The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus: Remedy for the Cruelty of a Truly Cruel Age

On this Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, I have four republished reflections to offer those who still access this webiste, this fourth of which is centered around Pope Pius XI's Caritate Christi Compulsi, which was issued on May 3, 1932.

A blessed Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to you all.

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.

No One Is A Stranger to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

One of the saddest developments in this time when we lack the Principle of Unity that is a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter is the spirit of excluding Catholics from the reception of Holy Communion because they have had a falling out with a clergyman or who have gone to an "unapproved" Mass venue. Even first-timers in some venues are viewed upon with suspicion as possible spies or infiltrators.

We must always remember, however, that no one is a stranger to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.

Home Enthronement to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary

Each of our homes and our families should be blessed with the Enthronement of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and totally consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary through that Heart of hearts that was formed in her own Virginal and Immaculate Womb.

This, therefore, is a brief exhortation about home enthronement of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.

On the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, June 27, 2025

Today's feast, which was extended to the universal church by Pope Pius IX, is the result of at least six centuries of devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus that culminated with the apparitions of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque at the height of Jansenism in the late-Seventeenth Century. 

None of us deserves the mercies of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Yet it is that Our Divine Redeemer does indeed shower us with those mercies if we approach Him with a contrite heart, especially by making regular use of the Sacred Tribunal Penance to make good, integral confessions of our sins to a true priest as we promise to amend our lives, to do penance and to sin no more. We are loved by Love Himself. We are loved particularly by Love Incarnate, Who died for us on the wood of the Holy Cross to redeem us.

Our Lord's love for us is an act of His Divine Will, the ultimate expression of which is the salvation of our immortal souls as members of His Catholic Church. What an obligation we have to return love unto Love Himself as we seek to serve Him as His consecrated slaves through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Several other reflections on this feast day that have been posted on this site in the past are: , and .

A blessed Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to you all.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.

Chicoms Enabled by Globalists and Modernists, part two

Although a few days later than planned, this is the second and final part of this current series.

I will have another in the "Boy, If Only Leo Knew. Huh?" series tomorrow, followed on Saturday by part twenty of the "Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomini Domine" series.

Thank you.

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

Saints John and Paul, pray for us.

On the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, June 24, 2025

Saint Elizabeth, Saint John the Baptist, is privileged to have his own Nativity celebrated this very day. This is a tremendous feast day in the life of the Catholic Church. 

Saint John the Baptist, the last of the Old Testament prophets, prepared the way for the coming of Our Lord prior to the assumption of His Public Ministry. Freed from Original Sin in the womb of his mother, Saint Elizabeth, who was Saint Anne's cousin, at the moment of Our Lady's Visitation, Saint John the Baptist preached fearlessly to convert sinners from their sinful ways and to prepare them to accept his Cousin, God Incarnate, as their Redeemer. He also knew that he had to decrease in stature in the world as Our Lord increased following His symbolic baptism in the Jordan River, during which, of course, God the Father sent a dove, symbolizing God the Holy Ghost, spoke to tell us in no uncertain terms, "This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3: 17), a proclamation that would God the Father repeated at Our Lord's Transfiguration (Matthew 17: 5).

Saint John the Baptist fearlessly proclaimed the truth. He lost his head for doing so. In like manner, of course, we must proclaim the truth, doing so out of fidelity to Our Lord as He has revealed Himself to His true Church, and in true Charity for the eternal good of others, recognizing at all times that we are but weak vessels of clay, full of faults and failings, who must make much reparation to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary for our sins.

It is not easy to speak truth to those in power. Saint John the Baptist knew this.

Those in power, such as King Herod the Tetrarch, who was married illicitly to his brother's wife even though his brother was still very much alive, frequently believe themselves to be beyond criticism and that each of their decisions are binding upon the consciences of all others, a power that Our Lord has given exclusively to true popes, who can indeed bind our consciences.

Those in civil power, however, tend to think of themselves as demigods whose musings on this or that subject carry great significance. No matter who the President of the United States of America is, for example, it is invariably the case that some sort variation of one false, naturalistic presupposition after another is supposed to be accepted by the populace as the foundation for the common good domestically and for peace internationally. These "demigods" can't possibly be wrong, of course. They believe that their shallow words and empty and sometimes contradictory statements are received from on high (actually, their words and actions come from below!) and anyone who dares to dissent from them is suspect of being a "domestic terrorist." 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us

Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomine Domini, part nineteen

This is a commentary about the events of the past fifteen hours.

The commentary is relatively brief, at least insofar as compared to other such commentaries and I believe that it is very readable.

I will try to have part two of my current two-part series ready for publication around this time tomorrow, the fifth day within the Octave of Corpus Christi and the Commemoration of the Vigil of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist.

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

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Chicoms Enabled by Globalists and Modernists, part one

Timothy James Walz, the Governor of the People’s Republic of Minnesota, said recently that his own beloved Red China has the “moral authority” to serve as a “peacemaker” in the Middle East. What a Chicom stooge.

Red China has “moral authority”?

When pigs can fly.

However, the Chicoms have a lot of stooges in the West, and this commentary reminds readers of how these mass murderers use their assets in the West to advance their own effective control over politics, public policy, healthcare, education, and popular culture.

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

Saint Paulinus of Nola, pray for us.

Saint Alban, the British Protomartyr, pray for us.

Boy, If Only Leo Knew, Huh?, part two

The “resist while recognize” movement is at it again as “Bishop” Joseph Strickland has published an open letter criticizing Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV for appointing Shane Mackinlay as the “archbishop” of Brisbane, Australia, even though the latter supports women’s ordination to the conciliar diaconate.

Boy, if only Leo knew, huh?

This is a relatively short commentary.

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

Saint Aloysisus Gonzaga, S.J., pray for us.

On the [Commemorated] Feast of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, S.J., June 21, 2025

I believe that it is appropriate on this commemorated feast of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, S.J.,to present this republished reflection to you.

Saint Aloysius Gonzaga was a great lover of the Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in His Real Presence in the Most Blessed Sacrament and of Our Lady. Saint Aloysius was intensely united to the sufferings that Our Lord endured in His Passion and Death, offering up his own sufferings prior to death, sufferings that he contracted as a result of helping a man with the plague in Rome, in union with that of Our Lord's own Passion and Death.

Saint Aloysius was also devoted to the angels, which makes sense as he had an angelic purity of his own. We need to invoke his holy intercession to help us to have as a pure a heart as he did as we attempt to make reparation to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary for our own sins, especially any and all against Holy Purity.

It was at Saint Aloysius School in Great Neck, New York, where I learned the truths of the Catholic Faith as they were taught with clarity by the Reverend Sisters of Mercy (and one lay teacher, Miss Greta McCarthy, a young Irish immigrant who knew the Holy Faith very well, who became Mrs. Greta Foley after the end of the 1961-1962 school year; she died in 2012), I owe Saint Aloysius so very much. I have been devoted to him from the time that I entered Kindergarten in September of 1956.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, pray for us.

Saint Paulinus of Nola, pray for us.

Saint Alban, pray for us.

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