This commentary, which was published over a month ago, has been updated and revised in light of recent remarks of Victor Manuel Fernandez and of Protestant activist who was fired from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts at the direction of “married” sodomite Richard Grenell because he, Brown, would not support sodomite “marriage.”

Now, I am working on my next article about immigration enforcement, which is taking time to complete because there are many aspects to the current enforcement efforts that are positive but others that are quite troubling by being so focused on “quotas” that even naturalized citizens, foreign nationals with student or work visas, and permanent residents are being sent to detention centers to await deportation proceedings.

There are many distinctions that need to be made when commenting on such an issue, and it is because I am attempting to make those distinctions that the work on it is taking longer than I expected. I hope to have the commentary completed in time for posting on Saturday, July 12, 2025, the Feast of Saint John Gualbert.

Finally, I received three donations yesterday that have significantly helped me to get closer to my recently stated fund raising goal. Thus, I encourage those who support the work of this site and have the financial wherewith to make a donation but have done so recently, if at all, to do so at this time. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Pius I, pray for us.

I offer you today, Tuesday, July 9, 2025, a revised commentary on the feasts of Saints John Fisher and Thomas More, Saint John of Cologne, O.P., and the Martyrs of Gorkum, Saint Maria Goretti, and Saint Veronica Giuliani that are celebrated in some places even though they are not on the General Roman calendar of the Catholic Church.

The appendix consists of the Mass Propers for the Mass of Saints John Fisher and Thomas with Commemorations of Saint John of Cologne, O.P., and the Martyrs of Gorkum, Saint Maria Goretti, and Saint Veronica Giuliani in Latin and in English. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

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

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saints Thomas More and John Fisher, pray for us.

Saint John of Cologne, O.P., and The Martyrs of Gorkum, pray for us.

Saint Maria Goretti, pray for us.

Saint Veronica Giuliani, pray for us.

This is a brief reflection about the terrible flash floods that have killed so many in central Texas. The reflection was updated about thirteen hours after publication to include new information and commentary.

We must always pray to Our Lady to be prepared to accept with equanimity the death that God the Father has ordained for us from all eternity to undergo as we pray to her now, and at the hour our death for her motherly protection and intercession for us before the Throne of her Divine Son, Christ the King, Who will judge us when we die and render the Particular Judgment upon our immortal souls.

The next original commentary on this site will discuss the methods being used to round up illegal immigrants in various places around the nation. It is one thing to be vigilant in deporting the illegal immigrants who have committed violent crimes across entering this country illegally, but, while recognizing that, yes, it is a crime to enter the United States of America illegally, it is another to use a quota system to round up even those who have been here for thirty to forty to even fifty years, some of whom are naturalized citizens, to meet those quotas.

I discussed a reasonable approach to all this fifteen years ago in Good Catholic Common Sense Must Prevail, part 2, and I will so again in my next commentary.

The commentary after the next one, which will take at least three days to complete, will examine the latest conciliar document issued by the conciliar officials about a "new way of being church." What is the great apsotasy supposed to look like if we are not in it at this time? 

May Our Lord have mercy on us all and maintain ourselves with charity towards all other Catholics as we, through no merits of our own and without being one bit better than those who do not see the apostasy that is before their very eyes, beg Our Lady to help us to persvere in what we know to be true without making any concessions to the falsehoods of the day for any reason, including human respect and financial security.

A few correspondents, mostly nameless, have complained that I am not writing enough to warrant their considering making non-tax-deductible financial gifts. All I can say is that I do what I am able to do even though my output is not as prolific as it was a decade or so ago. I do have more physical limitations now than then and continue working with mild global cerebral atrophy that was diagnosed in 2021 and 2022, which is perhaps why I am very tired after writing studies such as the one posted two days ago.

Anyhow, I do once again urge those who can make such non-tax-deductible financial gifts to do so as I have a very important hard deadline to make for one bill on Monday, July 14, 2025, the Feast of Saint Bonaventure, O.F.M. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Elizabeth of Portugal, pray for us.

Although I did not expect this commentary to take so long to complete, I prefer depth and thoroughness to being glib and superficial.

Thus, this is a detailed study about the conciliar sect’s so-called “Mass for the Care of Creation." This study was revised in two or three places late this afternoon to make distinctions that were made implicity in the original text but have not been made explicitly.

I might get around to putting some of these studies into book form, but there never seems to be enough time and, of great importance, I lack the technical wherewithal to do this without the assistance of someone more able than I am with graphics and layout design.

Speaking of assistance, I am in need of raising $1700 at this time to pay some expenses rather urgently, including some medical deductibles and some other expenses that are not able to be met at this time. A great deal of work goes into the composition of these commentaries and I would like to think that there are more than seven or eight people to whom I must turn to make donations on a regular basis to support this work.

Please consider making a non-tax-deductible financial gift today.

Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

My commentary about the conciliar sect's new "Mass" for the "care of creation" is turning out to be quite lengthy and detailed. Even the remarks by two conciliar revolutionaries introducing the "Mass" demonstrate, despite their gratuitous denials to the contrary, a pantheism that speaks of the "redemption of creation" and not of human souls. There is much work to do on all this, but it is my hope to have that work completed by tomorrow, Saturday, July 5, 2025, the Feast of Saint Anthony Mary Zaccaria within the Octave of Saints Peter and Paul.

For today, however, I am republishing a commentary from five months ago that has relevance to the secular jubilations associated with the date of the Fourth of July. Far more important than those secular jubilations is the fact that today is the Octave Day of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus within the Octave of Saints Peter and Paul and a commemoration, in some places, of All Holy Roman Pontiffs.

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

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

All Holy Roman Pontiffs, pray for us.

As yesterday, Wednesday, July 2, 2025, the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was taken up with medical appointments, I do not have another new commentary for you today, Thursday, July 3, 2025, the Feast of Pope Saint Leo II within the Octaves of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and of Saints Peter and Paul.

Indeed, the material about Pope Saint Leo II being republished now appeared just four days ago in To Disobey a True Pope is to Disobey God Himself. However, repetition is the mother of learning, and I am always aware that there might be a new reader of two who happens upon this site for the first time or accesses out of curiosity after learning about its existence from someone else.

Also, I have absolutely no intention of wasting my time commenting on the so-called “big, beautiful bill” that contains provisions for which there are no justifications to be found even in the broadest possible interpretation of the “implied powers clause” of Article 1, Section 8, and also balloons the national debt and debt ceiling substantially.

However, perhaps it is worth noting that the liberal supporter of American democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville, noted in the 1830s that American politicians had discovered “how to bribe the people with their own money,” that is about the best description of the bloated ugly bill that is being debated now by the careerists within the United States House of Representatives, where common sense and truth are as alien as they are across the street from the United States Capitol at the Supreme Court.

Most of today will be given over to examining the text of the new conciliar “Mass for the care of creation,” a project that might be possible to complete by this time tomorrow.

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

Pope Saint Leo II, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

This is a relatively brief common about the absurdity of having to litigate common sense and truth in a land whose constitution admits of no higher authority than the words of its own text. That cases such as Mahmoud v. Taylor, June 27, 2025, have to be heard by the Supreme Court of the United States of America speaks volumes about the fact that the Constitution of the United States of America is defenseless against sin and the insanity it engenders in the souls of men.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Processus and Martinian, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Today is the magnificent feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to her cousin, Saint Elizabeth, and her preborn Divine Son’s preborn Precursor, Saint John the Baptist.

This date, July 2, marks the end of the period of Our Lady’s Visitation, which began on April 2, lasting until the day after the octave day of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist. Our Lady’s perfect Charity for her cousin and her Divine Son’s Precursor should prompt us to perform the Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy at all times, making sure as well to proclaim the Holy Name of Mary, she whom all generations are duty bound to call blessed, as the Mother of God who made possible our salvation by her perfect fiat to the will of God the Father at the Annunciation and who is the Queen of Heaven and on earth, the very Immaculate Conception who prays for us now and at the hour of our deaths.

A blessed Feast of the Visitation of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary to you all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saints Processus and Martinian, pray for us.

I was unable to complete this reflection for posting yesterday, Monday, June 30, 2025, the Commemoration of Saint Paul (with liturgical commemorations of Saint Paul, within the Octave of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, and within the Octave of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist).

However, we are still within the Octave of Saints Peter and Paul, and thus this tribute, as inadequate as it may be, to the Apostle to the Gentiles remains very relevant.

Our Lady, Queen the Apostles, pray for us.

Saint Paul, pray for us.

Saint Peter, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

The Most Precious Blood of Jesus is our laver of redemption, as our own sins, each and every single one of them, caused It to be shed during the events of Holy Thursday and Good Friday.

It was the thought of coming into contact with the horror of our sins, the very antithesis of His Sacred Divinity, that caused Our Lord to sweat droplets of His Most Precious Blood in His Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane.

It was our sins that caused the Most Precious Blood of Jesus to be shed so terribly during His cruel scourging at the Pillar.

It was our sins that caused the Most Precious Blood of Jesus to be shed as He was crowned with thorns to mock His Sacred Kingship over men and their nations.

It was our sins that caused the Most Precious Blood of Jesus to continue to be shed from the scourging and the crowning as He walked up the steps to be judged by the Roman procurator, Pontius Pilate. Droplets of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus are still venerated by pilgrims as proceed on their knees up the Sancta Scala in Rome right across from the Basilica di San Giovanni Laterano.

It was our sins that caused the Most Precious Blood to be shed as Our Lord’s hands and knees were crucified. It was our sins that caused the Most Precious Blood of Jesus to be shed unto Its last drop as He hung on the gibbet of the Holy Holy Cross for three hours, flowing in a torrent as Our Lord’s wounded side was pierced with the lance of Saint Longinus.

What is It that is poured out onto our souls when they are Absolved by a true priest in the Sacred Tribunal of Penance?

The Most Precious Blood of Jesus.

The Most Precious Blood of Jesus strengthens us when we receive It worthily in Holy Communion.

It was the shedding of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus on the wood of the Holy Cross that ratified the New and Eternal Covenant He inaugurated at the Last Supper, thereby obliterating forever the old sacrifices of the blood of bulls and goats and lambs in Temple worship, thus superseding he Old Covenant of the Jews.

We must celebrate this great Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus, which was pumped through Our Divine Redeemer’s Sacred Body by His Most Sacred Heart, the very font of Mercy, with gratitude that we, sinners who caused It to be shed in torrents under the most unspeakably cruel conditions, are bathed unto our redemption by Its merits.

May we never take the Most Precious Blood of Jesus for granted.

A blessed Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ and Octave Day of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist to you all! 

A new commentary will be posted within moment's of this revised reflection's republication.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.