Today, Sunday Friday, August 25, 2024, is the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost and the Commemoration of the Feast of Saint Louis IX, King of France, that great exemplar of the Social Reign of Christ the King. Saint Louis was taught by his holy mother, Blessed Blanche of Castile, to prefer death rather to commit a deliberate Mortal Sin. He heard two Masses a day and was a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis, whose patron saint he remains to this day.

Saint Louis strove to rule according to the Mind of Christ the King as He had deposited It exclusively in the Catholic Church, recognizing that he, Louis IX, would have to answer to Christ the King at the moment of his own Particular Judgment for how he ruled his subjects. His letter to his son Philip is a succinct summary of the principles of Catholic Social Teaching. It is a model for how everyone in public life should conduct himself in order to please Christ the King as the devoted client of Our Lady, she who is our Immaculate Queen.

Finally, I can report to you that the next original article for this site is being written and should be completed by late this afternoon, at which point it will be posted.

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Vivat Christus Rex!

Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Louis IX, pray for us.

The hour is late. I am tired. The title is self-explanatory.

I am sorry that it took so long to complete this commentary, but the next one will be posted in only a day or two. 

Finally, I have not given any updates on the need to raise another $1000 as I had made a private appeal. As of this writing, though, the funds have not materialized. Thus, the need remains urgent to to raise the money from those who read these articles and have the means to make even a small non-tax-deductible financial gift. Thank you.

Our Lady, Health of the Sick, pray for us.

Saint Bartholomew, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to which the month of August is devoted, that heart that was pierced with Seven Swords of Sorrow during the Life of her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus was formed out of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. These twin hearts of matchless love suffered as one and they beat as one while on earth and they have beat as one in Heaven since Our Lady was Assumed into Heaven body and soul after her death.

Our Lady's Immaculate Heart was unstained by Original Sin or Actual Sins. The Immaculate Heart of the Mother of God, therefore, was capable of a purity of love of God and of her fellow men that is almost indescribable. Our Lady's Most Pure, Most Holy Heart despises the sins that caused her Divine Son to suffer in His Sacred Humanity during His Passion and Death but at the same time is full of a perfect and completely pure maternal compassion for erring sinners such as you and me.

Our Lord, showing us His infinite compassion for us erring sinners, has sent us His Most Blessed Mother to provide us with her maternal assistance to get home to Heaven as members of His true Church founded upon the Rock of Peter, the Pope.

We have been given the Rosary, the Brown Scapular of Mount Carmel, the Miraculous Medal, and the Green Scapular through her loving hands, through which flow the graces won for us by the shedding of Our Lord's Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross.

Her apparition to Juan Diego and the miraculous image of herself she left on his tilma helped to convert millions of Indians to the true Faith in the Americas.

Our Lady ratified Pope Pius IX's solemn proclamation of her Immaculate Conception by proclaiming herself to Saint Bernadette Soubirous to be the Immaculate Conception on March 25, 1858. And Our Lady's appearance in the Cova da Iria from May 13, 1917, to October 13, 1917, gave us Heaven's Peace Plan, one that runs through her Immaculate Heart.

We must endeavor at all times to fulfill, as far as we are able in this time of apostasy and betrayal, Our Lady's Fatima Message in our own lives, especially by praying as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit and by living penitentially as the consecrated slaves of her Divine Son through her own Immaculate Heart.

The era of apostasy and betrayal will end when the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is made manifest. We can play our roles, small though they may be, in helping to bring about this triumph.

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The next original commentary on this site should be posted by the Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Saturday, August 24, 2024. I am sorry for the delay. However, I work according to the demands on my time and the ability to type, which is sometimes impeded by rheumatoid arthritis. Thank you for your patience.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

Saints Timothy, Hippolytus, and Symphorian, pray for us.

This commentary, which has nothing to do with any of the propaganda that issued forth from the mouths of statists, socialists, communists, racialists, pro-aborts and pro-sodomites in Chicago, Illinois, as I will have nothing to say about any of that farce with the exception of the "invocation" given by Blase Cupich, the Democratic National Convention's house "chaplain," if you will, who made an in-kind contribution to the Kamala Harris/Timothy James Walz campaign with his Judeo-Masonic words that will be the subject of tomorrow's brief commentary, reminds readers that the criminal mastermind from Wilmington, Delaware, who had others peddle the family name to get rich while selling out his country's legitimate national security interests, had first sold out Christ the King and His Holy Catholic Church.

By the way, having received $100 from a reader on Saturday evening, I "only" need to raise another $1100 of the $2500 that I have been trying to raise for the last few days. Politicians can raise ten or twenty times that amount in matter of seconds. I would like think that the work of this website makes a slightly more important contribution to its readers than any does any politican. Please consider making a non-tax-deductible financial gift at this time as the monies raised thus far have come from four people. There must be a few others who support the work of this site and can make a donation of any amount as everyting that can be donated, no matter how seemingly "small," helps to achieve the current goal and is, of course, greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Eudes, pray for us.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, pray for us.

There were some apologists within the structures of the counterfeit of conciliarism who contended with a straight face that the late Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI was taking apart the edifice of conciliarism “brick by brick.” This was a delusional contention at the time as the then Father Joseph Alois Ratzinger played an instrumental role in building that edifice (or façade, perhaps) in the first place.

Jorge Mario Bergolgio and henchmen of his such as Victor Manuel Fernandez and Vincenzo Paglia are taking a wrecking ball to anything that hasn’t already been wrecked by the conciliar revolution, up to and including providing an endorsement, no matter how qualified, to direct euthanasia and the removal of food and hydration to disabled patients (the latter of which was the subject of As Utilitarian as the Nuremburg Laws Themselves seventeen days ago.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Agapitus, pray for us.

Saint Helena, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of Feast of Saint Hyacinth, O.P., the great Apostle of the Northland and one of the first members of the Order of Preachers founded by Saint Dominic de Guzman. (Today is also the third day within the Octave of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Octave Day of Saint Lawrence the Deacon.)

Saint Hyacinth's great zeal for souls and his desire to convert pagans out of their diabolical superstitions into the true Faith, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there can be no true social order. Saint Hyacinth, who had such a great and abiding love for Our Lady, who favored him with apparitions, stands in quite a contrast with the late Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI and his successor, Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Both of these heretics have praised the very false religions that Saint Hyacinth—and every other Catholic missionary—sought to eradicate from the face of the earth by seeking the unconditional conversion of their adherents to the false religion. The difference between Saint Hyacinth's fidelity and apostasy of the conciliar "popes" is stark. It is right there in black and white for all who have the grace to see. See for yourself.

Considerable time was spent adding links, including a complete library of articles that have appeared about Bergoglio on this site in the one hundred thirty-seven months four days, to the preface of this revised article in order to provide readers with a useful and handy resource for those who are new to this site and want to review past articles on Jorge Mario Bergoglio, "Pope Francis" is a stooge and servant of Antichrist.  

An original commentary is being written at this time. My hope is to publish it tomorrow, Sunday, August 18, 2024, the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost and the Commemoration of Saint Agapitus (and, in some places, of Saint Helena).

There is still an urgent need to raise an additional $1200 at this time. This website does not have a large audience. However, there must be at least twelve people who support the work of this site and can make a $100 donation this time. (Perhaps there are twenty-four people who make fifty dollar donations or forty-eighty people who could make $25 donations.) Thank you for your generosity.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Hyacinth, O.P., pray for us.

Saint Lawrence the Deacon, pray for us.

Saint Joachim, the father of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God and the Mediatrix of All Graces, knew the contempt that would be visited upon His Divine Grandson, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, sent himself into voluntary exile after he was denounced by a priest of the Old Dispensation for not producing a child after twenty years of marriage to his wife, our good Saint Anne.

It was during his exile that Saint Joachim was visited by an angel, who reminded him of the fact that Abraham's wife, Sarah, did not conceive a child until she was ninety years old, telling him that his wife, Saint Anne, would conceive a daughter named Mary, who would be the Mother of God. Saint Joachim and Saint Anne brought their daughter to the Temple when she was three years old, giving their long-awaited child back to the good God Who had given them to her so that she could be the Mother of their own Saviour, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. This should teach us to do everything possible to foster vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated religious life among our children, so that we can give them back to God so as to yield a spiritual bounty of souls in His service, especially in this time of apostasy and betrayal.

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Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joachim, pray for us.

Saint Anne, pray for us.

Saint Roch, pray for us.

A self-explanatory title, at least at this late hour, that is.

My republished reflection on the Feast of the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary can be found by scrolling below.

Our Lady, Queen Assumed into Heaven, pray for us.

Today is the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Commemoration of the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost She who was conceived without stain of Original Sin and who committed no Actual Sins in her life did not have to have her body undergo the corruption of the grave, although she truly died and was buried after her death.

Separated physically from her Divine Son after His Ascension into Heaven on Ascension Thursday, although she received Him in Holy Communion, Our Lady was Assumed body and soul into Heaven to plead for us with her Divine Son as the Queen of Heaven and of Earth, the Queen to whom every man must pledge his heart's oblation, the Queen whom every nation must honor publicly with Rosary Processions.

 Our Lady wants us to be in Heaven with her for all eternity. She wants our bodies to rise up incorrupt and glorious from the grave on the Last Day at the General Judgment of the Living and Dead so that our bodies can be reunited with our souls for all eternity in the glory of Heaven.

We need to ask her to help us make such perfect reparation for our sins in this passing, mortal vale of tears that we will pay the debt of what we our for our sins now rather than in the fires of Purgatory. We need to ask her to help us to be serious about seeking sanctity as the consecrated slaves of her Divine Son through her own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart.

What are we waiting for?

Also available for reading on this feast day are: Three Sermons for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J. 

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

Our Lady, Queen Assumed into Heaven, pray for us.

This is a republished reflection on the life of Saint Clare of Assisi that was published oringinally seven years ago. The reflection speaks to the timeless virtues of detachment from the world, self-denial, modesty and a total embrace of holy poverty for love of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and His Holy Church.

This reflection emphasizes Saint Clare’s rejection of worldliness and worldly pleasures. No matter what our own sins and failings with respect to worldliness might be now and have been in the past, Saint Clare’s life and holy example inspires us to quit the world once and for all and to prepare for the world to come by storing up treasures in Heaven that do not rust or fade away, and that no thief can take away from us. 

I will have an update later today concerning the next original commentary. I did publish one such commentary on Sunday, August 11, 2024, the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost and the Commemorations of Saints Tiburtius and Susanna and, in some places, Saint Philomena and Saint Emigdius. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Clare of Assisi, pray for us.

Saint Francis of Assisi, pray for us.

Blessed Agnes of Prague, pray for us.