So, what else is new?

A Jewish woman who claims to be a New Testament scholar despite her own disbelief in Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has been elected as the president of the misnamed Catholic Biblical Association, which is not formally affiliated with the conciliar sect even though many of its members and their supposed insights have had direct influence upon the genius apparatchiks within the so-called United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Given the earthquake in Peru near site where a conciliar invocation of the false Pachamama idol was made during an event to celebrate the sodomite agenda in the name of “inclusiveness” in preparation for an upcoming antipapal visit, I will not have part forty-one of “Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomini Domine, Hosanna in Excelsis” ready for publication until the Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Monday, August 24, 2026.

My annual reflection on the Feast of the Immaculate Haert of Mary may be found by scrolling below.

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A blessed Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to you all.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for now, and at the hour of our death.

Saints Timothy, Hippolytus, and Symphorian, pray for us.

Saint Bartholomew (the vigil of whose feast is anticipated as a commemoration liturgically today), pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to which the month of August is devoted, that heart that was pierced with Seven Swords of Sorrow during the Life of her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus was formed out of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. These twin hearts of matchless love suffered as one and they beat as one while on earth and they have beat as one in Heaven since Our Lady was Assumed into Heaven body and soul after her death.

Our Lady's Immaculate Heart was unstained by Original Sin or Actual Sins. The Immaculate Heart of the Mother of God, therefore, was capable of a purity of love of God and of her fellow men that is almost indescribable. Our Lady's Most Pure, Most Holy Heart despises the sins that caused her Divine Son to suffer in His Sacred Humanity during His Passion and Death but at the same time is full of a perfect and completely pure maternal compassion for erring sinners such as you and me.

Our Lord, showing us His infinite compassion for us erring sinners, has sent us His Most Blessed Mother to provide us with her maternal assistance to get home to Heaven as members of His true Church founded upon the Rock of Peter, the Pope.

We have been given the Rosary, the Brown Scapular of Mount Carmel, the Miraculous Medal, and the Green Scapular through her loving hands, through which flow the graces won for us by the shedding of Our Lord's Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross.

Her apparition to Juan Diego and the miraculous image of herself she left on his tilma helped to convert millions of Indians to the true Faith in the Americas.

Our Lady ratified Pope Pius IX's solemn proclamation of her Immaculate Conception by proclaiming herself to Saint Bernadette Soubirous to be the Immaculate Conception on March 25, 1858. And Our Lady's appearance in the Cova da Iria from May 13, 1917, to October 13, 1917, gave us Heaven's Peace Plan, one that runs through her Immaculate Heart.

We must endeavor at all times to fulfill, as far as we are able in this time of apostasy and betrayal, Our Lady's Fatima Message in our own lives, especially by praying as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit and by living penitentially as the consecrated slaves of her Divine Son through her own Immaculate Heart.

The era of apostasy and betrayal will end when the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is made manifest. We can play our roles, small though they may be, in helping to bring about this triumph.

A new commentary will appear within fifteen minutes of this republished reflection.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

Saints Timothy, Hippolytus, and Symphorian, pray for us.

The title of this commentary is very self-explantory. 

It is my hope to have part forty-one of Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomini Domine, Hosanna in Exclesis published by Friday, August 21, 2026, the Feast of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal within the Octave of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Eudes, pray for us.

This is a relatively brief follow-up to “Bishop” Robert Barron’s pining for the old days when Mario Matthew Cuomo supposedly “agonized” about his public support for baby-butchery.

Although I am working on part forty-one of my Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomini Domine series, the next commentary on this site will be about Pietro “The Red” Parolin’s efforts to negotiate an “understanding” wherein the conciliar “bishop” of Spain who is a co-prince of Andorra could sign or, at the very least, not object to a proposed law to “decriminalize” baby-butchery.

Here is a spoiler alert concerning my next commentary: The truths of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law are never subject to negotiation and/or compromise.

More by this time tomorrow.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Agapitus, pray for us.

Saint Helena, pray for us.

Today, Monday, August 17, 2026, is the Feast of Feast of Saint Hyacinth, O.P., the great Apostle of the Northland and one of the first members of the Order of Preachers founded by Saint Dominic de Guzman. (Today is also the third day within the Octave of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Octave Day of Saint Lawrence the Deacon.)

Saint Hyacinth's great zeal for souls and his desire to convert pagans out of their diabolical superstitions into the true Faith, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there can be no true social order. Saint Hyacinth, who had such a great and abiding love for Our Lady, who favored him with apparitions, stands in quite a contrast with the late Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI and two successors, the equally late and entirely non-lamented demon by the name Jorge Mario Bergoglio, and current universal public face of apostasy, Robert Francis Prevos/Leo XIV. Each of these heretics praised the very false religions that Saint Hyacinth—and every other Catholic missionary—sought to eradicate from the face of the earth by seeking the unconditional conversion of their adherents to the false religion. The difference between Saint Hyacinth's fidelity and apostasy of the conciliar "popes" is stark. It is right there in black and white for all who have the grace to see, and Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV is carrying on this "tradition" very diligently.

An original article, A Rather Complete Mario Cuomo Primer for Robert Barron That You Will Not Find in Lifesite News, was published about twenty-two hours ago. (The article was tweaked in a few places about four hours ago. A brief follow-up will appear later today.)

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Hyacinth, O.P., pray for us.

Saint Lawrence the Deacon, pray for us.

The title of this detailed commentary is rather self-explanatory,

However, this commentary refutes “Bishop” Robert Barron’s utter nonsense about the late Mario Matthew Cuomo’s having “agonized” about supporting the execution of innocent human beings under the cover of the civil law and, as well, explains that Lifesite News is simply flat-out wrong in asserting that Mario Matthew Cuomo popularized the “I am personally opposed to abortion but” canard that he only adopted after being persuaded to do so by his political mentor, then New York Governor Hugh Leo Carey, who, unlike Cuomo who died utterly unrepentant about his support fo two of the four sins that cry out to Heaven for vegeance, later repented on his support for baby-killing.

As one who followed Mario Matthew Cuomo’s long career of betraying the Holy Faith (and then spoke demagogically about those who criticized him, Cumo, for doing so) and who even ran as lieutenant governor on the Right to Life Line with Nassau County District Attorney Denis Dillon forty years ago this year, I have stayed up way past my bedtime to review facts that I have discussed in previous articles (and a few new facts about which I had not heretofore written) in context of “Bishop” Barron’s recent remarks calling the late fascistic Governor of New York a “devout Catholic.”

By the way, I prayed for Mario Matthew Cuomo during his lifetime, and I pray for the repose of his immortal soul every day  when I name such Catholics as Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Geraldine Anne Ferraro-Zaccaro, and Edward Moore Kennedy. Our Lady always directs the fruit of our prayers for those who have no need of them because they are either in Heaven or Hell, and thus I pray for the souls of those who have most need of our prayers, something I hope that at least a few Catholics will do for me after I die.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joachim, pray for us.

Saint Roch, pray for us.

Saint Joachim, the father of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God and the Mediatrix of All Graces, knew the contempt that would be visited upon His Divine Grandson, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, sent himself into voluntary exile after he was denounced by a priest of the Old Dispensation for not producing a child after twenty years of marriage to his wife, our good Saint Anne.

It was during his exile that Saint Joachim was visited by an angel, who reminded him of the fact that Abraham's wife, Sarah, did not conceive a child until she was ninety years old, telling him that his wife, Saint Anne, would conceive a daughter named Mary, who would be the Mother of God. Saint Joachim and Saint Anne brought their daughter to the Temple when she was three years old, giving their long-awaited child back to the good God Who had given them to her so that she could be the Mother of their own Saviour, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. This should teach us to do everything possible to foster vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated religious life among our children, so that we can give them back to God so as to yield a spiritual bounty of souls in His service, especially in this time of apostasy and betrayal.

A new commentary will be posted within minutes of this republished reflection. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joachim, pray for us.

Saint Anne, pray for us.

Saint Roch, pray for us.

Today is the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She who was conceived without stain of Original Sin and who committed no Actual Sins in her life did not have to have her body undergo the corruption of the grave, although she truly died and was buried after her death.

Separated physically from her Divine Son after His Ascension into Heaven on Ascension Thursday, although she received Him in Holy Communion, Our Lady was Assumed body and soul into Heaven to plead for us with her Divine Son as the Queen of Heaven and of Earth, the Queen to whom every man must pledge his heart's oblation, the Queen whom every nation must honor publicly with Rosary Processions.

 Our Lady wants us to be in Heaven with her for all eternity. She wants our bodies to rise up incorrupt and glorious from the grave on the Last Day at the General Judgment of the Living and Dead so that our bodies can be reunited with our souls for all eternity in the glory of Heaven.

We need to ask her to help us make such perfect reparation for our sins in this passing, mortal vale of tears that we will pay the debt of what we our for our sins now rather than in the fires of Purgatory. We need to ask her to help us to be serious about seeking sanctity as the consecrated slaves of her Divine Son through her own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart.

What are we waiting for?

Also available for reading on this feast day are: Three Sermons for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J. 

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

Our Lady, Queen Assumed into Heaven, pray for us.

This is the concluding part of a two-part series, but I am just too tired to explain any more than this.

I hope to post another new commentary tomorrow, Saturday, August 15, 2026, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

There is an urgent need to raise seven hundred dollars at this time. Thank you.

Our Lady, Queen Assumed into Heaven, pray for us.

Saint Eusebius, pray for us.

This is a republished reflection on the life of Saint Clare of Assisi that was published oringinally ten years ago. The reflection speaks to the timeless virtues of detachment from the world, self-denial, modesty and a total embrace of holy poverty for love of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and His Holy Church.

This reflection emphasizes Saint Clare’s rejection of worldliness and worldly pleasures. No matter what our own sins and failings with respect to worldliness might be now and have been in the past, Saint Clare’s life and holy example inspires us to quit the world once and for all and to prepare for the world to come by storing up treasures in Heaven that do not rust or fade away, and that no thief can take away from us. 

To complete the next original commentary will take at least another six to seven hours of work, which would mean staying up most of the night. After the overnight posting a little over twenty-one hours ago, I am unable to proceed any further with the next commentary now. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Clare of Assisi, pray for us.

Saint Francis of Assisi, pray for us.

Blessed Agnes of Prague, pray for us.