Today is the Feast of the Divine Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Council of Ephesus (431 A.D.) declared Our Lady to be the Mother of God. This is a doctrine that that the devil particularly hates, which is why he has raised up all manner of Protestant sects to attack it with a fury, requiring us to defend the doctrine of the Divine Maternity of Our Lady with all of the graces that she sees fit to send us through her loving hands as the Mediatrix of All Graces.

As Father Benedict Baur, O.S.B., explained in The Light of the World, Volume II:

"Fifteen hundred years have passed since Nestorius, a Patriarch of Constantinople, launched the heresy which taught that the person of Christ was different from the person of the Son of God. Nestorius asserted that Mary did not conceive nor bring forth the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, but only the man Christ. According to his teaching she was not the Mother of God, not a God-bearer, but only the mother of a mere man, in whom God dwelt only as in a temple.

A few years later after the beginning of the Nestorian heresy, a council was assembled at Ephesus (431 A.D.), which proclaimed that Mary had given birth to Jesus, who was, at one and the same time, God and man, having two natures but one person. God does not live in Him merely as in a temple, but the man Jesus is at the same time God. Mary is mother, not only of the humanity of Christ, but of the Son of God also. She is the Mother of God. The people of Ephesus awaited the decision of the council hall were opened and the decision was made known, the people greeted the Fathers with great rejoicing and accompanied them to their dwellings with flaming torches, crying out: 'Mary is the bearer of God; Mary is the Mother of God.' 

Today, fifteen hundred years later, we make the same joyful confession. "Mary is the mother of Jesus, the Son of God. The Gospel recounts an incident of His childhood during which He first refers to His divine origin. When Jesus was twelve years old, Joseph and Mary went to Jerusalem to offer sacrifice. 'When they returned, the child Jesus remained in Jerusalem, and His parents knew it not.' They believed Him to be in the company of relatives. But they were mistaken. After a long and anxious search they found Him in the Temple, sitting among the doctors of the law. 'And His mother said to Him: Son, why hast Thou done to so us? Behold Thy father and I have sought Thee sorrowing.' This rebuke shows the concern of a mother who has borne suffering with love. But Jesus meekly answers: 'Did you not know that I must be about My Father's business?' He refers to His Heavenly Father, for He is Son of God. He was conceived, not by the power of man, but by the power of God (Offertory). When the angel had first brought the message to Mary, she had answered: Behold the handmaid of Lord; be it done unto me according to thy word" (Luke 1: 38). And at her word, the only-begotten Son of God was made flesh in the womb of the Virgin Mother. We pray tribute to this mystery at the Communion, when we confess, 'Blessed is the womb of the Virgin Mary, which bore the Son of the eternal Father.' Blessed art thou, O holy Mother of God, who wert united to the Son of God in a most intimate union when thou didst bear Him in thy womb. "Mary provided the body for the Son of God, and he in return Christ filled the soul of Mary with the fullness of His spirit. Mary became wholly absorbed in Him and became like Him. She became united to Him in a most intimate union. 'Alleluia, alleluia. Virgin Mother of God, He whom the whole world cannot contain, enclosed Himself in thy womb, being made man, Alleluia.' 'Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.' " 'As the vine, I have brought forth a pleasant odor, and my flowers are the fruit of honor and riches' (Epistle). The blossoms on this vine are the precious virtues of faith and humility which the Virgin exhibited when she received the message of the angel. She was resolute in her attachment to her virginity: "I know not man" (Luke 1: 34). Yet she is obedient to the will of God and speaks her fiat: "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done unto me according to thy word" (Luke 1: 38). "My flowers are the fruit of honor and riches," Christ the Lord. "There shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse," Mary, who is sprung from the house of David; "and a flower shall rise up out of his root," Christ, the Son of Mary (Gradual). Humanity and divinity are united in this one person. 'Come over to me, all yet that desire me, and be filled with my fruits' (Epistle). Mary does not keep her child for herself; she bequeaths Him to us when He is born at Bethlehem, when He is offered in the Temple, and when He offers Himself up on the cross. She gives Him to us again daily in Holy Communion. Mary has borne Christ for us. Together with her Divine Son, she has given us salvation and an abundance of grace. She stands even today at the throne of God as our advocate and or all-powerful intercessor, armed with irresistible intercessory power, the mother of all those who are in the state of sanctifying grace. "We renew our faith in the mystery of Mary's divine motherhood. 'Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.' God is thy child, having taken His humanity from thy flesh. " 'Come over to me . . . and be filled with my fruits,' for it is Christ Jesus whom I give you. He was first given to us when we were reborn through baptism: He is given to us today at Mass and Holy Communion: 'Hath He not also with Him given us all things?' (Rom. 8: 32.) Since Mary has given us all things through Christ, we today express our gratitude to her." (Father Benedict Baur, O.S.B., The Light of the World, Volume II, B. Herder Book Company, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1954, pp. 440-442.) 

I hope to have my next original article published by tomorrow, Our Lady's Saturday, and the five hundred thirty-second anniversary of Christopher Columbus planting the Cross of the Divine Redeemer on the island of San Salvador.

A new commentary, Red Hats for Men as Lavender as Truman Capote, was published, which underwent some editing after its initial posting, was published around twenty-three hours ago. 

A blessed Feast of the Divine Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary to you all!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

This is a commentary about Jorge Mario Bergoglio's newly selected "cardinals."

The hour is late.

Please pray for all those still suffering from the effects of Hurricane Helene in Florida, western North Carolina, Georgia, and eastern Tennessee as well as for those who have affected by the most recent cyclone, Hurricane Milton. May God have mercy on them and on us all.

Today, Thursday, October 10, 2024, is the one hundred fifth anniversary of my late father's birth in Woodhaven, Queens, New York, to Edward Martin and Adrienne Marie Delfausse Droleskey. Please pray for the repose of my father's soul and that of my paternal grandparents (my grandfather's fifty-six anniversary of death was on October 6, 2024.)

Finally, I overlooked to press the "promote to home page" button when publishing On the Feast of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary (October 7, 2024) three days ago. I am sorry. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. 

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

Well, it is manana. 

This new commentary's title is self-explanatory as it provides a detailed history of how there has been and continues to be a seamless path of pro-abortion Republican First Ladies of the United States of America from Thelma Catherine "Pat" Ryan Nixon to Melania Knauss Trump. 

Timothy Radcliffe is up next.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Bridget of Sweden, pray for us.

We must never tire of reminding our fellow Catholics that Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary is, after the perfect prayer, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the most powerful prayer we have to make reparation for our own sins and those of the whole world as we seek the conversion of all men to the true Faith, the Catholic Faith, before they die and to fight the heresies of Modernity in the world and Modernism in the counterfeit church of conciliarism.

We must promote the Rosary and pray it with fervor and devotion. Our Lady implored us at Fatima to pray the Rosary daily. How can we refuse her? 

Readers can see from the "time stamp" that this republished reflection is being posted around 1:00 a.m. on the Feast of the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The reason for this late/early posting is that I have trying to complete the next original article. However, I decided that I would have to stay up another three to four hours to do so. Manana. I am sorry.

Thank you.

A blessed Feast of Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary to you all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Mark I, pray for us. 

Saints Sergius, Bacchus, Marcellus, and Apuleius, pray for us.

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.