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, "Most of the Major Heresies in the First Three Centuries Arose in the East", was published sixteen hours ago. Another new commentary will be published around this time tomorrow as I am just unable to stay up as late as did on Saturday morning, especially to deal with platitudinous claptrap about "unity" and "fraternity" and "encounter." Thank you.

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.

One of the saddest spectacles here in a land suffused with the ethos of Judeo-Calvinist-Masonic naturalism is how the secular celebration of thanksgiving day has eclipsed Christmas Day in the homes of many Americans.

This is quite by design as it was the intention of the thirty-third degree Freemason named Franklin Delano Roosevelt to promote shopping during a time when our attention must be on withdrawing from the world. As there are a few new readers to this site, including some from Protestant and even Jewish backgrounds who have expressed an interesting in converting to the true Faith, it is my hope that this republished reflection might of assistance in demonstrating the extent to which the warfare against Christ the King that entered its overt phase with the Protestant Revolution in 1517 has shaped what passes for American "culture" to the detriment of souls and thus to all of social order. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. 

Saint Andrew the Apostle, pray for us.

Saint Saturninus, pray for us.

Although I have three republished reflections that I must review and update prior to their being posted, Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV’s pilgrimage to Turkey demanded my attention late yesterday into the early hours of today, the Vigil of Saint Andrew and the Commemoration of Saint Saturninus.

This commentary focuses on two paragraphs of the false “pope’s” address to “ecumenical leaders” in Ephesus, Turkey, yesterday, Friday, November 28, 2025, the Feast of Saint Catherine Laboure.

Given the fact that this Judeo-Masonic journey of “human fraternity” and religious indifferentism will end just before the sixtieth anniversary celebrations of the Judeo-Masonic-Sillonist Dignitatis Humanae and Gaudium et Spes at the end of the coming week, the work for me to do will plenty. This means that the conciliar revolutionaries will occupy my time so much that the bread and circuses of naturalism will just have to wait until the second week of December, which is also the Second Week of Advent.

The republished and, if necessary, revised reflections, will about in about twelve to fourteen hours.

Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Andrew the Apostle, pray for us.

Saint Saturninus, pray for us.

Although I was not sure as late as four hours ago after finishing my night prayers whether I could bang out a new article, I am somewhat sufficiently on the road to recovery that I found myself with the ability to produce this short commentary about Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV’s efforts in In Unitate Fidei, November 23, 2025, that the such doctrines as the Filioque and Papal Primary that the schismatic and heretical Orthodox reject are merely “theological controversies” that have never  been pronounced dogmatically by the Catholic Church under the infallible guidance and protection of God the Holy Ghost.

Indeed, the sixth session of the Council of Florence in 1339 was called specifically to call the schismatics into union with the Catholic Church over the doctrine of the Filioque, but one would never know this from the text of In Unitate Fidei, which omits any reference to this true general council of Holy Mother Church, and thus implies that it never happened or that its decrees lost their validity somehow with the “passage of time.”

Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV, who gave a “blessing” to attendees at “rave” concert (?) in Slovakia via video yesterday evening, Wednesday, November 26, 2025, the Feast of Saint Sylvester the Abbot and the Commemoration of Saint Peter of Alexandria, is outdoing his wretched little predecessor in many ways.

May Our Lord have mercy on us all!

Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, pray for us.

Today, November 27, 2025, is the Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, although on the universal General Roman Calendar, can be celebrated if not otherwise impeded.

This is a republished reflection on the story of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal that was written originally in 2010 and revised substantially ten years ago. I offer it again todayfor those who would like to have a refresher course on the history of this feast, which, of course, centers on Our Lady as the Mediatrix of All Graces.

A brief original commentary will be published shortly after the republication of this reflection.

Although I am not entirely recovered from whatever it is that has felled me in the past few days, I am recovered enough to be up at this late hour and do some real work. I greatly appreciate your pateince of the last week.

Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, pray for us.

Saint Catherine Laboure, pray for  us.

It was my intention to republish this expanded reflection on the feast of the saint we celebrate today, November 25, 2025, Saint Catharine of Alexandria, the illness that has overtaken me was so so fatiguing around Midnight this morning that I closed my eyes and did not wake about for three hour in old recliner chair. The illness has continued all day long.

However, at long last, I am presenting this revised and expanded reflection on Saint Catharine of Alexandria to you around 9:30 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on her feast day. I am sorry for the delay.

Finally, although I will be writing a commentary about Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV's "apostolic letter" that downplays the doctrines of the Filioque and Papal Primacy, a recent article of mine, On the Feast of Saint Josaphat Kuncewicz, probably covers most of what in the letter, whose text I have not yet read given my illness and having to drive sixty miles to an aiport to pick up Sharon following her flight home. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Catherine of Alexandria, pray for us.

Saint Sylvester the Abbot, pray for us.

Saint Peter of Alexandria, pray for us.

This reflection on the life of Saint John of the Cross was written for and published in To Live in Light of Eternity, Volume 6, in 2020 and is being offered to readers of this site for the fourth time.

It had been my hope to have another original commentary completed in time for publication today. However, given the circumstances of the past few days that culminated yesterday afternoon in the sacramentally provided for death of Sharon's mother, Claire Alica Fitzgerald Collins: February 26, 1928, to November 23, 2025, Requiescat in Pace, the commentary is going to have wait for another day or two, especially since I have contracted yet another flu-like virus that has laid me pretty low. This is a glorious penance and it means that God is not done punishing me for my sins and thus purifying me for Himself. Deo gratias! Penance is better than ever in 2025.

As today, November 24, 2025, is my seventy-fourth birthday, I ask prayers for the repose of the souls of my late parents, Dr. Albert Henry Martin Droleskey and Mrs. Norma Florence Red Fox Droleskey. Thank you.

Our Lady of he Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John of the Cross, pray for us.

Sant Chrysogonus, pray for us.

This is a republished reflection about Pope Saint Clement that includes the following passage from Dom Prosper Gueranger's The Liturgical Year:

With only one exception, all of the documents which attest Clement's intervention in the affairs of distant churches have perished with time; but the one that remains shows us in full action the monarchical power of the bishop of Rome at that primitive epoch. The church of Corinth was disturbed with intestine quarrels caused by jealously against certain pastors. These divisions, the germ of which had appeared even in St. Paul's time, had destroyed all peace, and were causing scandal to the very pagans. The Corinthians at last felt the necessity of putting an end to a disorder which might be prejudicial to the extension of the Christian faith; and for this purpose it was requisite to seek assistance from outside. The apostle had all departed this life, except St. John, who was still the light of the Church. It was not great distance from Corinth to Ephesus where the apostle resided: yet it was not to Ephesus but to Rome that the church of Corinth turned. Clement examined the case referred to his judgment by that church, and sent to Corinth five commissaries to represent the Apostolic See. They were bearers of a letter, which St. Irenaeus calls potentissimas litteras. It was considered at the time so beautiful and so apostolic, that it was long read in many churches as a sort of continuation of the canonical Scriptures. Its tone is dignified but paternal, according to St. Peter's advice to pastors. There is nothing in it of a domineering spirit; but the grave and solemn language bespeaks the universal pastor, whom none can disobey without disobeying God Himself. These words so solemn and so firm wrought the desired effect: peace was re-established in the church of Corinth, and the messengers of the Roman Pontiff soon brought back the happy news. A century later, St. Dionysius, bishop of Corinth, expressed to Pope St. Soter the gratitude still felt by his flock towards Clement for the service he had rendered. (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year.)

Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B,, understood that there was and can never be such thing as "resistance" to a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Clement, pray for us.

Saint Felicity, pray for us.

Although a republished reflection on the Commemorated Feast of Pope Saint Clement I will be posted within thirty minutes of this posting, I am providing you with Father Francis X. Weninger’s three sermons for the Last Sunday after Pentecost to provide a source of meditation on this last Sunday before Advent.

An original commentary about the last week of the ecclesisastical year is being written but, given the circumstances, I do not have it ready for publication yet.

Please continue to pray for Claire Collins, who is in her last agony, as well for her children, including Sharon, grandchildren, including Lucy, and great-grandchilren at this time. 

Finally, I posted DR. PAUL BYRNE'S MEDICAL DECISIONS’ PROTECTION DOCUMENT (“MDPD”) about five hours ago to help readers protect themselves and their family members from medical practices that shorten life or impose death. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Clement I, pray for us.

Saint Felicity, pray for us.