We must use the shield of Our Lady of Mount Carmel's Brown Scapular to defend us against all of the attacks of the devil in our lives, especially as we seek to protect ourselves from the contagions of conciliarism, including the insidious lie of false ecumenism.

This great feast today, of course, represents what tremendous love that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has for us by sending us His Most Blessed Mother to give us a sacramental by which we are clothed in the garment of her Brown Scapular, which serves as a particular protection at the moment of death if we have been faithful to all of the conditions of our enrollment. Our Lord has permitted His Most Blessed Mother to give us so many aids to get home to Heaven--the Rosary, the Brown Scapular, the Miraculous Medal, the Green Scapular, devotion to her Immaculate Heart as part of her Fatima Message. We must wear our Brown Scapular of Mount Carmel constantly as we bear witness as best we can that we have been given a loving Mother in Heaven who intercedes for us to live in such a way in this passing, mortal vale of tears that we will always be ready to die and have her pleading for us nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen."

Let us continue to pray for each other and for Holy Mother Church in this time of apostasy and betrayal as we shield ourselves in Our Lady's garment of the Mount Scapular and pray with fervor and devotion her Most Holy Rosary every day.

A blessed Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel to you you all!

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, pray for us.

Saint Simon Stock, pray for us.

I intended to have a commentary dealing with the recent--but entirely unsurprising--revelations about the butchers at Planned Barrenhood. Work continues on this commentary, whose completion was impeded on the Feast of Saint Henry by a number of things, including getting the news about minivan's repairs (new radiator, new head gasket, rebuilt engine head, new water pump and radiator hoses--little things such as those). All is within the Providence of God. All is accepted with joy and gratitude.

Yesterday's original commentary, "Offend Only By Catholic Truth," can be found below. Just scroll down. Thank you.

Once again, I want to honor my own Confirmation patron saint, Saint Henry the Emperor, on his feast day.

Saint Henry the Emperor was a superb exemplar of the Social Reign of Christ the King who sought to foster peace among men by promoting the missionary work of Holy Mother Church in parts of central and eastern Europe near the end of the First Millennium. He knew that Catholicism was the one and only foundation of personal and social order, seeking at all times to honor Christ the King and Mary our Immaculate Queen. May we plead with him this day and every day to help us to see the world more clearly through the eyes of the Catholic Faith as the consecrated slaves of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, He Who is the King of every man and every nation on the face of this earth without any exception whatsoever, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, pray for us.

Saint Henry the Emperor, pray for us.

Saint Cunegunda, pray for us.

(Today's original article, Offended Only by Catholic Truth, was posted around 3:30 a.m. Please scroll below for the link to it.)

This is a follow-up to "Words Fail," which was published five days ago now. This is a short commentary,

My revised reflection on my own Confirmation patron saint, Saint Henry the Emperor, will appear later today. It is just too late/early to reformat and revise it at this hour.

Thank you.

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.

Saint Henry the Emperor, pray for us.

Words fail at the image below:

This article was published around 3:00 a.m. this morning. Several paragraphs, however, were "left behind," so to speak. These have been reinserted in their proper place at the end of the commentary.

Well, I won't have to worry too much longer about computer glitches as I know that sites such as this one are on "borrowed time" now.

With apologies for the omission, I hereby paste the deleted paragraphs:

What Jorge said in Quito, Ecuador, two days ago now will be repeated throughout his current journey, and it will be repeated when he preaches in front of the families assembled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, two months from now. He has taken page after page from the Montinian playbook in order to break down the sensus Catholicus of ordinary Catholics in order to instill in them the same kind of perverse love that he has for “novelty” and “surprises.”

Well, the hour is incredibly late or remarkably early for one who has been up for about twenty hours.

Although I will write a commentary or two more on Begoglio’s trip to Ecuador, Boliva, and Paraguay as times permits this week, this one has been prepared in order to illustrate the fact that Jorge’s methodology is the same one that was used by “Blessed Paul the Sick fifty years ago this year. The results this time will be just as diabolically inspired and as deadly to souls as were Montini’s six hundred six months ago now.

Pray Rosary after Rosary to console the good God as we seek to make reparation for our own sins and those of the whole world.

The way out of this mess runs through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, and we must pray that a true pope is restored to the Throne of Saint Peter miraculously, and that that true pope will fulfill Our Lady’s Fatima Message without delay.

This is the conclusion of my four part series on Obergefell v. Fell and its aftermath. The concluding part of this series focuses on the political aftermath of the decision, including the influence that the conciliar Vatican’s Green Hornet, who is now in Ecuador (commentaries will be written as time and physical strength permit), is having on the political landscape here in the United States of America.

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Part four of this series should appear on the Sixth Sunday after Advent within the Octave of the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul.

For the moment, though, I have part three to offer you today, Friday, July 3, 2015, the Feast of Pope Saint Leo II within the Octave of the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul.

This is, of course, the First Friday of the month of July, the Month of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Leo II, pray for us.

Today is the magnificent feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to her cousin, Saint Elizabeth, and her preborn Divine Son’s preborn Precursor, Saint John the Baptist.

This date, July 2, marks the end of the period of Our Lady’s Visitation, which began on April 2, lasting until the day after the octave day of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist. Our Lady’s perfect Charity for her cousin and her Divine Son’s Precursor should prompt us to perform the Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy at all times, making sure as well to proclaim the Holy Name of Mary, she whom all generations are duty bound to call blessed, as the Mother of God who made possible our salvation by her perfect fiat to the will of God the Father at the Annunciation and who is the Queen of Heaven and on earth, the very Immaculate Conception who prays for us now and at the hour of our deaths.

Work continues on part three of my current series. Check back early this evening, July 2, 2015. Thank you.

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

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Processus and Martinian, pray for us.

This is a revised reflection that is offered to the readers of this site today, the Feast of the Most Precious Blood Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The Most Precious Blood of Jesus is our laver of redemption, as our own sins, each and every single one of them, caused It to be shed during the events of Holy Thursday and Good Friday.

It was the thought of coming into contact with the horror of our sins, the very antithesis of His Sacred Divinity, that caused Our Lord to sweat droplets of His Most Precious Blood in His Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane.

It was our sins that caused the Most Precious Blood of Jesus to be shed so terribly during His cruel scourging at the Pillar.

It was our sins that caused the Most Precious Blood of Jesus to be shed as He was crowned with thorns to mock His Sacred Kingship over men and their nations.

It was our sins that caused the Most Precious Blood of Jesus to continue to be shed from the scourging and the crowning as He walked up the steps to be judged by the Roman procurator, Pontius Pilate. Droplets of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus are still venerated by pilgrims as proceed on their knees up the Sancta Scala in Rome right across from the Basilica di San Giovanni Laterano.

It was our sins that caused the Most Precious Blood to be shed as Our Lord’s hands and knees were crucified.

It was our sins that caused the Most Precious Blood of Jesus to be shed unto Its last drop as He hung on the gibbet of the Holy Holy Cross for three hours, flowing in a torrent as Our Lord’s wounded side was pierced with the lance of Saint Longinus.

What is It that is poured out onto our souls when they are Absolved by a true priest in the Sacred Tribunal of Penance? The Most Precious Blood of Jesus.

The Most Precious Blood of Jesus strengthens us when we receive It worthily in Holy Communion.

It was the shedding of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus on the wood of the Holy Cross that ratified the New and Eternal Covenant He inaugurated at the Last Supper, thereby obliterating forever the old sacrifices of the blood of bulls and goats and lambs in Temple worship, thus superseding he Old Covenant of the Jews.

We must celebrate this great Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus, which was pumped through Our Divine Redeemer’s Sacred Body by His Most Sacred Heart, the very font of Mercy, with gratitude that we, sinners who caused It to be shed in torrents under the most unspeakably cruel conditions, are bathed unto our redemption by Its merits. May we never take the Most Precious Blood of Jesus for granted.

Part three in my current series is still being written. There are as of yet about three hours of work to do on the article before it can be posted. As work is somewhat impeded now by a flareup of lower back problems attendant with the arthritis that has established itself there some forty-seven plus years after spinal surgery, sitting down poses a bit of a problem now, and it is necessary to sit down in order to type. God willing and Our Lady interceding, I should be done, however, by this time tomorrow night/morning, the Feast of the Visitation of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary and the Commemoration of Saints Processus and Martinian.

A blessed Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ to you all!

Our Lady or the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.