Today is the great Solemnity of Corpus Christi. This article, written a long time ago now and slightly revised over the years, is an exhortation to the readers of this site to spend more and more time in adoration before Our Beloved before His Real Presence in the Most Blessed Sacrament if this is at all possible in your area.

Adoration is the first end of prayer, including the perfect prayer that is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in which Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ becomes Incarnate under the appearances of bread and wine when a men man, uttering mere words over the elements of the earth, calls Him down from Heaven. We must adore God with our whole mind, soul, heart, body and strength. To spend time before the Most Blessed Sacrament in prayer is a foretaste of Heavenly glories. Our goal in life is to behold the glory of the Beatific Vision of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost for all eternity in the company of Our Lady, Saint Joseph, our Guardian Angels (each of whom beholds the Beatific Vision as he tries to guide us home to Heaven!), our patron saints and all of the members of the Church Triumph, whose ranks we hope and pray will include our dearest and nearest relatives and friends. We must make time for the foretaste of Heavenly glories by means of profound Eucharistic Adoration in this life is we want to enjoy the glories of Heaven itself for all eternity.

There are infused graces that are flooded into the souls of those who spend time in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament, those souls who are conscious of the need to make reparation for their sins as they give thanksgiving to God for all of the favors, both spiritual and temporal, they have received and who recognize the need to petition God for the favors we need, both spiritual temporal, starting with an earnest petition each day that we be given the grace to have a holy and sacramentally-provided-for death. Our Lord stands ready to send us this infusion of graces through the loving hands of His Most Blessed Mother, who is mystically with us when we pray before her Divine Son’s Real Presence. All we need to do is to arrange our lives in such a way as to make time for prayer before Our Eucharistic King and Lord.

We must, of course, be conscious of our need to get to the Sacrament of Penance on a weekly basis, if possible, of course,in order that our reception of Our Lord’s Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity in Holy Communion will be worthy and fervent. The frequent, devout and worthy reception of Our Lord in Holy Communion gives strength even to those souls who have been steeped in one sin after another, those souls who have perhaps surrendered all too readily to the devil’s attacks upon them over the years:

And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool. If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land. (Isaias 1: 18-19.)

We must ask Our Lady on this great feast day of Corpus Christi, which, of course, is celebrated as an Octave in those chapels that use the Missal of Saint Pius V before it was “reformed” by the revolutionary efforts of Annibale Bugnini and Ferdinando Antonelli in the 1950s, to help give us more and more graces to recognize the Most Sacred Heart of her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, beats for with great love in the Most Blessed Sacrament.

We must ask Our Lady to help us approach the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through her own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart with such fervor and devotion that we will consider it as a great loss if ever there is a day we are unable to get a true offering of Holy Mass and unable to spend at least some time with her Divine Son, Who is the Prisoner of Love in tabernacles today just as He was the Prisoner of her Virginal and Immaculate Womb from the time of His Incarnation to the day of His Nativity.

Today should be devoted entirely to gratitude to Eucharistic King for the great gift of Himself in Holy Communion and our ability worship Him in His Real Presence even though He sitteth at the right hand of God the Father in Heaven. What a mystery of love. Words fail.

A blessed Solemnity of Corpus Christi to you all!

An original article, which is a follow-up to Sunday's posting, will be published in a short while. 

Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, pray for us.

Today is Trinity Sunday and the Commemoration of the First Sunday after Pentecost and of Saint Bende the Venerable, thus beginning the second half of the liturgical year that began with the First Sunday of Advent.

The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity was revealed to us by Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Although there are clear references in the text of the Old Testament to a plurality of Persons in the Divine Godhead ("Let us make man in our own image"), human reason, which can come to the conclusion that God exists, is insufficient to know about the existence of the Most Blessed Trinity. Our Lord Himself, the Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity made Man in Our Lady's Virginal and Immaculate Womb, had to reveal this to us. The doctrine of the Most Holy Trinity is rejected by all infidels and misrepresented by most Protestant sects.

To wit, many Protestants, especially in the evangelical and fundamentalist sects, are "baptized" in "the name of the Lord Jesus," not in "The Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost," which is invalid on its face. This means that many hundreds of thousands of Protestants are not even Christians despite their thinking that they are. We must defend the doctrine of the Most Blessed Trinity with our very lives if necessary, having frequent recourse to the making of the Sign of the Cross throughout the day. This is a custom that is held dear by many Spaniards and Latin Americans.

Indeed, the jockey who rode Nyquist to victory in the 2016 Kentucky Derby, which was held on Saturday, May 7, 2016, the Feast of Saint Stanislaus, did so, something that was shown in slow motion as a replay of the post-race "cooling off" of the horse’s trot was broadcast. This should put many Catholics in this country to shame for fearing to make invoke the very sign of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost when in public or in the presence of Protestant relatives, friends or neighbors.

Remember, Jorge Mario Bergoglio did not want to give a "blessing," not that he is capable of giving one as a lay Jesuit revolutionary, that is, when address the crowd on the Capitol Mall in Washington, District of Columbia, on Thursday, September 24, 2015, the Feast of Our Lady of Ransom, for fear of offending "unbelievers."

An original aritlce on the Irish plebescite in favor baby-slaughter will be published in a few moments.

A blessed Trinity Sunday to you all.

Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, pray for us.

Saint Barnabas, pray for us. 

It was four days ago, that is, on Wednesday, May 16, 2018, that Jorge Mario Bergoglio expressed words of praise for a visiting delegation of the devil-worshippers known as Buddhists. There is not an apostolic bone in this apostate's body, although he is only carrying on the anti-apostolic "traditions" established by his predecessors in the antipapacy of the counterfeit church of conciliarism.

A revised reflection on Pentecost Sunday may be found by scrolling below.

Our Lady of the Cenacle, pray for us.

Although I am slowly completing work on my next commentary, the best that I can do for you today is offer this  slightly revised reflection for the Vigil of Penecost, which is a day of fast for those between the ages of twenty-one and fifty-nine and a day of partial abstinence for those seven years of age or older. This does not mean that those of us over the age of fifty-nine should not fast if able to do so, only that it is not morally obligatory to fast. We should keep in mind that God is most pleased with the souls who give Him more than the minimum required by Church law. We must give Him our all as the consecrated slaves of His Co-Equal, Co-Eternal Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. 

Our Lady of the Cenacle, pray for us.

As noted on this site’s home page, two articles from 2009 are being republished today as the failing computer on my writing is completed crashed yesterday, forcing me to use a “Windows” restart program that took all afternoon and into the evening to go through its paces.

The two republished articles, “Voting in Favor of the Druids" and Surrendering What Saint Patrick Won," which were published, respectively, on September 26, 2009, the Feast of the North American Martyrs and the Commemoration of Saints Cyprian and Justina, and September 30, 2009, the Feast of Saint Jerome, at a time when voters in the Republic of Ireland were about to vote on a national referendum to ratify the European Union’s Treaty of Lisbon, which listed that the chemical and surgical execution of innocent human beings was a “human right” that had to be respected by each nation.

The Irish had rejected the Treaty of Lisbon in a referendum on June 12, 2008.  However, nothing is ever settled for the “left” unless it is settled on their terms, and it was less than sixteen months later that, after a few minor changes were made in the treaty’s text, that the second referendum, held on October 2, 2009, was approved by two to one margin (67.1%). The surrender of once Catholic Ireland to the statist forces of the European Union was thus made complete.

The sons and daughters of the Land of Saints and Scholars compounded their error on May 22, 2015, when they voted by a margin of 62.07% to 37.93% in favor of the Irish Constitution’s Thirty-fourth Amendment, which made it “legal” for practitioners of sodomy and its related perverse practices to “marry.”

Yet another referendum is being held on May 25, 2018. The new referendum seeks the approval of Irish voters for permitting the surgical execution of children in their mothers’ wombs up to the age of twelve weeks. Up to this point, however, the voice of the protector of “creation” and the militant defender of the nonexistent “right” of foreign nationals to invade other countries by breaking just laws regulating migration, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, has been as silent as it was three years ago.

Although an original commentary on the current referendum is being written, I thought that it would be useful to post the two commentaries from 2009 as each is most relevant to the current referendum.

Let’s face facts: The Republic of Ireland is in the sorry state that it is because of conciliarism and its “reconciliation” with the new “principles of the era that was inaugurated in 1789.”

Work on other articles, including "Sober Up, part thirteen" and "Jersusalem Belongs to Christ the King and His True Church, part four," will be completed after the original article on new Irish referendum.

Finally, prayers are requested for the family of Father Marcellus Moylan, who is the associate pastor of Our Lady of Victory Chapel in Mason, Ohio. Father Moylan's parents have had to evacuate their home (which, contrary to news that a third party had given us, is still standing, thanks be to God and His Most Blessed Mother--and the prayer composed by Saint Benedict Joseph Labre that is a protection against fires and earthquakes that the Moylans pray daily) in Leilani Estates on the island of Hawaii. They have established a "Go Fund Me" page to solicit donations. Here are links to a news story that features Mr. John Moylan and to the Go Fund Me page: Evacuees Return to their Homes for the First Time Since Eruptions Began and Video of the Moylan Family. The Moylans' Go Fund Me Page.

Our Lady of Knock, pray for us.

Saint Boniface Martyr, pray for us.