[September 5, 2017, Update: Today, Tuesday, September 5, 2017, is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of my father, Dr. Albert Henry Martin Droleskey (see  One Man's Life Changed By Doctor Droleskey). Please pray for the repose of his immortal soul. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul and all of the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen. 

[Part two of my current series will appear tomorrow. Thank you for your patience as I continue to experience the after-effects of the injuries sustained on July 19, 2017,]

Unlike his immediate predecessor, Pope Leo XIII, and each of his three successors (Popes Benedict XV, Pius XI, and Pius XII), the former Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto was not in the diplomatic service of the Holy See at any time during the nearly forty-five years of his priesthood prior to his rather remarkable election as the Successor of Saint Peter on August 4, 1903. He was not prone to accept the word of diplomats, and he did not suffer lies and misrepresentations easily.

The farm boy from Riese, Italy, who served as a pastor of souls in a rough-and-tumble Italian cow town, Tombolo, and then in Salzano before becoming Bishop of Mantua and the Cardinal Patriarch of Venice, was always close to Our Lady. This tender devotion to Our Lady, which he learned from his saintly mother, helped him to keep close to the sheep even when he was the Vicar of Christ on earth.

Thanks to the sign given him by the life and death of Little Nellie of Holy God, Pope Saint Pius X was the advocate of early First Communion (and early Confirmation) and of frequent Communions. It is no accident at all that the now retired Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI made no reference to the centenary of Pascendi Dominci Gregis on September 8, 2007. Ratzinger/Benedict made absolutely no reference on August 15, 2010, to the centenary of Pope Saint Pius X's Notre Charge Apostolique, which was a ringing condemnation of the false philosophy of the Sillon that is of the essence of conciliarism. He has made no reference to the one hundredth anniversary of The Oath Against Modernism on September 1, 1010 (see Witness Against Benedict XVI: The Oath Against Modernism).

How could he?

He stands condemned by the very words in these documents issued by Pope Saint Pius X.

So does the man who ignored the one hundredth anniversary of Papa Sarto's death, Jorge Mario Bergolio, back on August 20, 2014.

The contrast between the Catholicism of Pope Saint Pius X, a defender of the Social Reign of Christ the King and the confessional Catholic civil state, and the conciliarism of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who has denounced "restorationists" as "Pelagian" and "hard-headed" Pharisees while defending "healthy laicism" and "religious liberty" and the "separation of Church and State, could not be more clear.

Here is the Collect for today's feast in the Immemorial Mass of Tradition:

"O God, who for the defense of the Catholic Faith and the restoration of all things in Christ didst fill Saint Pius, Supreme Pontiff, with heavenly wisdom and apostolic courage: grant in Thy loving kindness that by following his teachings and examples we may attain eternal rewards. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, forever and ever. Amen."

Pope Saint Pius X opposed Modernism.

So must we as we refuse any "communion" at all with conciliarism or its false shepherds who are at war with the Catholic Faith.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Pius X, pray for us!

As my commentary on Jorge Mario Bergoglio's August 24, 2017, address to the Italian Liturgical Council, which began its revolutionary work seventy years ago as it began to undermine Pope Pius XII's Mediator Dei, November 20, 1947, soon after it was founded, is approaching a book-length manuscript just insofar as the documentation gathered thus far, I have decided to publish it in a segmented form. Mind you, I am still writing material for each segment. I did think it best, though, to provide readers with the study one part at a time. 

The first part of this study focuses on the Argentine Apostate's efforts to make it appear that Pope Saint Pius X was a progenitor of the conciliar revolution. Part two will continue to focus on this effort. Subsequent parts will explain how the Liturgical Movement that had been begun by Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., and Pope Saint Pius X, was hijacked after World War I and made into an instrument of promoting the Sacred Liturgy as a vessel of false ecumenism. Oh, yes, there is much more to be discussed after that. Just bear with me. I will get this done in a methodical manner, and may even wind up offering it in book form.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Giles, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist and the Commemoration of Saint Sabina. I am republishing a reflection on this feast that was substantially enlarged and revised last year with a few new revisions.  

The next original article on this site is being written, but it will be lengthy and may take another day or two to complete. I want to use much care in its completion in order to make the distinctions are required by its subject-matter. Thank you for your patience.

The next original article has been slowed also by the fact that it was almost impossible to do much at the computer over the weekend because of the continuing effects of the spinal injury incurred a little after Midnight on July 19, 2017. However, I have collected most of the documentation for the commentary, which is on Jorge’s apologia in defense of a new liturgy for a new religion. I just need another two days of writing to compete it, and it was impossible to do any writing yesterday, Monday, August 28, 2017, the Feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo and the Commemoration of Saint Hermes, as I had another round of chiropractic treatments and Sharon had to see a dentist, who told her that a root canal and a crown are in order.

These, however, are minor health problems in comparison to those that others have, including our friend Mr. Michael Cain, who is the Executive Director of The Daily Catholic website.

A reader of this site wrote to me yesterday morning to inform me that Mr. Cain, who is seventy-four years of age, has been diagnosed with a malignant tumor in one of his lungs that is the size of a baseball. Radiation treatments will be employed as he is not considered to be a candidate for surgery. Please pray with us to Saint Peregrine for this zealous Catholic writer and apologist.

Finally, we have been paying very close attention to the effects of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey in the Houston, Texas, area. We have relatives and many friends in the area, each of whom is uppermost in our prayers now. Indeed, we are praying for all those who are affected by this chastisement.

My eldest first cousin, the son of my late father’s late brother, texted me last evening to say that the water rose up very high around his house and property about thirty miles northwest of downtown Houston. Please pray for his safety and that of his wife, who is a cancer survivor. (Three other cousins are also in the same area, but I have no word about what has happened where they live).

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

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint Sabina, pray for us. 

Although late in the day, this is still the Feast of Saint Louis IX, King of France, that great exemplar of the Social Reign of Christ the King. Saint Louis was taught by his holy mother, Blessed Blanche of Castile, to prefer death rather to commit a deliberate Mortal Sin. He heard two Masses a day and was a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis, whose patron saint he remains to this day.

Saint Louis strove to rule according to the Mind of Christ the King as He had deposited It exclusively in the Catholic Church, recognizing that he, Louis IX, would have to answer to Christ the King at the moment of his own Particular Judgment for how he ruled his subjects. His letter to his son Philip is a succinct summary of the principles of Catholic Social Teaching. It is a model for how everyone in public life should conduct himself in order to please Christ the King as the devoted client of Our Lady, she who is our Immaculate Queen.

Finally, a reader of this site sent me a link to an address that the Argentine Apostate, whose general audience address on Wednesday was the subject of an article posted at Midnight this morning (Catholic Church Contra Jorge's "God of Surprises"), gave yesterday, the Feast of Saint Bartholomew, on the "irreversible" nature of the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical service. In doing so, the false "pontiff" tried to invoke Pope Saint Pius X and Pope Pius XII as witnesses in behalf of the conciliar revolution. There are careful distinctions /that need to be made and I will endeavor to do so in my next commentary.

Vivat Christus Rex!

Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Louis IX, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, 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.

What are we waiting for?

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

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

By the way, speaking of peace, the next original article will comment on the plan announced by President Donald John Trump last night to "win" the fight against the Taliban in the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan.