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September 14 Republished Article
Republished: Lift High The Cross
Although I should have an original article posted by late this afternoon, this republished article on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross covers many of the themes that will be reviewed once again in that new article, which will be entitled, "Why We Oppose Naturalism and Naturalists." Naturalists believe that it is neither necessary or desirable to make public reference to the Holy Cross of the Divine Redeemer as the only means by which we are given the Sanctifying Graces to ameliorate the problems of the world, each and every single one of which is the result of Original Sin and our own Actual Sins.
The devil, who is the chief naturalist, understands that there can be fewer greater victories in the lives of men and their nations than to rob them of the knowledge of the Holy Cross of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and/or to convince them that that Holy Cross is irrelevant to proper ordering of social life. This is what the founders of the United States of America believed as they trusted in the nonexistent "ability" of men to pursue the common good absent a total subordination to the Deposit of Faith that Our Lord has entrusted exclusively to the Catholic Church and as they rejected the belief that it was necessary for men to cooperate with the graces won for them on the wood of the Holy Cross in order to be virtuous, no less to scale the heights of personal sanctity. This is what all naturalists, whether of the "left" or of the "right," believe, which is why we must oppose them and their empty, hollow "plans" to "save" the world.
The Saviour of the world hung on the wood of the Holy Cross:
Ecce lignum Crucis, in quo salus mundit pependit.
Behold the wood of the Cross, on which hung the Saviour of the world. (Adoration of the Cross, Good Friday Liturgy.)
The Cross of the Divine Redeemer was displayed prominently on street corners and in the nooks and crannies of every village in Europe during the era of Christendom. There is "expiration date" on the Cross of the Divine Redeemer's relevance to the life of any man or of any nation. We must lift high the Cross in our own daily lives and we must plant it firmly in the soil of our nation without any apology whatsoever as Catholicism is the one and only foundation of personal and social order.
We must also remember that Our Lady stands at the foot of her Divine Son's Most Holy Cross in every true offering of Holy Mass just as she stood at the foot of the Holy Cross on Good Friday. She stands with us as we bear our own crosses in our daily lives. We must, therefore, seek the assistance of the Mother of God in lifting high her Divine Son's Holy Cross in our daily lives, praying as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit.
The cross is ever present in each of our lives, and for this we must say with Saint Francis of Assisi, Deo gratias! Indeed, we had a small cross yesterday as that tow bar I knew was on its last legs finally snapped off, resulting in the Trail Blazer's crashing into the back of the motor home (it was a gentle crash with no real damage done). Penance is the path to Heaven. We do our penances by carrying our crosses with gratitude. Isn't it great to be a Catholic?
A blessed Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross to you all!
September 12 Republished Article
Revised: A Name That Must Be On Our Lips At All Times
Today is the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary, commemorating the victory won by King Jan Sobieski of Poland over the Mohammedans at the Gates of Vienna on September 13, 1683. The troops under the command of Jan Sobieski exclaimed "Jesus, Mary, Sobieski!" as they prayed their Rosaries and routed the Turkish forces.
Each of us does battle every day with the Turks, that is, with the forces of the world, the flesh, and the devil. We must call upon the Holy Name of Mary, something we do at least one hundred fifty-three times every day if we pray all fifteen mysteries of Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary. This sweet name of the Mother of God must be on our lips at all times, and it must be exclaimed by public officials as she is honored as the Queen of Heaven and on earth, yes, of each and every nation on earth, including the United States of America. No one should be ashamed at any time to proclaim the Holy Name of Mary publicly. Indeed, we must do so with joy and confidence.
Saint Louis de Montfort taught us in True Devotion to Mary that those who are the consecrated slaves of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary should address others with a Marian salutation. How felicitous it is, therefore, to greet others with Ave Maria! or a Salve Regina! How glorious it is to make invocations such as "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, we love you, save souls!" or "Sweet Heart of Mary, be my salvation" or "Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and the hour of our death."
Let us honor Our Lady on this great feast day as we keep the twelfth Saturday in Bishop McKenna's Rosary Crusade, meditating today especially on the Second Glorious Mystery, the Ascension of Our Lord into Heaven for the virtue of Hope. May Our Lady, she who is our life, our sweetness and our hope, help us to grow in this virtue, especially in this time of apostasy and betrayal.
Although I had expected to have another short article ready by this morning, my time last evening was spent formatting this temporary home page. I will try to have that short article by later today, God willing and Our Lady interceding. May God bless and Mary keep you, Thomas A. Droleskey.
September 11 Article
Airbrushing The Truth
Why, oh why, are Catholics surprised by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI's constant efforts to deconstruct the truths of the Catholic Faith as he attempts to airbrush the lives of the saints in order to make them witnesses in behalf of concilairism? Although I have written on the themes contained in this article quite a lot, the new posting is an entirely new composition. We should not be surprised by the false "pontiff" has airbrushed the life and the work of Saint Peter Damian. He has done so with Saint Paul, Saint John Chrysostom, and Saint Augustine of Hippo. He has done so with the Faith Itself. Saints Protus and Hyacinth, pray for us.
Also, it has come to my attention that a certain website noted for its occasional misrepresentation of the news--and for its selective reporting on the arrests of clerics charged with various crimes--is propagating the "George Washington died as a Catholic" chestnut. For a important corrective of this falsehood, see Dr. Marian T. Horvat's Did George Washington Convert to Catholicism? It would also be good to once again read Dr. John C. Rao's
Founding Fathers vs. Church Fathers: 666-0 as an antidote to the untruth about Washington's "conversion."
A good historian is not infallible. He or she can come to invalid conclusions based on the facts studied. However, good historians are a bit more reliable than sensationalists who distort the truth either to make headlines or to advance certain heresies, such as the heresy of Americanism, which was condemned by Pope Leo XIII in Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae, January 22, 1899, written four years after he had warned the American bishops of the necessity to teach Catholics in the United States of America his encyclical letters on the state, which--surprise, surprise--they were not teaching, and to reject the American notion of separation of Church and State that became the foundation for conciliarism's own view of Church-State relations, championed, of course, very vigorously by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI:
Yet, though all this is true, it would be very erroneous to draw the conclusion that in America is to be sought the type of the most desirable status of the Church, or that it would be universally lawful or expedient for State and Church to be, as in America, dissevered and divorced. The fact that Catholicity with you is in good condition, nay, is even enjoying a prosperous growth, is by all means to be attributed to the fecundity with which God has endowed His Church, in virtue of which unless men or circumstances interfere, she spontaneously expands and propagates herself; but she would bring forth more abundant fruits if, in addition to liberty, she enjoyed the favor of the laws and the patronage of the public authority. (Pope Leo XIII, Longiqua Oceani, January 6, 1895; see also
King George III Is Owed An Apology and
A Catechism of the Social Reign of Christ the King.)
There should be a new article posted tomorrow, the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary, in addition to a republished article about the feast day itself.
It's time to get back to work. (I will try to find some way to fix this home page, whose formatting has gone blooey! My apologies.)
September 10 Article and Late Afternoon Update
TelePrompTer: Weapon of Mass Disinformation
Another day, another speech from Caesar Obamus. Another day, another article from me. This article was revised ever so slightly late this afternoon in order to elaborate on one or two points made in the original posting. Two points that I had made in previous articles on this topic concerning the seeking of extraordinary medical treatment were omitted from this article. As not everyone reads every article, I should have included those points in the original text.
I will try to have another article published by some time tomorrow afternoon. Speaking of health, mine is not the best, which is why I may need to take this night off from writing.
Viva Cristo Rey! Saint Nicholas of Tolentino, pray for us.
September 9 Articles
You Could Be Swingin' On A Star
There are those who beat me up pretty good for criticizing the fraudulent nature of former President George Walker Bush's claim to be "pro-life." The former President was nothing of the sort. Indeed, he was a statist and a globalist of the first order. Naturalism is naturalism, and it does not matter to me if the naturalism is coming from the false opposite of the "right" or the false opposite of the "left." I will never cease (although I do occasionally get very tired physically!) in reminding the few numbers of people who read my articles that Catholicism is the one and only foundation of personal and social order.
Those who raked me over the coals for exposing the fraudulent nature of Bush the Lesser's claim to be "pro-life" failed to forget that I was a fierce critic of the pro-abortion administration of former President William Jefferson Blythe Clinton and Vice President Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. Computer crashes have destroyed most of the articles that I wrote about the policies of that nefarious administration for The Wanderer and for the printed pages of Christ or Chaos between 1992 and 2001.
I do hope, however, that those with short memories will note the fact that Caesar Obamus is not getting off lightly on this site of little earthly influence (I write for the honor and glory God and hope only that my work will help, not hinder, the sanctification and salvation of my immortal soul). Today's article rebuts Obama's TelePrompTer-aided speech on education, given yesterday at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. Several others this week will deal with other aspects of the full-blown statism that it is upon us at this time as a Chastisement for our sins and as a direct result of the overthrow of the Social Reign of Christ the King wrought by the Protestant Revolt and institutionalized by the rise of Judeo-Masonry and by all of the inter-related naturalistic ideologies spawned thereby. Naturalists don't get off easy on this site. Naturalism and Catholicism are mutually irreconcilable.
Republished: A Misplaced Zeal For Souls?
In contrast to the blase and practically indifferent attitude of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict about the state of the souls of those who adhere to various false religions, Saint Peter Claver, S.J., had a great and truly Catholic zeal for souls, baptizing over 300,000 people in Colombia who were destined for chattel slavery in the Americas. Saint Peter Claver freed those souls from enslavement to the devil by means of Original Sin, equipping them to offer up the injustices of chattel slavery as disciples of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and as the devoted clients of His Most Blessed Mother. Saint Peter Claver's example does indeed stand in stark contrast to that of the revolutionaries of the counterfeit church of conciliarism. Saint Peter Claver, pray for us!
I will try, physical strength permitting, to have another original article for you tomorrow, the Feast of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino.
September 8 Revised Article
Revised: Maria Bambina
Today is the great feast day of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, she who is the fairest flower of our race.
The angels rejoiced around the crib where Good Saint Anne placed her all-holy daughter, who had been conceived without any stain of Original Sin nine months before, that is, on December 8. The New Eve, whose act of perfect obedience to the will of God the Father at the moment that Saint Gabriel the Archangel announced to her that she would be the very Mother of God untied the knot of the first Eve's prideful disobedience in the Garden of Eden, shone at her Nativity with exterior beauty and brightness that reflected the interior beauty and brightness of her immortal soul, filled with grace at the very moment of Immaculate Conception. The favor of God rested upon Our Lady from all eternity.
How can words capture our gratitude and joy to God for giving us Our Lady to be our own Heavenly Mother and Queen? They can't. Words can only approximate our gratitude and joy this day--and every day of our lives--over the fact that the Singular Vessel of Devotion in whose Virginal and Immaculate Womb would be conceived Our Divine Redeemer.
We would not have any chance of getting to Heaven if Our Lady had not been conceived and born. We have no chance of getting to Heaven without Our Lady's help, which is why we, as the consecrated slaves of her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through her own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, must cling to her at all times, especially by means of wearing--and the fulfilling the terms of our enrollment in--her Brown Scapular and by praying as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit.
Perhaps the best birthday gift that we can give to Our Lady, apart from our worthy reception of her Divine Son in Holy Communion at a true offering of Holy Mass at the hands of a true bishop or a true priest who makes no concessions to conciliarism whatsoever, is to resolve now to do live more penitentially in reparation for our sins and those of the world world. By living more penitentially and by praying more Rosaries each day, you see, our souls might--emphasis on might--begin to be filled with more fervor and tenderness for Our Most Blessed Mother, she who made possible our salvation and who is the Mediatrix of All Graces.
A blessed Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary to you all.
There might be another original article posted on this site later this afternoon. It will deal with Caesar Obamus's "nanny speech"
to those entrapped in
America's Concentration Camps.
September 7 Article
More Rationalizations and Distortions
Another day, another conciliar "bishop" to take to the woodshed over his rationalization--and distortion--of the scandalous travesty represented by the Protestant and Masonic Novus Ordo "Mass of Christian Burial" that was accorded to the late statist, pro-abort United States Senator Edward Moore Kennedy.
"Bishop" Robert Morlino, known as a "hard-line" "pro-life" "bishop" in conciliar circles, justified Kennedy's funeral, saying in a column (found in its entirety in the body of this article) that it was a "subdued" liturgical experience befitting Kennedy's support for abortion. Subdued?
Several of the quotations used in Sean O'Malley: Coward and Hypocrite have been used in this article. Many of the same themes have been repeated. The article is, however, an entirely new composition. And while it is indeed very tiring to have to repeat myself so much, it is my prayer and my hope that at least a few of those who access this site will see that conciliarism and Catholicism are two entirely different religions. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us. Saint Cloud, pray for us.
There will be a republished article on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary tomorrow, Tuesday, September 8, 2009. There should be, God willing and Our Lady interceding, another original article as well for the multitudes who flock to this site!
September 5 Article
It's About The Faith, Not About Face
Another relatively late hour. Another award-winning article that will be viewed by about fifty-eight people or so (that's the average for articles posted on Saturdays). All to thee Blessed Mother. All to thy Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, we love you. Save souls!
This new article, which does not really cover any new territory, discusses the decision of the conciliar "bishop" of the Diocese of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Edward Slattery, to "offer" the Protestant and Novus Ordo service facing the Cranmer table rather than facing the people. "Bishop" Slattery has written a very thoughtful explication of why he will do so, if only at Holy Family Cathedral in Tulsa. Unfortunately, however, the Novus Ordo is in and of itself an offense to God and attack on the Deposit of Faith that He entrusted exclusively to the Catholic Church for Its eternal safekeeping and infallible explication. The battle we fight is for the integrity of the Holy Faith, not about which way to "face" in Holy Mass.
There is no need to debate the "orientation" of the priest in the Immemorial Mass of Tradition, which safeguards the integrity of the Holy Faith, as the Immemorial Mass of Tradition is oriented in the direction of God, our First Cause and our Last End. And the true God of Revelation is not pleased that a synthetic liturgy that has been built in large part on the basis of recommendations made by Protestants mocks Him as it undermines the Holy Faith. We must, of course, cleave always to true bishops and true priests in the Catholic catacombs who make no concessions to conciliarism, praying fervently that Catholics yet attached to the counterfeit church of conciliarism but who have a true and sincere love for God, such as "Bishop" Slattery, may find their way out of this false church as did the courageous Michael Oswalt earlier this year (see
Embracing The Faith No Matter the Consequences).
This is the First Saturday of the month of September and the eleventh Saturday of Bishop Robert McKenna's
Rosary Crusade. We meditate today upon the First Glorious Mystery, the Resurrection of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ from the dead on Easter Sunday, praying for the virtue of Faith. This is so very appropriate given the fact the Faith has been under attack by the Modernists for over a century now. Please continue to pray also for Bishop McKenna's recovery from his illness.
In your charity, good readers, I ask you to remember to pray for the repose of the soul of my late father, Dr. Albert Henry Martin Droleskey, who died on this date, September 5, seventeen years ago at Flower Memorial Hospital in Sylvania, Ohio. 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.
The next article? Just keep checking. I pushed to get this one done! The Kennedy-O'Malley articles required a lot of work. (Any interest in having those articles published in a pamphlet?)
Saint Lawrence Justinian, pray for us.
Late Afternoon Article on September 3
Sean O'Malley: Coward and Hypocrite
Here is another new article (in addition to the new article posted early this morning) on this Feast of Pope Saint Pius X. The new article is a rejoinder to "Cardinal" Sean O'Malley's "defense" of his decision to permit a Novus Ordo "Mass of Christian Burial" for the late United States Senator Edward Moore Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and for his own presence there. The article speaks for itself. Look for another new article on the First Saturday of the month, September 5, 2009, the Feast of Saint Lawrence Justinian.
Other September 3 Articles
What's Good For Teddy Is Good For Benny
Today is the feast of the great Pope Saint Pius X, whose work against Modernism is summarized in Revised: Modernism's Eternal Foe, Our Eternal Friend. Unlike his immediate predecessor, Pope Leo XIII, and each of his three successors (Popes Benedict XV, Pius XI, and Pius XII), the former Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto was not in the diplomatic service of the Holy See at any time during the nearly forty-five years of his priesthood prior to his rather remarkable election as the Successor of Saint Peter on August 4, 1903. He was not prone to accept the word of diplomats, and he did not suffer lies and misrepresentations easily.
The farm boy from Riese, Italy, who served as a pastor of souls in a rough-and-tumble Italian cow town, Tombolo, and then in Salzano before becoming Bishop of Mantua and the Cardinal Patriarch of Venice, was always close to Our Lady. This tender devotion to Our Lady, which he learned from his saintly mother, helped him to keep close to the sheep even when he was the Vicar of Christ on earth. Thanks to the sign given him by the life and death of Little Nellie of Holy God, Pope Saint Pius X was the advocate of early First Communion (and early Confirmation) and of frequent Communions.
It is no accident at all that Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI made no reference to the centenary of Pascendi Dominci Gregis on September 8, 2007. Ratzinger/Benedict, if he is alive in eleven months, will make no reference on August 15, 2010, to the centenary of Pope Saint Pius X's Notre Charge Apostolique, which was a ringing condemnation of the false philosophy of the Sillon that is of the essence of conciliarism. The contrast between the Catholicism of Pope Saint Pius X, a defender of the Social Reign of Christ the King and the confessionally Catholic civil state, and the conciliarism of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, who is a defender of "healthy laicism" and "religious liberty" and the "separation of Church and State, could not be more clear.
Here is the Collect for today's feast in the Immemorial Mass of Tradition:
O God, who for the defense of the Catholic Faith and the restoration of all things in Christ didst fill Saint Pius, Supreme Pontiff, with heavenly wisdom and apostolic courage: grant in Thy loving kindness that by following his teachings and examples we may attain eternal rewards. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, forever and ever. Amen.
Pope Saint Pius X opposed Modernism. So must we as we refuse any "communion" at all with conciliarism or its false shepherds who are at war with the Catholic Faith. Pope Saint Pius X, pray for us!
I have been sent the following information about Mass centers that have been established by His Excellency Bishop Donald Sanborn in the doctrinal and liturgical wasteland of Georgia and North Carolina. Here is the information:
Saint Teresa of Avila Mission, Atlanta, Georgia (Contact: Mr. Dan Hilliard, 706-215-3939).
Douglas, Georgia (Contact: Hank Haklin, 912-384-1000.)
Saint Philomena Mission, Jacksonville, North Carolina (Contact: Lieutenant Colonel Gerald Brown, 910-938-3311.)
As noted late yesterday, Wednesday, September 2, 2009, the Feast of Saint Stephen of Hungary, I was informed by a reader that some people at Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel in Monroe, Connecticut, are upset with the prayer request that I have made for His Excellency Bishop Robert F. McKenna, O.P. I want to once again reiterate the fact that I did not learn about His Excellency's battle with Waldenström's macroglobulinemia until he informed me of his illness when I spoke with him on the telephone on Thursday, August 27, 2009. I asked His Excellency for explicit permission to post a prayer request for his intentions. He consented to the request. No such request is ever posted on this site without the permission of the individual for whom prayers are being requested. Once again, therefore, I ask one and all to continue to pray for Bishop McKenna as he is treated for Waldenström's macroglobulinemia.
Finally, news has reached me of the death of Mr. Robert Schindler, the father of the murdered Theresa Marie Schindler-Schiavo, whose death by court-ordered starvation and dehydration was examined in over thirty articles on this site in 2004 and 2005. I had met Mr. Schindler several times, including during a rally held in Pinellas Park, Florida on March 12, 2005, across the street from where Terri Schiavo would undergo her thirteen day period of execution by starvation and dehydration, and again in Rome, Italy, two months later, meeting up with him again at a presentation at the headquarters of their foundation on Friday, September 15, 2006.
Bob Schindler died on the Feast of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, Saturday, August 29, 2009, the same day as the Kennedy fiasco in Boston. Please pray for the repose of the soul of Mr. Bob Schindler and the consolation of his family. He suffered much in the past few years. Imagine the horror of seeing your daughter die such a cruel death and to be unable to do anything to stop it. (Please see
Father Martin Stepanich on Terri Schiavo.)
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.
September 2 Republished Article and Late Afternoon Update
Republished: Christo Rex Esto Perpetua
There is quite a contrast between the great Saint Stephen of Hungary, the son-in-law of Saint Henry the Emperor and the father of Saint Emeric (after whom the Americas were named), and the "Catholic" public officials of today. Saint Stephen sought to advance the common temporal good in light of man's Last End: the possession of the glory of the Beatific Vision of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost for all eternity in Heaven. To this end, Saint Stephen, whose own parents had become Catholic as a result of the missionary work that had been sponsored by Saint Henry, sought to convert the entirety of what is now Hungary, understanding that Catholicism was the one and only foundation of personal and social order, the one and only path to a genuine peace among men and among their nations founded in the Social Reign of Christ the King and Mary our Immaculate Queen, to whom Saint Stephen was so tenderly devoted throughout his life. Unlike the late Edward Moore Kennedy, who defied the Received Teaching of the Catholic Church, Saint Stephen of Hungary sought to convert souls to that teaching so that they could be good subjects in this life and thus be fit citizens of Heaven for all eternity. Saint Stephen of Hungary, pray for us.
There will be another original article tomorrow, September 3, 2009, in addition to a republished tribute to Pope Saint Pius X, Modernism's eternal foe and our eternal friend. The illness that wiped me out for most of last week is not entirely through with thrashing me around, something that I accept in reparation for my many sins. A continued bit of this illness is what kept a new article from being posted today, for which I apologize.
Late Afternoon Update: I have been informed by a reader that some people at Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel in Monroe, Connecticut, are upset with the prayer request that I have made for His Excellency Bishop Robert F. McKenna, O.P. May I assure those people that that prayer request was only posted after I had asked explicit permission from His Excellency to do so, which His Excellency gave to me. No such request is ever posted on this site without the permission of the individual for whom prayers are being requested. I ask one and all to continue to pray for Bishop McKenna as he is treated for Waldenström's macroglobulinemia.
September 1 Article
Spotlight On The Ordinary
The travesty that took place in the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Boston, Massachusetts, three days ago has received much attention, and rightfully so. When all is said and done, however, as horrible as the spectacle was--and it was horrible, it was simply a pretty ordinary occurrence in the life of the counterfeit church of conciliarism as a man who supported grave evils was treated as though his immortal soul went straight to Heaven. This is pretty much the norm in many, although certainly not all, parishes in the counterfeit church of conciliarism. The "Mass of Christian Burial" of the late Edward Moore Kennedy simply put a spotlight on what is very ordinary in the false church. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.
Keep checking for the next article. I will, however, try to have one ready for publication tomorrow, the Feast of Saint Stephen of Hungary.
August 31 Update
After seven original articles between last Monday, August 24, 2009, and last Saturday, August 29, 2009, it is time for a day off from writing. There will be a new article tomorrow or Wednesday, September 2, 2009, the Feast of Saint Stephen of Hungary. In the meantime, however, I ask those who have not read my articles on the death and abominable funeral of the late United States Senator Edward Moore Kennedy to consider reading these articles: Another Victim of Americanism, Behold The Free Rein Given to Error,Unfortunate Enough to Be A Baby, and Beacon of Social Justice? Another brief article on this subject will be posted tomorrow or Wednesday.
Please do remember to pray today for His Excellency Bishop Robert F. McKenna, O.P., as he undergoes six-hour intravenous treatment for Waldenström's macroglobulinemia, which is a form of blood cancer that thickens the blood. Please consider praying a set of mysteries of Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary for a true son of the Rosary and of the priest to whom it was given, Saint Dominic de Guzman, O.P., the founder of the Order of Preachers.
August 30 Articles
Republished: The Difference Between Heaven and Hell
This is a short reflection on the life of Saint Rose of Lima, a member of the Third Order of Penance of the Order of Preachers of Saint Dominic de Guzman. Among many other works in her devout life of prayer and austere penances, Saint Rose, who lived among a cluster of saints in Lima, Peru, exhorted the people of Lima to gather in their churches and pray their Rosaries to turn back a pending invasion of their city by a fleet of those virulent anti-Catholics, the Dutch Calvinists. Those hideous people with their diabolical beliefs that have nothing at all to do with Christianity turned back as a result of the Rosaries that were prayed to repel them in their designs to invade Lima and to sack Catholic churches and to desecrated the Most Blessed Sacrament images of the Mother of God. May we pray to Saint Rose of Lima so that we will remain faithful to the daily recitation of Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary as the powerful weapon, after Holy Mass itself, to turn back the enemies of Christ the King in the world and in the counterfeit church of conciliarism. Saint Rose of Lima, pray for us. Saints Felix and Adactus, pray for us.
Finally, yesterday's second original article, Beacon of Social Justice?, was revised late last night in light of the incredible, self-serving letter that the late United States Senator Edward Moore Kennedy sent to Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI. Please do give this article a wide circulation as the scandals caused yesterday might convince a few people that the pastoral praxis of the counterfeit church of conciliarism is, shall we say, a little different than that of the Catholic Church. May God continue to have mercy on us all.
August 29 Articles
Unfortunate Enough to Be A Baby
Unexpectedly, here is another award-winning, eye-popping original article. This one deals with comments made by various conciliar "bishops" about baby-killing under cover of the civil law being, in their warped view, just "one" issue. The apostate L'Osservatore Romano referred to the late Edward Moore Kennedy as having "unfortunately" supported abortion. Unfortunately? Our Lady of Fatima pray for us. Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.
Beacon of Social Justice?
In light of the travesty that took place at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Boston, Massachusetts, this morning, this new article, which covers old themes but is an entirely new composition, has been written. It speaks for itself. We know now that Edward Moore Kennedy died as an unreconstructed supporter of baby-killing under cover of the civil law. No letter of apology or abjuration was read during the travesty we witnessed a few hours ago. May God have mercy on this proud and arrogant man's immortal soul. May God have mercy on us all. Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us.
Check back in two or three days for the next original article. Please continue to pray for Bishop McKenna as we participate in the tenth week of his
Rosary Crusade, meditating today on the Crucifixion of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
August 28 Article
Behold The Free Rein Given to Error
Just another award-winning article on Americanism and conciliarism that will be read by about 112 people or so (that seems to be the average number of people who access articles on the day that they are posted). It's late. I'm very tired. Go read the article. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us. Saint Augustine, pray for us.
Please do read the notice I posted yesterday about His Excellency Bishop Robert F. McKenna's health and keep His Excellency in your prayers. Thank you.
The next article? Well, there will be a republished article for tomorrow, the Feast of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist. As to a new article? There have been five in a row this week. That might be all you get for a few days. Keep checking.
August 27 Article and Prayer Request for the Intentions of Bishop Robert F. McKenna, O.P.
Another Victim of Americanism
Enough with the eulogies of the late United States Senator Edward Moore Kennedy (D-Massachusetts). He has had the moment of his Particular Judgment. God, Who alone searches the hearts and souls of all men, has rendered that Judgment, from which there can be no appeal. It is our duty to pray for the dead. I will pray for the late senator's soul every day until I die (I have particular devotion to the Poor Souls, naming scores upon scores of them every day in my mental prayers) as I prayed for his conversion back to the true Faith before he dies. No prayer is ever wasted. Our Lady will direct the fruit of our prayers to other souls in the event that some departed soul for whom we are praying has no need of our prayers as they are in Heaven or in Hell.
All of that having been noted, however, it is not an act of true Charity for the soul of the late Edward Moore Kennedy to lionize him or to avoid mentioning the simple truth that he died, barring some unexpected note that might be read at his Novus Ordo funeral service, without publicly repenting of his support for baby-killing under cover of the civil law. The late senator remained an unapologetic support of the thoroughly pro-abortion Barack Hussein Obama until his death from brain cancer late Wednesday evening, August 25, 2009.
Senator Kennedy, a victim of Americanism, did not believe that he had to adhere to everything taught by the Catholic Church without any exception whatsoever, and he was reaffirmed in this falsehood by one conciliar "priest" and presbyter after another. Then again, conciliarism, which is a progeny of Americanism, is itself a defection from truths taught by the authority of the Catholic Church. Senator Kennedy "kept the faith" of Americanism and conciliarism until the end, and sadly that is not a good way to end one's days. Kyrie eleison! Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.
Prayers for Bishop McKenna: His Excellency Bishop Robert F. McKenna, O.P., informed me this morning, August 27, 2009, that he will be undergoing a six-hour treatment on Monday, August 310, 2009, the Feast of Saint Raymond Nonnatus, for Waldenström's macroglobulinemia, which is a form of blood cancer that thickens the blood. Please join us, who have profited so much from His Excellency's guidance and instruction, in praying for this good shepherd of souls who has spent himself so tirelessly in the past forty years to provide Catholics with the true Sacraments in this era of apostasy and betrayal. Saint Peregrine, pray for Bishop McKenna!
There should be another original article tomorrow, Friday, August 28, 2009, the Feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo.
August 26 Article
Meathead Meets Meathead
What happens when a Hollywood actor-writer-producer-director who is of the "leftist" bent of naturalism teams up with the former Solicitor General of the United States of America who is known as a naturalist of a "Federalist" bent in order to promote the absurdity of "marriage rights" for those steeped in unrepentant acts of perversity against the Sixth and Ninth Commandments? Well, it's a case of Meathead meets Meathead, that's all. Read more "inside!" Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
This home page is being updated at 12:31 a.m. Central Daylight Saving Time. News has just been posted on the New York Post website of the death of Edward Moore Kennedy. While one hopes that he made a good Confession to a true priest before he died, it is so very sad to think of all of the moral evils, including that of "marriage" between people of the same gender and, of course, baby-killing that he championed so boldly.
It is indeed a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God. We cannot presume the judgment of God on Edward Moore Kennedy's immortal soul as we pray for his soul. We can, however, say that, humanly speaking, the late United States Senator from Massachusetts had much to answer for at the moment of his Particular Judgment. We must be careful in our own lives to do reparation for each of our sins and to do nothing that in any way reaffirms others in their sins, worse yet to protect sinful behavior under cover of the civil law as Edward Moore Kennedy did so righteously and for so long. I will have a commentary about this man's tragic promotion of evil later tomorrow, August 27, 2009, the Feast of Saint Joseph Calasanctius.
What I wrote yesterday in Applause For Killers is suddenly of great relevance once again:
And does anyone doubt that Edward Moore Kennedy, who has been in the United States Senate since November 7, 1962, will be praised greatly by conciliar officials when he dies of the brain cancer that he has been battling since it was diagnosed last year? There will also be an outpouring of "love" for Kennedy on the part of many ordinary Catholics, who have come to accept--or at least to be "comfortable" with--baby-killing under cover of law. (See Apostasy Has Consequences and Accustomed to Apostasy.)
I am afraid that the new few days will see an outpouring of effusive praise on a man who showed his contempt for Christ the King by his embrace of that which put Our King to death on the wood of the Holy Cross: Sin. What a spectacle will unfold before our eyes as Catholics show their own contempt for Christ the King by praising a statist and a pro-abort. May God have mercy on us all.
Finally, friends of ours in Ohio checked our mail two days ago, depositing a few non-tax-deductible financial gifts in our bank account for us. We thank the five people who made such gifts to us. The small amount received was, however, a ratification that we cold not have kept our manufactured house as the amount was short by about, oh, say, ninety percent of what we would need to pay our bills in September. While I am not soliciting such non-tax-deductible financial gifts by means of a new fund-raising letter, it is always helpful to receive such gifts in order that the proceeds of the sale of our manufactured house can last as long as possible. Thanks to those who always give. Thanks to those who have given for the first time. Perhaps a few more of you can join their ranks.
August 25 Articles
Applause For Killers
There is much outrage in the United States of America over the release of
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was convicted of bombing Pan American Flight 103 that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Wednesday, December 21, 1988, by Scottish authorities on humanitarian grounds. Leaving aside Al-Megrahi's guilt or innocence, something that is not the subject of this article, and taking away nothing from the grief of the relatives of those who were killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, it is rather telling that there is no such outrage over the fact that those responsible for the daily slaughter of the preborn, both by chemical and surgical means, that has taken over 50,000,000 innocent human lives in the United States of America alone in the past four decades. And as horrified as many Americans have been by the sight of Al-Megrahi's enthusiastic reception by his fellow Libyans five days ago now, it is also true that Americans give their applause rather enthusiastically to baby-killers and the politicians who support them. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us. Saint Louis IX, King of France, pray for us.
Republished: From His Mother's Knee: A King Who Ruled For Christ the King
Today is 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 Mary our Immaculate Queen. Vivat Christus Rex! Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon. Saint Louis IX, pray for us.
There should be a new article tomorrow, Wednesday, August 26, 2009, the Feast of Pope Saint Zephryinus.
August 24 Article
Keep Trying, Keep Trying
Be wary of purported news digests that are found on some popular websites as not everything reported on those websites is always completely accurate. Inaccuracy can occur when news is compressed for an easy reading. It can occur, of course, when editors attempt to shade a story a certain by way by changing a word or two. Just be wary of those news digests on some sites, especially those that never provide any "hot links" to take you directly to the original article from which the digest was written.
Case-in-point: a recent news digest on one site provided "commentary" on the assertion, made by the recently retired Maestro of the Sistine Chapel, Monsignor Dominico Bartolucci, that Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII had a "convinced and moving traditionalism" when it came to matters of the Sacred Liturgy. While Monsignor Bartolucci did indeed assert this fantasy, the particular website on which a digest of his interview with an Italian website was reported made it appear as though Bartolucci's unfounded comment ratified its own past commentaries about Roncalli's alleged "traditionalism." Keep trying, keep trying.
Yes, the Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII who suppressed feast days of saints, the Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII who suppressed the Confiteor before Communion, the Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII who suppressed the commemoration of saints in Masses on Sunday, this Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII is supposed to be considered a man who was possessed of a "convinced and moving traditionalism." Keep trying, keep trying. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Saint Bartholomew, pray for us.
I had hoped to have another article for posting today. Given my continued illness--and the fact that the motor home was once again on the side of the road today when its engine overheated despite the recent repairs that have been done to stop it from overheating, that additional article will appear tomorrow, Tuesday, August 25, 2009, the Feast of Saint Louis IX, King of France, along with a republished article in honor of this great champion of Christ the King. Penance is indeed better than ever in 2009. All to thee, Blessed Mother. All to thy Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, we love you. Save souls!
August 22 Republished Article
Republished: Two Last Chances
Today is the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, 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 there 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. What are we waiting for?
A blessed Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to you all.
I had hoped to have an original article for you today. Alas, it was within God's Holy Providence for me to come down with the first sickness that I have had since leaving Ohio. There is simply no strength to write that new article. Keep checking. There's an outside chance one might appear tomorrow, Sunday, August 23, 2009. And there will be several more, God willing and Our Lady interceding, in rapid succession after that one.
One of the next articles will deal with the "hero's welcome" that has been given in Libya to the terrorist convicted in Scotland of the bombing of Pan American World Airways flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988, killing 259 people on the plane and eleven on the ground in Lockerbie. While it is, of course, revolting to see a hero's welcome being given to a mass murderer, mass murderers in the United States of America get "heroes welcomes" all of the time. Actual baby-killers--and those in public life who support them--get applauded all of the time. The madness of Modernity is a spectacle to behold!
Finally, I need to apologize for the more than usual typographical errors in the initial posting of yesterday's article. My fever and sore throat had laid me pretty low on Thursday night, and I struggled to complete the article, doing a spell check that did not, obviously, catch other typographical errors, each of which has been corrected. Please re-read the article in the event you gave up because of the errors, for which I apologize once again. Mea culpa!
Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon.
August 21 Article
Death To Us All
Another article about ObamaCare. Another short article about ObamaCare. Another short article about ObamaCare that will be read by a breathtaking number of people (somewhere around 112 or so).
There should be two articles tomorrow, the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. One of these will be a republished article on the feast itself, the other will be a short article on a recently published interview with a Vatican official who has never offered the Protestant and Masonic Novus Ordo service, about which he has offered scathing criticism.
All well and good, save for the simple fact that the Catholic Church can never give us a liturgical rite that is defective or displeasing to God. The Council of Trent made this clear in a nutshell:
CANON VII.--If any one saith, that the ceremonies, vestments, and outward signs, which the Catholic Church makes use of in the celebration of masses, are incentives to impiety, rather than offices of piety; let him be anathema. (Session Twenty-Two, Chapter IX, Canon VII, Council of Trent, September 17, 1562, CT022.)
More tomorrow, God willing and Our Lady interceding.
August 20 Article
Poof!
Another of the newer, shorter articles. This one deals with the loss of the Faith in the Province of Quebec, Canada, that was chronicled in the Toronto Globe and Mail by a writer who is clueless about the fact that it is the very false "spirit" of the "Second" Vatican Council that helped to undermine the Faith in the former New France and elsewhere in the world, not the "strictness" of the Faith that kept Quebeckers on their knees before the Blessed Sacrament in prayer and praying their Rosaries most devoutly. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, pray for us.
There should be another article tomorrow, Friday, August 21, 2009, the Feast of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal.
August 19 Article
Insects Living Under The Rocks
All manner of vermin live under rocks, especially in muddy terrain. The muddy wasteland upon which the naturalistic rocks of Modernity rests features all manner of pests who believe in a variety of insane ideas, one crazier than the other. That the administration of Caesar Obamus has living under its rocks a variety of insane insects should come as no surprise. Insanity is but the logical result of believing in the false, naturalistic, anti-Incarnational, religiously indifferentist, and semi-Pelagian principles of Modernity. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us. Saint John Eudes, pray for us. Viva Cristo Rey!
Look for another new article tomorrow, the Feast of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.
August 17 Articles and Evening Update
Legionaries of Cash and Cover-Up
More revelations of moral misconduct have emerged about the founder of the cult known as the Legionaries of Christ, the late Father Marcial Maciel Degollado. These are public revelations. Much of these public revelations have been done to officials in the conciliar Vatican, including the late Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II and Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, for a long time. The culture of corruption and deception that exists within the Legionaries of Christ is simply a mirror image of the culture of corruption and deception that exists within the counterfeit church of conciliarism itself. Saint Hyacinth, pray for us.
Revised: Compare and Contrast
Today is the Feast of Saint Hyacinth, O.P., the great Apostle of the Northland. 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 Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, who praises 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 Ratzinger/Benedict's apostasy is stark. It is right there in black and white for all who have the grace to see. See four yourself.
The next article on this site should appear on Wednesday, August 19, 2009, the Feast of Saint John Eudes.
It appears that some "passers-by" never scroll down past the initial postings on this site. If this describes you, please note that an original article was posted on Saturday, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Stalag America. Take a look at it.
Evening Update: Father Francis Miller, O.F.M., informed us today while we were in Beaumont, Texas, to make a deposit at a branch of our bank that has not branches in Louisiana (or in Ohio, for that matter) that he had received word that Father Anthony Cekada's father died yesterday, Sunday, August 16, 2009, the Feast of Saint Joachim. We hereby express our own condolences to Father Cekada and to his family as we assure them of our prayers for the repose of Mr. Cekada's soul. Mr. Cekada had turned ninety-one years of age on July 9, 2009. 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.
August 16 Republished Article
Republished: Fatherly Affection, Eternal Orientation
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. He 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 ago, 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. Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us!
Work on the next original article for this site has been started. It should be posted tomorrow morning, Monday, August 17, 2009, the Feast of Saint Hyacinth, along with a republished article on this Apostle of the Northland who was one of the first followers of Saint Dominic de Guzman, the founder of the Order of Preachers.
August 15 Articles
Republished: Taking Her Rightful Place
Today is the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 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. 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?
This is the eighth Saturday in Bishop Robert F. McKenna's Rosary Crusade. We meditate today upon the mystery of Our Lord being Crowned with Thorns, praying for love of contempt.
Stalag America
Another of the newer, shorter articles. This one deals with reports that the Federal government is building detention or internment centers for people like us. The National Guard was even advertising on its website for goons to staff these concentration camps until news got spread around the internet about the matter. The page, linked below in my posting for yesterday, August 14, 2009, is now blank, devoid of any "job listing." Much like what happened to Barack Hussein Obama when he said "Oops" after referring to "my Muslin faith" in an interview with former (and current) Bill Clinton spin-doctor George Stephanopoulos last year (see Oops! Obama says 'my Muslim faith' :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES), someone at the National Guard must have said "Oops!" (or the equivalent of what Major Wolgang Hochstetter said to Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the Kommandant of Stalag 13 in Hogan's Heroes, "You dumkopf, Klink!) after news spread around the internet about hiring "detention/internment specialists." We should remember that Caesar Obamus and his minions, much like the caesars and their minions of yore, brook no opposition to their statism. We must consider it to be our privilege to suffer--and to suffer well--for the cause of Christ the King and Mary our Immaculate Queen.
A blessed Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary to you all!
August 14 Article
Penance Is Better Than Ever in 2009, part 4
Well, here is the new travelogue. As the hour is very, very late and a lot of work has gone into this new travelogue in the past two days, I will write little else than to say that the new installment brings you up to date on the rather interesting events of the past two months. We accept all as coming from the hand of God, grateful to embrace our crosses with joy as the consecrated slaves of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through His Most Blessed Mother's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, trying to live in the shadow of the Holy Cross as we lift high our Rosaries in reparation for our sins and those of the whole world. Penance is indeed better than ever in 2009! Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
There is also A Photographic Essay: As The Travels Resume to accompany the new travelogue.
The next substantive article on this site will deal with preparations to build internment centers (there's already an job advertisement for goons to staff these centers,
http://www.nationalguard.com/careers/mos/description.php?mos_code=31) and more on Obama's health care proposals that will encourage "end of life counseling" sessions (as I discussed two days ago in Das Vierte Reich.
Keep praying your Rosaries. Figures of Antichrist do indeed walk amongst us.
August 12 Article
Das Vierte Reich
The Fourth Reich. That's what we're facing with the brownshirted tactics of the statists and utilitarians and positivists of the administration of Caesar Obamus as they attempt to "assure" us that "end of life" counseling sessions between a doctor and his patients once they become eligible for Medicare will not turn into "community death panels" who will make life or death decisions based on a person's economic "productivity." The very people who believe in the lie of baby-killing can be trusted to tell us the full truth of about ObamaCare and its eventual implications for Americans over the course of time? Saint Clare of Assisi, pray for us.
We want to thank Father Francis Miller, O.F.M., and his brother, Mr. Normand Miller, and Mr. Michael Gerace, our friend and a parishioner of Christ the King Church in Lafayette, Louisiana, for all of the hard work that they have expended on our motor home in the past few weeks, including a session yesterday that saw a new clutch for the radiator fan installed. We very much appreciate their kindness and generosity to us. The Franciscan spirit is alive and well at Christ the King Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.
August 11 Article
Without A Single Compromise
Another late hour. This is a very brief article in honor of our dear Wonderworker, Saint Philomena, whose intercession we so desperately need in this era of apostasy and betrayal.
There should be another new article on this site tomorrow, the Feast of Saint Clare of Assisi, at some point.
Sleep beckons. Please read the Donations update letter.
August 10 Article
Another Parish in Turmoil
The hour is late. It was difficult write to articles such as this one during my days with The Wanderer. It was difficult to write articles such as this one during my days with The Remnant and Catholic Family News. It is sometimes necessary, however, to take on the difficult assignments and to write about turbulent situations in a parish. I believe that I have done so in this case with a sense of true historical perspective and by placing the parish conflict reviewed in this article in the context of the warfare against the Faith being waged by the counterfeit church of conciliarism. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Saint Lawrence the Deacon, pray for us.
There should be another original article tomorrow, August 11, 2009, the Feast of Saint Philomena, our dear Wonderworker.
Finally, I ask for prayers for the repose of the soul of my late paternal grandfather, Edward Martin Droleskey, who was born one hundred twenty-five years ago today, that is, on August 10, 1884. He died on October 6, 1968. Thank you.
August 9 Revised Article
Revised: Serving Souls To The Point Of Death
The feast of Saint John Mary Vianney is commemorated today, Sunday, August 9, 2009, the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost this year. This great saint, the patron of diocesan priests, teaches us much about humility and perseverance.
Saint John Mary Vianney humbly recognized that he was not the brightest pupil, that he was, to use even his own description, slow in his studies. He had great difficulty learning his Latin. Other studies came hard to him as well. He did not give up. Helped by a wonderful mentor, Father Balley, who had worked as a carpenter during the French Revolution so as to hide his identify as a Catholic priest as he offered Mass in various hideaways and without any "communion" with the bishops and priests of the "constitutional church," John Mary Vianney persevered time and time and time again, praying to Saint John Francis Regis for help and guidance.
Yes, he was tempted to quit his studies, believing himself to unworthy of priestly ordination because of his lack of intellectual aptitude. Father Balley told him very pointedly, "You've decided to give in to the devil?" That knocked some sense into our Saint, and it should knock some sense into any young man today who might have experienced some difficulties and perhaps even gross injustices in their own pursuit of the priesthood. Never give up. We need priests, especially now in this time of apostasy and betrayal.
Always close to Our Lady, Saint John Mary Vianney was brought to the point of his priestly ordination on August 13, 1815. His superiors judged that his moral qualities had overcome any academic deficiencies that would have held others back from being ordained to the priesthood, and they were vindicated in their judgment by the long and devoted service that he gave to the people of Ars. Oh, yes, sure, he tried to run away from his people on three occasions, wanting to seek the solitude of a monastery. Each time, however, he responded to the pleas of his sheep who loved their shepherd, who spent so much time in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament and in the confessional to hear the confessions of the thousands of people who flocked from all over the world to the merits of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus applied to their souls through his priestly ministry, and returned home to Ars.
Saint John Mary Vianney, who knew failure in his studies for the priesthood, was a firm supporter of the "patron of failures," Pauline Jaricot, the foundress of Society of the Propagation of the Faith and the Universal Living Rosary Association, and zealously devoted to the cause of our great wonderworker, Saint Philomena. Saint John Mary Vianney spent himself tirelessly in behalf of the flock that was entrusted to his pastoral care. We need to invoke his intercession so that our own true bishops and priests will be fortified by his example as they seek to serve us, the scattering and wandering sheep of this time of apostasy and betrayal, unto eternity.
Saint John Mary Vianney, the Cure of Ars, pray for us.
Saint Philomena, pray for us.
Pauline Jaricot, pray for us.
Father Balley, pray for us.
August 8 Article
Poster Boys Of Modernity
Then President Richard Milhous Nixon gave his resignation speech to the nation thirty-five years ago tonight, that is, on Thursday, August 8, 1974. Thirty-five years. I was visiting my parents at their home in Harlingen, Texas, during a break in studies for my doctorate in political science at the State University of New York at Albany. I had a profound sense of sadness in my heart as I watched the resignation speech in my parents' living room. As an unreconstructed naturalist in matters political at that time, I had hoped six years to the day before, August 8, 1968, that the then former Vice President of the United States of America Nixon, delivering his acceptance address to the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida, that Nixon was indeed going to turn back the Great Society of Lyndon Johnson and appoint "strict constructionists" to the Supreme Court of the United States of America. I was living under the delusions and myths of Modernity.
Richard Nixon, like each of his predecessors and each of his successors, was steeped in the naturalist delusion that men can build the "better" world absent a due subordination to the Deposit of Faith that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has entrusted exclusively to the Catholic Church for Its eternal safekeeping and infallible explication. To believe this lie is tragic. To live without the benefit of the light of Faith is tragic, which is why we must never take the true Faith for granted as we seek to make reparation to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary for our own many sins--and for those of the whole world. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us!
Our late friend, Father Salvatore V. Franco, a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn who was ordained in 1953, gave us quite a refuge on Long Island after the birth of our daughter, Lucy Mary Norma Droleskey, on March 27, 2002. Despite suffering from heart problems and an undiagnosed form of blood cancer that wound up taking his life on Friday, December 13, 2002, the Feast of Saint Lucy, Father Franco permitted my family to assist at his offerings of the Immemorial Mass of Tradition in his kitchen in Westbury, New York. This made us, indulterers at the time, able to assist at the Mass of Tradition every day of the week without having to go to the Protestant and Masonic Novus Ordo service. And it was after his death that we made the resolution never to assist at the Novus Ordo again for any reason at all.
Father Franco was very erudite. He knew the Faith very well. He was not, however, conversant with each of the saints on the Roman calendar. Indeed, there were times when he, a balding man of short stature, would shrug his shoulders on the feast days of some of the lesser known saints as if to say, "God knows who they are, not me."
Well, there is one amongst who knows the saints better than any of us, and that is His Excellency Bishop Daniel L. Dolan. Please do listen, therefore, to his informative sermon on the lives of today's martyrs, St. Cyriacus, St. Largus, and St. Smaragdus, which is can be found on the excellent Traditional Catholic Sermons website. There are numerous sermons given by His Excellency on the lives of the Saints. Please do listen to them! Saints Cyriacus, Largus, and Smaragdus, pray for us! The Fourteen Holy Helpers, pray for us!
Yes, we still need non-tax-deductible financial gifts (see Donations). No windfall as of yet. If you can't give, please do pray for us. Thank you.
Finally, there will be a republished article tomorrow as the Feast of Saint John Mary Vianney is commemorated. The next original article on this site may not appear until Tuesday, August 11, 2009, the Feast of Saint Philomena, our great Wonderworker (and believe me when I tell you that we are really praying to her these days). Here, once again, is the link to the Novena in honor of Saint Philomena.
August 7 Article
Truth Just Doesn't Go Away
The penultimate statist, Barack Hussein Obama, and his apologists want to assert gratuitous statements about ObamaCare as being true as all potential critics are intimidated into silence. While this is, of course, most egregious, it is pretty much standard fare in a nation founded upon the lie that men can know personal and social order absent an abiding fidelity to the Deposit of Faith that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ entrusted exclusively to the Catholic Church and absent a belief in, access to and cooperation with Sanctifying Grace. Those who deny articles contained in the Deposit of Faith must degenerate into tyrants of positivism, something that is also true for apologists of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, who himself offends God so regularly and so openly. Indeed, the positivism of Barack Hussein Obama is made all the more possible as a result of the false "pontiff's" use of positivism to assert things as being in conformity with the Catholic Faith that have, as a matter of fact, been condemned solemnly by the Church. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.
There should be another original article tomorrow, August 8, 2009, before a republished article on the great Saint John Mary Vianney is published on Sunday, August 9, 2009. We had another set of adventures on the road yesterday as the motor home overheated for an unknown reason while we were driving on Interstate 10 east of Beaumont, Texas. All to thee, Blessed Mother. All to thy Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, we love you. Save souls!
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August 6 Article
To Be Transfigured In All Glory
Today is the great Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ on Mount Thabor in the presence of the Apostles Peter, James and John and in the company of Moses and Elias. God the Father repeated the proclamation that He had made as His Co-Equal Son made Flesh in Our Lady's Virginal and Immaculate Womb was baptized by His cousin, Saint John the Baptist in the Jordan River prior to the assumption of His Public Ministry, "This is My beloved Son, hear yet Him."
Our Lord was transfigured in the glory that He shared with the God the Father and God the Holy Ghost for all eternity in Heaven in order to show forth His Sacred Divinity to Saints Peter, the first Pope, Saint James, the first Bishop of Jerusalem and the first of the Apostles to be martyred, and Saint James's brother, Saint John, the beloved Apostle and the Apostle of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, to help console them during the events of His Passion and Death.
It is our goal to be transfigured in glory for all eternity in Heaven. The only path to the heavenly Mount Thabor, however, is by climbing atop Mount Calvary every day of our lives, willingly bearing our crosses in reparation for our sins and those of the world as we offer whatever merit we gain for the patient and joyful endurance of these crosses to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. Indeed, our climb to Heaven by ascending first to Mount Calvary is signified every day a true bishop or a true priest completes the prayers at the foot of the altar and ascends the three steps (mystically symbolic of the Thee Persons of the Most Blessed Trinity and of the three stages of the interior life) to the altar itself. If we desire to be transfigured in all glory in Heaven we must, therefore, be willing to be shamed and humiliated by the the ignominy associated with the Holy Cross.
The glories of Heaven are worth such temporary shame and humiliation and ignominy, are they not? May Our Lady, who awaits us in the heavenly Mount Thabor and intercedes for us from there, help us to ascend to Mount Calvary every day in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass so that we can keep her company at the foot of the Cross every day our lives as a a preparation for spending all eternity in the glories of Heaven with her and Saint Joseph and all of the angels and the saints.
A blessed Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to you all.
We want to express our congratulations to our good friend, Mr. Matthew D. Hardin, on the first anniversary of his reception into the Catholic Church at the hands of His Excellency Bishop Daniel L. Dolan at Saint Gertrude the Great Church. Please see It's Still Better This Than Purgatory (or Worse!) in 2008, part 5 for a brief precis of his conversion story. Photographs of his reception into the true Church may be found in You Wanna See Pictures? I've Got Pictures for You!, part 2. Congratulations, Matt! We pray for you every day and thank you for your remaining steadfast in the Faith.
A correction: a reader brought to my attention a dyslexic mistake of mine at the start of yesterday's article. I will be fifty-eight years of age in three months, eighteen days, not three years, eighteen days from today, August 6, 2009. I am very, very happy to be the age that I am as this is how long that God has seen fit in His Holy Providence to keep me alive. I have never shaded my age, and I never will. This mistake was purely a matter of the mind working faster than my fingers on the keyboard. I apologize!
August 5 Article
Duh, Part Trois
The "worldwide Anglican communion" is in shambles, the victim of its own many defections from the true Faith that have multiplied so wildly in the 475 years since its corrupt and venal founder. King Henry VIII, took Catholic England out of the true Church and had himself declared by Parliament to be "supreme head of the church in England." Who seeks to come to the rescue of this schismatic and heretical "church" now that various of its constituent parts, such as the "Episcopal Church" in the United States of America, are endorsing the consecration of known perverts as "bishop"? Why none other than Walter Kasper, "President" of the "Pontifical" Council for Promoting Christian Unity, is trying to "preserve" "unity" in the Anglican sect, explaining that:
"It is our prayer that the Anglican Communion, even in this difficult situation, may find a way to maintain its unity and its witness to Christ as a worldwide communion." (Anglican leader's concern for unity reflects Vatican concerns )
Huh? Duh? How can heretics who defect from the truths of the Catholic Faith bear any "witness" to Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ that is not of the devil? Takes one to know one, however, as Kasper himself and his fellow conciliar revolutionaries, including, of course, Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, defect from many things contained in the Deposit of Faith (see
Ratzinger's War Against Catholicism).
Our Lady of the Snows, pray for us.
We are still in need of Donations. We do need your help. Thank you.
August 4 Republished Article
Republished: With Our Lady's Weapon Held High
Although I am working on another new article, I did not want to eclipse the great feast we celebrate today, that of Saint Dominic de Guzman, the founder of the Order of Preachers who was favored to receive from the Mother of God's own hands her Psalter, the Most Holy Rosary. The new article can wait, especially given the relatively low viewership of even the shorter articles that have been appearing on this site lately!
Saint Dominic de Guzman had such great zeal for souls from his earliest days in seminary. As is well known, it was a conversation with an innkeeper in the Albigensian stronghold of Toulouse, France, changed the whole direction of his priesthood as he sought to win back souls from the darkness of an early forerunner of Calvinism, Albigensianism. Our Lady, sent by her Divine Son out of the ineffable Mercy that He has in His Most Sacred Heart, which was formed out of her own Immaculate Heart, to bring back the lost sheep (and not to beat up on the sheep when their souls are sorely distressed) out of the new form of Manicheanism that had arisen in southern France, gave Saint Dominic her Most Holy Rosary to the be the weapon to crush the Albigensian heresy. Saint Dominic de Guzman used the weapon of Our Lady's Mos Holy Rosary very well and taught others how to do so.
Every Catholic, of course, owes a great deal to Saint Dominic, who walked between southern France and Rome several times during his life--and who accompanied two of the first Dominicans, Saints Hyacinth and his brother, Saint Ceslaus, on the first leg of their trip in Italy back to Krakow before he, Saint Dominic, had to turn back. Although there are only a handful of true Dominicans still left today, starting with our dear friend, His Excellency Bishop Robert Fidelis McKenna, O.P., the Dominican spirit of great love for Our Lady and her Most Holy Rosary should beat with great fervor within our hearts, consecrated as they must be to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.
This is a day of great celebration, and we want to express our best wishes for a blessed patronal feast day to Bishop McKenna and the Dominican Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and to all lay Dominicans of the Third Order of Penance for their fidelity to the Faith during this time of apostasy and betrayal and for the unswerving devotion to Our Lady and her Most Holy Rosary.
Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Saint Dominic de Guzman and all of the Dominican saints, pray for us.
Please see the link for the Novena to Saint Philomena, which began yesterday, below under the August 3 posting. Thank you.
Donations, anyone? We need them, please!
August 3 Article and Novena to Saint Philomena
Instant Communications, Instant Sins
Here's an assignment for those of you who read this site and who read my articles (not all people who read this home page bother to read my articles): Read Caritas Super Omnia (2006), written in December of 2006, BEFORE you read this new article, which was completed, more or less, on Saturday, August 1, 2009, although most of its text was written by Monday, July 27, 2009.
The new article deals with the incredible spectacle of what I could call "cannibalism" among Catholics as they eat each other up in various "chat rooms," coming to conclusions about the moral lives and the subjective intentions of people they have never met. While it might be necessary for us to disagree with each other over the state of the Church and perhaps even to express a disagreement with our pastors now and again, we must treat all others as we would treat Our Lord Himself, Who forgives us our trespasses just as we must forgive those who trespass against us.
As I wrote in Caritas Super Omnia (2006):
Moreover, we should be grateful for the humiliations that are sent us in life. How many times have we withdrawn our friendship from Our Lord by choosing to persist in our sins? None of us suffers as our sins deserve. We should consider it a singular privilege to suffer humiliation and misunderstanding at the hands of others, especially those who have been closest to us over the years. Look at the Cross, ladies and gentlemen. Nothing we suffer in this mortal vale of tears is the equal of what one of our least venial sins caused Our Lord and His Blessed Mother, our Co-Redemptrix, to suffer during His fearful Passion and Death. Who are we to complain about ill-treatment at the hands of others, worse yet to caricature entire categories of people in order to try to dismiss their particular position on the grounds of the bad example given by some?
Enough said. Our Lady of Mercy, pray for us. Saint Stephen the Protomartyr, pray for us.
I will endeavor to complete the next installment of the travelogue, which may not appear until Wednesday, August 5, 2009, the Feast of Our Lady of the Snows.
We received one response to our recent Donations letter yesterday. We do need more, however. Thank you.
Here is a Novena, composed by Saint John Mary Vianney, to our dear Wonderworker, Saint Philomena. The Novena begins tonight, August 3, 2009, and runs through August 11, 2009:
Prayer for Each Day during the Novena.
O Glorious Virgin and Martyr, beloved of God, Saint Philomena! I rejoice with thee in the power which God gave thee for the glory of His Name, for the edification His Church, and to reward the merits of thy life and death. I rejoice to see thee so great, so pure, so generous, so faithful to Jesus Christ, and to His
Gospel, and so splendidly rewarded in Heaven, and on earth. Attracted by thy example to the practice of solid virtue full of hope at the sight of thy recompense granted to thy merits. I resolve to follow thee in avoiding all evil and in fully obeying what God commands. Help me, O great Saint by thy powerful intercession. Obtain for me particularly, a purity inviolable forever, a strength of soul always invincible in every kind of assault, a generosity which denies no sacrifice to God, and a love as strong as death for the Faith of Jesus Christ, for the Holy Roman Church and for Our Holy Father, the Father of all the Faithful, the Shepherd of shepherds and of their flocks, the Vicar of Jesus Christ over all the world.
With all the fervor of my soul, I implore these graces from thee, and, in addition, I ask these other benefits from thee with equal confidence in obtaining them through thy powerful intercession. (Here tell Saint Philomena what you need, with simplicity, confidence and humility).
Surely that God so good for Whom thou didst give thy blood and thy life that God so good Who is so generous to thee and through thy mediation, so generous with gifts and favors to us, that God so good Who has loved me even unto dying for me, even unto giving me Himself under the Eucharistic appearances, surely He will never be deaf to thy prayers, nor to my appeals, unless it be that He Himself is in some different way seeking to do me good. Full of confidence, I place all my trust in Him and in thee. Amen
For the exercises recommended for each day of this Novena please go to Novena, which has been circulated by the Apostolate of Our Lady of Good Success in Wisconsin, is found on website administered by the Universal Living Rosary Association. Saint Philomena, pray for us!
August 2 Articles
Republished: Giving Us What For
Today, apart from the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, is the Commemoration of the great Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, the Patron of Moral Theologians. It was nearly thirteen months ago that I recorded each of the Sunday sermons of Saint Alphonsus for the
"Save Thy Souls" section of Traditional Catholic Sermons.org. It was a very sobering experience as I recognized that Saint Alphonsus was speaking directly to me, condemning my sins and my lukewarmness. Ouch. He certainly gave me what for, and I am grateful that he did so.
Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, the founder of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (the Redemptorists), was particularly emphatic in teaching us that we must avoid sins of human respect. That is, we can show no partiality or favoritism to those in power if they are doing things that put the temporal or, more important, the eternal welfare into jeopardy. This applies to the likes of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, who blasphemes God on a regular basis, and to most of his "bishops," men who believe that the sheep are their enemies and that they can stonewall and intimidate the sheep into remaining silent about real and documented abuses of power and real and documented violations of the integrity of the Holy Faith:
And when there is question of the divine honour, we should not be frightened by the dignity of the man who offends God; let us say to him openly: This is sinful; it cannot be done. Let us imitate the Baptist, who reproved King Herod for living his brother's wife and said to him: "It is not lawful for thee to have her"--Matt., xiv. 4. Men indeed shall regard us as fools, and turn us into derision; but, on the day of judgment they shall acknowledge that they have been foolish, and we have shall have the glory of being numbered among the saints. They shall say: "These are they whom we had some time in derision. . . . . We fools esteemed their life madness, and their end without honour. Behold how they are numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the saints"--Wis., v. 3, 4, 5. (Sixth Sunday After Easter: On Human Respect.)
Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, pray for us.
Bishop Pivarunas on Jurisdiction
Although His Excellency Bishop Mark A. Pivarunas, the Superior General of the Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen, is out of the country at this time, Father Benedict Hughes, CMRI, was kind enough to write to me with his belief that His Excellency would approve of my reprinting his excellent article in the July, 2009, issue of Adsum, concerning the issue of Jurisdiction, that is, whether bishops consecrated without a papal mandate--and the priests ordained by those bishops--have any right to administer the Sacraments. There are some lay "theologians," people who have never studied Canon Law formally in a classroom setting, who have set them up as "experts" in the field of Jurisdiction, urging Catholics to be, in effect, "home aloners" (a term coined by Father Anthony Cekada) if they cannot find a priest ordained in the traditional rite by a bishop who had been appointed by Pope Pius XII, our last true pope. Bishop Pivarunas provides a succinct but nevertheless very thorough refutation of the nonexistent "expertise" of those lay "theologians."
I have an original article ready for publication. However, I am "sitting" on it as I want to spend a bit more time praying about the prudence of its being posted. It is sometimes the case that the best articles one writes are the ones he doesn't publish!
Finally, we are still in need of people responding to our new Donations letter. We received only one non-tax-deductible financial gift yesterday. We will be down to around fifty dollars in cold, hard cash once bills are debited from our checking account in the coming two days. We really need your help until our cash cow, the manufactured house, delivers its cash, at which point all of these appeals will cease for the better part of a year. Thank you for any consideration that you can give to this appeal.
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