The conception and birth of a child changes the life of his parents forever. The death of a husband or a wife ends the sacramental bond of Holy Matrimony. Neither the death of a parent or his child ends the bonds between them that were forged at the moment of the child's conception. A parent has the solemn obligation to help his child get home to Heaven from the first moment he is aware of the child's existence in his mother's womb.

A very late overnight hour has been kept as this article simply was not going to be published if matters were not stretched a little bit. My apologies for the long delay.

The Articles page will be updated later today, the Vigil of Christmas, and links to several articles of interest will be provided at the same time.

A revised reflection, “Make Haste, the Lord is Nigh,” can be found by scrolling directly below.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is nigh today. He comes to us in Midnight in piercing cold in Bethlehem.

Have we prepared to "make haste," that is, to flee from the world and its false attractions and promises and "saviours" to welcome Him in our hearts and souls by means of Holy Communion?

Have we asked His Most Blessed Mother, Who brought Him forth miraculously in the cave when there was no room for Him in the inn, to help us to make room for Him in the "inns" of our hearts and souls.

Have we asked the Patron of the Universal Church and the Protector of the Faithful, Good Saint Joseph, to protect and to guide us as we seek out His Divine foster-Son as He is born for us on Altars of Sacrifice in the Catholic catacombs?

Are we prepared to make this day, Christmas Eve, the Vigil of Christmas, one final day of penance as we abstain from the eating of meat and as we have but one full meal?

Are we prepared to celebrate this Christmas with joy and with thanksgiving as the Word Who was made Flesh in Our Lady's Virginal and Immaculate Womb by the power of God the Holy Ghost beckons us to adore Him in His Real Presence day in and day out?

Make haste, the Lord is nigh.

Midnight is coming.

Are we ready?

Make haste.

Prepare well.

Our Saviour is to be born for us!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

This is a slightly revised—and very brief reflection—on the heroic missionary work of the saint whose feast we celebrate today, Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, a naturalized citizen of the United States who is the first and thus far only citizen of this country to be canonized by a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter.

Let me try to put it to you this way: Mother Cabrini’s insistence on the highest standards of personal modesty and her concern about Italian immigrants being converted by the materialistic and decadent ways of Protestant and Masonic American culture, to say nothing of her love of mortifications and sufferings, would have earned her an “apostolic visitator” sent by Jorge Mario Bergoglio to “reform” her “Pelagian” ways if she lived at this time of apostasy and betrayal.

Well, the transcription of documentation for the next original article has been completed. I expect that the rest of the text will be completed today for posting by tomorrow as it is once again a late hour, although I might endeavor to do a very short, as in one page, commentary about Jorge’s address to his conciliar curia yesterday, after this revised reflection is published.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, pray for us.

Work on an article about Mohammedanism and its institutional commitment to bloodshed to effect world domination, aided both historically, at least at times, and contemporaneously by Talmudists as a means of helping to de-Christianize what is left of the vestiges of Christendom in the supposedly "civilized" West, especially by making it a "thought crime" even to mention the Holy Name of the Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, or to acknowledge His Nativity publicly, is taking a long time because of transcription of important documentation. I hope to have the work done in a few days.

Today's article is the reworking of one written in August of 2012 when United States Representative Paul Davis Ryan (R-Wisconsin), who is now the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, was selected by the man who gave us the prototype for ObamaCare, RomneyCare, namely, former Governor of the Commonwealth of Taxachusetts (excuse, Massachusetts) Willard Mitt Romney to be his vice presidential running mate. This one of two "I Told You So" articles that will be published in the next two days as there is nothing new about the farcical process of public policy decision-making that I can write. What has happened with the passage of the 2014 Omnibus Budget bill is entirely unsurprising. Indeed, it was completely predictable.

All must fall apart absent the Social Reign of Christ the King as it must be exercised by His Catholic Church, and there is no getting "Humpty Dumpty" back together again.

Today, Ember Saturday in Advent, is a day of fast and partial-abstinence.

Please continue to pray for the repose of the soul of the late +Bishop Robert Fidelis McKenna, O.P., R.I.P.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Information on the Requiem Mass for +Bishop Robert Fidelis McKenna, O.P.:

Here is the information on the PontificalI Requiem Mass for the late +Bishop Robert Fidelis McKenna, O.P. (July 8, 1927-December 16, 2015; ordained to the priesthood on June 5, 1958; consecrated as a bishop on August 22, 1986):

This brief reflection on the life and priestly service, published yesterday, December 17, 2015, now contains a postscript with an addendum of prayers for the dying that we started to pray twenty minutes before His Bishop Robert Fidelis McKenna, O.P., died on Wednesday, December 16, 2015, the Feast of Saint Eusebius and the Commemoration of Ember Wednesday in Advent. Another photograph, taken in June of 2008, has been added as well.

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.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for thy faithful servant, Bishop Robert Fidelis McKenna, O.P.

Being unable to respond with alacrity to every twist and turn that takes place in the twisted, demon-infested world of Jorge Mario Bergoglio gives one the advantage of providing those relatively few people who access this site with a perspective on the fact that nothing of substance, putting aside psychedelic “light shows” designed by a man who takes psychedelic substances to put him in touch with the “deities,” that emanates from the Vatican in its conciliar captivity is “new.

(Yes, work continues on the next original article for this site. This is as frustrating for me as it is for those who access this site looking for new articles. Alas, recuperation from surgery requires regular rest, something that overnight writing and posting of articles makes impossible. It is just taking longer to complete articles as a result. I am sorry.)

The saint whose feast we commemorate today, Gaudete Sunday, Saint Lucy, resisted all efforts made by the civil authorities to induce her to worship the idols when a suitor, who was angered by her rejection of him after she had given away her riches to the poor, betrayed her as Christian to the pagan officials of the Roman Empire in Syracuse, Sicily at the beginning of the Fourth Century A.D., in the year 304 A.D. Saint Lucy could have saved her life if only she worshiped the idols.

Unlike the conciliar "pontiffs," men who have esteemed the symbols of various and sundry false religions, with their own consecrated hands, Saint Lucy refused to do so and was immovable when taken to a house of sin. She refused even to look upon the vice that was before her. May this immovable foe of religious liberty help us to see more clearly with the eyes of our immortal souls that the Catholic Church cannot be in the least responsible for the abominations and blasphemies and sacrileges and defections from the Faith perpetrated by the counterfeit church of conciliarism. May Saint Lucy, a model of purity and gentleness and grace and courage, help us to see so clearly that we flee to the catacombs where the Faith is protected without any concessions to conciliarism.

A blessed Feast of Saint Lucy to all who are named after this great witness to the Faith, especially my dear wife, who took Saint Lucy as her patron at Baptism, and our dear daughter, Lucy Mary Therese Norma, who has, of course, a special devotion to the virgin and martyr from Syracuse, Sicily.

I ask your prayers also for the repose of the soul of the late Father Salvatore V. Franco, who died on this day thirteen years ago now. Father Franco, who suffered from serious heart problems but died of a form of leukemia that he only found out he had weeks before he died, was good enough to offer us refuge in his kitchen in Westbury, Long Island, New York, in April of 2002 as he offered the Immemorial Mass of Tradition for us each weekday.

Although I had long before abandoned the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical service on Sundays as I moved in "indult" circles, we made the decision to abandon all putative "offerings" of this abominable travesty during the week when Father Franco took ill and before he died. Father Franco, who was ordained as a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn in June of 1953, had a heart attack in 1963 at the age of thirty-seven, an act of God's Divine Mercy that kept him from being immersed in parish life as the conciliar revolution proceeded apace. Father Franco kept active, however, offering Mass and helping souls. We will be forever grateful to him for providing us with the refuge that he did after Lucy's birth. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen. We miss you, Father!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Lucy, pray for us.