Our one and only goal in this life is to get home to Heaven by dying in a state of Sanctifying Grace as a member of the Catholic Church. Absolutely nothing else matters. The path to Heaven runs through the Cross of our Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, as we consecrate ourselves to Him totally through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of His Most Blessed Mother.

We must embrace suffering and humiliation and hardship with equanimity, joy and gratitude, mindful of the fact that Our Lady desires use whatever merits we earn from our embrace of our sufferings for the honor and glory of the Most Blessed Trinity and for the good of souls, especially the Poor Souls in the Church Suffering in Purgatory, whose intentions we must remember every day and especially during this month of November. There is no other path to the triumph of the empty tomb other than the suffering of the Cross.

We must also forgive right readily those who have offended us in any way and to ask forgiveness from those whom we have offended, whether advertently or inadvertently. Nothing anyone does to us or says about us is the equal of what one of our least Venial Sins caused Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to suffer in His Sacred Humanity during his Passion and Death and that caused His Most Blessed Mother's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart to be pierced through and through with Seven Swords of Sorrow. 

The good, the bad and the ugly of ever person's life is revealed only on the Last Day at the General Judgment of the living and the dead. Let us be content to bear with suffering, humiliation, ostracism and mockery now as a means of so dying to self that we will consider it to be a great honor to be crushed and brought low in the sight of men. Suffering is indeed the path to triumph!

We must continue to pray for each other on a daily basis, praying especially that the disagreements of the present moment in this time of apostasy and betrayal will be washed away by the merits of the Most Precious Blood of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and by the maternal intercession of His Most Blessed Mother.

If we want to be in Heaven for all eternity, you see, in the presence of the Most Blessed Trinity, Our Lady, Saint Joseph and all of the angels of the saints, then it is a pretty good idea to pray for everyone whom God's Providence has placed in our paths, hoping that those from whom we might be estranged at the present time, especially because of the divisions among Catholics created by conciliarism and its apostasies, will be united with us for all eternity in the glories of Heaven, please God that each of us dies in a state of Sanctifying Grace.

One of ways in which we can practice true Charity is to remember the Poor Souls every day in our prayers. Terrible, terrible sinner that I am, one of my devotions has long been to the Poor Souls. To help the Poor Souls repay the debt that they can no longer pay for themselves is to acquire friends for eternity who will help us at the moment of our own deaths. Charity to the Poor Souls can help to undo our own uncharity to others in this passing, mortal vale of tears. This is indeed the month of the Poor Souls.

Let us show them our due attention each and every day of the year, especially in this month of November. Remember, of course, that from noon today on All Saints' Day through midnight of the Commemoration of All Souls tomorrow the Catholic faithful, as often as they visit a church or to pray for the dead, reciting six times during each visit the Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be for the intentions of Holy Mother Church may gain a plenary indulgence applicable only to the souls in Purgatory, under the usual conditions of making a good Confession within a week before or after, worthily receiving Holy Communion within the week and having the right intention of heart. This is called the Toties Quoties Indulgence.

An original article will be published within ninety mintues of this posting. 

Finally, the next original article for this site is nearing completion. Although I am working on getting out a series of anthologies of my spiritual/liturgical reflections, I will continue to write as time and my own physical ability, which on some days is limited because of the chronically deteriorated state of my lower spine, permit. Thank you.

A blessed All Saints Day to you all!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

All the Saints, pray for us.

“Naturally Absurd, part four,” is still a work in progress and will be delayed by three more days because of need to write a brief commentary about the Mohammedan terrorist attack in Nice, France, by a knife-wielding Tunisian man who had traveled to Nice by way of Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s favorite “migrant” camp, the island of Lampedusa.

This current commentary is several days in the making and focuses on the surgical execution of the innocent preborn that the Catholic reprobate Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., supports without restriction and on calls made by the Knights of Columbus and the March for Life for a “consensus” on baby-killing.

Consensus?

God is a majority of One.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

As the Feast of Christ the King was two days ago, I thought that it would be useful to contrast thethe  promise made by kings contained in Catholic Coronation Rite as found in the 1896 Pontificale Romanum to “cut off the mass of iniquity” with our own very blithe and passive acceptance of the “mass of iniquity” as evil keeps being advanced, whether at an accelerated rate by the coercive power of the civil state or at more imperceptible rate by means of its being institutionalized slowly so that people can become used to its acceptance, no matter which organized crime family of naturalism is in power.

This is not a commentary about the election. “Naturally Absurd, part four,” will focus on the election later this week. However, the purpose of this new commentary is to explain that what we accept for “leadership” and “progress” is laughable when compared to what Holy Mother Church required of kings during the era of Chrisendom.

Vivat Christus Rex!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Simon and Jude, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Universal Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Commemoration of the Twentieth-first Sunday after Pentecost.

As we live in the midst of the insanity, the utter madness of the absolute farce that is our Judeo-Masonic governmental system, we must always be champions of Christ the King as His totally consecrated slaves through His Most Blessed Mother's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Our Lord is meant to be King of both men and their nations. We must never fall for the diabolical trap posed by the organized forces of naturalism in our country. We must rally at all times to the cause of Christ the King, Whose cause is defended by neither the naturalists in political parties or the conciliarists in the counterfeit church of conciliarism.

Remember, the coup that made it possible for the likes of Robert Mueller, James Brien Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, Adam Schiff. Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi, et al. to instigate a coup against a fellow naturalist they believe to be on the "wrong" side of the naturalist divide was undertaken by Martin Luther just four days shy of five hundred two years ago. Luther's coup against Christ the King and His true Church is being celebrated by Jorge Mario Bergoglio and his band of conciliar revolutionaries. Una cum Francisco, anyone?

A new article on this subject will appear by Tuesday, October 27, 2020, the Vigil of Saints Simon and Jude.

Vivat Christus Rex!

Viva Cristo Rey!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Today is the great feast of the Universal Kingship of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, instituted by Pope Pius XI by the issuance of Quas Primas, December 11, 1925, to counteract the naturalism and the anticlericalism that was spreading so wildly in the world and attracting so many Catholics away from the Faith. This is ninety-fifth observance of the Feast of Christ the King since its institution.

A new article about the Social Reign of Christ the King and the consequences of its overthrow five centuries ago by the Protestant Revolution is being written but may not appear until Tuesday, October 27, 2020, the Vigil of Saints Simon and Jude.

A blessed Feast of Christ the King to you all!

Vivat Christus Rex! Viva Cristo Rey!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Although it has taken me longer than I would have liked, this commentary is about the entirely unsurprising endorsement that Jorge Mario Bergoglio has given to “civil union” status for those engaged in perverse sins against nature.

I will let the commentary speak for itself.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

There has been much news about the high priests and priestesses of the Red Chinese subsidiary known as Silicon Valley imposing censorship upon a news story concerning a certain “businessman” who had to make sure that his “big guy,” namely, his own father, got a cut of the booty from Chinese Communist Party front companies.

This commentary reminds readers that the contemporary censorship imposed by “Big Tech” to enforce the “party line” is an inversion of that which belongs to Holy Mother Church: the authority and the duty to prohibit that which is offensive to God and injurious to souls from being distributed.

My attention turns now to the completion of “Naturally Absurd, part four,” which may not appear until Saturday, October 24, 2020, the Feast of Saint Raphael the Archangel.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Hilarion, pray for us.

Saint Ursula and her Companions, pray for us.

Today, Sunday, October 18, 2020, is the Feast of Saint Luke and the Commemorations of the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost and of Mission Sunday (Collects from the Votive Mass of the Propagation of the Faith). This is a brief reflection on the evangelist who is symbolized as a winged ox. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Luke the Evangelist, pray for us.

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).

A new article is being written. However, it will not appear until Wednesday or Thursday of the coming week as it requires great attention to detail and time to make a variety of different distinctions. 

In the meantime, it's nearly Midnight, do you know where your laptop computer is, Hunter Biden? Everyone seems to know but 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 a brief follow up to Steeped in the Erros of Americanism and Conciliarism Through No Fault of Her Own and focuses upon an answer about leaving her faith “aside” in response to a question posed by United States Senator Lindsey Graham on Tuesday,  October 13, 2020, the Feast of Saint Edward the Confessor.

We are beginning another fifty-four day Rosary Novena today, October 15, 2020, the Feast of Saint Teresa of Jesus, that will end on the Feast of Saint Ambrose and the Commemoration of the Vigil of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The intention of this Novena is to pray that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will shorten the time by which a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter will be restored to the Holy See. The inspiration for this intention is based on Saint Ambrose’s observation that Our Lord speeded up the time of His Resurrection so that His Most Blessed Mother would not suffer His absence longer:

Saint Ambrose says that the grief of the Blessed Virgin without her Son was so great, that to soften it, our Lord hastened His resurrection. I to will show myself a true son of Mary by making haste to rise again to grace, by means of a good confession, if by misfortune I should ever fall into sin. (Saint Ambrose of Milan.)

Here is a reminder about the structure of a fifty-four day Rosary Novena:

Day 1 of the Novena: Joyful Mysteries.

Day 2 of the Novena: Sorrowful Mysteries.

Day 3 of the Novena: Glorious Mysteries. 

Day 4 of the Novena: Joyful Mysteries.

Day 5 of the Novena: Sorrowful Mysteries.

Day 6 of the Novena: Glorious Mysteries.

Day 7 of the Novena: Joyful Mysteries.

Day 8 of the Novena: Sorrowful Mysteries.

Day 9 of the Novena: Glorious Mysteries.

The pattern is repeated from Days 10-18, 19-27, 28-36, 26-45 and 46-54. 

Thank you.

A reflection on the life and work of Saint Teresa of Avila can be found by scrolling below.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Teresa of Jesus, pray for us.