Today, Friday, October 4, 2024, is the Feast of the Seraphic Saint, Saint Francis of Assisi, who was born as Giovanni di Bernardone in 1182 (some say 1181).

This revised article is a poor way to pay tribute to the follower of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who gave up earthly riches to embrace Lady Poverty, earning himself eternal riches in the process, eternal riches that helped to save the Church Militant on earth from falling down at a time of great clerical corruption. It is my hope, however, that this poor tribute to Saint Francis, a saint of profound Eucharistic piety and deep, tender devotion to the Mother of God who rejoiced in the midst of trials and sufferings and insults and even the rejection of his own father and brother, will provide some food for meditation about the glorious life of this joyful saint of prayer and penance.

The next original commentary is being written. After spending the day amassing documentary material for the commentary, though, it may not be until late Saturday, October 5, 2024, Our Lady's Saturday and the Commemoration of Saint Placidus and His Companions, that it can be completed. Thank you.

Saint Francis of Assisi, pray for us!

A blessed feast day to our friends to all Franciscans, including those of the Third Order.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Francis of Assisi, pray for us.

This commentary, which, yes, took longer to complete than I expected, is yet another review of the ongoing bloodbath in the Middle East.

A report about the death on October 10, 1999, of a Redemptorist priest, Father Arthur J. Klyber, C.SS.R., who was born on a Jew and subjected to persecution at the hands of Catholic school boys but converted to the Faith and established an apostolate, which included sermons, lectures, and books, to seek the conversion of his own people to the true Faith, is found near the conclusion of this commentary.

Another original commentary should follow in a day or so.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, pray for us.

Marie-Frances Therese Martin was born to the holiest of parents, Louis and Zelie Martin, who endeavored to shield their children as much as possible from the influences of the world.

The sacrifices made by Louis and Zelie Martin produced five vocations to the consecrated religious life. Zelie Martin's prayers from eternity after her death assisted her husband as he raised one canonized saint and four other daughters who served Holy Mother Church as brides of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

The simplicity and love of the Little Flower teaches each of us to pursue holiness as befits redeemed creatures, seeking the things of Heaven in this life so that we may spend our Heaven doing good here on earth. Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face was raised in a family that stressed the importance of withdrawing from the world. Louis and Zelie Martin were very protective of their daughters, making sure to instill within them a firm commitment to the Virtue of Modesty.

Indeed, Sister Genevieve of the Holy Face, Marie-Frances Celine Martin, was shocked at the immodesty that had overtaken France with the Allied bombing of Normandy forced the cloistered Carmelites of the Carmel out of their cloister and into the world in June of 1944. She noted this in a letter to Mother Agnes Mary that was dated July 7, 1944:

"After fifty years of eremetical living, to find myself all of a sudden uprooted and thrown into the midst of the world, with veil raised, is a true martyrdom for a recluse like me. It seems to me as if we're in a station where everybody is crowding around and intermingling. We sleep fully clothed on benches; we take our meals in haste, standing up in the dark; we look with astonishment and grief at the feminine styles stripped of all dignity." (As quoted in Celine: Sister Genevieve of the Holy Face, Sister and Witness of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, by Father Stephane-Joseph Piat, O.F.M., p. 130.)

What would Saint Therese and Sister Genevieve say today about the feminine attire that is considered "modest" and "acceptable" in Catholic chapels all across the vast expanse of the ecclesiastical divide where some version of the Immemorial Mass of Tradition is offered or simulated?

They would not have been approving, and that is because their holy parents taught them Catholic right from wordily wrong.

Why is this so difficult for many traditionally-minded Catholic parents to understand, accept and abide by today?

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Therese of Lisieux, pray for us

This reflection on our Holy Guardian Angels is brief. Our devotion to and reliance upon our Guardian Angels, however, must be lifelong. 

Work continues, albeit at a snail's pace, on the next original commentary. 

I did not watch it all except to catch a few nauseauting minutes when James David Vance was arguing with Timothy the self-proclaimed Knucklehad Walz about managing the healthcare system. There is one little problem with this: the Federal government of the United States of America has no constitutional role to play in healthcare. 

Also, I read that Senator Vance tried to carve out a "moderate" position on the surgical execution of baby-killing while saying he agreed with the nonexistent "right" of the people of his native state, Ohio, which he represents in the United States Senate, to vote for last year's referendum protecting baby-killing up to the point of "fetal viability." 

There is no "middle ground" about baby-killing. Trying to find such "mid dle ground" may win some votes, but it is a sure-fire recipe for doing the cause of objective truth a grave disservice and of offending the Author of Life Himself, Who as Pope Pius XI noted in Casti Connubii, December 31, 1930, is the "Avenger of innocent blood."

Senator Vance, a convert to Catholicism, knows better than this, and he could have used the opportunity presented to him to speak to the truth with the eloquence with which He has been endowed by God and with the assurance that is provivded to him by the graces of his Baptism. 

I will have more to say about all this in a brief video series, which has been delayed by the press of recent articles.

Our Lady of the Angels, pray for us.

Our Holy Guardian Angels, pray for us.

[Update on Tuesday, October 1, 2024, the Feast of Saint Remigius: I have been working on part six of "Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomini Domine" when I read that the genocidal Israeli Defense has begun a "limited" invasion of Lebanon to crush the Hezbollah after killing the terorist organization's leader by blowing up a building regardless of the presence of innocent civilians and after sending the signals that exploded pagers and cell phones on the persons of over 1500 Hezbollah fighers in Lebanon, once again regardless of who might be killed or injured.  Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon to root out the Palestine Liberation Organization only strengthened it and made an international out of Yassir Arafat, which was quite an accomplishment. This current "limited" invasion will as "limited" as the one that has decimated the innocent civilians of Gaza and destroyed much of that region's infrastructure. 

[There will never be peace in the Middle East until both Jews and Mohammedans convert to the Catholic Faith and exclaim, "Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domine. Hosanna in excelesis." 

[I will resume work on part six later today and should it have posted shortly after Midnight on the Feast of the Holy Guardian Angels.]

This is a  reflection on the life and the work of Saint Jerome, the great great Dalmatian who put the love of God above all else. Consider just one quotation from the work of this prolific writer and translator of the Bible into the Latin Vulgate:

"It is a smaller sin to follow evil which you think is good, than not to venture to defend what you know for certain is good. If we cannot endure threats, injustice, poverty, how shall we overcome the flames of Babylon? Let us not lose by hollow peace what we have preserved by war. I should be sorry to allow my fears to teach me faithlessness, when Christ has put the true faith in the power of my choice." (Saint Jerome, Prologue to the Treatise Against the Pelagians.)

How many traditionally-minded Catholics are there who are still attached to the conciliar structure while knowing for certain that it is not good to praise false religions or to enter places of false worship or to treat the "clergy" of false religions as having a mission from the true God of Divine Revelation to serve and save souls refuse to do what is good, that is, to defend the honor and glory and majesty God and His Sacred Deposit Faith in order to indemnify the author of long-since repealed Summorum Pontificum, the late Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, whose successor, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, has laid bare for all the world to see that he is "worried" by those who "want to return to the past"?

We must always defend what we know to be true as servants of the greater honor and glory of God.

Saint Jerome did.

What's our excuse?

Finally, this is the second anniversary of the death of Rebecca Lynn Adams Dupree, the daughter of longtime readers of this site, Michael and Sandra Adams, in Amman, Jordan. Please remember Mrs. Dupree's immortal soul and the needs of her parents, two brothers and sister today as those of her husband and children.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Jerome, pray for us.

Today, Sunday, September 29, 2024, is the Feast of the Dedication of the Church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Mount Gargano, Italy, and the Commemoration of the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost. 

It is interesting to note that, given the rationalism that underlies Modernists' rejection of the supernatural, that this feast is not celebrated as such in the counterfeit church of conciliarism as it is based upon the apparition of Saint Michael the Archangel on May 8, 490. The architects of the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical service went to great lengths to edit out almost all references to apparitions, Indeed, none other than the old Rosicurcian Mason himself, Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII, suppressed the Feast of the Apparition of Saint Michael the Archangel on May 8 entirely in the first wave of his Jansenist anti-liturgical changes that went into effect on Sunday, December 3, 1960, the First Sunday of Advent, and the feast that we celebrate today, was eliminated by Annibale Bugnini and company and replaced with the combined Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. 

Believing Catholics, however, know that Holy Mother Church cannot deceive us, and that her Sacred Liturgy is guided by none other than the Third Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, God the Holy Ghost. It is thus that we celebrated the Feast of Dedication of the Church of Saint Michael the Archangel today, Sunday, September 29, 2024.

Also, here is a link to Father Francis X. Weninger's Sermon on the Feast of the Dedication of the Church of Saint Michael the Archangel.

Finally, an original commentary, "Fake Pope! Fake Pope!", was published yesterday, Saturday, September 28, 2024. the Feast of Saint Wenceslaus. 

Our Lady, Queen of the Angels, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us and protect us.

This commentary is about Jorge Mario Bergoglio's recent reiteration of support for his betrayal of faithful Catholics in Red China to their tormentors. 

Although there are three appendices that reprise background information contained in several articles in the past, the main text of this new commentary focuses principally on how Karol Joszef Wojtyla/John Paul II's 1988 directives concerning contacts with the so-called Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association led to the betrayal of the suffering Catholics in Red China to the conciliar religion and, over the course of time, to Jorge Mario Bergoglio's ultimate betrayal of them to their captors, torturers, and executioners.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Wenceslaus, pray for us.

Today is the feast of the great Saint Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia, who was murdered by his own brother, who hated the fact that that he, King Wenceslaus, was everything that he, Boleslaus, hated, namely, pious and devoted, a servant of Christ the King, a just ruler who ruled to advance the common temporal good in light of man's Last End. Boleslaus hated the fact that his brother, our dear saint, loved the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and baked the Eucharistic bread with his own hands. This should give us pause for reflection in our own circumstances today when so many of our own relatives and one-time friends and acquaintances might hate us simply for being Catholic, no less Catholics who try, despite our sins and failings, to adhere to everything taught by Holy Mother Church from time immemorial. Saint Wenceslaus was a king who was prostrate before THE King, Christ the King, in life who adores him in Heaven face to face. 

My next original article has been published. Please scroll above. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Wenceslaus, pray for us.

Today, Thursday, September 26, 2023, is the Feast of the North American Martyrs, the eight Jesuits who gave up their lives for the Holy Faith in what are now parts of Canada and upstate New York between 1642 and 1649, and the Commemoration of  Saint Cyprian and Justina here in the United States of America.

This brief reflection contrasts the life and martyrdom of the eight men killed between 1642 and 1649 and the conciliar "saints". Each of the North American Martyr (Isaac Jogues, Rene Goupil, Jean Lalande, Gabriel Lalemant, Noel Chabanel, Anthony Daniel, Charles Garnier, and John de Brebeuf) shed their blood to Catholicize the upper reaches of North America. They were not interested in "inculturating" the Catholic liturgy with the pagan superstitions and barbaric practices of the Iroquois. They were concerned only about attempting to convert the heathens to the true Faith and to plant the seeds for the conversion of the land in which their noble missionary work had taken them.

Can we do any less than they?

We must seek to "keep it Catholic" at all times as we seek to plant the seeds for the conversion of this nation to become the Catholic States of America.

Although I worked on the next commentary all day on Wednesday, September 25, 2024, I am simply too tired from the commentary posted early Wednesday to complete now. As I have to drive a considerable distance for a medical appointment on this feast, it would appear that the next commentary will not be published until Saturday, September 28, 2024, the Feast of Saint Wenceslaus.

Our Lady of the North American Martyrs, pray for us.

Saint Isaac Jogues, pray for us!

Saint Rene Goupil, S,J.,  pray for us.

Saint John Lalande, S,J., pray for us.

Saint Gabriel Lalemant, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Noel Chabanel, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Charles Garnier, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Anthony Daniel, S.J.,  pray for us.

Saint John De Brebeuf, S.J., pray for us.

Saints Cyprian and Justina, pray for us

as former Preisdent Donald John Trump once again reemphasizes his delusional belief that the poisoned Wuhan Virus jabs "saved" lives, there is, as always, more and more empirical evidence to the contrary.

Although this article could be entitled, "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part twenty-seven," I have retired that title while still continuing to write on the subject as events warrant. 

Finally, while I am not writing specifically about the ongoing farce of naturalism that is taking place now, at least not for the near future, I will be recording a series of videos specific to this farce that may cover some of the ground explored in A Case Against Obama and Romney, part one,  A Case Against Obama and Romney part 2, A Case Against Obama and Romney part 3, A Case Against Obama and Romney, part four, A Case Against Obama and Romney, part five, A Case Against Obama and Romney, part six, A Case Against Obama and Romney part seven, and A Case Against Obama and Romney, part eight, twelve years ago but will analyze the curent farce in light of First and Last Causes. It is my hope to record this over the coming weekend into the beginning of next week. Thank you.

There should be another original commentary tomorrow, the Feast of the North American Martyrs and the Commemoration of Saints Cyprian and Justina, that will contain some new information concerning the counterfeit church of conciliarism's betrayal of faithful Catholics in Red China.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.