As I believe that I have said all that I needed to say about Father Joachim Heimerl's false ecclesiology when I wrote the introduction to the re-posting of Memorandum from Saint Ambrose to All Catholics: “The Catholic faith derives so much strength and support from the words of the Apostolic See, that it is criminal to entertain any doubts concerning it,”  I have decided to write a commentary about a high school student in Renfrew, Ontario, Canada, Josh Alexander, who is being fined $47,000 by the supposedly "Catholic" school district in which he is enrolled for committing the thought crime of "faithism" when he used Sacred Scripture to prove that there are only two genders. male and female. Such actions can never emanate from the Catholic Church, and we must pray that this young man comes to see that fact and avail himself of the true Sacraments where they can found in London, Ontario. 

As Syrian strongman Bashir al-Assad has been overthrown by Mohammedans intent on making what was a cradle of Catholicism in the first few centures of the Holy Faith, we need to pray for the Catholics and other Christians in Syria. Much like Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the Assads have ruled by the amoral use of brute force. However, they did, albeit not without various restrictions, protect Syrian Christians, whose fate now will be determined by faithful, not secular, Mohammedans who do not necessarily cotton to "infidels." 

Thus, this will all be incorporated into the text of "Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomine Domini, part seven." which I hope to have published by Tuesday, December 10, 2024, the third day in the Octave of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the commemoration of Pope Saint Melchiades.

Finally, as a reminder, the Donations page has been updated as the need for non-tax-deductible financial gifts is very urgent at this time. I have received several donations in the last two days. However, the money has gone to pay bills and thus the need still exists to raise about $2350. Thank you.

I AM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION." Those words, uttered by the Mother of God herself to Saint Bernadette Soubirous in the Grotto of Massabielle near Lourdes, France, on March 25, 1858, was a Heavenly ratification of the solemn, infallible proclamation of the doctrine of her Immaculate Conception by Pope Pius IX on December 8, 1854, in the Bull Ineffabilis Deus.

"I AM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION."

Our Lady was conceived in the womb of her holy mother, Good Saint Anne, without any stain of Original or Actual Sin in anticipation of the merits that would be won by her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, on the wood of the Holy Cross. She, the Singular Vessel of Devotion, had the perfect integrity of Adam and Eve before their Fall from Grace in the Garden of Eden.

It is important, therefore, to get the doctrine of Original Sin right in order to understand the great miracle worked by God in the soul of the fairest flower of our race, Our Lady, from the very first moment of her Immaculate Conception. To get anything about the doctrine of Original Sin wrong leads to the efforts on the part of Modernists to deconstruct the doctrinal definitions of Original Sin and of the Immaculate Conception.

Alas, the Catholic Church, our Holy Mother on earth, our Mater and Magister, is as spotless as the Immaculate Blessed Virgin Mary. Holy Mother Church does not deconstruct infallible dogmatic definitions. Holy Mother Church cannot do so, which is why we need to pray to Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces and our Immaculate Queen, to help us to make no concessions to the counterfeit church of conciliarism that has promulgated an abominable "liturgy" and whose officials feel feel to "reinterpret" dogmatic truths according to Modernist propositions that have been condemned by the authority of our spotless Mother on earth, Holy Mother Church.

Mindful of the effects of our own sins on our immortal souls and of our need to make reparation for them to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through Our Lady's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, may we make the Secret prayer for today's Holy Mass our own:

"Receive the saving Victim we offer to Thee, O Lord, on the solemn feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary: and grant that, as we confess that by Thy prevenient grace she was kept free from every stain of sin; so, by her intercession, we may be delivered from all our offenses. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God."

A number of prayers from The Raccolta in honor of Our Lady's Immacualte Conception can be found in Appendix A. Appendix B contains material on the Immacualte Conception as found in The New English Edition of The Mystical City of God.

O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

A blessed Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary to you all!

This is one of those articles whose titles are self-explanatory, However, I do want to explain why I republishing this article now on the Feast of Saint Ambrose and the Commemorations of the First Sunday of Advent and of the Vigil of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 

The Society of Saint Pius X's district superior for the district of Germany, Father Joachim Heimerl, has published an article on LifeSite News in which he plainly says that the conciliar sect is run by "old homosexual men" and that this sect is plainly at odds with the teaching of the Catholic Church. At the same time, though, he still believes that Jorge Mario Bergoglio is "Pope Francis, who turns eighty-eight years of age on December 17, 2024:

Meanwhile, the Antichrist reigns in the house of the Lord, and the Pope himself has erected an idolatrous altar to him with Fiducia Supplicans. It will not be the last, should Francis remain in office for much longer.

I would disagree with all those who attest that Francis is not the legitimate pope and that this is the only reason why these hair-raising conditions are possible. There is no other pope but Francis. But it probably took a pope like him to expose the workings of Satan in the Church and take it to the extreme. Yes, Francis is the legitimate pope, and he is pope not to the glory of God but to the eternal shame of the Apostolic See, which he has desecrated with Fiducia Supplicans.

And yet: perhaps God only wanted to make the disfigurement of His Church visible through Francis in order to restore it through a worthier successor to Peter? Who knows?

Until then, it is important to listen to the voices of the right men, namely those who do not represent “gay heresy” and thus their own disposition, but who, like Bishop Strickland, are the voice of God. “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” (Mt 11:14). (Fr. Heimerl: Francis' 'synodal church' is controlled by old homosexual men.)

This is what passes for ecclesiology in the Society of Saint Pius X: the heresy of Gallicanism. 

Well, even though I have to put aside my ongoing work on part seven of "Benedictus Qui Venit Nomine in Domini, part seven," by writing a commentary about the continued triumph of the sodomite agenda within the counterfeit church of conciliarism, this republished commentary that I am offering today is about as direct a rebuttal of Father Heimerl's false ecclesiology that I can offer. 

Holy Mother Church is inerrant. She is incapable of making any terms with error of any kind:

In the Catholic Church Christianity is Incarnate. It identifies Itself with that perfect, spiritual, and, in its own order, sovereign society, which is the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ and which has for Its visible head the Roman Pontiff, successor of the Prince of the Apostles. It is the continuation of the mission of the Savior, the daughter and the heiress of His Redemption. It has preached the Gospel, and has defended it at the price of Its blood, and strong in the Divine assistance and of that immortality which has been promised it, It makes no terms with error but remains faithful to the commands which it has received, to carry the doctrine of Jesus Christ to the uttermost limits of the world and to the end of time, and to protect it in its inviolable integrity. (Pope Leo XIII, A Review of His Pontificate, March 19, 1902.)

There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.

As a reminder, the Donations page has been updated as the need for non-tax-deductible financial gifts is very urgent at this time. Thank you.

Oh well, I will be back at work on the computer later today.

A blessed Feast of Saint Ambrose to you all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Ambrose, pray for us.

Pope Saint Damasus I (whose feast is on December 11 but who is mentioned in this commentary), pray for us.

Work continues on the next original article.

For today, however, I offer the readers of this site revised and expanded reflections on two saints who opposed heresy, Saint Nicholas of Myra and Saint Ambrose of Milan. 

Also, the Donations page has been updated as the need for non-tax-deductible financial gifts is very urgent at this time. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Nicholas of Myra, pray for us.

Saint Ambrose of Milan, pray for us.

I very much wanted to have this second part of my two-part series completed by yesterday, which is why the appendix contains Dom Prosper Gueranger’s reflection on Saint Peter Chrysologus as found in his The Liturgical Year.

However, I could not complete this commentary by this time yesterday. I apologize for the delay.

Another original commentary will appear in a day or two, and an updated Donations page will also be posted as well, which means that, yes, non-tax-deductible financial gifts are very much needed right now.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Peter Chrysologus, pray for us.

Saint Barbara, pray for us.

Saint Sabbas, pray for us.

A Novena in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which begins today and ends on December 11, 2024, can be found in the appendix to this reflection.

Part two of my current series should be published around this time tomorrow, Wedneday, December 4, 2024, the Feast of Saint Peter Chrysologus and the Commemoration of Saint Barbara. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Francis Xavier, S.J., pray for us.

I had intended to have a commentary published today about the whining being done by the spendthrift Kamala Harris Emhoff during her failed presidential campaign.

However, that must wait.

The Big Guy, a whining demagogic liar and sociopath in his own right, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., has pardoned his equally venal and corrupt son, Robert Hunder Biden. 

Oh well, it is time for some sleep before I return to part two of this commentary, which will indeed be about Madame Emhoff and her inability that she looks at the reason she lost to former and future President Donald John Trump every time she sees herself in the mirror.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Bibiana, pray for us.

This is a republished commentary about this holy season of Advent, which marks the beginning of a new ecclesiastical year that begins this evening, November 30, 2024, with First Vespers for the First Sunday of Advent. 

An original article, Wars and Rumors of Wars, part four, was published fifteen and one-half hours ago.

O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Andew the Apostle, pray for us.

Well, it has gotten to be another late/early hour here at the headquarters of this website.

Today, November 30, 2024, is the Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle and is the last day of the liturgical year. The holy season of Advent begins with First Vespers this evening. I have just republished a set of Spiritual Resources for the, Christmas Novena, the Novena for the Feast of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Novena/Miraculous Novena of Grace (which began on Sunday, November 24 2024, the Twenty-seventh and Last Sunday after Pentecost and the Commemorations of Saints John of the Cross and Chrysogonus). 

This current article concerns the tragic situation in Ukraine that began on February 24, 2024, when Vladimir Putin's forces of the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine and have been prolonged needlessly the globalist powers of the West, including, of course, the outgoing administration of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and Kamala Harris Emoff, as Ukrainian men have been sent to their deaths as so much cannon fodder and as many parts of its cities have been reduced to rubble. Men who are steeped in Original Sin and/or the throes of what are, objectively speaking, Mortal Sins even though they may not be aware of the fact, are prone to the use of force or to persist therein no matter what the human cost on lives lost, churches destroyed, infrastructures demolished to the point of making it difficulty to provide heat, proper santitation, and a clean water supply.

Obviously, this description applies equally to what the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) continues to do with the Palestinian people and has done in recent months in Lebanon, where a supposed cease-fire will take place is the IDF gets in a few last licks in the meantime. 

As Pope Pius XI noted in Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922:

It is possible to sum up all We have said in one word, "the Kingdom of Christ." For Jesus Christ reigns over the minds of individuals by His teachings, in their hearts by His love, in each one's life by the living according to His law and the imitating of His example. Jesus reigns over the family when it, modeled after the holy ideals of the sacrament of matrimony instituted by Christ, maintains unspotted its true character of sanctuary. In such a sanctuary of love, parental authority is fashioned after the authority of God, the Father, from Whom, as a matter of fact, it originates and after which even it is named. (Ephesians iii, 15) The obedience of the children imitates that of the Divine Child of Nazareth, and the whole family life is inspired by the sacred ideals of the Holy Family. Finally, Jesus Christ reigns over society when men recognize and reverence the sovereignty of Christ, when they accept the divine origin and control over all social forces, a recognition which is the basis of the right to command for those in authority and of the duty to obey for those who are subjects, a duty which cannot but ennoble all who live up to its demands. Christ reigns where the position in society which He Himself has assigned to His Church is recognized, for He bestowed on the Church the status and the constitution of a society which, by reason of the perfect ends which it is called upon to attain, must be held to be supreme in its own sphere; He also made her the depository and interpreter of His divine teachings, and, by consequence, the teacher and guide of every other society whatsoever, not of course in the sense that she should abstract in the least from their authority, each in its own sphere supreme, but that she should really perfect their authority, just as divine grace perfects human nature, and should give to them the assistance necessary for men to attain their true final end, eternal happiness, and by that very fact make them the more deserving and certain promoters of their happiness here below.

It is, therefore, a fact which cannot be questioned that the true peace of Christ can only exist in the Kingdom of Christ -- "the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ." It is no less unquestionable that, in doing all we can to bring about the re-establishment of Christ's kingdom, we will be working most effectively toward a lasting world peace. (Pope Pius XI, Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922.)

Although I had planned on giving more attention to the aforementioned Israeli genocide against the Palestinians in my next commentary, there is some "low hanging fruit," shall we say, that is ripe for the proverbial picking, namely, news the the spendthrift named Kamala Harris Emhoff is spending more money to find out why she lost to former President Donald John Trump on November 5, 2024, after burning up over one billion dollars in her failed campaign. Thus, I am going to give this matter some attention, if ever so brief, in my next commentary before I return to the ongoing slaughter of the Palestinians and the destruction of their residences. 

Goodnight.

Good morning.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Andrew the Apostle, pray for us.

The Christmas Novena on the Feast of Saint Andrew (said fifteen times daily until Christmas Day)