Today's great feast, coming as it does six months, one day prior to Christmas Day, is only one of three in the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church that commemorates a physical birth (or Nativity). Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's Nativity in Bethlehem in celebrated on Christmas Day, December 25. Our Lady Nativity is celebrated on September 8. And Our Lord's Precursor, the son of Saint Elizabeth, Saint John the Baptist, is privileged to have his own Nativity celebrated this very day. This is a tremendous feast day in the life of the Catholic Church. 

Saint John the Baptist, the last of the Old Testament prophets, prepared the way for the coming of Our Lord prior to the assumption of His Public Ministry. Freed from Original Sin in the womb of his mother, Saint Elizabeth, who was Saint Anne's cousin, at the moment of Our Lady's Visitation, Saint John the Baptist preached fearlessly to convert sinners from their sinful ways and to prepare them to accept his Cousin, God Incarnate, as their Redeemer. He also knew that he had to decrease in stature in the world as Our Lord increased following His symbolic baptism in the Jordan River, during which, of course, God the Father sent a dove, symbolizing God the Holy Ghost, spoke to tell us in no uncertain terms, "This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3: 17), a proclamation that would God the Father repeated at Our Lord's Transfiguration (Matthew 17: 5).

Saint John the Baptist fearlessly proclaimed the truth. He lost his head for doing so. In like manner, of course, we must proclaim the truth, doing so out of fidelity to Our Lord as He has revealed Himself to His true Church, and in true Charity for the eternal good of others, recognizing at all times that we are but weak vessels of clay, full of faults and failings, who must make much reparation to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary for our sins.

It is not easy to speak truth to those in power. Saint John the Baptist knew this.

Those in power, such as King Herod the Tetrarch, who was married illicitly to his brother's wife even though his brother was still very much alive, frequently believe themselves to be beyond criticism and that each of their decisions are binding upon the consciences of all others, a power that Our Lord has given exclusively to true popes, who can indeed bind our consciences.

Those in civil power, however, tend to think of themselves as demigods whose musings on this or that subject carry great significance. No matter who the President of the United States of America is, for example, it is invariably the case that some sort variation of one false, naturalistic presupposition after another is supposed to be accepted by the populace as the foundation for the common good domestically and for peace internationally. These "demigods" can't possibly be wrong, of course. They believe that their shallow words and empty and sometimes contradictory statements are received from on high (actually, their words and actions come from below!) and anyone who dares to dissent from them is suspect of being a "domestic terrorist" or "unpatriotic."

Oh, where I have been?

Well, apart from the usual disabling maladies that I just have to live with as well-deserved penances for my many sins, I have been sick as a little bow-wow the past three days. I finally began to feel a little stronger a few hours ago before I began working on my next original article, yet another about contemptible sociopath named Anthony Fauci, that I feel confident will be completed in less than twenty-four hours from now. There's not much I can do about a fever, cold chills, weakness, and fatigue other than to pray to get better and to follow the advice of a Catholic physician-friend of ours.

So, I apologize for the delay, but God knew from all eternity that He would visit this most recent penance upon me, which I have accepted with love and gratitude for the opportunity to give Him honor and glory as the consecrated slave of His Co-Equal and Co-Eternal Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary and to make reparation for what I owe Him for my sins.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us. 

I believe that it is appropriate on this commemorated feast of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, S.J.,to present this republished reflection to you.

Saint Aloysius Gonzaga was a great lover of the Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in His Real Presence in the Most Blessed Sacrament and of Our Lady. Saint Aloysius was intensely united to the sufferings that Our Lord endured in His Passion and Death, offering up his own sufferings prior to death, sufferings that he contracted as a result of helping a man with the plague in Rome, in union with that of Our Lord's own Passion and Death.

Saint Aloysius was also devoted to the angels, which makes sense as he had an angelic purity of his own. We need to invoke his holy intercession to help us to have as a pure a heart as he did as we attempt to make reparation to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary for our own sins, especially any and all against Holy Purity.

It was at Saint Aloysius School in Great Neck, New York, where I learned the truths of the Catholic Faith as they were taught with clarity by the Reverend Sisters of Mercy (and one lay teacher, Miss Greta McCarthy, a young Irish immigrant who knew the Holy Faith very well, who became Mrs. Greta Foley after the end of the 1961-1962 school year; she died in 2012), I owe Saint Aloysius so very much. I have been devoted to him from the time that I entered Kindergarten in September of 1956.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, pray for us.

With apologies for the delay caused by the worsening of the carpal tunnel syndrome that is source of true and much deserved penance when writing these articles, here is part thirty-eight of this series.

The next commentary will deal once again with Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose sociopathic reign of deceit as the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease between 1984 and 2022 has been the focus of over thirty commentaries on this site dating back to April of 2020, and the recent revelations made by outgoing Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, found in the intelligence community’s own documents.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Silverius, pray for us.

[Part thirty-eight of this series will appear later on Thursday, June 18, 2026, the Feast of Saint Ephraim the Deacon within the Octave of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Commemorations of Saint Mark and Marcellins and the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus. I have to limit the amount of time that type because of the carpal tunnel syndrome that was diagnosed ten days ago.  However, I am working assiduousl\y on the next commmentary, and apologize for the fact that years I have spent writing these articles have caught with me. Penance is better than ever in 2026!]

Well, it turns out that I have been working on part thirty-seven of this series, not part thirty-eight. This is not a function of my age or my mildly atrophied cerebrum but a function of how I have always been: absent-minded despite a reasonably sound long term memory. Or, just perhaps, this might have something to do with the fact that my short-term memory is not as good as it used to be.

In any event, here is part thirty seven, which I had to redo late last evening in light of the “deal” announced by President Donald John Trump, the Pakistani mediators, and by Iranians themselves.

This is a reasonably short commentary.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Vitus, Crescentia, and Modestus, pray for us.

Today's republished article, which was written sixteen yeaers ago now and revised again in 2018, attempts to draw comparisons between Saint Basil the Great's battles with the Arians and our own battles with the lords of the counterfeit church of conciliarism and their apologists. I had forgotten, prior to re-reading the article, just how many little nuggets from Dom Prosper Gueranger's The Liturgical Year are contained in its text.

Here is one just nugget:

"Peace is just what Basil desired as much as anybody; but the peace for which he would give his life could be only that true peace left to the Church by our Lord. What he so vigorously exacted on the grounds of faith proceeded solely from his very love of peace. And therefore, as he himself tells us, he absolutely refused to enter into communion with those narrow-minded men who dread nothing so much as a clear, precise expression of dogma; in his eyes their captious formulas and ungraspable shiftings were but the action of hypocrites, in whose company he would scorn to approach God's altar. As to those miserably misled, 'Let the faith of our fathers be proposed to them with all tenderness and charity; if they will assent thereunto, let us receive them into our midst; in other cases, let us dwell with ourselves alone, regardless of numbers; and let us keep aloof from equivocating souls, who are not possessed of that simplicity without guile, indispensably required in the early days of the Gospel from all who would approach to the the faith. The believers, so it is written, had but one heart and one soul. Let those, therefore, who would reproach us for not desiring pacification, mark well who are the real authors of the disturbance and so not point the question of reconciliation on our side any more.'"(Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year.) 

The authors of disturbance today are not those of us who point out the errors and blasphemes and sacrileges of the conciliar "popes," including the late Jorge Mario Bergoglio and his successor, Robert Francis Prevot, but those who are silent about and/or enable these offenses, a silence that prevails these days among so many "conservative" and "traditionally-minded" priests and presbyters in the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism.

A I am awaitng news of the putative "deal" between the administration of President Donald John Trump and whoever is making decisions for the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran before putting the final touches on part thirty-eight of Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomine Domine, Hosanna in Excelsis.  

Thank you.

May God have mercy on us all in this time of chastisement.

Our Lady of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.

Saint Basil the Great, pray for us.

Today is the feast of Saint Anthony of Padua within the Octave of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. 

This is but a brief, revised reflection on Saint Anthony, who is near and dear to the hearts of a preponderance of Catholics today no matter where they might fall along the vast expanse of the ecclesiastical divide in this time of apostasy and betrayal.

Perhaps I should note, however, that Saint Anthony of Padua would be hammering the heretics of the counterfeit church of conciliarism today just as he did in his own day nine hundred years ago.

Also commemorated in some places today is the Feast of the Most Pure Heart of Mary, to which Saint John Eudes as very devoted, one of those local feasts that were abolished in 1960 by the head of the conciliar sect, Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII. 

It is perhaps relevant to note that today is the "optional memorial" of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the anti-liturgical calender of the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo travesty. Merely optional, you understand. Merely optional. (Pope Pius XII appointed August 22 as the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary on May 9, 1944, in the Catholic Church.)

As the hour is late and I much to do today, I did not complete part thirty-eight of Benedictus Qui Venint in Nomini Domine yesterday, but will do so later today. The past week's time was not my own given family considerations that had to come first until the youngest member of our family passed her road test yesterday, relievning me of the responsibility to drive her ninety minutes to work before returing home and then driving ninety minutes back to pick her up.

I am now going to collapse for a few hours before returning to the next commentary.

Thank you.

Most Pure Heart of Mary, pray for us.

Saint Anthony of Padua, pray for us.

Today's feast, which was extended to the universal church by Pope Pius IX, is the result of at least six centuries of devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus that culminated with the apparitions of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque at the height of Jansenism in the late-Seventeenth Century. 

None of us deserves the mercies of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Yet it is that Our Divine Redeemer does indeed shower us with those mercies if we approach Him with a contrite heart, especially by making regular use of the Sacred Tribunal Penance to make good, integral confessions of our sins to a true priest as we promise to amend our lives, to do penance and to sin no more. We are loved by Love Himself. We are loved particularly by Love Incarnate, Who died for us on the wood of the Holy Cross to redeem us.

Our Lord's love for us is an act of His Divine Will, the ultimate expression of which is the salvation of our immortal souls as members of His Catholic Church. What an obligation we have to return love unto Love Himself as we seek to serve Him as His consecrated slaves through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Several other reflections on this feast day that have been posted on this site in the past are: Enthroning the True and Unsurpassed Love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Our Homes, No One is a Stranger to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus: Remedy for the Cruelty of a Cruel Age.

A blessed Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to you all.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.

I will not tarry you with a detailed description as I must get up in a little over four hours.

Much was made about Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV’s remarks about unborn life in his address to the members of the Spanish Cortes Generales three days ago. As this commentary demonstrates, however, Prevost/Leo couched his remarks upon “human dignity” and not the binding precepts of the Fifth Commandment or even those of the Natural Law.

Although the currently reigning false “pontiff” did mention the Decalogue near the end of his address, the reference was conditioned by his stated objective of not “confusing” the “political order with the religious one” even though a truly just political order must recognize the true Faith and be humbly submissive to Holy Mother Church in all that pertains to the honor and glory of the Most Holy Trinity and the good of souls, a submissiveness for which Catholic Spain was noted for many centuries”:

Likewise, the paintings on the upper part of the main wall, depicting the reception of the Gospel and the Decalogue, remind us of something essential. Without confusing the political order with the religious one, these symbols invite us to recognize that modern freedom has also been shaped by a long education of conscience, deeply marked by the Christian tradition. In that inner school, people learned that law must serve the good, that justice sets limits on force, that power requires legitimacy, that the poor belong fully to the community, that the foreigner must be welcomed in accordance with his dignity, and that human life can never be treated as a commodity.

A law does not attain its true greatness merely by having been formally enacted; it attains it when, in addition to being valid in form, it can stand before the dignity of the person and pass that test without shame. (Anti-Apostolic Journey to Spain: Meeting with Members of the Spanish Parliament at the Congress of Deputies, Madrid, 8 June 2026.)

In other words, the defense of the preborn and the current Spanish government’s embrace of
“open borders” are both moral imperatives in the Alice in Wonderland world of Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV.

A blessed Octave Day of the Solemnity of Corpus Christi and Commemoration of the Feast of Saint Barnabas to you all.

Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, pray for us.

Saint Barnabas, pray for us.

[Update on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, the Seventh Day within the Octave of Corpus Christi and the Commemoration of Saint Margaret of Scotland: A funny thing happened when I was in the middle of writing my next original commentary: my notebook computer's charging cord stopped working and I could not get into an auxiliary notebook computer because I had forgotten its password and the demons that control such things would not let me reset the password without a "password reset disc," something that I did not even knew until then existed! 

[Thus, with a new charging cord having been delivered a short while ago, I can now resume work on the next commentary. 

[Penance is better than ever in 2026!]

This commentary concludes my current series. 

I now move on to other topics during the next week, and speaking of "now," it is time for me to go to sleep!

A blessed Sunday within the Octave of Corpus Christi to you all.

Today's republished offering is a revised and expanded reflection on the missionary work of Saint Boniface, the Apostle to Germany, who stands as a rebuke to the conciliar "popes" and their embrace of false religions.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Boniface, pray for us.