The title speaks for itself as this is a new commentary about the still unfolding tragedy wrought by the Israeli genocidal against the Palestinian people in Gaza in retribution for Hamas's terrorist attacks against Israel on October 7, 2023.

I thank you for your patience as this commentary took longer to complete than I expected.

Now, the next original commentary will be published on the Feast of Saint Stephen the Protomartyr within the Octave of Christmas. A Christmas Eve reflection will be republished tomorrow.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Francis Xavier Cabrini, pray for us.

This is a very brief republished reflection on the heroic missionary work of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, whose transferred feast we celebrate today, Tuesday, December 23, 2025, with a Commemoration of the Fourth Sunday of Advent.

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, a naturalized citizen of the United States, was the first and thus far the only citizen of this country to be canonized by a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter.

Let me try to put it to you this way: Mother Cabrini’s insistence on the highest standards of personal modesty and her concern about Italian immigrants being converted by the materialistic and decadent ways of Protestant and Judeo-Masonic American culture, to say nothing of her love of mortifications and sufferings, would have earned her an “apostolic visitator” sent by the late Jorge Mario Bergoglio to “reform” her “Pelagian” ways if she lived at this time of apostasy and betrayal.

Part twenty-seven of "Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomini Domine, will be published in about fifteen minutes from the time of this posting.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, pray for us.

Also, please see Mother Cabrini's Shrine: A Pictorial Essay, for photographs taken on December 22, 2007.

Today, Monday, December 22, 2025, is the the transferred Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle and the Commemoration of Moday in the Fourth Week of Advent.

Saint Thomas did not believe that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ had risen from the dead on Easter Sunday. Our Lord told the doubting Apostle to press his finger into His nail marks and to press his hand into His wounded side. Saint Thomas believed. Along with the other Apostles, including the one who replaced Judas Iscariot, Saint Matthias, Saint Thomas became a bold proclaimer of the Catholic Faith, going to India, where he sacrificed his life for the Holy Faith. Saint Thomas the Apostle touched the flesh of the Risen Saviour with his own hands. He then went on to touch the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of that same Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ with his own priestly hands as he uttered the words at Holy Mass that made the Messias incarnate under the appearances of bread and wine. The very words Saint Thomas uttered after he had touched Our Lord on Low Sunday, Dominus meus et Deus meus, are what we pray every time a true priest utters these words at Holy Mass: "Hoc Est Enim Corpus Meum." As we prepare the celebration of Christmas Day four days from now, we should ask Saint Thomas to help us reverence Our Lord in His Real Presence with greater fervor as we grow stronger in the Faith with every passing day, consecrated as we are to Our Lord through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

This reflection has been expanded slightly to include Father Francis X. Weninger's sermon on Saint Thomas the Apostle. Indeed, his second "practical consideration" for this feast day has very practical applications to the state of the Church Militant today during this time of apostasy and betrayal:

II. Thomas is called unbelieving by Christ, although he disbelieved only one article, the resurrection. Hence, it is clear that he who doubts, or rejects only one article of faith, cannot be counted among true Catholics, although he believes all the others. A Catholic must believe every truth revealed by the Almighty, be it great or small, as God cannot fail either in small things or great. The offence which we do to God by denying even the smallest article of faith, is as great as if we denied an important one, or all of them together; for, it is just as if we said: God has been deceived, or He has deceived us in revealing this article. Whether this is said of great and important articles, or of one that is small, makes but little difference; or if we desire to make a difference, we must say that it is a greater offence to God to ascribe to Him a fault in a small matter than in a great; for, what can be more blasphemous than to maintain that the Almighty has been deceived in a trifling matter, or that He intends to deceive us? They should ponder on this, who sometimes entertain doubts about an article of faith, or even go so far as to say that in some matters, they agree with non-Catholics, and consider them right. These are no longer Catholics. Their faith is lost; and if they do not repent, as St. Thomas did, they will go to perdition, because they are incredulous. They are disobedient who obey nine of the Commandments but not the tenth. What is the fate of the incredulous? Christ Himself pointed it out when He said: "Who believes not in the Son, will not see life, but the wrath of God will remain with him." (John viii.) (Father Francis X. Weninger, Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle, December 21.)

Father Weninger, who wrote a book about papal infallibility from which I have quoted in at least twenty different articles, explained in his second consideration about the life of Saint Thomas the Apostle the truth that has been taught by Holy Mother Church since Apostolic times: to defect from the Faith in one thing is to defect from It in Its entirety. (See the appendix below for reminders of this consistent teaching.)

Saint Thomas the Apostle disbelieved in the Resurrection of His Divine Master, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ for eight days until Our Lord Himself show mercy upon him and restored His faith. Unlike Saint Thomas the Apostle, however, the conciliar “popes” have denied many articles of the Faith (the unicity of the Church, the “goodness” of non-Catholic religions, the denial that the Old Covenant was superseded by the New and Eternal Covenant Our Lord ratified upon shedding every single drop of His Most Precious Blood and breathed His last, denying the immutability of Catholic doctrine, supporting condemned errors such as religious liberty and separation of Church and State, inverting the ends proper to Holy Matrimony, engaging in the forbidden practice of inter-religious prayer services, giving outright support to those living in Mortal Sin and admitting them to what purports to be Holy Communion in the Novus Ordo liturgy, etc.). Only those who do not want to see the truth and/or those who are simply intellectually dishonest want to recognize the simple fact that the conciliar “popes” and their cohorts are not Catholics and thus do not hold the positions they claim to hold.

Truth is simple, and the simple truth is that no one who defects from even one article of the Faith is a member of the Catholic Church.

I am writing part part twenty-seven of "Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomini Domine, Hosanna in Excelsis," and hope to have the commentary completed by this time tomorrow. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Thomas the Apostle, pray for us.

Even as more and more studies continue to prove the harmful effects of marijuana, Donald John Trump, who is oblivious to facts about marijuana and the Wuhan Virus jabs, has reclassified marijuana from a Schedule I illegal substance to a Schedule III illegal substance. Such as classification is supposed to mean that a substance is not addictive nor can lead to psychotic episodes. As the articles referenced in this commentary demonstrate, however, marijuana is harmful and does indeed lead to long term mental and bodily harm.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

NMuch is happening within the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism, and not of it is good.

The hour is late. Suffice it to say that this commentary deals with such matters as Ronald Hicks's appointment to succeed Timothy Michael Dolan in New York, where the pro-abortion, pro-sodomite Catholic governor, Kathleen Hochul, is about the sign the so-called Medical Assistance in Dying (assisted suicide) bill into law, to Ramon Bejarano's appoint as the conciliar "bishop" of Monterey, Mexico, to the Chilean "bishops's" chilly reaction to the election of the pro-life Catholic father of nine children, Jose Antonio Kast, as president of Chile by defeating a Communist by a margin of fifty-eight percent to forty-two percent fifty-five years after Chileans had made Salvador Allende the first elected Communist president in the Americas. This is a busy commentary.

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

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

This is a brief commentary about President Donald John Trump’s “Truth Social” post concerning the murders of Robert and Michelle Reiner. While the Reiners supported and funded every moral evil imaginable and vehemently opposed President Trump, they were murdered by their son, not because “many people were angry” with Robert Reiner because of his belief in every disproved allegation made against the president.

A narcissist of Trump’s magnitude cannot forgive others and knows nothing about how to respect the tragic circumstances concerning a son’s brutal murder of his parents.

May the Ember Days today, Friday, and Saturday help us to be ground into dust so that we may be ready to celebrate the Feast of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ’s Nativity in just eight days.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

This is a commentary about the tragic mass murder committed on Bondi Beach in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on Sunday, December 14, 2025, the Third Sunday of Advent, by two Mohammedan men, a father and a son, who were being completely faithful to the precepts of their false, blasphemous religion, who were in Australia because of its lax immigration policies, especially regarding the entrance of Mohammedans.

Yet it is, of course, the Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV, denounced those who had a “fear” of Mohammedan migrants.

We need Our Lady’s help more now than ever.

A blessed Octave of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary to you all.

O Mary, Queen without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

O Mary, Queen without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

O Mary, Queen without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

Thursday, December 11, 2025, was the one hundredth anniversary of Pope Pius XI’s issuance of Quas Primas on the Social Reign of Christ the King.

This is a reflection about the encyclical and its relevance to us as Catholics today.

The appendices contain reflections about Gaudete Sunday today and the O Antiphons, which begin on Ember Wednesday, December 17, 2025.

A blessed Gaudete Sunday to you all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

The saint whose feast we celebrate today, Saint Lucy, resisted all efforts made by the civil authorities to induce her to worship the idols when a suitor, who was angered by her rejection of him after she had given away her riches to the poor, betrayed her as Christian to the pagan officials of the Roman Empire in Syracuse, Sicily, at the beginning of the Fourth Century A.D., in the year 304 A.D.

Saint Lucy could have saved her life if only she worshiped the idols. Unlike the conciliar "pontiffs," men who have esteemed the symbols of various and sundry false religions, with their own consecrated hands, Saint Lucy refused to do so and was immovable when taken to a house of sin. She refused even to look upon the vice that was before her.

May this immovable foe of religious liberty help us to see more clearly with the eyes of our immortal souls that the Catholic Church cannot be in the least responsible for the abominations and blasphemies and sacrileges and defections from the Faith perpetrated by the counterfeit church of conciliarism.

May Saint Lucy, a model of purity and gentleness and grace and courage, help us to see so clearly that we flee to the catacombs where the Faith is protected without any concessions to conciliarism.

A blessed Feast of Saint Lucy to all who are named after this great witness to the Faith, especially my dear wife, who took Saint Lucy as her patron at Baptism, and our dear daughter, Lucy Mary Therese Norma, who has, of course, a special devotion to the virgin and martyr from Syracuse, Sicily.

I ask your prayers also for the repose of the soul of the late Father Salvatore V. Franco, who died on this day twenty-three years ago now. Father Franco, who suffered from serious heart problems but died of a form of leukemia that he only found out he had weeks before he died, was good enough to offer us refuge in his kitchen in Westbury, Long Island, New York, in April of 2002 until November of 2002 as he offered the Immemorial Mass of Tradition for us each weekday.

Although I had long before abandoned the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical abomination on Sundays as I moved in "indult" circles, we made the decision to abandon all putative "offerings" of this abominable travesty during the week when Father Franco took ill and before he died. Father Franco, who was ordained as a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn in June of 1953, had a heart attack in 1963 at the age of thirty-seven, an act of God's Divine Mercy that kept him from being immersed in parish life as the conciliar revolution proceeded apace. Father Franco kept active, however, offering Mass and helping souls. We will be forever grateful to him for providing us with the refuge that he did in the months after Lucy's birth. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen. We still miss you, Father Salvatore V. Franco!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Lucy, pray for us.

A blasphemous nativity display in Vienna, Austria, prompted some Catholics to pray the Rosary publicly in reparation for this offense.

Lippy Leo Prevost, however, has plenty to say about Donald John Trump’s policies but his lips are zipped when it comes to blasphemous displays such as in Austria.

Then again, it is never easy for one who has reaffirmed leaders of false religions to denounce offenses against Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and Our Lady in the secular world when is so ready to do so himself.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us.