[Saturday, March 23, 2019, Update: A prayer request for Father Joseph Collins:

[Although I may not have my next original article ready for posting until the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Monday, March 25, 2019, and will not have any commentary about whatever United States Attorney General William Barr chooses to release about the report that “special counsel” Robert Mueller has submitted to him for several days after that, I did want to take a few moments to ask the readers of this site for prayers for a very fine and prayerful priest, Father Joseph Collins, who is reported to be gravely ill at this time.

[Father Collins was one of “The Nine” who wrote a Letter to Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre almost exactly at this time thirty-six years ago now. We met him in late-September of 2003 after Holy Mass at Saint Michael the Archangel Chapel in Glenmont, New York, and he was very pleasant and cordial to us even though we had not come as of then to accept the true state of the Church Militant in this time of apostasy and betrayal. He could not have been kinder to us.

Indeed, he drove down the one hundred eighty miles or so from Glenmont to Jericho, New York, the next afternoon to attend a talk I gave about false ecumenism at the Milleridge Inn restaurant, and it was eight months thereafter that we assisted at a Requiem Mass that he offered in Lakeville, Connecticut, for the late and truly imitable William C. Koneazny (see A True Catholic Rendezvous: A Personal Reminiscence of the late +William C. Koneany, R.I.P. ). Father Collins was very instrumental in helping me to see and to accept the true state of the Church Militant at this time.

We have not crossed paths with Father Collins, who loved talking about the 1969 New York Mets with me, since he offered Holy Mass for us in November of 2009 as we were returning to the Midwest after a visit to Connecticut, Rhode Island and Long Island. However, he hass remained in our prayers daily. Please join us in praying for Father Collins, who has received the Sacrament of Extreme Unction, during this time of his critical illness.  

Our Lady, Health of the Sick, pray for us.

Saint Luke the Physician, pray for us.

Saints Cosmas and Damian, pray for us.

his reflection contrasts the work of Saint Benedict of Nursia, whose feast is today, which is also the fifty-eighth anniversary of my Confirmation at the hands of Bishop Walter P. Kellenberg, the founding Bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York, at Saint Aloysius Church, Great Neck, New York, with that of the two most recent conciliar “popes.”

Much time has been spent to give attention to Bergoglio’s denial of the commission that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ gave to the Eleven on Ascension Thursday to convert all men to the true Faith. Saint Benedict of Nursia, the father of western Monasticism and thus of Europe itself, had an intolerance for such teaching. So should we. 

Finally, a new article was posted last evening: Fake Popes Make Fake Promises.

Today, of course, is the great Feast of Saint Joseph, the Chaste Spouse of Our Lady, the just and silent man of the House of David. Saint Joseph denied himself his biological fatherhood in order to serve as the ever-virginal spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the most loving foster-father to Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

In him, Saint Joseph, is to be found every virtue for a husband and father to imitate: patience, charity, forbearance in all difficulties, fortitude, perseverance, temperance, and total self-abnegation. Those of us who are husbands and fathers must learn to be more silent, to learn to be more loving, to learn to be more patient, to learn to be more meek, to learn to be ever-ready to worker harder and harder at our life's work so as to help our wives and our children to live as redeemed creatures here below in order to know eternal happiness hereafter in Heaven. Saint Joseph is the model of home life and the patron of artisans, the protector of widows and orphans, the patron of those who are in danger of death. May we invoke his patronage each day after we invoke that of his Most Chaste Spouse, Our Lady, and never be slow to turn to him in our spiritual and temporal needs:

"O Saint Joseph, whose protection is so great, so strong, so prompt before the throne of God, I place in thee all my interests and desires. O thou Saint Joseph, do assist me by thy powerful intercession, and obtain for me from thy divine Son all spiritual blessings, through Jesus Christ, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; so that, having engaged here below thy heavenly power, I may offer my thanksgiving and homage to the most loving of fathers. O Saint Joseph, I never weary contemplating thee, and Jesus asleep in thy arms; I dare not approach while He reposes near thy heart. Press Him in my name and kiss His fine head for me, and ask Him to return the kiss when I draw my dying breath. Saint Joseph, Patron of departing souls, pray for me. Amen!"

An original article, Yet Another Pretext for the Monsters of Modernity to Tighten Their Grip on Us All, , was posted in the early evening hours last night, although it turned out to be a truncated posting that required me to import a substantial amount of missing text and then to upload the commentary again. This was an uploading problem caused by spotty internet coverage. I apologize for the confusion. However, I only found out about the problem before completing work on this revised and expanded reflection on our dear Saint Joseph.

A blessed Feast of Saint Joseph to you all! 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

This is a substantially revised tribute to our glorious Saint Patrick, Bishop and Confessor, whose work in behalf of the conversion of the Irish clans from paganism stands in very sharp contrast to the obeisance that has been paid by the conciliar “popes” and their “bishops” to every false religion and pagan superstition imaginable. It was to wipe out paganism that Saint Patrick spent his life as a missionary to the Emerald Isle, that land of Saints and Scholars which has fallen back into paganism in no small measure because of the false doctrines and sacramental barrenness of the liturgical rites of the counterfeit church of conciliarism. Saint Patrick stands ready to convert each one of us away from our own sins if only we beg his intercession to help make us saints, especially now at the beginning of the Second Week of Lent.

We are privileged to have a relic of Saint Patrick that is venerated each night before sleep. This relic was given to us most unexpectedly by a good friend of ours some years ago now.

Please be assured that we will include the intentions of each one of our readers in mind as venerate this relic of Saint Patrick this evening.

A blessed commemorated Feast of Saint Patrick to you all! 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Patrick, pray for us.

[The original description of this article included a sentence that was phrased improperly because I omitted several important words, which are highlighted in bold below. Mea culpa!]

Although an effort was made to complete what is an almost entirely new reflection about the saint whose feast was celebrated yesterday, Tuesday, March 12, 2019, Pope Saint Gregory the Great, before now, a lot of time was needed to sandwich my own commentary around excerpts from Pope Saint Pius X’s encyclical letter about Pope Saint Gregory the Great, Iucunda Sane, March 12, 1904.

Everything does work out within the Providence of God, and it is probably good to have this reflection published for viewing on Ember Wednesday in Lent, March 13, 2019, so that an example of only the second pope to bear the appellation as Great can be held up for the edification of Catholics on a day when a figure of Antichrist celebrates his sixth anniversary of heading the counterfeit entity that claims to be—but is not and can never be—the Catholic Church.

Yes, sure, Jorge Mario Bergoglio is referenced in several places in this commentary. However, there is no need to repeat yet again the multifarious ways in which this pestilential creature has offended God as he has spread heresies, committed acts of apostasy, spoken blasphemously against Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and His Most Blessed Mother and has shown himself to be an enemy of the Catholic Faith and the willing ally of all those who have long hated the Catholic Church and desire a “safe” Catholicism that dances to the tune of the pipers paid by George Soros and his comrades.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Gregory the Great, pray for us.

This article in honor of Saint John of God, whose feast is celebrated today, was written nine years ago now. A lot of hard work went into its completion. I believe it to be one a piece that will give great consolation to those who have not as of yet read it.

Saint John of God was little understood during his life. It was the case that even his longtime spiritual director, Saint John of Avila, who knew him fairly well, did not understand his decisions. Saint John of God suffered from all manner of slanders and even beatings in his life. He suffered slanders even up to the point of his own death. It was enough for him to be understood by God. It should be enough for us as well, especially during this time of apostasy and betrayal when so many of us are misunderstood and castigated by relatives and friends and acquaintances as being "outside of the Church" for our refusal to make any concessions to conciliarism or its false shepherds. We should be grateful that we are as misunderstood and hated and calumniated as was Saint John of God!

Work on my next original article is nearly complete. However, that will have to wait until tomorrow. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John of God, pray for us.