the minds and hearts of men, she has done without disparaging catechetical and doctrinal formation and without giving the slightest appearance that a sentimentally based “love of God” is all that is needed to be loved by Him and to love. Nothing else.

Alas, God’s will for us is an act of His Holy Will, the ultimate expression of which is the sanctification and salvation of the souls of all men as members of His Holy Catholic Church, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there can be no true social order within nations nor a just peace, the peace of Christ in the Kingship of Christ, among them.

Tellingly, there is not one word about sanctity nor sanctification in the text of Venite ad Me, which is the conciliar sect's official statement that what purports to be the Catholic Faith is shaped solely by the "Second" Vatican Council and the "magisterium" of the conciliar "popes."

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Raphael, the Archangel, pray for us,

 

Fighting Synodality with Democracy?

[Update on Friday, October 23, 2026, the Feast (in some places) of the Divine Redeemer, at 1:01 a.m.: I am writing a commentary about the “considerations” contained in Venite ad Me, which was issued by the conciliar sect’s dicastery for the destruction, deconstruction, and deformation of the faith yesterday, October 22, 2026. Although I am making very good progress thus far, I believe that it will take another three or four hours to complete. So, I will resume work on the project this afternoon. Thank you for your patience.]

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.

Another Assembly of the Devil Has Taken Place in Rome

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.

On the Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist, October 18, 2026

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.

On the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus's Suffering Servant: Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, October 17, 2026

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.

Plus Ca Change, Plus C'est la Même Chose, partie trois (The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same, part three)

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.

On the Feast of the Inimitable, Indominable Reformer of Carmel, Saint Teresa of Jesus, October 15, 2026

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.

The Queen of Heaven Does Not Act on Her Own, October 13, 2026

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.

As Relevant in 2026 As In 1917: Our Lady's Fatima Message

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.

Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomini Domine, Hosanna in Excelsis, part forty-three

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.

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Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

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