[Update on Tuesday, October 1, 2024, the Feast of Saint Remigius: I have been working on part six of "Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomini Domine" when I read that the genocidal Israeli Defense has begun a "limited" invasion of Lebanon to crush the Hezbollah after killing the terorist organization's leader by blowing up a building regardless of the presence of innocent civilians and after sending the signals that exploded pagers and cell phones on the persons of over 1500 Hezbollah fighers in Lebanon, once again regardless of who might be killed or injured. Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon to root out the Palestine Liberation Organization only strengthened it and made an international out of Yassir Arafat, which was quite an accomplishment. This current "limited" invasion will as "limited" as the one that has decimated the innocent civilians of Gaza and destroyed much of that region's infrastructure.
[There will never be peace in the Middle East until both Jews and Mohammedans convert to the Catholic Faith and exclaim, "Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domine. Hosanna in excelesis."
[I will resume work on part six later today and should it have posted shortly after Midnight on the Feast of the Holy Guardian Angels.]
This is a reflection on the life and the work of Saint Jerome, the great great Dalmatian who put the love of God above all else. Consider just one quotation from the work of this prolific writer and translator of the Bible into the Latin Vulgate:
"It is a smaller sin to follow evil which you think is good, than not to venture to defend what you know for certain is good. If we cannot endure threats, injustice, poverty, how shall we overcome the flames of Babylon? Let us not lose by hollow peace what we have preserved by war. I should be sorry to allow my fears to teach me faithlessness, when Christ has put the true faith in the power of my choice." (Saint Jerome, Prologue to the Treatise Against the Pelagians.)
How many traditionally-minded Catholics are there who are still attached to the conciliar structure while knowing for certain that it is not good to praise false religions or to enter places of false worship or to treat the "clergy" of false religions as having a mission from the true God of Divine Revelation to serve and save souls refuse to do what is good, that is, to defend the honor and glory and majesty God and His Sacred Deposit Faith in order to indemnify the author of long-since repealed Summorum Pontificum, the late Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, whose successor, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, has laid bare for all the world to see that he is "worried" by those who "want to return to the past"?
We must always defend what we know to be true as servants of the greater honor and glory of God.
Saint Jerome did.
What's our excuse?
Finally, this is the second anniversary of the death of Rebecca Lynn Adams Dupree, the daughter of longtime readers of this site, Michael and Sandra Adams, in Amman, Jordan. Please remember Mrs. Dupree's immortal soul and the needs of her parents, two brothers and sister today as those of her husband and children.
Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
Saint Jerome, pray for us.