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May 12 Article and Update
Calling Poison Health Food Doesn't Make It So
One of the most unpleasant realities of the era of apostasy and betrayal in which we live is the fact that believing Catholics are pitted against each other, friendships estranged, if not broken altogether. The conciliar revolutionaries who have created the very conditions that are responsible for pitting believing Catholics against each other as they advance their Modernist agenda against the Faith, take full advantage of this situation and exploit it with diabolical glee.
Admitting full well that it took me far, far too long to see the truth of our ecclesiastical situation, I was even in my "conservative" days disquieted by such things as "inter-religious prayer" and the other aspects of false ecumenism. I kept my peace, just hoping and praying that these things would go away, waiting for the "restoration" to be effected by the very man, Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II, who was promoting and actually engage in acts with representatives of false religions that I knew offended the honor and majesty of God greatly. At this late date, however, it is astounding that there are people who still kept their silence as Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI does such things as enter into synagogues and a mosque to be treated as an inferior to his "hosts," no less accepting with esteem and even joy the symbols of false religions. How much outrage has there been from those who spend a good deal of their time trying to "reconcile" conciliar atrocities with the Faith by means of an appeal to "living tradition" to Benedict's fondling the symbols of false religions in a staged media event in Washington, District of Columbia, on Thursday, April 17, 2008? How much outrage have defenders of the legitimacy of the conciliar "popes" expressed over Benedict's calling the Koran "dear and precious," something that it most assuredly is not in the eyes of God?
No, of course, it is the sedevacantists who must be the problem. They are the ones who either "exaggerate" the importance of these abominations or who are not willing to accept as true things that were anathematized by the authority of the Catholic Church from time immemorial. They must be castigated without let up while Ratzinger/Benedict is permitted to offend God mightily with hardly a word being uttered save for an expression of "regret" that he still influenced by conciliarism.
Still influenced by conciliarism? Joseph Ratzinger is a lifelong, unrepentant, unbent apostle of the New Theology that was condemned by Pope Pius XII in Humani Generis, August 12, 1950. He weaves references to the likes of Henri de Lubac into his encyclical letters. He has praised Hans Urs von Balthasar, one of his mentors. He has relied upon the "expertise" of Johann Baptist Metz to hold the past pronouncements of true popes on Church-State relations to be "obsolete" in the "particulars in which they contain." He has publicly praised the work of Abbe Paul Courtuier as the founder of "spiritual ecumenism," heedless of the fact that Courtuier was an open disciple of the late Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. He has expressed support time and time again for evolutionism (as will be the subject of tomorrow's article, which has been delayed by work on this present piece). Still influenced by conciliarism? The man is a fundamental apostle of the condemned proposition of the separation of Church and State, a champion of the "civil right" of adherents of false religions to propagate their false beliefs openly. Still influenced by conciliarism? How can one "still" be influenced by conciliarism when he has rejected the official philosophy of the Catholic Church, Scholasticism, his entire priestly life?
It matters not that Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI speaks as a Catholic now and again. As Pope Leo XIII noted in quoting Saint Augustine in Satis Cognitum, June 29, 1896:
"There can be nothing more dangerous than those heretics who admit nearly the whole cycle of doctrine, and yet by one word, as with a drop of poison, infect the real and simple faith taught by our Lord and handed down by Apostolic tradition" (Auctor Tract. de Fide Orthodoxa contra Arianos).
The practice of the Church has always been the same, as is shown by the unanimous teaching of the Fathers, who were wont to hold as outside Catholic communion, and alien to the Church, whoever would recede in the least degree from any point of doctrine proposed by her authoritative Magisterium. Epiphanius, Augustine, Theodore :, drew up a long list of the heresies of their times. St. Augustine notes that other heresies may spring up, to a single one of which, should any one give his assent, he is by the very fact cut off from Catholic unity. "No one who merely disbelieves in all (these heresies) can for that reason regard himself as a Catholic or call himself one. For there may be or may arise some other heresies, which are not set out in this work of ours, and, if any one holds to one single one of these he is not a Catholic" (S. Augustinus, De Haeresibus, n. 88).
Pope Saint Pius X explained in Pascendi Dominci Gregis, September 8, 1907 (which he followed up with a Motu Proprio against those who dared to contradict Lamentabili Sane, July 3, 1907, and Pascendi,
Praestantia Scripturae, November 18, 1907) that Modernists do not lose their ability to speak as Catholics on some occasions while they speak on Modernists on others:
This will appear more clearly to anybody who studies the conduct of Modernists, which is in perfect harmony with their teachings. In their writings and addresses they seem not unfrequently to advocate doctrines which are contrary one to the other, so that one would be disposed to regard their attitude as double and doubtful. But this is done deliberately and advisedly, and the reason of it is to be found in their opinion as to the mutual separation of science and faith. Thus in their books one finds some things which might well be approved by a Catholic, but on turning over the page one is confronted by other things which might well have been dictated by a rationalist. When they write history they make no mention of the divinity of Christ, but when they are in the pulpit they profess it clearly; again, when they are dealing with history they take no account of the Fathers and the Councils, but when they catechize the people, they cite them respectfully. In the same way they draw their distinctions between exegesis which is theological and pastoral and exegesis which is scientific and historical. So, too, when they treat of philosophy, history, and criticism, acting on the principle that science in no way depends upon faith, they feel no especial horror in treading in the footsteps of Luther and are wont to display a manifold contempt for Catholic doctrines, for the Holy Fathers, for the Ecumenical Councils, for the ecclesiastical magisterium; and should they be taken to task for this, they complain that they are being deprived of their liberty. Lastly, maintaining the theory that faith must be subject to science, they continuously and openly rebuke the Church on the ground that she resolutely refuses to submit and accommodate her dogmas to the opinions of philosophy; while they, on their side, having for this purpose blotted out the old theology, endeavor to introduce a new theology which shall support the aberrations of philosophers.
Undaunted by any of this, some apologists of conciliarism assure us over and over again that whatever "problems" exist are the result of "misinterpretations" that must be reconciled with the past teaching of the Church in light of "living tradition." Some of these apologists insist that God would never permit massive numbers of Catholics to be deceived by a false pope, ignoring the fact that God permitted one hundred percent of the human race to be deceived in the Garden of Eden. How is one supposed to recognize the Great Apostasy if one believes that God would not permit massive numbers of Catholics to be deceived? Is poison to be considered "heath food" because we say that it is so?
This article (yes, there's an actual article that's longer that his home page description, although I guess that this description can be called the "reader's digest" version of the article) deals with Father Brian Harrison's recent article in The Latin Mass: A Journal of Catholic Culture. I have great personal regard for Father Harrison and bear him no malice whatsoever. I believe, however, that the aforementioned article of his does a great disservice to the cause of truth.
I extend my thanks to His Excellency Bishop Robert F. McKenna, O.P., for taking the time to review it with care. Father Benedict Hughes, CMRI, was also good enough to revew the text and to make some very pertinent comments.
Also, please listen to His Excellency Bishop Daniel Dolan's Pentecost Sunday sermon.
“Meditation (Part III): The 3rd Glorious Mystery." It is most inspirational.
Please pray for the respose of the soul of Bishop
Roberto Martínez y Gutiérrez, who died on the Vigil of Pentecost at the age of ninety. He was a great defender of the true Faith in Mexico, Our Lady's country, in this time of apostasy and betrayal. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord. Our condolences to all of his spiritual children in Mexico, including our friend Father Raymond Hrenault.
The next article on this site should appear on Wednesday, May 14, 2008.
Tomorrow, Pentecost (Whit) Tuesday, is also the ninety-first anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady in the Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal, to Jacinta and Francisco Marto and Lucia dos Santos. We should pray extra Rosaries of reparation tomorrow for our sins and those of the whole world,. His Excellency Bishop Daniel Dolan is leading a Rosary in West Chester, Ohio, tomorrow night. Please see St. Gertrude the Great Church for details.
Finally, I have been asked about the dearth of political commentaries lately. What's to write about? Which naturalist is better able to advance naturalism? Oh, I will return to the subject soon. Writing about the absurdities and insanities of conciliarism is tiring enough. My last political commentary,
When Helen Keller Meets Ray Charles, is still pretty relevant. It's all a farce. The names change now and again. The farce remains the same from election cycle to election cycle.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
Pentecost Sunday Reflection
Revised: From the Beginning: A Mission to Convert All Men Everywhere
This is a fairly substantial revision of a Pentecost Sunday reflection published two years ago. It focuses on the fact that the Paraclete, the Advocate, Whom Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ promised that His Father and He would send to instruct the Apostles (and hence us) in all things descended in tongues of flame upon the Apostles and our dear Blessed Mother on this day, fifty-three days after the Last Supper in that same Upper Room in Jerusalem, fifty days after Our Lord's Resurrection from the dead on Easter Sunday, ten days after His glorious Ascension into Heaven on Ascension Thursday. God the Holy Ghost, the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, the Vivifier, imparted His Seven Gifts and Twelve Fruits upon the Apostles and Our Lady, Gifts and Fruits we receive in the Sacrament of Confirmation. The Apostles were transformed into bold proclaimers of the Gospel of the Divine Redeemer. The first pope, Saint Peter, inflamed with the fire of Divine love and celestial light, preached to the Jews who were gathered from all parts of the Mediterranean on that first Pentecost Sunday. Three thousand were converted. Such is not the mission, however, of the counterfeit church of conciliarism, which teach us that the mission commenced on Pentecost Sunday means nothing to those who have defected from the Faith and who are content to leave people in false religions unto their very deaths. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
A blessed Pentecost--and Octave of Pentecost--to you all. A Corpus Christi Novena will be posted on Whit-Tuesday, May 13, 2008.
There will be at least one new article tomorrow, two if the article that has been out for vetting is cleared for publication. Thanks for your patience.
May 10 Revised Article and Update
Revised: By His Gifts We Can Know, Love and Serve Him
The article that I have out for vetting is still being vetted. I do not want to post it until I hear back from those who are reviewing it. The article is very long and detailed, thus the time that it is taking for the reviewers, each of whom is a busy shepherd of souls, to go through its text
In the meantime, however, here is a revised reflection for the final hours of the Vigil of Pentecost. A revised reflection for Pentecost Sunday will be posted in a few hours. (The revised article was not "published" when this page was updated a few hours ago. The older version was somehow linked. I apology for any confusion. The revised version of the article has now been posted!)
Make sure to pray the Ninth and final day of The Novena to God the Holy Ghost.
May 8 Article and Update
Public Scandal is Never A Private Matter
The hour is late. This is just another article about the Americanist ethos and how it is responsible for shaping the worldview of conciliarism.
A new set of lectures (parts 14a and 14b in the "Living in the Shadow of the Cross" lecture program) have been added at the Christ or Chaos store. A third part has been recorded and has been added to the same set of lectures.
The next article, which will deal with an article in L'Osservatore Romano on evolutionism, should appear on Saturday, May 10, 2008, the Feast of Saint Antoninus. The next installment in the travelogue will be posted sometime early next week. The article that I will be sending out for considerable vetting may take a week to ten days to get posted. Given the gravity of the matter, I want the article reviewed extensively by competent theologians before it is posted.
May 6 Article
It's Still Better This Than Purgatory (or Worse!) in 2008, part 2
Those who are not enamored of these travelogues, which are written principally to give our daughter a permanent record of our dealing with the daily penances of life and how they are to be offered up joyfully to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, should move right along. This is latest installment of the travelogue, which some readers seem to enjoy. There will be a substantive article tomorrow, Wednesday, May 7, 2008, the Feast of Saint Stanislaus, at some point. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.
May 5 Article
Awash in the Muck of the Potomac
Just a very brief article reviewing conciliarism's embrace of "religious liberty." There is nothing really new in this article, which was prompted by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI's "general audience" address last week in which he referred to the United States of America as the "birthplace of religious freedom," a true enough statement but nothing at all to boast about as a indicative of a "contribution" to the "betterment" of the world. Our refuge in this time of apostasy and betrayal is Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary. We must use this spiritual weapon with confidence and with fidelity.
His Excellency Bishop Daniel L. Dolan has provided us with two excellent sermons in recent days to help us to pray our Rosaries with greater fervor and attention. Please do listen to these powerful, inspiring sermons:
Meditation (Part I) and
“Meditation (Part II): The 5th Glorious Mystery."
There should be another article posted on this site on Wednesday, May 7, 2008, the Feast of Saint Stanislaus, although it is possible that the next installment of the travelogue will be posted tomorrow, Tuesday, May 6, 2008, the Feast of Saint John at the Latin Gate. Another commentary, which will deal with an article in a glossy magazine that was addressed to several of us who are considered to be "cerebrally challenged," shall we say, will be posted after it is vetted by various trained theologians. This may take several days or so to get completed.
Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Pope Saint Pius V, pray for us.
May 2 Article and Link to The Novena to God the Holy Ghost
Motu Madness Merry-Go-Round
Yesterday was Ascension Thursday. Yesterday was not Ascension Thursday in those dioceses in the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism which have received "permission" from the conciliar Vatican to transfer the observance of Our Lord's Ascension to the Father's right hand in glory on a Thursday, forty days after Easter Sunday, to the "Seventh Sunday in Easter" in the Novus Ordo world. Priests in the Motu communities who use the "extraordinary form" of the "one Roman Rite" who find themselves in diocese under conciliar captivity that has transferred the Feast of the Ascension (most of the western part of the United States of America, all of Italy, all of England and Wales, among other places) celebrated the Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker while their confreres in the Novus Ordo simulated a celebration of "Thursday in the Sixth Week of Easter" or the "optional memorial" of Saint Joseph the Worker. Welcome to the Motu Madness Merry-Go-Round. Enter by the gate marked by "1962," please, and exit only by the gate marked "1969."
By the way, there's another Donations letter for you freeloaders out there in cyberspace to ignore (smile!). Actually, we are grateful to those of you who have been so good to us. We simply need more of our readers to help support the work of this site and thus to alleviate the burden placed on the "heavy lifters" who have made it possible for us to survive!
Here is a link to The Novena to God the Holy Ghost, which begins today and ends on Saturday, May 10, 2008, the Vigil of Pentecost.
As I have written one article and recorded one lecture (which will be made available for purchase after two more segments are completed), there will not be another original article posted until Monday, May 5, 2008. The next installment of the travelogue, delayed by the press of business associated with Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI's visit to the United States of America, will be posted at some point early next week, God willing and Our Lady interceding.
We retire this evening grateful to Our Lady for helping our dear daughter win third place among the students of Saint Dominic's Academy in Monroe, Connecticut, for her homemade shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. I will post a photograph of her shrine tomorrow, Saturday, May 3, 2008, the Feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross and First Saturday for the month of May, at some point in the day.
May 1 (Ascension Thursday) Article
Revised: Baptize All Men,Teach All Nations
Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Ascended into Heaven on this day, forty days after His glorious Resurrection from the dead on Easter Sunday. The gates of Heaven are now reopened. Our Lord sitteth at the Right Hand of His Co-Equal Father until He cometh in glory to judge the living and the dead on the Last Day. He has taken with Him into Heaven that which He did not have from all eternity: the Sacred Humanity He received from His Most Blessed Mother by the power of God the Holy Ghost at the Annunciation. We must keep our thoughts Heavenward as we do the work entrusted to us by Our Lord to spread the Catholic Faith as best we can in cooperation with the graces He won for us by the shedding of every single drop of His Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross and that flows into our hearts and souls through the loving hands of Our Lady, the Mediatrix of All Graces. We need to rely upon Our Lady's maternal intercession so that we can die in a state of Sanctifying Grace and thus be able to take the place in Heaven that Our Lord wants to prepare for us. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
A blessed Feast of the Ascension to you all.
A new article should appear tomorrow, the transferred Feast of Saints Philip and James and the Commemoration of Saint Athanasius.
April 30 Article
Just Say No to Pantheism
What has the conciliar Vatican just done? Sent its annual note of congratulations to the pantheistic, devil-worshiping Buddhists on the celebration of their demonic "feast" day, Vesakh. Is it any wonder that there are pantheists on the loose who are concerned about banning foie gras, of all things? Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Saint Catherine of Siena, pray for us.
There will be a republished article tomorrow on the Feast of the Ascension of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ into Heaven. There might be another original article, depending upon the constraints of time.
April 29 Article
Children of One Revolution After Another
Another brief article, this one dealing with the effects of the various revolutions wrought by Modernity and Modernism upon the souls for whom Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ shed every single drop of His Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross. The wreckage of the Protestant Revolt and of the naturalism engendered in its wake is everywhere to behold. The only antidote is Catholicism. Our only sure refuge is Our Lady, especially as we cling to her by means of her Most Holy Rosary and total consecration to her Divine Son through her own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart.
It's off to record another of those hot-selling lectures. Another article should appear tomorrow, the Feast of Saint Catherine of Siena, at some point. A new fund-raising letter will also be posted tomorrow as sales aren't really that "hot" after all!
April 28 Article and Video Lecture Update
Leaving Death Bearers Deader Than Dead
Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI was content to leave the death bearers of false religions deader than dead during his recent visit to the United States of America. We have heard inanities from many average, ordinary Americans in the past week about how the "pope" loves "all religions, just like God does." Major offenses were committed against the honor and majesty of God by one deemed to be, albeit falsely, the Vicar of Christ on earth. People in false religions were reaffirmed in their falsehoods. Many Catholics yet attached to the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism were reaffirmed in their beliefs that it is not necessary to pray and for and to seek with urgency the unconditional conversion of all non-Catholic to the true Faith. We must heed the exhortations of one of the saints commemorated today, Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort, the pray the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which Rosary was so ignored by the arrogant antipope who dares to defy God and to ignore the chief means after Holy Mass itself of getting home to Heaven. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us, Saint Paul of the Cross, pray for us. Saint Vitalis, pray for us. Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort, pray for us.
A new package of five video lectures has been posted at Christ or Chaos Store. These lectures are part thirteen in the Living in the Shadow of the Cross lecture program. Recordings will continue each day this week.
Efforts will be made to continue writing articles as allergies wear me down physically. All to thee, Blessed Mother. All to thy Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, we love you. Save souls. A new one should appear at some point tomorrow, Tuesday, April 29, 2008, the Feast of Saint Peter of Verona (also known as Saint Peter the Martyr, a great saint of the Order of Preachers).
I very much recommend to you His Excellency Bishop Daniel L. Dolan's sermon of yesterday, the Fifth Sunday after Easter, Watchful Care." I urge each of you to profit from His Excellency's wise pastoral guidance.
Finally, a reader wrote to me to state that he had read that Pope Pius XII would stand up to greet certain visitors (although His Holiness would not do so for others, those the reader termed as the more "nefarious"). I stand corrected on that point. No true pope, however, would receive, whether sitting or standing, with esteem and equanimity the symbols of false religions in a staged media event to promote the counterfeit church of conciliarism's program of false ecumenism. Even though I have provided a link to the video of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI receiving these symbols on Thursday, April 17, 2008, the one photograph below really tells quite a tale about the lack of any understanding of how the symbols of false religions offend God and how to treat them with respect is to sin against the First Commandment:
April 26 Update
Check back on Monday, April 28, 2008, for the next article. Allergies have laid me pretty low the last few days, although I have been recording for the new video website that has sparked so much interest (my tongue is planted firmly in my cheek; the ratings for this website have been dropping, dropping, dropping!). The next set of lectures should be posted on Monday. Thanks for your patience. A blessed Feast of Our Lady of Good Counsel to you all.
April 24 Article
Faithful Then, Faithful Now
This is a a very brief reflection on the life and the martyrdom of Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, who gave up his life at the hands of those wretched Calvinists while seeking with urgency their unconditional conversion to the true Faith. Saint Fidelis stands in contrast to the scions of the counterfeit church of conciliarism, men who believe in "inter-religious" dialogue and who do not seek with urgency the unconditional conversion of all non-Catholics to the maternal bosom of the Catholic Church. Saint Fidelis was faithful in his own day to the mission that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ gave the Apostles to convert all men and all nation until His Second Coming in glory on the Last Day to judge the living and the dead. We must give thanks for those have remained faithful in our own day, including the great pastor of souls we are privileged to now, His Excellency Bishop Robert Fidelis McKenna, O.P.! Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, pray for us.
The typographical errors in yesterday's article have been corrected! Most of these were caused by a malfunctioning "y" key on my computer. The "y" key does not depress when struck initially, requiring repeated efforts. Having been properly chastened yesterday by a reader, I am doing my best to make sure that the errors are caught and corrected. It is the case that many of the articles are corrected after their initial posting following my catching errors that I detect on the copies of those articles that I print up to give to Bishop McKenna for his review. Once again, please bear with me. I am endeavoring to be more diligent in this regard.
Oh, just a reminder. The Christ or Chaos Store is open. Naturalistic politicians of both major political parties can raise millions upon millions of dollars to spread their naturalism. Our "enterprises" wind up attracting the interest of about twenty people! All to thee, Blessed Mother. All to thy Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, we love you. Save souls! Another lecture in the Living of the Shadow of the Cross lecture program will be recorded this afternoon.
The next article on this site, which will be the next installment in the travelogue, will be posted on Saturday, April 26, 2008.
April 23 Article and Video Lecture Update
"Connecting" with Betrayal
Will we recognize the Antichrist when he walks amongst us if we are alive at that time? Will we let the pull of emotionalism and sentimentality get the better of our Catholic senses when he sounds like a Catholic moments after committing an egregious act of sacrilege against the Most Holy Trinity? Will it matter to us that he doesn't mention the Holy Name of the Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, in the presence of non-Catholics? Will it matter to us that he mentions not the Mother of God or exhorts one and all to pray her Most Holy Rosary? Will we take refuge in the belief that a "prudent silence" will make the Antichrist go away?
Well, precursors of the Antichrist have walked amongst us dressed in in papal regalia. Millions of Catholics have been "edified" by the toleration shown to false religions, the "compassion" shown to the young by not preaching "at" them, the broad-mindedness shown while at the United Masonic Nations organization. There is no mystery as to what will happen when the Antichrist comes amongst us. He will be accorded the same respect and honor as have been accorded his precursors who have acted so brazenly against the honor and majesty of the Most Holy Trinity and against the devotion due His Most Blessed Mother. Our Lad of Fatima, pray for us.
A new video lecture has been added to Christ or Chaos Store. This lecture is part twelve in the "Living in the Shadow of the Cross lecture program, recordings of which have now resumed and will continue for the next seven weeks (or more!). Each lecture will be posted late on the day on which it is recorded.
Finally, a reader has written to note the number of typographical errors lately. The four most recently posted articles have been reviewed to correct errors that had gotten into the final posting. I will go through the other recently posted articles to make sure that they are error free. I apologize for these errors, which I deplore. I could blame failing eyesight and fatigue for some of these errors. The truth is, of course, that the answer rests in a lifelong pattern of sloth in this regard. I have always been horrible in proofreading my own work. Omitted words change the entire meaning of sentences. This is my fault. I apologize. I will try to do a better job. Please do not hesitate to point out typographical errors that I have missed. As I have noted before, I will probably spend my Purgatory, if I died in state of Sanctifying Grace, that is, correcting my typographical errors. Please forgive me.
April 21 Article and Video Lecture Update
The article below was posted early this morning, shortly after Midnight. A companion video presentation, running forty-one minutes in length, has been uploaded to the Christ or Chaos Store.
As noted below, there will be no new article tomorrow. God willing and Our Lady interceding, there will be one on Wednesday. Recordings of the "Living in the Shadow of the Cross Lecture" program will resume tomorrow. They will be uploaded on a daily basis as they are recorded.
All is Quicksand Without Our Lady
What more can be said or written? Another day passed with the putative "pontiff," Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, refusing to make any public references at all to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, Mary our Immaculate Queen, Our Lady. No exhortations to pray her Most Holy Rosary. No invitations to be totally consecrated to her Divine Son through her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. All of the New Theology's distortion of the true meaning of "Christian hope" shows itself to be an absurd farce against the Fait as she who is our very life and our sweetness and our hope is ignored as though devotion to her is but an "option" in the life of Catholics. All of the talk of putting on the Mind of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ rings quite hollow when devotion to Our Lady is not promoted by one presuming, albeit falsely, to speak in His Holy Name as His Vicar on earth. All of the talk of "obedience" to "Church" authorities is just patent absurdity when the conciliar revolutionaries embrace and promote one proposition after another condemned by the authority of the Catholic Church.
What more can be said or written? We must continue our prayers of reparation to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. Our Lady of Good Counsel, pray for us. Saint Anselm, pray for us.
There have been thirteen articles, I believe, in the past ten days. Look for another article in a few days! I will resume recordings for the "Living in the Shadow of the Cross" lecture program tomorrow, Tuesday, April 22, 2008.
I want to recommend His Excellency Bishop Daniel L. Dolan's
Consolation for the Fatherless sermon that he delivered at Saint Gertrude the Great Church in West Chester, Ohio, yesterday. His Excellency made an excellent point about the "pull" that the recently concluded visit of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI had for some Catholics in this country. His Excellency's sermon is very important. Please take the the time to listen to it. (I will be writing on a similar theme in a few days. There is indeed quite a "pull" when a man dressed for the part tugs at the emotional heartstrings of Catholics while doing and saying things that offend God greatly. It must be remerged that Vatican officials, speaking off the record, told reporters for The New York Times before Benedict began his visit that an important part of the mission of the journey was to help to "define" the "pope's" image with the public.)
April 20 Article
No Room for Mary Immaculate Queen at Saint Joseph's Seminary
The title says it all. Thousands of young people listened to the man they believe to be the Vicar of Christ speak to them about holiness without hearing a single, solitary word uttered about the Mother of God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces and our Immaculate Queen. It doesn't make any difference if Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI's entire "homily" at Yankee Stadium today is all about Our Lady. The fact that there has been only one mention of her, briefly after the Wednesday, April 16, 2008, conciliar vespers service in Washington, D.C., up to this point is even more scandalous and offensive to God than receiving the symbols of false religions with esteem and equanimity. No exhortation to pray Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary or to be enrolled in the Brown Scapular or to wear the Miraculous Medal or to fulfill Our Lady's Fatima Message in our own lives? Oh, yes, there was plenty of room on the grounds of Saint Joseph's Seminary in the Dunwoodie section of Yonkers, New York, yesterday for "rock" "music" that comes from Hell and pollutes souls. There was not room at all for the Mother of God. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.
Another article should appear tomorrow, the Feast of Saint Anselm. There will be two more follow-up articles on the mess of a visit that will end this evening. Work on the next installment of the travelogue will resume after that, as will recordings for the "Living in the Shadow of the Cross" lecture program.
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April 19 Articles and Update
The two articles linked below were posted at around 2:00 a.m. today. The first one, No Room for Christ the King at the United Nations, has been enlarged just a little bit in two places.
Well, "Father" Stan Fortuna is now "rappin'" at the "Youth Rally" taking place on the grounds of Saint Joseph's Seminary in the Dunwoodie section of the City of Yonkers, New York. Ah, yes, the "quiet revolution" marches on, doesn't it? Where's Dana and "We are One Body"? Oh, I guess she's got to be on the program at some point before Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI leaves New York City tomorrow night. Wait a minute! Now there's three grossly immodestly dressed women singing (Father Stan has finished his frenzied act, and that is putting his diabolical beat charitably). Our Lady of Fatima's dress code? Modesty? Decency? Not to be found in "youth rallies" of the counterfeit church of conciliarism.
Anyhow, here is a brief commentary (no, we didn't go to Long Island after all) on the travesty of the Novus Ordo service that was staged a few hours ago at Saint Patrick's Cathedral, where there was No Room for Mary Immaculate Queen at Saint Patrick's Cathedral. We're going to pray a Rosary of reparation now. Want to join us in praying one?
Our Lady of Consolation, pray for us.
We are very grateful to His Excellency Bishop Robert F. McKenna, O.P., for leading his parishioners and the school children from Saint Dominic's Academy in a Rosary of reparation after Holy Mass yesterday morning for the crimes against God and souls being committed by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI during his visit to the United States of America.
The two articles that were posted early this morning, around 2:00 a.m., Eastern time, cover different aspects of these crimes. No Room for Christ the King at the United Nations reviews Ratzinger/Benedict's address to the United Masonic Nations organization. Sorrow Beyond Description reviews the apostasies and betrayals associated with yesterday's "ecumenical" events. Our Lady's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart hates false ecumenism. Although she seeks to console us under the title of Our Lady of Consolation, whose feast day this is, we should seek to console her by continuing to pray as many Rosaries of reparation as our states-in-life permit! Our Lady of Consolation, pray for us.
There should be another article tomorrow. As we do want to give our daughter, who received a very good third quarter report card yesterday, a little treat today, I won't have time to write on all of today's events--or to record another video lecture, probably focusing on only one of the two public events when we return to the motor home late today. There is the possibility that Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI might make mention of the "extraordinary form of the one Roman Rite" in his Novus Ordo service for priests, deacons and religious at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in seven hours. We will see if the "pope of tradition," who has maintained the conciliar "tradition" of offending God by treating false religions and their symbols with respect, makes any mention of what is called in the Motu world the "extraordinary form of the one Roman Rite" A later update--no, no reference to the Motu. Oh, well, he's got two more chances before he leaves for Rome tomorrow evening.
Much more sadly, however, Benedict/Ratzinger once again made no reference to the Mother of God in a "homily" delivered to conciliar priests and conciliar religious. How can there be holiness without deep devotion to Our Lady, especially by means of her Most Holy Rosary?
Oops, it's time for the gala "procession" for the "presentation of the gifts." Ah, wonderful to see so much "tradition" as the Ave Maria is being sung. Folks, the false "pope's" master of ceremonies approved all of this. All of this. There is not a single surprise to the "papal" household about any of what is happening right now at Saint Patrick's Cathedral. This has all been very carefully scripted and orchestrated. The man who was "presented" with symbols of false religions not even two days ago, thereby blaspheming God and scandalizing Catholics and non-Catholics alike, is now being presented "gifts" for the Novus Ordo service. Kyrie eleison!
Finally, another reader has written to me to say that Father Anthony Cekada's phrase about women serving as lectors in the Novus Ordo service is "epistle babe." That just goes to show the other reader who thought that I was denying credit to Father Cekada for his phrase-turning abilities that my own use of the phrase "lector babe" harkens back to the influence of a former friend of mine in the conciliar structures, whether a priest or layman I know not. Thanks for all of the corrections, however!
Tomorrow night's departure ceremony, which will be presided over by Vice President Richard N. Cheney (if the precedents of past "papal" visits to the United States of America hold this time) at Kennedy International Airport in the Borough of Queens, New York, cannot come soon enough for me!
Our Lady of Consolation, pray for us!
April 18 Article and Update
The article below has been "tweaked" just a little bit since its initial posting shortly after Midnight, Eastern time, this morning. There is a contextual change in the first paragraph and a few additions of substance near the end of the article.
It's off now to spend time with Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in His Real Presence prior to a Mass of reparation at Our Lady of the Rosary chapel. Please pray as many Rosaries today as your states-in-life permit. Much offense has been given to God this week by the head of the counterfeit church of conciliarism, Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI. Much more will be given today and in the next two days. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
Also, a reader has asked me to accredit Father Anthony Cekada for the phrase "lector babe." Father Cekada, who certainly does have a penchant for coming out with the turn of a phrase, has certainly popularized this term. I first it the term, however, from one in the conciliar structures, whether a priest or a layman I know not, who was constantly bemoaning the presence of "fat babes" in the sanctuary with him ("lector babe," "extraordinary minister babe," "choir leader babe," etc.). I would never shrink from giving credit to the erstwhile phrase-turner, Father Cekada. In this instance, however, my own use of it harkens back to some years ago when I was gritting my teeth in the 1980s and early 1990s at what I thought was daily "Mass" in the conciliar structures. Just a point of clarification.
There will be another article tomorrow morning on the address of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI at the United Nations. As a happy antidote, however, I would suggest that you read paragraphs 40-49 of Pope Pius XI's Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922, which have been oft-quoted on this site (and will be again in the next article). Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.
Asking Our Lady to Repair the Damage
There are so many offenses and blasphemies and sacrileges and apostasies that have been committed in the past few days, each of which cries out for acts of reparation to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, especially by means of praying her Most Holy Rosary with fervor and attentiveness. Apart from the "usual" offenses given to God by means of the abomination that is the Protestant and Masonic Novus Ordo service, there have been the spectacles of pro-abortion "Catholics" Nancy Pelosi (D-California), the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and Senator John F. Kerry (D-Massachusetts) receiving what purports to be Holy Communion in the "Mass" simulated by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI at Nationals Park in Washington, District of Columbia, yesterday.
As horrible as that spectacle was, however, it pales in comparison to the unspeakable horror of the man who thinks himself to be the Vicar of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ standing up (a true Successor of Saint Peter stands up for no man) to receive with equanimity and respect and even joy (!) the symbols of false religions, thus committing, objectively speaking, multiple Mortal Sins against the First Commandment and scandalizing any Catholic who has a modicum of the sensus Catholicus left after forty years of such outrages. Saints gave up their lives rather than even to appear to offer respect and honor to the symbols of false religions. Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, who knows that the religions he honored are false, does not believe that he has offended God. Indeed, he believes that he has upheld the "principles" of religious freedom and pluralism and ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue. What he has done, however, is commit grave acts of apostasy and sacrilege that cry out from out acts of reparation, especially as we pray Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary today (when Ratzinger/Benedict will pay his obeisance to the United Masonic Organizations, probably invoking Pope Pius XII's early support for this organ of the one world government, and then pay a private visit to a Jewish synagogue in Manhattan before engaging in the forbidden exercise of "inter-religious" prayer with representatives from Protestant sects and the various strands of the schismatic and heretical Orthodox churches).
As this is is a day of prayer and reparation. there will not be any additional articles today. There should be one tomorrow morning, Saturday, April 20, 2008. Whatever I am unable to critique during Ratzinger/Benedict's actual visit (such as the address to Catholic educators given yesterday which is chock full of paradoxes--how can a man who disbelieves in the immutable nature of dogmatic truth urge "Catholic" educators to be "faithful" to truth?) will be critiqued in the days ahead next week. Prayer comes before all else. We desperately need to spend today on our knees before the Real Presence of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in th Most Blessed Sacrament as we pray our Rosaries of reparation. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us!
(Time might be find at some point to record a brief commentary for the new video lecture website, which is working very well right now.)
April 17 Articles and New Video Lecture Update
To the update first: The problem with the downloaded hyperlinks to the commentary that I recorded yesterday, "No Room for Christ the King on the South Lawn," was of my doing, it appears. I had to enter a number in a certain place on the administrator's page for the lecture. I did not know this. I apologize to Mr. Mathias of Blue Modus for the work that this caused him, also apologizing to those who ordered the commentary and who were not able to view it upon receiving the hyperlink. This commentary is now viewable, as a reader confirmed to me just a few moments ago as this update was being written. It looks as though we are really in business after all. Deo gratias. Step right up and get your lectures!
The other problem, the one concerning my two part "Introduction to the Lecture Program, was caused by the size of the files. Mr. Mathias is still trying to work this one out, although he has found a temporary solution. Anyone interested in ordering these comprehensive lectures until the permanent solution is found to the problem should contact me first as I have been sent links to those lectures which will provide you with ready access after payment is received. All to thee, Blessed Mother. All to thy Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, we love you. Save souls!
Another lecture, "Day 2 at Apostasy Central," has been uploaded to Christ or Chaos Store. It is available for purchase presently. This lecture reviews the Americanism extant in yesterday's White House speeches and the remarks delivered by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI in the "vespers" service in the Crypt Church of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, District of Columbia, touching also on the Novus Ordo service this morning at Nationals Park, where no mention at all was made in Ratzinger/Benedict's sermon of the Mother of God. This lecture runs one hour, thirteen minutes in length. Another commentary, reviewing the utter act of apostasy and sacrilege that has just been committed by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict in receiving with equanimity and respect the gifts presented to him by representatives of false religions, which he received standing up to show his respect for the representatives of the false religions (!), will be recorded tonight or tomorrow. May God have mercy us all! Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.
Latin and the Lector Babes
A little something for everyone. That's what the counterfeit church of conciliarism offers. You want Latin? They'll give you some in a "vespers" service and during the context of what purports to be, albeit falsely, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. You want lector babes? Oh, my, you can have them in abundance? You want Latin with a calypso beat? Hey, they've got that for you as well? You want Placido Domingo singing Panis Angelicus for a touch of tradition? All right, you're in business. You've found your liturgical home. You want what purports be Holy Communion given to you in the hand? No problem. Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI will be most happy to oblige. Folks, everything about the counterfeit church of conciliarism, which is a mixture of Catholicism and Modernism, is a mockery of God. None of what transpired today at Nationals Park in Washington, District of Columbia, is of God, including the omission of any reference to the Mother of God in the "homily" delivered by the false pontiff. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.
Another video commentary will be recorded shortly. It will be posted later on this afternoon now that the new website is working well. Another article should be posted this evening, followed by another one tomorrow morning. (You freeloaders out there who aren't even buying the video lectures are getting your money's worth, aren't you? Smile! I am.)
No Room for Christ the King on the South Lawn
This article is a little different from, although related to, the commentary that I recorded yesterday morning from 11:40 a.m. to 12:17 p.m. I will keep stressing the immutable doctrine of the Social Reign of Christ the King every time the arch-Americanist who is now in the United States of America keeps praising the American founding and its "separation of Church and State," albeit with a few qualifications here and there, oblivious to the fact that it is that very separation of Church and State, a thesis condemned by Pope Saint Pius X as one absolutely false, that is one of the chief proximate reasons for the social evils that conciliarism seeks to address by means of an advertence to the Natural Law absent any call for the return of men and their nations to the true Faith.
There was no room for Christ the King on the South Lawn yesterday. There was no room for Him in the Crypt Church of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. There is no room for Him in the theology of the counterfeit church of conciliarism. Our Lady, Help of Christians, pray for us. Pope Saint Anicetus, pray for us. Look for another article in the morning.
April 16 Article
When Helen Keller Meets Ray Charles
Let the apostasies begin! Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI has arrived in the United States of America. The false "pontiff" answered four questions from reporters on the airplane while in flight from Rome, Italy, to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. One of them dealt with whether the United States of America was the "model" for European countries. The answer given by Ratzinger/Benedict was pure Americanism, a celebration of "religious liberty" and pluralism and separation of Church and State:
Asked if the United States could serve as a religious model Europe and other areas of the world, the pope replied, ”Certainly Europe can’t simply copy the United States. We have our own history. We all have to learn from each other.”
But he said the United States was interesting because it “started with positive idea of secularism.”
“This new people was made of communities that had escaped official state purges and wanted a lay state, a secular state that opened the possibility for all confessions and all form of religious exercise,” he added. “Therefore it was a state that was intentionally secular. It was the exact opposite of state religion, but it was secular out of love for religion and for an authenticity that can only be lived freely.”
Pope Leo XIII, writing in Longiqua Oceani, January 6, 1895, stated Catholic teaching on whether the Church-State model in the United States of America should be followed in the rest of the world:
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 Saint Pius X, writing in Vehementer Nos, February 11, 1906, condemned the thesis of the separation of Church and State as absolutely false:
That the State must be separated from the Church is a thesis absolutely false, a most pernicious error. Based, as it is, on the principle that the State must not recognize any religious cult, it is in the first place guilty of a great injustice to God; for the Creator of man is also the Founder of human societies, and preserves their existence as He preserves our own. We owe Him, therefore, not only a private cult, but a public and social worship to honor Him. Besides, this thesis is an obvious negation of the supernatural order. It limits the action of the State to the pursuit of public prosperity during this life only, which is but the proximate object of political societies; and it occupies itself in no fashion (on the plea that this is foreign to it) with their ultimate object which is man's eternal happiness after this short life shall have run its course. But as the present order of things is temporary and subordinated to the conquest of man's supreme and absolute welfare, it follows that the civil power must not only place no obstacle in the way of this conquest, but must aid us in effecting it.
Those who believe that the immutable teaching of the Catholic Church condemning "religious liberty" and the "separation of Church and State" do not apply now should consider these powerful words of Pope Pius XI, contained in Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922:
Many believe in or claim that they believe in and hold fast to Catholic doctrine on such questions as social authority, the right of owning private property, on the relations between capital and labor, on the rights of the laboring man, on the relations between Church and State, religion and country, on the relations between the different social classes, on international relations, on the rights of the Holy See and the prerogatives of the Roman Pontiff and the Episcopate, on the social rights of Jesus Christ, Who is the Creator, Redeemer, and Lord not only of individuals but of nations. In spite of these protestations, they speak, write, and, what is more, act as if it were not necessary any longer to follow, or that they did not remain still in full force, the teachings and solemn pronouncements which may be found in so many documents of the Holy See, and particularly in those written by Leo XIII, Pius X, and Benedict XV.
There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which We condemn, no less decidedly than We condemn theological modernism.
It is necessary ever to keep in mind these teachings and pronouncements which We have made; it is no less necessary to reawaken that spirit of faith, of supernatural love, and of Christian discipline which alone can bring to these principles correct understanding, and can lead to their observance. This is particularly important in the case of youth, and especially those who aspire to the priesthood, so that in the almost universal confusion in which we live they at least, as the Apostle writes, will not be "tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive." (Ephesians iv, 14)
It is no wonder that Hillary Rodham Clinton is acting the part of Helen Keller and Barack Hussein Obama is acting the part of Ray Charles as the blind leading the blind. The counterfeit church of conciliarism, led at present by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, reaffirms them in a blind adherence to the false, naturalistic, anti-Incarnational, religiously indifferentist and semi-Pelagian principles of the American founding.
Forewarned is forearmed. An arch-Americanist is now walking amongst us. While we pray for his conversion back to the true Faith--and to a humble and docile recognition of the immutable doctrine of the Social Reign of Christ the King, we must stand prepared to pray many Rosaries of reparation for the words he will utter and the nefarious deeds that he will perform during this visit. Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us! Saint Joseph, for us. Saint Benedict Joseph Labre, pray for us.
Well, at long last, the Christ or Chaos Store is now open for business. It is pretty obvious that the adversary was working overtime to prevent these lectures from going online. Here is what Mr. Matt Mathias, the owner of the Blue Modus company that designed the website wrote to me late on Tuesday, August 15, 2008:
Well it seems he [the adversary] is out of luck because God gave me a wonderful talent with computers and I was able to solve the problem.
Not that he didn't try hard enough. This is an odd thing. There was a file on the server - THAT NO ONE TOUCHED - that was there yesterday and today was suddenly gone. Turns out this file was the file that ties the ecommerce application in to paypal. I was able to work some magic and figure out the file was missing (quite challenging when you didn't know it existed to begin with) and replace it with a backup copy. This solved the problem.
You are live.
My thanks to Mr. Mathias and to his team at Blue Modus for getting the new website designed and operational. The delays were all within the Providence of God. We are simply grateful that the new site is now launched and that the lectures, which continue to be recorded, are now available for purchase.
There is a very specific, step-by-step set of directions that I have composed for you to review BEFORE you go to the new website. Everything about the new site is explained there.
Thank you for your patience during the four and one-half months that it took for this project to get launched from the time that it was conceived.
And I do want to remind those of our benefactors who have given over $1000 to us in the past year that they will get DVDs of the extant lectures within the next week.
The store is open! I hope that you will find the lectures profitable.
There should be another article (and very brief) article posted today at some point. I will also have details of my upcoming speaking appearance in Lewiston, Maine, on Sunday, May 26, 2008, ready to post at that time. The articles will come pretty fast and furious in the next few days. So will the video commentaries. Stay tuned!
Sincerely yours in Christ the King and Mary our Immaculate Queen, Thomas A. Droleskey.
April 15 Article
Wild Cards or Mirror Images?
Walter Kasper. Wild card or mirror image of the man for whom he works?
Christoph Schonborn. Wild card or mirror image of the man for whom he works?
Michael Malone and David Walker, conciliar "bishops" in Australia who have just recently smoked a "peace pipe" with their brother non-bishops form the Anglican "Church" down under. Wild cards or mirror images of the man for whom they work?
The late John Joseph O'Connor, who reaffirmed a Catholic man in his desire to convert to Talmudic Judaism, saying that God was "smiling" on the man's decision to apostatize. Wild card or a mirror image of conciliarism's apostasies?
We are being told by some commentators that Walter Kasper's views on the "revised" Good Friday Prayer for the Jews for us by the Motu communities do not reflect those of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI. Well, this article contains a little bit of evidence (which is my tongue-in-cheek way of saying a lot of evidence) to the contrary, drawing upon some rather interesting source material in the process.
Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II, who presided over the Assisi "prayer" events, permitting prayers to be offered by voodoo witch doctors and animists (who prayed to the "Great Thumb"). Wild card or mirror image of the offenses that will be given to God this week as his successor, Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, receives with respect and equanimity the symbols of false religions, each of which is loathed by God: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
There is really nothing new under the conciliarist's sun. The offenses that will be given to God this week are pretty old hat, which is why the lion's share of Catholics are so inured to them. We must make pray our Rosaries of reparation this week for all of the offenses that will be given to God by the conciliarist-in-chief as he visits the United States of America. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
This is, I believe, a rather lengthy article. There are complaints registered from time to time about the length of the articles on this site, complaints that I have addressed now and again. Suffice it to say that I am trying to leave behind a body of writing that will help others in the future understand the issues that we faced in these our days. The lengthy quotations from the encyclical letters are provided to readers with ready access to material that most Catholics have no knowledge of whatsoever and would never access on their own. The excerpts from the encyclical letters that I provide are included in the context frequently of comparing them with the conciliarists' own words. Readers familiar with excerpts used fairly regularly always can skim over those excerpts with which they are familiar, although repetition is the mother of learning. However, there is always the possibility that a reader who has not accessed this site before and has not seen the quotations will do so for the first time. It is for that soul alone, my friends, that I continue to include various quotations (as well as for the fact that even regular readers forget details) on a regular basis.
An additional complaint that is registered from time to time concerns the number (too many) of articles that are posted on this site, especially since so few people (around 4,000, it appears) access it on a regular basis. I am under no delusion as to the microscopically small number of readers that this site has in comparison with other sites. This site is very small potatoes on the internet. Very small potatoes. So what?
My work is done for the honor and glory of God, given to Him through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. I have many sins for which to make reparation, including sins of obstinancy for not investigating the claims of those who kept insisting with me over the years that the Catholic Church could not be the author of a defective liturgy or do anything in any way, whether "official" or "unofficial," that contradicted herself. Although I would like to have a larger (and more generous) readership than is the case, it is enough that the work is done for the honor and glory of God, noting, of course, that we are very grateful for the readers that we do have and for the generosity of those who have been so very, very kind to us, especially in emergency situations. I write articles when I have the time and ability to do them after fulfilling my own family responsibilities--and as circumstances, such as those that will transpire this week, mandate a little extra effort. God willing and Our Lady interceding, it is my hope to continue this work until I die or until I am physically or mentally unable to do so, balancing the writing with the video lectures, which will be interspersed with the Living in the Shadow of the Cross lecture program and brief commentaries offered several times a week on current events.
Today, April 15, 2008, should be the launch day of the new video website. The final few problems were uncovered and repaired yesterday evening. Another one was discovered this morning when I tried to purchase a lecture. The checkout feature, which had been working well, no longer works. All to thee, Blessed Mother. All to thy Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, we love you. Save souls! Just keep checking. I hope to have an announcement about how to access the new site and how to purchase lectures at some point later today.
There should be another article or two posted by tomorrow morning, Wednesday, April 16, 2008. It is my hope to intertwine articles and running commentaries on the new website during the visit of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI.
April 14 Article
Saints and Idols: No Room for "Coexistence"
No canonized saint of the Catholic Church believed that there was room for "coexistence" between the symbols of idols and the true Faith. Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI believes this with his whole heart, as will be demonstrated when he accepts with respect and equanimity such symbols, presented to him by representatives of false religions, at the "Pope" John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, District of Columbia, three days from now, Thursday, April 17, 2008. Although I have written about this upcoming sacrilege that will offend the honor and majesty of God greatly, I do so again in light of the fact that so many average Catholics yet attached to the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism believe that this is not offensive to God at all. Such is the fruit of over forty years of having their Catholic senses bombarded by the images and sounds of false ecumenism. Such is the fruit of over forty years of being denied Sanctifying Graces as a result of the Protestant and Masonic Novus Ordo service and the attack on the rites of episcopal consecration and priestly ordination. Such is the thoroughly rotten fruit of a false religion that mixes Catholicism and error on a regular basis, the very diabolical recipe called by Pope Saint Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, September 8, 1907, as the foundation of the synthesis of all heresies that is Modernism. We mst pray and make much reparation for our own sins as well as those that will be committed by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI this week. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Saint Justin Martyr, pray for us. Saints Tiburtius, Valerian and Maximus, pray for us.
I hope to have word today at some point about the launching of the new website. I hope. I pray. All to thee, Blessed Mother. All to thy Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, we love you. Save souls!
Another article--or possibly two--will be posted tomorrow, Tuesday, April 15, 2008. (I have just read a brief press report of the debate last night between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Their hideous remarks will receive a little bit of attention, maybe as soon as tomorrow, certainly by Wednesday, April 16, 2008.)
Finally, I would ask in your charity to pray for the repose of the immortal soul of Mr. Antero Tintinaglia, the father of our friend Mr. Fabio Tintinaglia. The elder Mr. Tintinaglia died last week. Prayers for the repose of his immortal soul and for the consolation of his family would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
April 13 Article
Weep and Make Reparation
Another brief article. The title says it all. Included in the body of this article is a news story from yesterday's online edition of The New York Times about the preparations being made for Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI's "Masses" at Nationals Park in Washington, District of Columbia, and Yankee Stadium in the Borough of The Bronx in the City of New York, New York, this coming week. Believe it or not, Hollywood producers and political advance specialists have been employed to "produce" and "stage" these outdoor "papal" extravaganza non-"Masses." Then again, everything about conciliarism is produced by those with whom the Hollywood producers and the pro-abortion political advance teams hired to "stage" the false pope's events in the United States of America are intimately associated, namely, the very forces of Belial himself. It should come as no surprise that the abomination of the Protestant and Masonic Novus Ordo service, which is offensive to God and harmful to the souls for whom He shed every single drop of His Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross, lends itself to spectacles for the world to behold. Kyrie eleison! Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. Saint Hermenigild, pray for us!
Another article will appear tomorrow, Monday, April 14, 2008, the Feast of Saint Justin Martyr. The second installment of the new travelogue should be posted on tax day, Tuesday, April 15, 2008.
It is in God's Holy Providence that there is no new word on the video lecture website yet. I just have to offer this all up to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of His Most Blessed Mother. It is my hope, however, to offer ten or fifteen or thirty minute commentaries next week on the events that unfold during the visit of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, uploading them to the site to make them accessible in as close to "real time" as possible. Indeed, it is my hope to provide some running political commentaries of the same length on a regular basis in addition to the "Living in the Shadow of the Cross lecture program that continues to be recorded. Keep checking. Keep praying! Thank you.
April 12 Article
No Room for Christ the King At Ground Zero
This is a very brief article. There is no need to belabor the obvious. To refuse to mention the Holy Name of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in a prayer offered by one who is considered to be, albeit falsely, the Vicar of Christ on earth is a major offense against God. It is also an offense against the souls of all men, whether Catholic or non-Catholic, as it gives the impression that are indeed times when it is opportune and prudent to refrain from speaking the Name above all Names because It might "offend" others or cause unnecessary "divisions" or "hard feelings." We need to do acts of reparation, as noted below in the April 9, 2008, update on this home page (and as is also noted in the body of this brief article). Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.
Looks like we are stuck in a 'wait and see" mode about the new website. The owner of the company that hosts this site and that constructed the new site has sent an e-mail to the creator of a particular "shopping cart" program that is not "shipping" lectures in test orders that have been placed thus far. I will not launch the site unless you can get an actual "product" after you pay your money, which I do not want under false pretenses! Although the existing lectures are up and ready to be accessed, I cannot make the site public until this last problem is resolved. All I can say is that I will keep you posted. Keep praying. All to thee, Blessed Mother. all to thy Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, we love you. Save souls!
The next original article on this site will appear on Monday, April 14, 2008, the Feast of Saint Justin Martyr, although said article might not appear until tax day, April 15, 2008.
April 11 Article
It's Still Better This Than Purgatory (or Worse!) in 2008, part 1
Well, at long last, good readers, here is the first installment of this year's first travelogue. There's much more to recount as this particular only goes from the week of December 10, 2007, to our arrival back in Connecticut on January 3, 2008, following a trip out to Saint Gertrude the Great Church for Christmas. Be patient. The next few days will bring more installments in the always penitential experiences we are blessed to have. Blessed? Yes, indeed, blessed. It really is better this than Purgatory--or worse--in this year or any other year. Penances are from God, Who is all good. We should embrace our penances with love and gratitude. They are the means by which we can make reparation for our own sins and those of the whole world as the consecrated slaves of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. Deo gratias! Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us!
I had hoped to have another article for you this morning. However, that one, on the "prayer" that Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI will offer at "ground zero" in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York, New York, on Friday, April 18, 2008, will have to wait until tomorrow, Saturday, April 12, 2008. As I am now in possession of the entire liturgical program for the false "pope's" visit to the United States of America, available at
the conciliar Vatican website, there are additional Novus Ordo "goodies" that need to be addressed. Another report indicates that "girl altar boys" and lectorettes will be employed during the "traditional" "pope's" visit. None of this confusion can come from the Catholic Church. I will have a commentary on this matter by tomorrow, God willing and Our Lady interceding.
We sit and wait for the final hurdle to be cleared before launching the video lecture website. This hurdle involves the "delivery" of lectures to those who purchase them via a hyperlink sent in an e-mail once customers purchase them. A test of this feature failed today. This critical issue needs to be resolved before the site can make its debut. Our Lady of Good Success and Saint Joseph, pray for us! Once again, thanks for your patience. I will have full details about the site once I am able to announce its official debut. And I do want to convey to those of you who have donated to us in excess of $1,000 in the past year that we will be sending you DVDs of the lectures on a regular basis, recorded in mp3 format and playable on computers, starting with the first fourteen lectures that have been recorded thus far, as a token of our gratitude for your kindness to us. You will not have to make any purchases to view the lectures. You are entitled to have them for the kindness and generosity you have shown to us, for which we are always so very grateful.
Finally, I want to call your attention to the announcement that His Excellency Bishop Daniel L. Dolan has asked me to make concerning the Rosaries of reparation for the multiple offenses that will be offered to God during the visit of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI to the United States of America. That announcement is listed in the April 10 Updates below. Thank you.
April 10 Updates
His Excellency Bishop Daniel L. Dolan has asked me to the post the following information concerning the Rosaries of reparation for the offenses that will be given to God by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI during his upcoming visit to the United States of America. I am most happy to post this message from His Excellency, which is followed by an announcement about the celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of Consolation on Saturday, 19, 2008, at Saint Gertrude the Great Church in West Chester, Ohio:
"Your assistance is urgently needed on Friday April 18th. On this day the head of the One- World Church, Joseph Ratzinger, will be meeting with the leaders of the One-World Government, the United Nations, in New York City. No good will come from this, but rather great offense to God with the advancement of the agenda of the One- Worlders. A full Rosary for reparation and protection will be prayed at church before the Blessed Sacrament exposed at 4:45 Friday afternoon. Please come and pray with us, or at least organize rosary groups of family and friends to repair God’s honor and protect His Church on this very sad day. Please spread this message to as many souls as possible."
A DOUBLE DAY
"For the third year, we will celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Consolation by hosting a pilgrimage right here in our own church, venerating the beautiful image of Our Lady of Consolation we are privileged to possess. This year’s observance will combine the pilgrimage (procession, special Mass & prayers, a meal) with a day of recollection (special spiritual talks, and the meditated rosary).
"The opening procession and devotions are at 8:15 AM on Saturday, April 19th. High Mass is at 9:00 AM, and is followed by a brunch. The spiritual conference will then be given, with closing devotions in church. The day will conclude a little after noon. Please come! Please spread the word and invite others to do so."
I want to encourage each of your to pray your own Rosaries of reparation on Friday, April 18, 2008, and to ask your own pastors to join in these Rosaries of reparation. His Excellency Bishop Mark A Pivarunas, the Superior General of the Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen, has said that he will have a Rosary of reparation prayed before Our Lord's Real Presence Solemnly Exposed at a Holy Hour on Friday, April 18, 2008, after the 6:00 p.m. Mass that evening.
There is certainly much that will take place during Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI's forthcoming visit for which to make reparation. The latest bit of news, which will be the subject of a brief article to be posted tomorrow morning, concerns the "prayer" that the false "pontiff" will offer at "Ground Zero," the site of the former "twin towers" of the World Trade Center in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York, New York. There is not one mention of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in the prayer, which was published by Reuters today. There was no room for Christ the King as Saint Patrick's in Edward "Cardinal" Egan's September 11, 2002, "homily" at Saint Patrick's Cathedral. There appears to be no room for Him at "ground zero" from the lips of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI.
"For he that shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation: the Son of man also will be ashamed of him, when he shall come in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." (Mk. 8: 38.)
Finally, it has been confirmed that the diagnosis of the problems with the Trail Blazer made in Ohio three weeks ago is correct. We do need to get four new tires, wheel bearings, a differential, and a drive train. It is our prayer to Saint Joseph that the purchase of the video lectures from the new website, once it is launched, that is, will generate the money we need to fund this expensive set of repairs. All to thee, Blessed Mother. All to thy Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, we love you. Save souls!
April 9 Articles and Video Lecture Update
As there is still some work left to do on the video lecture site, including uploading the last of the currently available lectures (I can't upload and record at the same time, at least not from the library of Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel in Monroe, Connecticut, where the wireless connections are not good at all) and adjusting the amount of time for which each lecture will be made available after its initial download, the launching of the site will not take place until tomorrow, April 10, 2008. Work is proceeding. The final lecture is being uploaded as this update is being posted. Work is also proceeding on the first installment of the next travelogue, although that first installment may not be posted until Friday, April 11, 2008, the Feast of Pope Saint Leo the Great. Check back tomorrow morning for a further update. Thanks for your patience! I want to make sure that users will be able to access the site without any problems before launching it.
Admiringly Understanding the Mind of an Arch-Americanist
Those steeped in the heresy of Americanism are going to in hog heaven next week. An arch-Americanist, Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, is coming to the United States of America, offering great praise for the "founding" principles, especially those of religious "freedom" and separation of Church and State. Although Benedict XVI has noted in a video message to the people of the United States of America that he seeks to bring the Gospel of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ on his visit, a generic message of "Christian hope" could be delivered by a Billy or Franklin Graham. Only a Catholic can speak of the Social Reign of Christ the King. And you can be assured that that message of immutable Catholic truth will not be delivered during the forthcoming visit of Benedict XVI to the United States of America. Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us.
"If You Do Not Return to the True Faith, You Will Be Cast Into Hell!"
These words were spoken on March 25, 1656, by the Mother of God herself to a man, Pierre Port-Combet, steeped in the darkness of Calvinism. Our Lady sought the conversion of a Calvinist. Our Lady wants the conversion of all non-Catholics to the true Church, outside of which there is no salvation. The story of Notre Dame de l'Osier (Our Lady of the Willow Tree) is one that stands in sharp contrast with the message of "esteem" for "ecclesial communities" and "fraternal friendship" for those in "other" religions that will be delivered by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI during his forthcoming visit to the United States of America. True esteem and true friendship for others do not involve paying homage to the symbols of their false beliefs. True esteem and true friendship for others are premised upon willing their good, the ultimate expression of which is the salvation of their immortal souls. Notre Dame de l'Osier, priez pour nous!
Revised: Lead Us Out of Exile, Good Saint Joseph
This is but a slight revision of an article published nearly a year ago on the Feast of Saint Joseph, the Patron of the Universal Church, which we observe this year on this very day. Saint Joseph led the Holy Family out of exile following the death of King Herod the Great. We need to ask the intercession of Saint Joseph to help lead us out of the exile of the present moment in which his Divine foster-Son's Mystical Body on earth has undergone a mystical Passion, Death and Burial. Good Saint Joseph, pray for us.
April 7 Article
Many Acts of Evil Demand Many Acts of Reparation
Many mortally sinful acts will be committed by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI when he is in the United States of America from April 15, 2008, to April 21, 2008. He will accord esteem and respect to symbols of false religions that are presented to him at the "Pope" John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, District of Columbia, on Thursday, April 17, 2008, violating the First Commandment and reaffirming millions upon millions of souls, Catholics and non-Catholics alike, in the "worth" of "religions" that are loathed by God. Ratzinger/Benedict will speak two days later before the United Masonic Nations organization, thereby reaffirming once again the overthrow of the Social Reign of Christ the King and the "essential" role of a naturalistic organization based on Judeo-Masonic principles as the "path" to world peace. He will step foot again in a Talmudic synagogue, once again according a false religion that is particularly loathsome to God an "esteem" that it does not deserve, doing so on "Passover Eve," of all days! (Don't think that that symbolism will be lost on his "hosts.") And to cap off the multiple offenses against God, not including the "papal" extravaganza offerings of the Protestant and Masonic Novus Ordo service at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., and Yankee Stadium in the Borough of the Bronx in the City of New York, New York, Ratzinger/Benedict will conduct an "inter-religious" prayer service with Protestants and the Orthodox at Saint Joseph's Church in the Yorkville section of the Borough of Manhattan on Friday, April 18, 2008. We need to make many acts of reparation for these evil actions. And while details concerning Rosary processions and Rosaries of reparation will be passed along as they are sent to me, we can make our own plans to set Friday, April 18, 2008, aside for extra time in prayer, offering our Rosaries to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.
I hope to have news about the new website by tomorrow, Tuesday, April 8, 2008. The next article on this site will appear in a few days. Recording sessions for the video lectures resumes today.
April 5 Article
Telling the Lost Sheep to Stay Lost
The conciliar Vatican's Secretariat of State has issued an "official" explanation of the "revised" Good Friday prayer for the Jews to assuage the very ancient enemies of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who demanded the "revision" in the wake of Summorum Pontificum, July 7, 2007, but who found its ultimate wording to be unsatisfactory, if not downright offensive. The new "clarification" contains passages that are straight from the "Second" Vatican Council's Nostra Aetate, October 28, 1965, and seeks to
"sustain the bonds of esteem, dialogue, love, solidarity and collaboration between Catholics and Jews." Love? True love, whether for oneself or for another, is an act of the will, the ultimate expression of which is the salvation of one's own immortal soul and that of others. It is not act of "love" to reaffirm adherents of a false religion in their false beliefs to the point of their deaths.
Indeed, it is a supreme act of anti-Semitism to refuse to seek to convert those steeped in the falsehoods of Talmudic Judaism. Christians and Jews do not need to be "reconciled," as Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI told the rabbis of Italy in 2005. Everyone in a false religion, including Jews, needs to convert unconditionally and with urgency to the true Church, outside of which there is no salvation. And Walter "Cardinal" Kasper is again on the loose, soon to publish an article in L'Osservatore Romano in which he reiterates the point he has made over and over again in recent weeks (and in the past decade or so without ever being corrected by Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II or Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI) that the Catholic Church has no mission to convert the Jews. Saint Peter had it all wrong, in other words. So did the great Dominican saint we honor today, Saint Vincent Ferrer, O.P. We need to make reparation for the apostasies of the counterfeit church of conciliarism, apostasies that will be compounded as Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI shows his great "esteem" for false religions, each of which is hated by God Himself, and for the United Masonic Nations, which is an enemy of the Social Reign of Christ the King, when he comes to the United States of America in but ten days. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us. Saint Vincent Ferrer, O.P., pray for us!
It is my hope to announce the launching of the new website for the video lectures on Monday, April 7, 2008. There are still some details to complete. However, we are getting close to the actual launch date. I will have full information as to how to purchase the lectures once the final details are completed. Thanks for your patience. Sincerely yours in Christ the King and Mary our Immaculate Queen, Thomas A. Droleskey.
April 4 Articles and Broken Tow Bar Photographs
Without a Clue or a Care
Sin is what caused Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to suffer unspeakable horrors in His Sacred Humanity as He redeemed us during His Passion and Death. Sin is what caused Seven Swords of Sorrow to be thrust through and through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, His Most Blessed Mother. Sin is no joking matter. Yet sin is promoted under the official "authority" of the counterfeit church of conciliarism. Inter-religious prayer meetings, which are gravely sinful acts in violation of the First Commandment, have been held by various conciliar "popes" and numerous conciliar "bishops." The then Joseph "Cardinal" Ratzinger stated in 2001 that he had "nothing against' once a year Mass attendees, thereby making short work of the Mortal Sin of deliberating missing Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation. Ratzinger's protege, the conciliar "archbishop" of Vienna, Christoph Schonborn, has said or done nothing as a truly pornographic, blasphemous display of "art" is exhibited in a museum under the direct control of his own Saint Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. Then again, those who do not accept the nature of dogmatic truth do not believe in the nature of God. It is thus an easy thing to offend God in other matters when one has no understanding of Who He is by virtue of immutability and and by virtue of His very holiness. Those who defy the majesty and honor of God, such as Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II, far from being reprobated by the counterfeit church of conciliarism, wind up being candidates for "canonization," extolled by the likes of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI. Our Lady, Help of Christians, pray for us.
Always Defying God
Ah, the "pope" of "tradition" strikes again. Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, in addition to receiving various "sacred symbols" from representatives of false religions in Washington, D.C., in two weeks, is going to preside over an inter-religious prayer service at Saint Joseph's Church in the Yorkville section in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York, New York, on April 18, 2008, shortly after addressing the Masonic Nations organization in the same city. Anyone with an ounce of intellectual integrity will have to admit that God is greatly offended by such an outrage, the likes of which were condemned repeatedly by the authority of the Catholic Church prior to the dawning of the age of conciliarism under Angelo Roncalli/John XXIIII in 1958. All one has to do is to read with care the late Bishop George Hay's
The Laws of God Forbidding All Communication in Religion With Those of a False Religion to contrast Catholicism with conciliarism. Indeed, Bishop Hay's incontestably Catholic treatise explains why it is wrong for any traditionally-minded Catholic to practice a form of false ecumenism by ignoring the apostasies of the conciliarists, including the conciliarist-in-chief who is coming to the United States of America in two weeks, and treating these apostates as Catholics although it is plain that they reject the consistent teaching of the Church and have fallen from the Faith by means of having violated the Divine Positive Law.
Public acts of reparation, especially by means of Rosary processions, are in order as these acts against God and the souls for whom He shed every single drop of His Most Precious Blood are committed. Mrs. Jean Bischel, a parishioner of Saint Gertrude the Great Church in West Chester, Ohio, has proposed just such Rosary processions to take place on the day that Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI addresses the Masonic Nations (and the same day he conducts the "inter-religious" prayer meeting and makes a "private visit" to a synagogue). His Excellency Bishop Daniel L. Dolan has given his approval to Mrs. Bischel's initiative. Information will be passed along on this site as to how to organize such processions (and the hours during which we should pray Rosaries in our churches on that day if processions cannot be organized) as soon as it is made known to me. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
Some have commented about the dearth of articles during Easter Week. What can I say but that we were very sick. The sicknesses have not abated entirely. We also had to deal with a number of real difficulties with the motor home. There have now been, however, four original articles this week. That's not too bad considering the difficulties. And while three articles a week might be all I can do as I resume recording my video lectures next week, please be assured that I am doing my best by means of the graces won for us on Calvary by Our Lord and that flow into our hearts and souls through the loving hands of Our Lady, the Mediatrix of All Graces, to keep up with the work, including the travelogue (which will feature photographs of the incredible adventure we experienced not even twenty-four hours ago of the cracking of the receiver tow bar that had been welded to the body of the motor home). I do thank you for your patience as the work was impeded by the sickness and difficulties. And, having been reunited with our snail mail yesterday, Thursday, April 3, 2008, I want to express my most heartfelt thanks to those of you who were so generous to us during the time we were in Ohio. Thank you for your generosity! Please know that we pray for our benefactors each day. We are most grateful to each of you. Sincerely yours in Christ the King and Mary our Immaculate Queen, Thomas A. Droleskey.
In anticipation of the forthcoming travelogue, permit me to post a few photographs of the motor home's broken receiver tow bar. Cut in Two: A Brief Photographic Essay. We had zero indication that that particular tow bar was in any sort of jeopardy whatsoever. The thing snapped en route as though it had been hack sawed through and through. Simply amazing. All to thee Blessed Mother All to thy Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, we love you. Save souls.
April 3 Update
Adventures aplenty are being added to the next installment in the travelogue. Our trip back to Connecticut from Ohio, which was commenced after the motor home's generator was repaired (a part under warranty, a control module, had to be replaced) was, shall we say, not without a major problem. Although all was going well until we were about fifteen miles east of Middletown, New York, on Interstate 84 (Middletown, you might recall, was where our old 2000 Saturn station wagon was totaled when a teenaged driver ran a red light and broadsided us on November 23, 2004), I noticed that we had something of a major problem when I saw the Trail Blazer in the side view mirror on the driver's side of the motor home. It is not considered to be a good thing to see the Trail Blazer in that mirror unless the motor home is making a sharp turn. This was not a good thing at all. This was a very bad thing. We had something happen to us that has never happened before: the receiver tow bar on the motor home itself, the one that was installed by those wonderful "country boys" in Montgomery County, Texas, in the wee hours of Wednesday, September 21, 2005, cracked in half, causing the Blue Ox Aventa II tow bar that attaches the Trail Blazer to the motor home to drag on the ground as it was attached to one half of the cracked receiver tow bar on the rear of the motor home. The car would have broken away entirely from the tow assembly in a matter of minutes if I had not stopped around mile marker thirty-three of the eastbound lanes of Interstate 84 in the State of New York. It took some time to detach the Trail Blazer from its own tow bar system and then pry the receiver tow bar on the motor home into a position where it would not be dragged on the surface of the roadway. Sharon had to drive the dilapidating Trail Blazer about seventy miles or so back to Connecticut. All to thee, Blessed Mother. All to thy Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, we love you. Save souls.
There should be another article or two by tomorrow morning, the Feast of Saint Isidore of Seville. In the meantime, please continue to pray for us! These adventures are truly remarkable. Each is from the hand of God. We accept each with joy. They are quite remarkable nevertheless.
April 1 Articles
Republished: Our Friend and Protector: Saint Joseph
The sicknesses from which we have been suffering for the past ten days show few signs of abating. All to thee, Blessed Mother. All to thy Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, we love you. Save souls!
This republished article is my annual tribute to the just and silent man of the House of David, our friend and protector, the Chaste Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the foster-father of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, good Saint Joseph. Let us honor the Patron of the Universal Church and the Protector of the Faithful this day by increasing our devotion to him with fervor, recognizing that his place in Heaven is second only to that of the Blessed Mother herself. Saint Joseph was willing to forsake biological fatherhood in order to be the foster-father of God Incarnate. Our Lord has assigned to his foster-father the responsibility of caring for us as though we were Saint Joseph's own children. May we ever rely on so good and humble and faithful intercessor, making sure to say the following prayer every day, especially during the next nine days as we prepare for the next feast of Saint Joseph, that which occurs on Wednesday following the Second Sunday after Easter:
O Saint Joseph, whose protection is so great, so strong, so prompt before the throne of God, I place in thee all my interests and desires. O thou Saint Joseph, do assist me by thy powerful intercession, and obtain for me from thy divine Son all spiritual blessings, through Jesus Christ, Our Lord; so that, having engaged here below thy heavenly power, I may offer my thanksgiving and homage to the most loving of fathers. O Saint Joseph, I never weary contemplating thee, and Jesus asleep in thy arms; I dare not approach while He reposes near thy heart. Press Him in my name and kiss His fine head for me, and ask Him to return the kiss when I draw my dying breath. Saint Joseph, Patron of departing souls, pray for me. Amen!
Masquerade Party
Yes, another conciliarism article. There is nothing new here, only a reiteration of points made over and over again about the fact that all of the use of traditional papal attire and traditional liturgical vestments does not clothe one with the Catholic Faith. The conciliarists have an abiding faith in the Novus Ordo service and in the Modernist notion of the evolutionary nature of dogmatic truth and the new ecclesiology and false ecumenism and religious liberty and separation of Church and State and episcopal collegiality. Indeed, the conciliar revolutionaries are insisting, no matter how politely and courteously, on adherence to their wicked, apostate agenda in their "negotiations" with the leaders of the Society of Saint Pius X (an exercise that is as relevant as "negotiations" between "high church" Anglicans and their "low church" brethren, many of whom deny articles contained in the Apostles' Creed!). Anyone who is diverted by the masquerade part is overlooking the truth of the matter: there is no "quiet revolution" going on to "restore" the Catholic Church, only an effort to use symbols and gestures to lull well-meaning traditionally-minded Catholics to sleep as the conciliar revolution and all of its apostasies are further institutionalized for future generations to come. We must cleave to true bishops and true priests in the catacombs who make no concessions to conciliarism or to the nonexistent legitimacy of its false shepherds, men who treat false religions and their symbols with respect while demanding complete adherence to their apostasies in the name of "obedience" and "fidelity." Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
Believe it or not, we are getting closer to launching the new website. I should have details for you upon our return to Connecticut in a few days, assuming that I am well enough to undertake and to survive the 700 mile drive from West Chester, Ohio. Thanks. There will be a gap of a few days until the next article appears on this site.
March 31 Articles
Revised: Et Verbum Caro Factum Est
Yes, actual articles. Although I may not be strong enough to even contemplate our return drive to Connecticut for several days, writing has resumed. This revised reflection on the Annunciation of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in the Virginal and Immaculate Womb of His Most Blessed Mother by the power of the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, God the Holy Ghost, focuses on the fact that the Incarnation of the Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity as Man is meant to shape every aspect of our daily lives, both individually and socially, without any exception whatsoever.
This is a point that is explored at some length also in an original composition, A System Based on Lies Produces Liars, which examines how the lies of worldliness causes even believing Catholics to believe in the lies of Modernity and Modernism concerning the modern civil state. There is nothing "new" in this new article, save for some very poignant and highly prophetic passages from Father Frederick Faber's The Creator and Creature. The article simply reiterates the fact that Catholicism is the one and only antidote to naturalism. Accept no substitutes! Viva Cristo Rey!
My revised reflection on Good Saint Joseph and a new article on conciliarism, "Masquerade Party," will appear tomorrow, April 1, 2008, the transferred Feast of Saint Joseph.
I am sorry for the long delay in original articles, a gap of some ten days or more. The sicknesses from which we have been suffering continue to be offered up to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary in reparation for our sins and those of the whole world. I am most grateful for having recovered enough to resume work on this site. We hope to have news about the video lecture site before too long.
A blessed Feast of the Annunciation to you all.
Low Sunday Update
Sick and tired of the "sick and tired" updates? Well, no more sick and tired than I am of having to write such updates. I'm sorry. We continue to be very, very sick. Lucy is the most well of us all at the present moment. I have relapsed into a real bad fever and overall weakness. It would be quite imprudent to attempt to complete the article that I have started. All I can do is to ask for your continued prayers and to beg your patience as I regain the strength necessary to continue my work on this site.
I am still awaiting word from the people responsible for the website upon which my video lectures will be posted as to the technicalities of my accessing the site and uploading content. This has taken an extraordinarily long period of time. Like everything else, however, including our protracted sicknesses, this is within the Providence of God. We gladly give everything to His Most Sacred Heart through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.
A blessed Low Sunday to you all!
Easter Thursday Update
Looking for articles? Keep looking. We are all pretty sick here in the Droleskey household. We think that the now departed--although not without a fierce fight--louse of a mouse that had invaded our house gave us the bubonic plague. Each of us takes turns every day of being the one who is the sickest, although Sharon is the reigning champion for the past two days. I thought that I was on the mend. More penance must be paid for my many sins! All to thee, Blessed Mother. All to thy Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, we love you. Save souls!
This was a truly blessed day for my family. Our daughter, Lucy Mary Norma Droleskey, who turned six years old today, received her First Holy Communion from the hands of His Excellency Bishop Daniel Dolan in an offering of Holy Mass offered at the side altar of Our Lady at Saint Gertrude the Great Church in West Chester, Ohio. We are grateful to His Excellency, who has not been well himself in the past few days, for his kindness in inviting Lucy to receive the Body, Blood Soul and Divinity of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in Holy Communion today. We are, of course, grateful to Our Lady for showering us with the graces necessary to overcome the numerous obstacles that we have encountered in the past two weeks so that we could be in Ohio as scheduled for this glorious day, one that each of us will remember and have profound gratitude within our hearts and souls for all eternity. Our daughter's practice of receiving Our Lord in Holy Communion on a daily basis has now begun.
Lucy received a blessed Miraculous Medal before Holy Mass. We had requested the Miraculous Medal from the Daughters of Charity on the Rue de Bac in Paris, France. His Excellency Bishop Robert F. McKenna, O.P., blessed the medal before we departed on what has become a most adventurous trip from Connecticut to Ohio. Although Lucy has worn (or had pinned to her clothing) a Miraculous Medal for five years now, this particular medal will be the one she will wear, God willing and Our Lady interceding, for the rest of her life, a commemoration of her First Holy Communion on her sixth birthday. We are very grateful parents.
Below posted is a digital photograph of a digital photograph of Lucy about to receive Holy Communion. The original photograph was taken by Mr. Mark Lotarski, the Principal of Saint Gertrude the Great Academy. A better copy will be e-mailed to me soon and then included in the pictorial essay that will accompany the next travelogue, if and when we ever recover from the flu that has both Sharon and Lucy coughing rather badly as this is being written (and has me coughing on a pretty decent pace as well). Also posted below is a photograph that Sharon took of Lucy kneeling before the statue of Our Lady in the chapel where Holy Mass had just been concluded.
Thank you for your prayers! Just keep checking for articles!
Sincerely yours in the Risen Saviour and His Most Blessed Mother, Thomas A. Droleskey.
The main altar of Saint Gertrude the Great Church, decorated for Easter Sunday and the Easter Octave.
Easter Tuesday Update
And yet we live, solely by the graces won for us by the shedding of every single drop of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross and that flow into our hearts and souls through the loving hands of Our Lady, the Mediatrix of All Graces, after a long and grueling drive from West Chester, Ohio, to Sunbury, Pennsylvania, to pick up our motor home, in which yet another mouse has taken up residence and eaten up and/or contaminated almost all of our dry goods. It was three months ago tonight, on Christmas Night, that a previous invading representatives of met his end. No less th
