Do you think that you have sufferings from family members or associates?

The saint whose feast is celebrated today, Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, was favored with visions of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in her childhood, and he believed this to have been a normal experience that any child might have. Even as a child, therefore, this favored child of Our Lord's was blessed with tremendous sufferings from a pair of domineering paternal aunts, who persecuted her and her mother after her father's death. This early childhood suffering, which was accompanied by a physical affliction that left her bedridden for four years, was just a preparation for the suffering that Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque endured to spread public devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus at the specific request of Our Lord Himself.

The hearts of men had grown cold because of Jansenism when Our Lord revealed the secrets of His Most Sacred Heart to Sister Margaret Mary Alacoque in the Visitation Convent in Paray le Monial, France, between December of 1673 and June of 1685. We cannot let our own love for the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus grow cold in our hearts. We must forgive as we are forgiven, and we must remember the high price of infidelity that France paid for the refusal of King Louis XIV to consecrate the whole of France, and not just Paris, to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (as is related in an appendix to this article).

My next original commentary will be about Laudate Deum. As I have a medical procedure to undergo today, though, I think that it may be Friday or Saturday before the commentary can be completed and thus posted on this website. Thank you. 

Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, an intimate of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and a faithful client of Our Lady through her Most Holy Rosary, pray for us.

This is the second and concluding part of a two-part series about the warfare currently taking place in the Holy Land.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Teresa of Jesus, pray for us.

This is a reflection of the life and the incomparable work of Sain't Teresa of Jesus, the indomitable, incomparable reformer, foundress and model of spiritual perfection, Saint Teresa of Avila.

A new comnmentary will be published in a matter of moments. Thank you for your patience.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Teresa of Jesus, pray for us.

This reflection, which was written six years ago, on the message of Our Lady of Fatima includes brief reflections on the liturgical feasts that took place (or were to take place in the future) on each of the dates of Our Lady’s apparitions to Jacinta and Francisco Marto and Lucia dos Santos in the Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal.

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.

Saint Edward the Confessor, pray for us.

This is a reflection on the one hundred sixth anniversary of the final apparition of Our Lady in the Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal, as the Miracle of the Sun occurred and she, clothed in the garment of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, proclaimed herself to be Our Lady of the Rosary.

We need to heed Our Lady's Fatima Message as it is nothing other than Heaven's own Peace Plan. 

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.

Saint Edward the Confessor, pray for us.

This is the feast day of one of the great exemplars of the Social Reign of Christ the King: Saint Edward the Confessor, and this is the one hundred sixth anniversary of Our Lady's Fatima sixth and final Fatima apparition during which the Miracle of the Sun occurred.

Today, Thursday, October 12, 2023, is the five hundred thirty-first anniversary of Christopher Columbus's planting the Cross of the Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, on the island of San Salvador. 

How diabolical it is that that the work of Columbus is rejected today by ignoramuses who hate the fact that he brought the Catholic Faitih to the Americas.

The next original article has been delayed because of medical appointments and tests. It is my expectation for it to be published on Saturday, October 14, 2023, the Feast of Pope Saint Callistus I.

Viva Cristo Rey!

Viva La Virgen de Guadalupe!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

day is the Feast of the Divine Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Council of Ephesus (431 A.D.) declared Our Lady to be the Mother of God. This is a doctrine that that the devil particularly hates, which is why he has raised up all manner of Protestant sects to attack it with a fury, requiring us to defend the doctrine of the Divine Maternity of Our Lady with all of the graces that she sees fit to send us through her loving hands as the Mediatrix of All Graces.

As Father Benedict Baur, O.S.B., explained in The Light of the World, Volume II:

"Fifteen hundred years have passed since Nestorius, a Patriarch of Constantinople, launched the heresy which taught that the person of Christ was different from the person of the Son of God. Nestorius asserted that Mary did not conceive nor bring forth the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, but only the man Christ. According to his teaching she was not the Mother of God, not a God-bearer, but only the mother of a mere man, in whom God dwelt only as in a temple.

A few years later after the beginning of the Nestorian heresy, a council was assembled at Ephesus (431 A.D.), which proclaimed that Mary had given birth to Jesus, who was, at one and the same time, God and man, having two natures but one person. God does not live in Him merely as in a temple, but the man Jesus is at the same time God. Mary is mother, not only of the humanity of Christ, but of the Son of God also. She is the Mother of God. The people of Ephesus awaited the decision of the council hall were opened and the decision was made known, the people greeted the Fathers with great rejoicing and accompanied them to their dwellings with flaming torches, crying out: 'Mary is the bearer of God; Mary is the Mother of God.' 

Today, fifteen hundred years later, we make the same joyful confession. "Mary is the mother of Jesus, the Son of God. The Gospel recounts an incident of His childhood during which He first refers to His divine origin. When Jesus was twelve years old, Joseph and Mary went to Jerusalem to offer sacrifice. 'When they returned, the child Jesus remained in Jerusalem, and His parents knew it not.' They believed Him to be in the company of relatives. But they were mistaken. After a long and anxious search they found Him in the Temple, sitting among the doctors of the law. 'And His mother said to Him: Son, why hast Thou done to so us? Behold Thy father and I have sought Thee sorrowing.' This rebuke shows the concern of a mother who has borne suffering with love. But Jesus meekly answers: 'Did you not know that I must be about My Father's business?' He refers to His Heavenly Father, for He is Son of God. He was conceived, not by the power of man, but by the power of God (Offertory). When the angel had first brought the message to Mary, she had answered: Behold the handmaid of Lord; be it done unto me according to thy word" (Luke 1: 38). And at her word, the only-begotten Son of God was made flesh in the womb of the Virgin Mother. We pray tribute to this mystery at the Communion, when we confess, 'Blessed is the womb of the Virgin Mary, which bore the Son of the eternal Father.' Blessed art thou, O holy Mother of God, who wert united to the Son of God in a most intimate union when thou didst bear Him in thy womb. "Mary provided the body for the Son of God, and he in return Christ filled the soul of Mary with the fullness of His spirit. Mary became wholly absorbed in Him and became like Him. She became united to Him in a most intimate union. 'Alleluia, alleluia. Virgin Mother of God, He whom the whole world cannot contain, enclosed Himself in thy womb, being made man, Alleluia.' 'Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.' " 'As the vine, I have brought forth a pleasant odor, and my flowers are the fruit of honor and riches' (Epistle). The blossoms on this vine are the precious virtues of faith and humility which the Virgin exhibited when she received the message of the angel. She was resolute in her attachment to her virginity: "I know not man" (Luke 1: 34). Yet she is obedient to the will of God and speaks her fiat: "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done unto me according to thy word" (Luke 1: 38). "My flowers are the fruit of honor and riches," Christ the Lord. "There shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse," Mary, who is sprung from the house of David; "and a flower shall rise up out of his root," Christ, the Son of Mary (Gradual). Humanity and divinity are united in this one person. 'Come over to me, all yet that desire me, and be filled with my fruits' (Epistle). Mary does not keep her child for herself; she bequeaths Him to us when He is born at Bethlehem, when He is offered in the Temple, and when He offers Himself up on the cross. She gives Him to us again daily in Holy Communion. Mary has borne Christ for us. Together with her Divine Son, she has given us salvation and an abundance of grace. She stands even today at the throne of God as our advocate and or all-powerful intercessor, armed with irresistible intercessory power, the mother of all those who are in the state of sanctifying grace. "We renew our faith in the mystery of Mary's divine motherhood. 'Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.' God is thy child, having taken His humanity from thy flesh. " 'Come over to me . . . and be filled with my fruits,' for it is Christ Jesus whom I give you. He was first given to us when we were reborn through baptism: He is given to us today at Mass and Holy Communion: 'Hath He not also with Him given us all things?' (Rom. 8: 32.) Since Mary has given us all things through Christ, we today express our gratitude to her." (Father Benedict Baur, O.S.B., The Light of the World, Volume II, B. Herder Book Company, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1954, pp. 440-442.) 

I will have a follow-up to Monday's article by tomorrow, Thursday, October 12, 2023. The commentary on Laudate Deum will take a bit longer to complete.

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

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us

Although I will have a commentary about Laudate Deum in a few days, I decided that it would be useful to prepare a commentary about the tragic events that took place in Israel on Saturday, October 7, 2023, that are but the inevitable consequences of what happens when adhere to false religions, no less false religions that deny the Sacred Divinity of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and, quite indeed, blaspheme Him and His Most Blessed Mother in their respective “holy books.”

May God have mercy on us all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Leonard, pray for us.

Saints Dionysius, Rusticus, and Eleutherius pray for us.

Five conciliar “cardinals (Raymond Leo Burke, Walter Brandmuller, Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun, Juan Sandoval Iniguez, and Robert Sarah) sent a series of dubia on July 11, 2023, to the man they believe is a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter, Jorge Mario Bergoglio (aka “Pope Francis”), who responded almost immediately, prompting the putative “cardinals” to send another set of dubia on August 21, 2023, seeking clarification because the answers Bergoglio gave to their original questions were either ambiguous or unsatisfactory. In doing this, however, Raymond Leo Burke, for example, has said that “the dubia were not meant as an attack on ‘Pope Francis’”, and by extension, therefore, not an attack on the legitimacy of the decrees of the “Second” Vatican Council, the “magisterium of the conciliar “popes,” the orthodoxy of the conciliar sect’s 1983 code of canon law, the misnamed Catechism of the Catholic Church, and the entire panoply of exercises that constitute the conciliar doctrine of false ecumenism (interreligious prayer services and “blessings,” joint conferences trying to identify the “keys to peace, etc.).

Rather than to attempt to offer my own set of dubia to the five conciliar “cardinals” as I had thought about doing within the context of this commentary, I think it far more useful to remind the readers of this website that, no matter Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s multiple defections from the Catholic Faith and his embrace of every Communist and hence globalist prescription for “solving” problems that have Original Sin as their remote cause and our own Actual Sins as their proximate cause, we are only witnessing the manifestation of the perfection of the errors inherent in the conciliar enterprise.

My commentary on Laudate Deum should appear by Monday, October 9, 2023, the Feast of Saint John Leonard and the Commemorations of Saints Dionysius, Rusticus, and Eleutherius.

A blessed Feast of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary to you all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Mark, pray for us.

Saints Sergius, Bacchus, Marcellus, and Apuleius, pray for us.

Saints Sergius, Bacchus, Marcellus, and Apuleius, pray for us.