Once again, the title of this commentary, which was in the process of being written about twenty-four hours ago when I fell asleep in my recliner chair and awoke two hours later before deciding that it was prudent to shut the computer and return to sleep, is self-explanatory.

A blessed Feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo to you all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Augustine of Hippo, pray for us.

Saint Hermes, pray for us.

This is a brief reflection on the Feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo, to which Father Francis X. Weninger's reflection about the great convert to the Holy Faith has been appended.

For the moment, though, I want to include the sixth of Father Wenginger's practical considerations on the life of Saint Augustine of Hippo:

VI. From a hardened heretic, St. Augustine became not only a fervent Catholic, but also a teacher and protector of the true faith. The gift of the Catholic faith he prized above everything, and offered frequently to God most humble thanks for it. "There is no greater treasure," he writes, "no greater honor, no greater good, in this world, than the Catholic faith." From the period of his conversion, he was eager in his endeavors to convert the heretics from their errors, and bring them back into the pale of the true Church, both, by word of mouth, and also by his pen. His most fervent wish was, that all might be Catholics. May you esteem the gift of the Catholic faith more than you have heretofore done. Give thanks to God that He has bestowed this gift upon you. Seek, by words as well as by a truly Christian life, to convert others to the true faith. And, finally, learn from St. Augustine, how you should pass the time which God gives you, when he sends you sickness before your end. Guard yourself against frivolous and idle conversations, do not permit them at your sick bed. Use the time to repent of your iniquities. Let others read to you from a devout book, that you may constantly be occupied with good thoughts. The last days of your life are precious; use them rightly; they never return. Cease not to repent of your sins and to pray God to forgive you, until your last breath; for, the words of St. Augustine are and ever will remain true: " No Christian, however piously he may have lived, should die without repentance." (Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J., On the Feast of Saint Augustin of Hippo, August 28.)

We must always treasure our Catholic Faith and never lose our zeal for helping to bring non-Catholics to the bosom of Holy Mother Church, to correct error in a spirit of a true love of God and for the eternal and temporal good of others, and to never give into any kind of naturalistic view about our own lives or the events of society. We are to view everything through the eyes of the true Faith at all times without any exception whatsoever. Keep it Catholic. Keep it Catholic all the time.

A new commentary will be published within ten to fifteen minutes after the posting of this republished reflection.

Our Lady of the Rosary,  pray for us.

Saint Augustine of Hippo, pray for us.

Saint Hermes, pray for us.

The title is self-explanatory.

A late hour at a time the gastrointestinal problems of the past two months have decided to make a return visit. Penance is better than ever in 2026! 

Thus, I will try to have a new commentary for you by around this time tomorrow.

Once again, non-tax-deductible financial gifts are very welcomed and much needed now.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Zephyrinus, pray for us.

Today, Tuesday, August 25, 2026, is the Feast of Saint Louis IX, King of France, that great exemplar of the Social Reign of Christ the King. Saint Louis was taught by his holy mother, Blessed Blanche of Castile, to prefer death rather to commit a deliberate Mortal Sin. He heard two Masses a day and was a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis, whose patron saint he remains to this day.

Saint Louis strove to rule according to the Mind of Christ the King as He had deposited It exclusively in the Catholic Church, recognizing that he, Louis IX, would have to answer to Christ the King at the moment of his own Particular Judgment for how he ruled his subjects. His letter to his son Philip is a succinct summary of the principles of Catholic Social Teaching. It is a model for how everyone in public life should conduct himself in order to please Christ the King as the devoted client of Our Lady, she who is our Immaculate Queen.

Finally, I can report to you that the next original article for this site is being written and should be completed by this time tomorrow morning. Thank you.

Yesterday's commentary, Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomini Domine, Hosanna in Excelsis, part forty-one, was revised in several places about an hour ago.

Vivat Christus Rex!

Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Louis IX, pray for us.

This commentary was published at 1:19 a.m. on the Feast of Saint Bartholomew, but it wasn’t until about twenty-one hours, forty minutes later that I was able to add a few more comments as well as make some formatting changes to a report cited in the text of this commentary.

As I am more than a little exhausted after three straight overnight postings, all I will be able to offer you shortly is my republished reflection on our great Saint Louis IX, King of France.

Finally, non-tax-deductible gifts are very welcomed and especially need now. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Bartholomew, pray for us.

Saint Louis IX, King of France, pray for us.

At least one conciliar “bishop” in Peru, a land with such a rich history of saints who would have died than to engage in any act of idolatry, participated in a Pachamama worship ceremony on Friday, August 13, 2026. An earthquake occurred in the area on August 20, 2026, the Feast of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.

Cause and effect?

This commentary provides some support for an affirmative response to that question.

Once again, non-tax-deductible financial gifts—donations—are needed at this time.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Philip Benizi, pray for us.

So, what else is new?

A Jewish woman who claims to be a New Testament scholar despite her own disbelief in Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has been elected as the president of the misnamed Catholic Biblical Association, which is not formally affiliated with the conciliar sect even though many of its members and their supposed insights have had direct influence upon the genius apparatchiks within the so-called United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Given the earthquake in Peru near site where a conciliar invocation of the false Pachamama idol was made during an event to celebrate the sodomite agenda in the name of “inclusiveness” in preparation for an upcoming antipapal visit, I will not have part forty-one of “Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomini Domine, Hosanna in Excelsis” ready for publication until the Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Monday, August 24, 2026.

My annual reflection on the Feast of the Immaculate Haert of Mary may be found by scrolling below.

Non-tax-deductible financial gifts are always welcome!

A blessed Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to you all.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for now, and at the hour of our death.

Saints Timothy, Hippolytus, and Symphorian, pray for us.

Saint Bartholomew (the vigil of whose feast is anticipated as a commemoration liturgically today), pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to which the month of August is devoted, that heart that was pierced with Seven Swords of Sorrow during the Life of her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus was formed out of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. These twin hearts of matchless love suffered as one and they beat as one while on earth and they have beat as one in Heaven since Our Lady was Assumed into Heaven body and soul after her death.

Our Lady's Immaculate Heart was unstained by Original Sin or Actual Sins. The Immaculate Heart of the Mother of God, therefore, was capable of a purity of love of God and of her fellow men that is almost indescribable. Our Lady's Most Pure, Most Holy Heart despises the sins that caused her Divine Son to suffer in His Sacred Humanity during His Passion and Death but at the same time is full of a perfect and completely pure maternal compassion for erring sinners such as you and me.

Our Lord, showing us His infinite compassion for us erring sinners, has sent us His Most Blessed Mother to provide us with her maternal assistance to get home to Heaven as members of His true Church founded upon the Rock of Peter, the Pope.

We have been given the Rosary, the Brown Scapular of Mount Carmel, the Miraculous Medal, and the Green Scapular through her loving hands, through which flow the graces won for us by the shedding of Our Lord's Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross.

Her apparition to Juan Diego and the miraculous image of herself she left on his tilma helped to convert millions of Indians to the true Faith in the Americas.

Our Lady ratified Pope Pius IX's solemn proclamation of her Immaculate Conception by proclaiming herself to Saint Bernadette Soubirous to be the Immaculate Conception on March 25, 1858. And Our Lady's appearance in the Cova da Iria from May 13, 1917, to October 13, 1917, gave us Heaven's Peace Plan, one that runs through her Immaculate Heart.

We must endeavor at all times to fulfill, as far as we are able in this time of apostasy and betrayal, Our Lady's Fatima Message in our own lives, especially by praying as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit and by living penitentially as the consecrated slaves of her Divine Son through her own Immaculate Heart.

The era of apostasy and betrayal will end when the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is made manifest. We can play our roles, small though they may be, in helping to bring about this triumph.

A new commentary will appear within fifteen minutes of this republished reflection.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

Saints Timothy, Hippolytus, and Symphorian, pray for us.

The title of this commentary is very self-explantory. 

It is my hope to have part forty-one of Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomini Domine, Hosanna in Exclesis published by Friday, August 21, 2026, the Feast of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal within the Octave of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Eudes, pray for us.

This is a relatively brief follow-up to “Bishop” Robert Barron’s pining for the old days when Mario Matthew Cuomo supposedly “agonized” about his public support for baby-butchery.

Although I am working on part forty-one of my Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomini Domine series, the next commentary on this site will be about Pietro “The Red” Parolin’s efforts to negotiate an “understanding” wherein the conciliar “bishop” of Spain who is a co-prince of Andorra could sign or, at the very least, not object to a proposed law to “decriminalize” baby-butchery.

Here is a spoiler alert concerning my next commentary: The truths of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law are never subject to negotiation and/or compromise.

More by this time tomorrow.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Agapitus, pray for us.

Saint Helena, pray for us.