When Rafiki, the shaman-like-priest-like baboon-character, raises up the newborn cub of Simba and Nala from high above pride-rock at the end of the Disney musical, “Lion King,” a spontaneous eruption of joy reverberates through out, by the individual-members of that desolate kingdom. Hope for a new and fruitful reign is spreading. The circle of life continues. But, that joy is imperfect, and it is without sound logic and without common sense.

Similarly, Dear Reader, we are like a king. The individual-members of our body are a kingdom. We rule over our eyes, our ears, and our tongues. We tell our feet any which way to go. Our arms and our hands go where we instruct them. Ideally, each and every human being is a king or queen unto themselves. Because we have the heavenly gifts of memory, intellect, and freewill to reign over the individual-members of our kingdom, we are unlike the animals.

Anyway, Dear Reader, St. Francis teaches us that Perfect Joy comes only from the Fruits of the Holy Spirit. These Fruits are above all the graces and gifts of the Holy Spirit, which Jesus gives to His Friends. Perfect Joy is that of conquering oneself and willingly enduring sufferings, insults, humiliations, and hardships for the Love of Jesus Christ.

Like the animals in the Lion King, we cannot glory in all the marvelous material-gifts of God, as they are not ours but God’s, but we can glory in the Cross of tribulations and afflictions, because that is ours. “I will not glory save in the Cross of Our Lord, Jesus Christ.”

In the Seven Joyful Mysteries of Mary, the Franciscan Crown of Joy, the nine Fruits of the Holy Spirit: Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self-Control are alive and well in the Life of Mary. Yes, Dear Reader, an apple a day may keep the doctor away, and a banana may help as well. Nevertheless, for how long? Why do we spend and waste so much time learning about every minute aspect of the nutritional benefits of grapes, when we care so little about the Blessed Fruit of Mary? Could we not just enjoy tasting the strawberry, while we consider seeking and participating in the Extraordinary Joy of Mary?

The First Joyful Mystery in the Franciscan Crown of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Annunciation of Jesus! O what great Love and Faithfulness you have, Dearest Mary, for God! If not you, then none would or could have been Chosen. When Angel Gabriel uttered that first word, “Hail,” he knew that he was speaking to His Queen! That is what troubled you so, Mary, meek and humble of heart. You were God’s Princess, then, and thereafter, you are His Chosen Queen of Heaven and Earth! “Joy to the world, the Lord is come!”

The Second Joyful Mystery in the Franciscan Crown of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Visitation of Jesus! O what great Joy you have, Dearest Mary, for God! Even John leaps in the womb of his mother, and she is filled with the Holy Spirit! If not you, then none would or could bring such Joy to the Children of God. When Elizabeth greeted you, she knew she was speaking to her Queen! “Let Earth receive her King!”

The Third Joyful Mystery in the Franciscan Crown of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Nativity of Jesus! O what great Peace you have, Dearest Mary, for God! Your vow is Eternal! If not you, then none would or could bring such Peace to the Children of God. When the Angels and Saint Joseph assisted you, they knew they were tending to their Queen! “Let every heart prepare Him room, and Heaven and Nature sing!”

The Fourth Joyful Mystery in the Franciscan Crown of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Adoration of Jesus by the Magi! O what great Patience you have, Dearest Mary, for God! If not you, then none would or could bring such Patience to the Children of God. You never waiver; you are steadfast in your Holy Faith. Melchior, Caspar, and Balathazar knew that they were in the presence of their King and Queen! Their three gifts of Gold (King), Frankincense (Priest), and Myrrh (Prophet) signified their Understanding! “Joy to the world, the Savior Reigns!”

The Fifth Joyful Mystery in the Franciscan Crown of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Finding of Jesus in the Holy Temple! O what great Kindness you have, Dearest Mary, for God! If not you, then none would or could bring such Kindness to the Children of God. For gold and silver are tested in fire, but you, Dearest Mary, are tested in the crucible of humiliation beyond a human’s capability! St. Joseph knew that King Jesus was speaking to the Queen, while the temple-elders marveled. “Let men, their songs employ; while fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains, repeat the sounding Joy!”

The Sixth Joyful Mystery in the Franciscan Crown of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Meeting of Jesus and Mary after His Resurrection! O what great Goodness you have, Dearest Mary, for God! If not you, then none would or could bring such Goodness to the Children of God. And rightly so does Our Resurrected King first go to meet with Our Queen after His Sacred Passion and Holy Death on that Holy Cross! “No more let sins and sorrows grow, nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His Blessings flow, far as the curse is found!”

The Seventh Joyful Mystery in the Franciscan Crown of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Assumption and Coronation of Mary by Jesus! ! O what great Gentleness and Self-Control you have, Dearest Mary, for God! If not you, then none would or could bring such Gentleness and Self-Control to the Children of God. Gently and so Lovingly does King Jesus crown His Queen Mother, Our Gentle Lady, who is so extraordinarily poised and so indescribably humble! The Host of Angels and the Communion of Saints hail their Queen anew, Crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth! “He rules the world with Truth and Grace, and makes the nations prove the Glories of His Righteousness, and wonders of His Love, and wonders of His Love, and wonders, wonders of His Love!”

O Dearest Jesus and Mary, the King of Kings and the Queen of Queens, I love you with all me heart! I give you this day my eyes, my ears, and my mouth, my arms and my legs, my fingers and my toes, my memory, my intellect, and my freewill; my entire kingdom! Since I am Yours, Light and Guard, Rule and Guide my life! Dear Reader, we are all members of one Body and one Spirit in Jesus Christ!

Dear Reader, When our Catholic priest raises up the Consecrated Fruit of the Earth and the Consecrated Fruit of the Vine, the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ, above the marble-rock Holy Altar at the Climax of the Eucharistic Prayer, a spontaneous eruption of Joy silently-reverberates through out the individual-members of myself, my desolate kingdom. A Certain Hope in the New and Everlasting Covenant is spreading. The Most Blessed Trinity, The True Circle of Everlasting-Life, continues. And, that Joy is Perfect, and that Perfect Joy is with sound logic and with common sense! Dear Reader, Taste and See the Blessed Fruit of Mary’s Womb!

St. Francis of Assisi, make us a channel of the Fruits of the Holy Spirit!

Stay-tuned for “The Mysteries of the Franciscan Crown of Sorrow” on Thursday, June 20.

Peace & JAMLY, hobo euie

By a Supernatural Coincidence, an inscription was fixed atop the Holy Cross of Jesus. That acronym reads truthfully, “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews (INRI).” Dear Reader, the Jews, the people of the Nation of Israel, are the descendents of Abraham continuing from his son Isaac, and then, from his grandson Jacob (Israel). The descendents of Abraham’s other son, Ishmael, are not Jews. Dear Reader, from of old and of ancient times, God, The Blessed Trinity, made His Covenant with the Jews, the children of God.

On His Holy Cross, Jesus fulfilled that Superannuated Covenant with the Jews. However, the Sacred Blood Offering of Jesus institutes a Brand-New and an Ever-Eternal Covenant with the whole world, even with the children of Abraham’s other son, Ishmael! They, too, can be inaugurated into the Kingdom of God!

Dear Reader, on Earth, we can choose to be either a child or citizen of the Glorious City of Isaac (the Kingdom of God), so to speak, or we can choose to be a citizen of the wretched city of Ishmael (the realm of men). By His Life, Death, and Resurrection, Jesus has purchased for us the Rewards of Eternal Salvation. For you, Dear Reader, He did this, and for many! Dearest Eternal Father, we praise You, we bless You, we adore You, and we glorify You, here, on Earth!

At the Easter Vigil Mass, in the Exultet, we hear the ancient chant, “O happy fault (of Adam) that merited such and so great a Redeemer!” For True, Dear Reader, without that happy fault, we could never see the Sacred Beauty nor the Holy Majesty of Jesus Christ! Continuing, we could never experience the resurrection of our bodies nor the Life Everlasting!

In 1969, a song, written by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel titled, “Like a Bridge over Troubled Water,” echoes, “. . . I will lay me down . . .” Dear Reader, Jesus is not “like” a bridge over polluted, vile, evil, beastly, loathsome, obscene, deadly, and poisoned waters; He is The Bridge! He is the Way who leads us to the Living Water! Jesus is the True Bridge over troubled waters.

The First Glorious Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Resurrection of Jesus! Thirty-three-year-old Jesus rises from the dead. O Most Incredible Day on the Face of the Earth! Why are you crying, Mary of Magdalena? Our Lord and Savior has Risen! After seeing the facial burial-cloth rolled neatly in another place as it lay apart from the Holy Shroud, John, the beloved disciple, believed! And yet, he did not Understand! Your Angels, O Jesus, are so precious! O Happy Fault!

Dear Reader, Our Roman Catholic Church looks to the heavens to calculate when Easter Sunday will arrive. Each year, that Glorious Day is formulated on our Catholic calendar as the first Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Nevertheless, in fact, on each and every Sunday, Dear Reader, we celebrate the Anniversary of The Risen Lord! O Perplexing Phenomenon!

The Second Glorious Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Ascension of Jesus! Forty days later, Jesus Ascended into Heaven! As You ascended, My Dearest Jesus, so shall you Return! O Happy Fault! From the East, we watch!

Dear Reader, In days of old, at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the priest never turned his back to the congregation, but rather, the priest and the congregation were all facing the East, and towards the Holy Tabernacle, front and center, where the Immaculate Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus abide! Towards the East from whence He shall Return! From of old, each and every Holy Catholic Church was facing towards the East in anticipation of The Second Coming of Jesus Christ on Earth! The “old” is good! O Glorious Odyssey!

The Third Glorious Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Descent of The Holy Spirit! Ten days following Your Ascension, O My Jesus, You sent the Paraclete on Pentecost! O Fire of Love, let my acts be a Labor of Love for My Jesus! The beloved disciple now Understands, Dearest Jesus, all you have taught the Apostles.

Moreover, upon Peter, You have founded Your One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church! Approvingly, now, many sought out the mere “shadow” of Peter to fall upon them, which proves, far-beyond a reasonable doubt, of Your Omnipotence! O Happy Fault! Thank You, Jesus!!! O Extraordinary Hidden-Treasury!

The Fourth Glorious Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Assumption of Mary! About thirty-three years after your Resurrection, O King, You Resurrected the Body of Your Holy Mother! O Happy Fault! O Jesus, Mary lives in Everlasting Life as she continues to do Your Father’s Business! The Apostle’s Creed is True!

O Mary, did not God, Our Father, choose you to be the Mother of His Only-Begotten Son? Then, why is it so hard for us to choose you too? Like the beloved disciple, I will take you into my home, forever! O Kindly Anomaly!

The Fifth Glorious Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Coronation of Mary! Instantaneously, so to speak, after your Assumption, Dearest Mary, your Son, Jesus, Crowns you in His Glory as you Enter, body and soul, into Heaven! O Happy Fault!

Ever since the Angel Gabriel hailed you as “Full of Grace,” you continue to be the “Living” Queen of Humankind! The Love that My King Jesus has for you is far, far greater than anyone could ever begin to comprehend or mirror. Nonetheless, I want to so do, even as My Jesus does! O Royal Circumstance!

Continuing, Mr. Simon and Mr. Garfunkel sing, “Your time has come to shine . . . if you need a friend . . . I will ease your mind . . .” Dear Reader, I invite you, sincerely, to go to your Catholic Church, often, to Refresh, to Rejuvenate, to Reclaim, to Reinvigorate, to Restore, to Revitalize, to Regenerate, to Refurbish, to Reanimate, to Rehabilitate, to Renovate, to Reconstruct, and to Renew yourself through, with, and in the Most Holy Eucharist.

While on your pilgrimage on Earth, come and visit His Holy Tavern; His Friend-Ship Establishment is open to all! Come and relish that Holy Inscription atop that Holy Crucifix. May the Blood of Christ bring us, all, to Everlasting Life! By the way, Dearest Reader, the Love of my life is Jewish! O Happy Fault!

St. John, the Beloved Apostle, show us!
St. Peter, our First Pope, tend us!
St. Mary Magdalena, comfort us!
O Mary, Queen of Heaven and Earth, we love you!

Stay-tuned for “The Mysteries of the Franciscan Crown of Joy” on Thursday, May 23.

Peace & JAMLY,

hobo euie

Forbidden to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, Adam and Eve, having been perfect in Holy Innocence and Goodness, are expelled from the Garden of Eden because of their disobedience to the Blessed Trinity. An Angel of God stood guard, keeping them from reentering the Garden and preventing them from eating from the Tree of Life, the Tree of Eternal Life. Dear Reader, The Infused Knowledge of Adam and Eve disintegrated, and their Immunity from Evil, Pain, and Mortality vanished!

In the 1970s, when Bernie Taupin wrote, “When sorry seems to be the hardest word,” he highlighted the human condition, clearly and concisely. We are sooooo full of ourselves that we find it too hard, sometimes, to ever verbalize our sorrowfulness, especially to the other humans to whom we love.

Dear Reader, My Jesus, Our Mighty Warrior King, destroys Evil, Pain, and Mortality, He resurrects the Infused Knowledge of Love, and He restores Everlasting Life! “Sorry seems to be the hardest word,” but in reality, “sorry” is the easiest word when Jesus enlivens our thoughts, our words, and our deeds!

The First Sorrowful Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Agony of Jesus in the Garden! Thirty-three-year-old Jesus is tearfully suffering for our sins in that other Garden, Gethsemane. Come from your slumber, Dear Reader, the Godly-Hour of Jesus is at Hand! His Magnificent and Wondrous Tears endure Forever! O Insatiable Mystery!

The Second Sorrowful Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Scourging of Jesus! My Lord and Saviour is thrashed, beaten, battered, flayed, buffeted, belted, pummeled, punched, clobbered, pounded, and punished etc. for our miserable sins of our flesh! O Splintered Pillar, why cannot I be you, to have and to hold My Jesus! He bore the brunt of thousands of vicious lashes from the Soles of His Feet, to the Crown of His Head, even under His Sweet Arms! My Jesus did it for me. O Awe-Filled Dilemma!

The Third Sorrowful Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Crowning of Jesus! My King, My Priest, and My Prophet is given a corrupted-adornment that pierces His Adorable Head for our despicable sins of our mind! O Awful Thorns, make my memory, my intellect, and my free-will pure. O Terrible Distortion!

The Fourth Sorrowful Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Carrying of the Cross by Jesus! My Beloved Sweetness carries a heavy burden laden with our sinfulness. O Horrible-Wounding Cross, can you see that Devastating Wound that you constructed on His Precious Shoulder? My Jesus falls hard and tastes that Filthy Dust! O My Jesus, how Embarrassing it is that they strip You naked, and they do it right in front of Your Mother! O Overwrought Travesty!

The Fifth Sorrowful Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Crucifixion of Jesus! My Jesus is lifted up on His Blood-soaked Cross. They and “we” harass, bedevil, intimidate, bully, persecute, beleaguer, curse, and torment You! No, no, Dearest Jesus, “We” praise You and we adore You, because by Your Holy Cross, You have Redeemed the world! O Mysterious Mockery!

Mr. Taupin continues, “What have I got to do to make you love me . . .” Dear Reader, Having persevered for about a twenty-four hour time frame, beginning on Holy Thursday Night and ending at His Crucifixion, on Good Friday, Jesus continues His Sacrificial Offering to Our Heavenly Father, for our sins, each and every day at the Holy Mass! His Mercy and His Love know no bounds! Fortunately, with their hearts and tongues, Adam and Eve did say, “I am sorry!”

We, Dear Reader, need do nothing at all for Jesus to Love us! He Truly Loves us, even we who are unlovable to our neighbor! He Sincerely Forgives us, even we who are unforgivable to our community! He Correctly Protects us, even we who are not worth protecting by humankind at all! The Angel of God no longer stands guard at the Gate of that Garden, preventing Adam and Eve from entering. Many are called, but few are chosen . . . or rather freely choose to enter the Garden of Paradise!

St. Joseph, protect our One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church!
St. Francis of Assisi, build our faith, hope, and charity!
St. Francis Xavier, teach us!
St. Francis de Sales, help us!
St. Frances Cabrini, pray for us!
St. Frances of Rome, protect our families!
Venerable Teresita, pray for us!
St. Therese, send us Roses!
St. Teresa of Avila, chide us!
St. Teresa of the Andes, correct us!
St. John of the Cross, enlighten the darkness of our hearts, minds, and souls!
St. Anthony of Padua, find us!
Mary, Our Mother of Good Counsel, keep us in His Fold!

Stay-tuned for “The Mysteries of Glory” on Thursday, April 18.

Peace & JAMLY,

hobo euie

Dear Reader, we are not created for pleasure-seeking, striving to find earthly happiness. In our self-inquisition, we mistakenly stop for too much earthly self-gratification in among places such as barrooms, theaters, fun parks, and domed stadiums, etc. In 1974, a Catholic-convert, Michael Pindar of the Moody Blues, penned, “. . . some of them are living an illusion bounded by the darkness of their minds . . . sad hearts, they hide, thinking only of themselves. They shun the Light; they think they’re right, living in their empty shells. . .” Dear Reader, Jesus is the Light of the World! Dear Reader, we are all sojourners seeking an Everlasting Life!

On our pilgrimage, Sweetest Jesus gives us His Holy Tavern for nourishment, refreshment, and strength: The Holy Catholic Church. Here, we are able to refresh our minds, bodies, and souls on The Bread of Life and The Chalice of Salvation at the Daily Celebration of the Holy Mass! Mr. Pindar continues, “. . . everywhere you go you see them searching; everywhere you go you’ll feel the pain. Everyone is looking for the answer; well look again! Come on, my friend, Love will find them in the end. . .” Dear Reader, My Love, My Jesus, lives in the Holy Tabernacle!

Jesus is the Light of the Earth, the Flame that touches all souls; His Mercy and Love know no bounds! Dear Reader, The surest and most perfect way to get to know a good friend, is first to get to know his mother. Mary is the surest and most profitable way to Jesus! Michael resounds, “. . . come on, my friend, we got to bend, on our knees and say a prayer! . . . can you see the world is pinning; pinning for someone who really cares, enough to share His Love with all of us . . .” Dear Reader, Does that remind you of Anyone?

The First Luminous Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Baptism of Jesus! John the Baptist, the greatest man born of a woman is not fit to untie the straps of His Sandals, baptizes Thirty-year-old Jesus in the Jordan River on January 13! It is impossible for Jesus to ever have been in wanting of baptism. The Most Blessed Trinity is revealed, again! O Incommunicable Apparition!

The Second Luminous Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Miracle of the Wedding Feast at Canaan by Jesus! Two things are impossible for Jesus, and the other one is that He could never refuse His Mother! Six jugs of the Jewish water are miraculously changed into the Catholic Wine. Six is the perfect number, in days of creation, and in the creation of the First Recorded Miracle of Thirty-year-old Jesus; just perfect! Our Superlative Bridegroom saves the best for last, Everlasting Life! O Imbued Spectra!

The Third Luminous Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Proclamation of the Kingdom of Heaven by Jesus! Here, Dear Reader, we receive Secrets of Eternal Life; the Divine Beatitudes and The Most Holy Lord’s Prayer on January 30! Soon the Gates of Heaven will be reopened by Jesus, Meek and Humble of Heart! O Sublime Sublimity!

The Fourth Luminous Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Transfiguration of Jesus! Jesus shows His True and Glorified Colour on August 6! He does not need to suffer, to die, and to be buried for Himself, but He does so freely and completely for us! O Incredible Thriller!

The Fifth Luminous Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Institution of the Holy Eucharist by Jesus! The Bread of Life and the Cup of Salvation is created on Holy Thursday! The Most Holy and Blessed Eucharist becomes available at each and every Sacrifice of the Holy Mass! Now, when in a State-of-Grace, we are able to become enliven with the True Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ for about fifteen minutes following each time we consume His Body and His Blood. Our-selves become as Holy Tabernacles; just like Our Lady! O Ineffable Mystification!

Dear Reader, I echo! “O I give my life so lightly to my Gentle Lady; give it freely and completely to my Lady!” Dear Reader, “Isn’t life strange, a book without Light, unless, with Love, we write! We look around in wonder at the work that has been done, by the Vision of Our Father, touched by His Loving Son!”

Yes, earthly pleasures are created-gifts from God, and in moderation, they are good. In contrast, our quest for constant earthly-felicity and for self-gratification, will surely be a sore-disappointment because that crusade is a bum-steer. We are not merely vaqueros! However, there is always Holy Aspiration!

So I continue! “Someway, I know I’ll see you shining, when you are a free man (woman), when we’re all free men again! . . . Let’s be God’s Children and live in perfect peace! . . . I have my hopes to comfort me. . . . Somewhere in the dark and silent night, our prayer will be heard. . .” Dear Reader, “I’m just a wandering on the face of this Earth . . .”

St. John the Baptist, help our Holy Church!
St. Peter, feed us!
St. John, bring Mary to our homes!
St. James, lead our Bishops!
St. Andrew, help us carry our crosses!
St. James the Less, look out for us!
St. Simon, enliven our hearts!
St. Jude, we need you!
St. Bartholomew (Nathaniel), teach us!
St. Matthew, help us to give to God what belongs to God!
St. Thomas, help us see Our Lord and Our God in the Blessed Sacrament!
St. Phillip, show us the Way!

Stay-tuned for “The Mysteries of Sorrow” on Thursday, March 21.
Peace & JAMLY,

hobo euie

Dear Reader, While Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Homes (1859-1930) solved seemingly unsolvable human crime mysteries through the arduous process of deciphering physical evidence, G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown (1874-1936) chose to unlock these seemingly criminal mysteries using spiritual and philosophic truths. Dear Reader, a mystery, on the face of it, is an enigma. However, when light shines on darkness, revelation does occur. Like human-magic, once the cat is let out of the box, the cliffhanger is simply a slight of hand, and it is no longer a surprise at all!

However, the Supernatural Mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary can only be partially understood with our finite minds on Earth, by means of God’s Infinite Grace. Without which, no eyes have seen the unveiling of the Mysteries of Heaven. Surely, it is a Wonder-filled Surprise! Dear Reader, when we meditate on the Sacred Mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we are aspiring to understand the entirety of the Holy Gospels and Sacred Traditions of Jesus Christ! We are desiring Heaven! Dear Reader, Be Surprised!

The First Joyful Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Annunciation of Jesus! Archangel Gabriel hails Mary! Ever the meek and humble of heart, Mary is troubled by this heavenly greeting. Only nobility is hailed and greeted as such. But yes, your baby will be the King and rule over everything and everybody! And, only a King can come forth from a Queen Mother! Gabriel must have held back his overwhelming joy as he delivers the Message of His Serene Highness! Everything and everybody within the realm of the Old Testaments pointed to this very day, March 25! The Holy Spirit came upon her! Then, the Incarnation of Jesus, “And the Word became Flesh!” O Precious Intrigue!

The Second Joyful Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Visitation of Jesus! Jesus, the Blessed Fruit of Mary’s Womb, sanctifies John the Baptist, in the womb of Elizabeth. Mary, the enduring-intercessor for all of God’s Children, goes in haste, on a Holy Mission, from her hometown to the home of Zachariah, for the Santification of John, who, thereafter, would be born free of original sin. On her arrival, May 31, Mary sings a Canticle of Love. True Social Justice is revealed; the prideful will be struck down, and the poor in spirit, the contrite of heart, well, the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs! O Magnificent Marvel!

The Third Joyful Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Nativity of Jesus! The First Christmas Day on this December 25, exactly nine months to the day of the Annunciation, Jesus Christ is Born! The Hypostatic Union of the Fully Divine Nature of Jesus with His Fully Human Nature is revealed to the world! St. Joseph and Mary, the shepherds in the field, and the Host of Angels were witnesses! The Mother-to-be, so to speak, is the Mother of God! O Holy Inscrutableness!

The Fourth Joyful Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Presentation of Jesus! Joseph and Mary present Jesus to the Holy Temple of the One True God. They pronounce to the world the Name of Jesus, and present Him to the whole world, on February 2! Through their Love for God and neighbor, Simeon and Anna recognized the Son of God, instantly! The Name of Jesus is Eternal! O Mystifying Mind-Boggler!

The Fifth Joyful Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Finding of Jesus! Oh, how could any good parent not find great joy in the finding of Twelve-year-old Jesus by Mary and Joseph! May we all find Jesus doing His Father’s Business, each and every day, hidden behind the curtain that veils the golden door of the Most Holy Tabernacle of the Catholic Church. O Indescribable Puzzlement!

Dear Reader, good mystery stories about Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown are always full of surprises. Whencesoever, once we are surprised, and we know the conclusion to the mystery, then we no longer care to revisit the mystification because the nut has been cracked, and we tasted its fruit.

In Truth, the Supernatural Mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary have Life without end; there is always more Crux to the Story. The Holy Veil, hiding the extent of the Mysteries of Joy, can only be somewhat fully realized by our intellect and our faith through prayerful-meditation and the reception of the Holy Sacraments of “My” Beloved Jesus!

Archangel Gabriel, Light our way!
St. Joseph, guide us!
St. Zachariah, advise us!
St. Elizabeth, chaperon us!
Sts. Simeon and Anna, teach us!
St. John the Baptist, bless us!
O Mary, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, pray for us!

Stay-tuned for “The Mysteries of Light” on Thursday, February 21.
Peace & JAMLY,

hobo euie

Before Snow White fell on her knees in prayer on that first night in that 1937 epic animated-feature by Walt Disney (1901-1966), based on the Grimm Brothers’ tale (Jacob 1785-1863, Wilhelm 1786-1859), she cleaned the filthy cottage of the seven dwarfs. “The animals all helped, and soon the place was spic-and-span.” Dear Reader, ooops, and yes, this echo is neither about the crimson helmets of Alabama nor about the golden busbies of the University of Notre Dame, who by the way are ranked number one in all of college football for this 2012-2013 school year. Withstanding, this echo is certainly part and parcel of the Hail Mary Pass for all Catholics not practicing their Faith; it is about the Triumph of Notre Dame, Our Lady!

Anyhow, Dear Reader, when my Hope, my Peace, my Joy, and my Love, Baby Jesus was born on that cold and silent December night, Mary, the Queen of the Universe, called upon the ox from a nearby field. In haste, the ox listened to her, and he prostrated himself with St. Joseph’s donkey to serve the Child Jesus with their warm breaths. Mary triumphed! Notre Dame has command of all creatures great and small; she reigns as Queen, forever!

Dear Reader, since before the fall of man, all animal-creatures were destined to serve as they are portrayed in Snow White. Nevertheless, since we all are sinners, we must labor and break the animal, so to speak, in order for them to work for us. And much more, are we likened to beast of burden ourselves with our terrible sinfulness. Mary is forever sinless; she is the Immaculate Conception, the Perpetual Mother of Grace! Our deadly-sins have permeated and sicken the Earth.

Following along, Our Epic Hero arrives to save the day! From His Painful Circumcision, the Vicious Scourging, the Barbarous Crowning of Thorns, the Cruel and Unusual Carrying of the Cross, the Inhumane Crucifixion, and to the Wicked Piercing of His Sacred Heart, Jesus, the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, sheds His Adorable Blood to free us from captivity; the slavery of sin. That Precious Blood, in which He showered upon the Earth, was propagated in the Holy Womb of Notre Dame!

In 1925, Sister Lucy asked Jesus why “He” would not convert Russia except through that Consecration. Jesus responded, “Because I want My whole Church to recognize that Consecration as a Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, so that later on My Church will extend the devotion to the Immaculate Heart and place this devotion beside devotion to My Sacred Heart.”

Dear Reader, Since Russia owns the prototype for atheistic-communism and other evil-ills, everyone will see Russia convert to the Catholic Church. The Orthodox Russian Church and all the people of Russia and people of the whole world will see that the Consecration performed by the Catholic Pope and Bishops has Supernatural Merit. The only way to convert Russia is for the Pope and the bishops, in union, at one specific time to consecrate specifically Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Only then, will the world have Peace.

Mary has triumphed in the hearts of the Holy Apostles and Disciples of Jesus, the Martyrs, the Holy Confessors, the Evangelists, the Holy Doctors, and the Saints through out the ages. In addition, even today, she has triumphed in the hearts of her faithful clients. Dear Reader, Notre Dame has already triumphed in my puny heart!

Snow white does not just describe her outward beauty; Mary’s entire being is full of Grace! Our memory, our intellect, and our freewill must turn towards her. Dear Reader, why did millions and millions of former homicidal-Aztecs of Guadalupe freely convert to Catholicism in the sixteenth century. . . because, because, because the Immaculate Heart of Mary triumphed in their hearts! In her body, her spirit, and her soul, Notre Dame is full of the Glory of the Most Blessed Trinity!

“The love that you take is equal to the love that you make” is incorrect and misguided. It is an anthem of the hippyminded-beatlelike persons, even to this day. The Love that is bestowed upon us by Our Lady of Fatima is without calculation! It is not equal! Notre Dame loves you so much, even as we ignore her still. She frees all who trust in her from the wiles of Satan, the most despicable, abhorrent, heinous, wretched, vile, revolting, hateful, atrocious, disgraceful, immoral, and beastly liar of all!

Our Mother of Divine Grace will renew your Baptismal Catholic Faith, the one and only True Faith. Our Splendour of the Catholic Church will guide you with a gentle push to Holy Reconciliation. Our Queen of Love will accompany you into a State-of-Grace, assisting that you recreate your soul as pristine as new fallen snow, for the reception of the Sweetest and Most Charming Jesus alive in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Holy Altar, the Eucharist!

O Heavenly Father, “Have mercy on us all, we pray, that with the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with the blessed Apostles, and all the Saints who have pleased You throughout the ages, we may merit to be coheirs to Eternal Life, and may praise and glorify You through Your Son, Jesus Christ!” Dear Reader, The most relevant front-page and timeless words of Notre Dame echo in every nook and cranny of our lives, “Do what ever “He” tells you!”

St. Catherine of Sienna, help us!
Venerable Mary of Agreda, pray for us.
St. Joseph, guide us!

Stay-tuned for “The Mysteries of Joy” on Thursday, January 24.
Peace & JAMLY,

hobo euie

In 1588, William Shakespeare, in Love Labours Lost, relates, “Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, not utter’d by base sale of (chapmen’s) tongues. Dear Reader, Anyone can see that the rose is the pride and joy of any garden; it is the queen of the flowers. The rosebud is a beautiful symbol of virginity. It exudes beauty, gentleness, and sweetness. The form, color, and scent of the rose delight us immensely!

Dearest Reader, Mary is the Mystical Rose, who is the most fragrant and beautiful of all human creatures. She is the Daughter of God the Father, the Spouse of the Holy Spirit, and the Mother of Jesus. The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ honors Mary under the glorious title of Mystical Rose. Mary is the Star of the Sea; she is the Splendor of Heaven!

The Most Holy Rosary is a crown of roses that we place upon her head. Mary, the Mystical Rose, is pre-eminently entitled to this Coronation of Roses! She preserves a spotless virginal purity before, during, and after her parturition. She is as shrewd as a serpent, yet gentle as a dove! Listen to her! La Rosa Mystica es muy Linda! Blessed is Mary, among women. Therefore, Blessed is Mary among all men! Our senses cannot grasp her Beauty, alone; our faith and reason must compensate in order to see her Mystical Ambience!

In 1224, Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone (1181-1226) wrote the Canticle of the Sun, which states, “. . . Be praised, My Lord, through our Sister Bodily Death, from whose embrace no living person can escape. Woe to those who die in mortal sin! Happy are those who she finds doing Your Most Holy Will. The second death can do no harm to them. . .” Dear Reader, What is this second death?

In 1917, the first secret of Our Lady of Fatima revealed a vision of Hell. Hell is dark, grotesque, and void of Love. Dear Reader, The three secrets of Fatima were secrets only to be revealed later. Then they became the Message of Fatima. The second secret revealed that World War I would end, and that World War II would commence during the reign of Pope Pius XI. That is, if men continue to offend God and should Russia not convert. Hence, we did continue to offend God, and Russia did not convert from being atheist-communist. The second part of that second secret requested that Russia should be Consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

The third secret was unveiled to the three children with the help of Archangel Michael. At the left of Our Lady and a little above, Lucia, Jacinta, and Francesco saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand. It was flashing! The sword gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but the flames died out when contacted by the Splendour that Our Lady radiated towards the Angel from her right hand.

Continuing, pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice, “Penance, Penance, Penance!” And, the three children saw in an immense light something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it, a Bishop dressed in White. It was the Holy Father, the Pope.

Continuing, other bishops, priests, and men and women religious were seen going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark. Before reaching the top, the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and the people were half-trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow.

Finally, the Pope prayed for the souls of the corpses who he met on his way. Having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross, the Pope was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him. In the same way, there died one after another the other bishops, priests, and men and women religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross, there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs, and with it, sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God.

Dear Reader, Pope John Paul the Second divulged only this part of the Third Secret on June 26, 2000, despite Lucia’s declaration that it should be released in its entirety to the public, after 1960. Witnessed by their counselors, Popes Pius XII, John XXIII, and Paul VI were horrified by its message! Lucia herself is reported to have explicitly stated that the Third Secret contains Apocalyptic content. According to one source, when Lucia was asked about the Third Secret, she said it was contained, “in the Gospels and in the Apocalypse (Revelations).”

Moreover, at one point, she had even specified Revelations, Chapters 8 to 13, a range that includes Revelations 12:4, the chapter and verse cited by Pope John Paul II in his homily in Fatima on May 13, 2000. You see, Dear Reader, only the first part of the Third Secret was released by the Vatican.

The second part of the third secret contains the words of the Blessed Virgin Mary! Lucia only gives us a hint, since it is imperative that only a Pope could release it. Lucia reveals that Our Lady of Fatima warns, “In Portugal, the Dogma of the (Catholic) Faith will always be preserved . . . etc.” But, the Vatican refuses to release what that “etc.” contained in that third secret!

Unbeknownst to most, Pope John Paul the First had met Lucia while he was Patriarch of Venice, and was deeply moved by the experience. In a letter to a colleague after his election as Pope, he vowed to perform the Consecration of Russia, which Lucia confirmed that Mary had requested. However, in 1978, the year of the three Popes, Pope John Paul I died after just 33 days as the Vicar of Christ!

Dear Reader, there are some misguided men both inside and outside the Catholic Church, who do not want the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary to occur! In the 1960s, referring to the situation of the Church, the Holy Father, Pope Paul VI, affirmed that he has a sense that “from some fissure, the smoke of Satan has entered the Temple of God.”

The Message of Fatima consists of a number of precise predictions, requests, warnings, and promises concerning the Catholic Faith and the world, which were conveyed by the Blessed Virgin Mary to three shepherd children, Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco, in a series of apparitions at Fatima, Portugal from May to October 1917.

The Apparitions of Mary were confirmed by an unprecedented public miracle, the Miracle of the Sun, which occurred at precisely the moment Lucia said it would. More than 70,000 people, including so-called freemasons, communists, and atheists, saw the sun, contrary to all cosmic laws, dance in the sky, in an array of brilliant colors. The sun danced towards the Earth, descending and ascending. These events were reported in atheist newspapers around the world, including the New York Times.

All of the Popes since the Fatima Miracle have affirmed that the Message is authentic. Several Popes have gone to Fatima in person, including Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI. John Paul II said at Fatima in 1982 that, “the Message of Fatima imposes an obligation on the Church.” Pope Benedict XVI reiterated, “. . . that those who think that the Message of Fatima is relegated to the past, are deceiving themselves.”

Many other miracles have been performed by God authenticating the Fatima Message as coming from Him, not only at the time of the Miracle of the Sun, October 13, 1917, but down through the years to our present day. Miracles of conversions and cures have been verified, which good science cannot explain by natural means. The Message of Fatima accurately predicted world events, which proves that it is a true prophecy.

The Secrets of Fatima accurately predicted the end of World War I, the emergence of Russia as a world power which would spread its errors throughout the world and raising up wars and persecutions against the Church, the election of a Pope who would be named Pius XI, and the waging of a second World War following a strange light in the night sky. In WWII, over 60 million human beings were killed. Today, we no longer consider Russia as the Soviet Union, but “Russia!” The Mystical Rose was ever mindful of her choice of words.

The Message of Fatima also predicted that if the requests of the Virgin Mary at Fatima are not honored, many souls will be lost, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, and there will be further wars and persecutions of the Church. Various nations will be annihilated! The annihilation of nations predicted at Fatima has not yet occurred, but many fear that it will soon happen, given the growing immorality and corruption of the world!

At Fatima, Our Lady said that God wished to establish in the world devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The Mystical Rose proclaimed that many souls would be saved from Hell and the annihilation of nations averted if devotion to Her Immaculate Heart were established. Dear Reader, The Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, by the Pope together with the world’s bishops in a solemn public ceremony is paramount! The First Saturday devotion and the Most Holy Rosary are part and parcel for this Holy Consecration to occur. We must pray, pray, and pray!!!

Dear Reader, only a number of the Faithful practice the First Saturday Devotion, and Russia has yet to be consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in a solemn public ceremony conducted by the Pope together with the world’s Catholic bishops. In 1982, Lucia was asked if an attempted consecration by Pope John Paul II had sufficed. She replied that it did not suffice, because Russia was not mentioned and the world’s bishops had not participated. Another attempted consecration in 1984 likewise did not mention Russia or involve the participation of many of the world’s bishops, and Sister Lucia stated immediately afterwards that this consecration, too, had failed to meet Our Lady’s request.

The Message of Fatima warns that if the requests of Our Lady of Fatima for the Consecration of Russia and the First Saturday devotion are not honored, the Church will be persecuted, there will be other major wars, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, and various nations will be annihilated. Russian militant atheists will enslave many nations. Most important, many souls will be lost.

The Message of Fatima promises that if the requests of Our Lady of Fatima are carried out, then, “My Immaculate Heart will triumph. Russia will be converted (Catholic), and a period of peace will be granted to mankind.” However, since 1984, the moral and spiritual state of the world has obviously grown far worse: In the past 14 years, there have been 600 million abortions, and wars have broken out all over the world. Mercy-killings and homosexual-unions have been “legalized!” What an awful travesty!

In Russia, laws discriminate against the Catholic Church, and they are in favor of Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, and the Orthodox churches, which forcibly occupied Catholic parishes under the Communists. Thus, it is clear, Russia is not converted to the Catholic Faith as Our Lady of Fatima promised would happen if her request were accomplished.

There have been very few conversions to Catholicism in Russia over the past fourteen years. In all of Russia today there are only 300,000 Catholics, much less than one percent of the Russian population. By comparison, after Our Lady appeared at Guadalupe, Mexico in the 16th Century, more than 7 million Mexicans converted from paganism to the Catholic Faith within nine years, and Mexico became a Catholic country. Viva Cristo Rey!

The Message of Fatima is very important to you and your family because it involves the salvation of your souls. If the requests of Our Lady of Fatima are not carried out, then the consequences are the annihilation of nations, the enslavement of all mankind under militant atheist, and Hell will become more populated.

The Apparitions at Fatima are public and prophetic revelation given by the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God. The Virgin Mary’s prophecy was confirmed by a public miracle and authenticated by a whole line of Popes. In addition, its predictions have come true. Therefore, while belief in the Message of Fatima may not strictly be required of Catholics as an article of faith, one would be very foolish to disregard such an obviously authentic message from Heaven.

As St. Paul proves with valid and reliable evidence, “Despise not prophecies, but prove all things; hold fast to that which is good.” Dear Reader, The Prophecy of Fatima has been proven worthy of belief. They are good! We should not despise it, but rather hold fast to what Our Lady told us at Fatima. We should not wish even one soul be lost to Hell, not even our worse enemy! Hell is eternal! Woe is woe!

Dear Reader, In or about 1224, Giovanni Francesco also wrote and prayed, “. . . Make me a channel of Your peace: It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. In giving of ourselves that we receive. And, in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.” Dear Reader, Jesus will come to Judge the living and the dead. In the resurrection of the body, we will be made whole again, body and soul, and then, Our Merciful Jesus will separate us, sheep from the goats. The sheep will live an Eternal Life, and the goats, will die an eternal death, the second death!

Mary, Dear Reader, the Mystical Rose, promises us a rose garden. She wants to enfold us in her Immaculate Garden, her mantle. At Fatima, the three children spread the message about the new prayer to be included into the Most Holy Rosary. I echo, “O My Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of Hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those (souls) in most need of Thy Mercy!” Beauty, Dear Reader, is in the eyes of Mary, our Most Gracious Advocate; go to her! O Mystical Rose, turn thine eyes of Mercy towards us!

St. Francis of Assisi, help us!

Stay-tuned for “The Triumph of Notre Dame” on Thursday, December 20.

Peace & JAMLY,

hobo euie

Despite her own misgivings with her Catholic faith and even among the women who followed her and discredited her as the founder of her own women’s liberation movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) rightly said, “Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.” Consequently, as a fallen-away catholic, she lost sight of Truth. She echoed instead, what Karl Marx (1818-1883) championed, “You will dress as men, leave your home, and enter the worker’s paradise.” Nevertheless, Dear Reader, the truly Liberated Woman lovingly recites the Apostle’s Creed, daily!

Dear Reader, the truly Liberated Woman does not go on extravagant vacations or engage in exercise programs; the truly liberated woman journeys to exotic beaches to comb for seashells and to snorkel the coral reefs. She solves the world’s problems by walking on pilgrimages around the globe to seek enlightenment from the Holy Spirit.

The truly Liberated Woman runs or jogs cross-country, not along the busy smog infested highways, but by the sea shore, and the opened fields, and where the hills are alive with the sound of music! The truly Liberated Woman lives the parable of Jesus, where the birds in the air and the flowers in the fields have not gone unnoticed! She is akin to a fluttering yellow butterfly!

When The truly Liberated Woman discerns her vocation, through ardent prayer, receiving the Holy Sacrament of Penance and the Holy Eucharist, and her spiritual Catholic director, she perseveres as if nothing else matters. If the truly Liberated Woman marries, then she becomes the queen of her castle, both body and home. She freely reigns with Truth, under her feet, so to speak! Her spouse is a perfect partner. She has reigned over her engagement with him with kindness, teamwork, and fun!

Her good husband works hard, he is trustworthy, and he willing loves her so, so much! The truly Liberated Woman has enraptured his heart; till death do they part! The truly Liberated Woman is trully smitten with him!

The truly Liberated Woman has no boss, she wears very little or no make-up, and she dresses as though the wind is forever in her wake. Sometimes, the truly Liberated Woman wears shoes on special occasions, but most times her measured steps are unshod or in sandals. The truly Liberated Woman seldom eats fast food. Her meals are mostly thoughtful, delicious, and fun!

The truly Liberated Woman never rushes to drop-off her children to school or daycare in order to arrive at her job, the worker’s paradise, or to the closeted-gym on time. She may even home school her children. Her realm is her home, and her business is her family. She sings lullabies, aloud! To bide her time in loving contemplation, she may even sew, knit, or crochet.

The truly Liberated Woman has a coffee break whenever she chooses. She naps. She sings. She dances. She has etched the sonnet of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways . . .” on her soul! Her daily schedule is set, but never in stone; The truly Liberated Woman alters her daily routine at her whim. Saturdays are fun-days, and Sundays are Godly! Every day, she offers all her pain, joys, works, and sufferings of each day to her Beloved Jesus!

The truly Liberated Woman plays hide-n-seek, hopscotch, skips rope, and reads bedtime stories. Her graceful heart melts her little children. They run to her in pain and joy. She uses buttercups as a barometer for whether one likes peanut butter. She makes dinner-dates with her husband at every opportunity when she desires. She knows the most competent babysitters in town. The truly Liberated Woman and her children know the neighborhood like the back of their hands. The baby carriage is weather-beaten and threadbare!

The truly Liberated Woman teaches her precious children how to checkmate, the rules of scrabble, and the intricacies of riding a bike. Her husband is captivated by her cheerfulness and wonder-filled smile. She is honest to the bone. Every fiber of her being is about the Truth, and who He is! She may even solve the Sunday crossword puzzles in one-sitting. She laughs at some of the colored-comics. She draws and she colors in the coloring book! Her favorite shades of nature are sky-blue, luscious-green, and sunglow-yellow!

Daily Mass is not a novelty to her; she loves Jesus and Mary with all her heart, with all her mind, with all her soul, and with all her strength. Her family’s daily Rosary-beads have signs of abrasion. Her children love Jesus and Mary! Her husband does too! The spirit of St. Nicholas is ever-present beyond the twelve days of Christmas.

The truly Liberated Woman is as shrewd as a serpent and as innocent as a dove. She understands the hypocrisy of this pretended modern women’s liberation movement. The truly Liberated Woman is horrified by their advocacy of abortion and their ostensible position on family planning. The truly Liberated Woman is a sincere defender of the natural family planning that is professed by Catholic Teachings!

She recognizes the evil of birth-control pills (BCPs) that increase the body’s level of free radicals, harmful by-products, that contributes to heart disease and accelerate-aging. In addition, they cause nervous system disorder and increase the potential for horrible diseases. BCPs are so unnatural and so profane!

The truly Liberated Woman is well read on the corruption to the body that intrauterine devices (IUDs) cause. For instance, they propagate both cancerous and benign growths, ovarian cysts, migraine headaches, bi-polar disorders, and even discoloration of the face. She knows that, for some unmysterious (sic) reason, once inserted the IUD tries to expel itself from the woman’s body. IUDs are so bizarre and so abusive!

Her children understand that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. She whistles while she works. She places a prodigious emphasis on her children’s creed, rather then which college they will attend. She is nobody’s fool. She visits the sick and the dying, and she feeds the hungry. Catholic Dogma makes perfect sense to the truly Liberated Woman!

Music is always in her air! The Easter Season is more about the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Her Jesus, than sales and discounts at the mall. Each time a child colors an egg, it is a magical moment! Bunnies, kitty-cats, and puppy-dogs are some of her favorite things! The truly Liberated Woman may be college educated, even having earned a master’s or doctor’s degree, but that is not a requirement.

Following along, Dear Reader, through the Sacred Teachings of the Catholic Church, the truly Liberated Woman knows, without an inkling of a doubt, that Mary came to Fatima in 1917 to save our souls. Our Lady came, especially, for us living in the Church, today! Our Blessed Mother sees how our souls are in danger; that is, in a grave-danger. Mary does not remain silent!

The truly Liberated Woman sees the world moving further and further from the Holy Cross of Jesus. Stupidstitious-atheism (sic) is the fastest growing religion in America and around the entire planet. Our titular democracies are doing just what the malicious-communists did at the point of a gun barrel; outlaw public displays of Christians, discredit public-prayer, and propagate the demonic-lie that there is no Truth, except, of course, that it is true, that there is no Truth. Anyway, Dear Reader, G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) rightly corrected the senseless Marx and Stanton’s newfound evil-fidelity, when he stated, “If there were no God, (then) there would be no atheist!”

Continuing, Dear Reader, in 1946, Servant of God, Sister Lucia of Fatima (1907-2005), a Carmelite nun, again echoed the Message of Fatima to a Catholic historian, “What our Lady wants is that the Pope with all the bishops in the world shall consecrate Russia to Her Immaculate Heart on one special day. If this is done, (then) She will convert Russia and there will be peace. If it is not done, (then) the errors of Russia will spread through every country on Earth.”

In that rare interview, a Catholic historian William Thomas Walsh (1891-1949) asked Sister Lucia, a truly Liberated Woman, if that meant that every country would be overcome by communism. Sister Lucia replied, “Yes!” To be positive about her answer, Mr. Walsh inquired further, “Does, this mean the United States of America too?” and with deliberate emphasis, Sister Lucia, said, “Yes!” Dear Reader, Karl Marx pronounced that, “The very ‘idea’ of God is the keynote of a perverted civilization. It must be destroyed!”

Dear Reader, On October 23, 2012, the good Father Nicholas Gruner S.T.L. , S.T.D. of the Fatima Center in Canada and Catholic US attorney and author Christopher A. Ferrara appeared at the headquarters of the European Union (EU) in Strasbourg, France to speak in support of a motion for a declaration by the EU Parliament calling upon Pope Benedict XVI to carry out the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

“I believe we succeeded in making a case for the Consecration of Russia that would appeal even to rational non-believers, who have nothing to lose by voting in favor this measure,” said Mr. Ferrara. The motion has been lodged with the EU Parliament as an official legislative document and will become part of the public record of EU proceedings. It has already attracted the signatures of a growing number of additional sponsors in the Parliament, including members from Italy, Austria, and Ireland.

Despite two attempts to fulfill Mary’s Request during his pontificate, Pope John Paul II explained, “Can the Mother, Who with all the force of the Love that She fosters in the Holy Spirit and Who desires everyone’s salvation, can She remain silent when She sees the very bases of Her children’s salvation undermined?” The Pope then goes on to answer his own question: “No, She cannot remain silent!”

Dear Reader, Standing by the Cross of Jesus were three truly Liberated Women: Mary, the Mother of God, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalena. With their eyes fixated on that Holy Cross of Jesus, they truly represented freedom. The truly Liberated Woman mirrors these three Supermodels of Love and Truth. In addition, she forever has her prayers for the faithful-departed on her lips.

O my! Dear Reader, St. Paul says it magnificently, “I kneel before the Father, from Whom every family in Heaven and on Earth is named . . . that you (we who are) rooted and grounded in Love may have the strength to comprehend with all the holy ones what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the Love of Christ (Jesus) that surpasses all knowledge . . .”

The truly Liberated Woman believes in God the Father, Creator of Heaven and Earth. The truly Liberated Woman believes in Jesus Christ, His Only-begotten Son, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. The truly Liberated Woman believes in the Holy Spirit, Lord and the Giver of life. The truly Liberated Woman believes in the Holy Catholic Church. The truly Liberated Woman believes in the communion of Saints. The truly Liberated Woman believes in the forgiveness of sins. The truly Liberated Woman believes in the resurrection of the body. The truly Liberated Woman believes in life everlasting! The truly Liberated Woman renews her vows and creed, daily!

Finally, Dear Reader, The truly Liberated Woman teaches her children that the ultimate, indeed the only real good, for anyone, is salvation! Moreover, salvation, entrance into The Kingdom of God, comes exclusively through acceptance of the Catholic Faith! This is the Unambiguous Truth. This is the sole message of True Evangelization. This is the Heart of the Message of Fatima, through Christ (Jesus) Our Lord and Redeemer, who Lives and Reigns forever and ever!

O Your Majesty, Queen Mary, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways . . . I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life! (pause) And, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death!”

O Your Royal Highness, King Jesus, “You are the only Safe Ground to stand on!”

Stay-tuned for “The Mystical Rose” on Thursday, November 22.

Peace & JAMLY,

hobo euie

In the fifth stanza of Julia Ward Howe’s 1861 lyrics, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” we hear, “In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His Bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on. . . . Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! His Truth is marching on!” Dear Reader, is your Truth the same as mine?

“Where are you from?” “Do you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you, and I have power to crucify you?” Jesus answered pontius pilate, “You would have no power over me if it had not been given to you from above. . .” Dear Reader, all human ability, all power, all-everything comes from above, so to speak. Each ability that we own, which allows us to think, speak, and act, come from God.

Any man or woman who accepts the duty to lead or lord over others has a great obligation to act with goodness and love. Even parents own this great responsibility, if fact, this constraint is even more pronounced for the mother and father because the family, the domestic church, is the ultimate kingdom on Earth. All power comes from God; no matter to whom you cast your vote.

In our larger community, the mayors, governors, congress, presidents, prime ministers, dictators, emperors, shahs, tsars, kings, and queens, etc. make an unbreakable-covenant to act in accordance with God’s Will. Furthermore, they must be lovers of the Truth. Dear Reader, “What is the Truth?”

Dear Reader, Everyone who belongs to the Truth listens to the Voice of Jesus! In our day and time, we confuse unquestionable love of country with support for our reigning-maleficent elected officials. We pretend that they govern, accordingly, for the good of America. O God, Bless America!

We pretend that the moral corruption of our leaders is relative; their personal beliefs are fine as long as they are nice!?!? Consequently, up until recent times, America has carried along her moral goodness of our people. But now, we allow her to be ruled by a secular-socialistic despicable-elite who have no place at all for the Word of God and His Holy Church. They are so sophisticated!?!?

We are allowing our Christian heritage to become buried with the past. “Equality” now means enforced-sameness, impoverishing our unique cultures, sexes, and natural abilities. We can now pretend, with impunity, that human personhood does not begin at conception, but at birth, and later, we can dismiss personhood if we deem that a loving little baby to have birth defects. We borrow this anti-social and unnatural evil-planning from the nazi-germs and stalinist-ruses (sic).

No matter to whom we play “Hail-to-the-Chief,” we continue to police the world, bloat our departments of government, such as education, commerce, and energy, etc., by printing and borrowing dollar-after-dollar, at an extreme high-interest from the federal reserve, as we pretend that we are acting in the “interest” of national security. Dear Reader, our elected-representatives are misrepresenting us!

This manipulation of fake-value dollars causes the continued devaluation of our US dollar; this continued evil impoverishes the family and enriches the depraved-elites. The low interest rates of banks favor debt and discourage savings from acquiring a greater interest. That is what our elite-politicians and bankers desire. A dollar bill (silver certificate) once equaled an actual silver-dollar. Now, one freshly-printed federal reserve note equals about fifty silver dollars!

The huge budget deficits favor these politicians and elite and their unholy kingly and queenly way-of-life. Their love of money is only equaled by their love of the discord permeating between our two-party governance system. That cacophony deafens us to the Truth!

Furthermore, education is the primary responsibility of parents. Our federal government has no competence to regulate education. Since the takeover by the federal department of education, schools have a dropout rate hovering at 30 percent. School competency test constructed by the federal government are a dismal-failure (F-).

Most times these mandated-test have a set of over one-hundred questions. Are you for real? There is not even an inkling of common sense at all to these mandatory exhaustive-exams! We spend close to twenty-thousand dollars per student each year to earn a high school education. What a travesty!

Who then, Dear Reader, is the Lesser of the Evils? The Lesser of the Evils is the person who practices the one True Catholic Faith. This Confessional-catholic does neither add to nor subtract from the Truth. He or she recognizes his or her failings, and smartly discerns the difference between good and evil.

This Lesser of the Evils hears the Voice of Jesus in Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, and the Teachings of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church put forth in the Catholic Catechism and Encyclicals of the Holy Magisterium.

He or she hears the Voice of Jesus in his or her spiritual director and frequently in the sermon of the good priest at the Homily of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. He or she seeks out Holy Absolution from sin, regularly.

To the Confessional-catholic, mortal sin is not merely a breaking of God’s Laws and His Holy Commandments and/or merely committing one or all of the seven deadly sins, but this abomination is the breaking of the Heart of Jesus. The Confessional-catholic is so in-love with Jesus and Mary, and they never want to break Their Hearts!

The Confessional-catholic has faith and reason in the power of devoted prayer, and especially, he or she has a profound appreciation in the power of the Most Holy Rosary. Daily family prayer is the life-blood, so to speak, of their lives!

True prayer invokes the Host of Heaven to wage war against the forces of Evil and against the physical, emotional, and spiritual wickedness of our so-called leaders in the public arena. True prayer invokes the very Divine Supplication of Jesus in His Sermon on the Mount; Thy Kingdom come; Thy Will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven!

The Lesser of the Evils knows that a just-nation will provide a decent living wage to a parent, increasing as the size of the family increases, so that the other parent can truly be free, as a stay-at-home parent. A good family has children who have brothers and/or sisters! This is the life-blood of America!

However, our so-called free-government representatives succeeded in micromanaging almost every aspect of our lives. They enact endless regulations and laws in an attempt to create “sameness” in all manners of our daily thoughts, words, and deeds. For instance, a child in Iowa may need to develop skills in farming, whereas a child in Maine may need to learn how to become a lobster angler. And, what is more, not every child is suited for higher-education in a university environment!

Maybe, Dear Reader, the best form of government is a monarchy. A wise king or queen whose main restraint is only to defend against foreign enemies, build interstate roads, and initiate a few other large national projects. All democratic decision-making, concerning education, health-care, police, and fire protection, etc., is best-practiced at the local community level. This freedom of self-rule and self-sufficiency, I know, Dear Reader, is unknown to us. Or is it?

A Confession-catholic Monarchy has proved to be the best form of government on Earth. Once upon a time, the consecration of the first champion of the Catholic Church took place at Easter (774); the Vicar of Christ anointed Charlemagne (742-814) the first King of the Holy Roman Empire.

Even when he was a child, his father, Pepin the Short, a Confessional-catholic, appealed to the Holy See for the anointing of kingship for himself and his two sons, Charlemagne and Carloman. Pope Stephen III crossed the Alps two years after that appeal to fulfill Pepin’s request, the House of Arnulf (Pepin) was established upon the throne of Christendom. Carloman died young and Charlemagne reigned.

Charlemagne was of imposing stature, to which his bright eyes and long, flowing hair added more dignity. His clear and gentle voice was not so sonorous as his gigantic frame would suggest. Many times he could be seen wearing the simple dress of his Frankish people.

During the coronation of Charlemagne, Pope Leo III celebrated a Pontifical Mass. As the Charlemagne knelt in prayer before the high altar beneath which lay the bodies of Sts. Peter and Paul, Pope Leo III approached him, placed upon his head the imperial crown, did him formal reverence after the ancient manner, saluted him as king and anointed him. The men, women, and children in attendance burst out with acclamation!

From boyhood, Charlemagne had evinced strong family affections. He grew into a valiant king who protected the domestic family, freed the oppressed, fed the hungry, and protected Roman Catholic Church, the holder of the Deposit of Truth! He understood the power of true democracy where that rule is best practiced within the local communities where just laws are enacted, and taxes are levied fairly. This is the Will of God!

Lastly, it was to Charlemagne alone that the Christians of the East were now crying out for succour against the threatening advance of the Moslem Caliph. The personal devotion of Charlemagne to the Apostolic See is well known and well documented. (Note-to-self: Wake-up now, hobo!)

Notwithstanding, Dear Reader, could our good traditional American-values be likened to the old man in Edgar Allen Poe’s (1809-1849) A Descent into the Maelstrom? In the midst of that horrific whirlpool, the old man relates, “It was not a new terror that thus affected me, but the dawn of a more exciting hope.” And finally, at th end, he relates, “I told them my story –they did not believe it. I now tell it to you –and I can scarcely expect you to put more faith in it than did the merry fishermen of Lofoden.”

Convincingly, Dear Reader, in all the images and icons of the Annunciation, the Angel Gabriel is seen presenting Mary with a bouquet of white lilies. That bouquet is an emblem signifying her graceful purity and her simple humility. In this purity and humility, Her Son, Jesus, was born, beyond the ocean. “Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! His Truth is marching on!”

Permanently, Dearest Reader, the Voice of Jesus is All-Sovereign! Even at the moment of His Arrest, Jesus teaches us the Truth. When He said to them, “I AM,” the band of soldiers and guards from the chief priest and pharisees, with their lanterns, torches, and weapons in hand, fell to the ground!!! The Voice of Jesus is Pure and Simple with the Grace of a Dove! “Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! His Truth is marching on!”

St. Teresa of Avila, help us!
St. Theresa, the Little Flower, help us!
St Catherine of Sienna, help us!
St. Hildegard of Germany, help us!

O Mary, Queen of America, pray for us, sinners!

Stay-tuned for “The Liberated Woman” on Thursday, October 25.

Peace & JAMLY,

hobo euie

Dear Reader, we all can see, from our standpoint on Earth, that every object in our universe rises in the east and sets in the west. The beauty and the majesty of many of our sunrises and sunsets viewed by the seaside, from across our vast oceans, are magnificent! Standing or sitting atop a hill or mountain, one would be in awe of the spectacular view of the heavens at night! One could say, without being incorrect, that our Earth “is” the center of the universe!

Rejected by “modern” science, the geocentric theory, which maintains that Earth is the center of our universe, dominated ancient and medieval scholars and astronomers. However, it was not until the 16th century that a catholic-astronomer and theorist, Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543), proposed a hypothesis, which later became the heliocentric theory. Furthering this hypothesis, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), also a somewhat-catholic astronomer, used a first generation, prototype telescope and maintained that, in fact, our Sun is the center of the universe.

Many Catholic University scholars and astronomers, and rightly so, dismissed Galileo’s heliocentric proclamation, since he could not “prove” his now borrowed heliocentric theory. Galileo knew that although heliocentricity offered a more elegant explanation of extraterrestrial motion, he had no means of proving it.

Furthermore, it is more likely that the refusal of his scholarship was not due to the unpopularity of Galileo’s unproven-theory, but of his rancid personality. He was cold and sarcastically presumptuous, by which he managed to spoil his own cause throughout his life. Nevertheless, truthfully, Galileo was, indeed, wrong!

When Galileo died, Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the apple-scientist, carried forward the torch of knowledge by uniting known planetary laws with Galileo’s mathematical physics to perfect the Law of Universal Gravitation, the missing link, he thought, in the Cosmic Puzzle that was to establish heliocentricity beyond doubt. Needless-to-say, truthfully, Isaac was also wrong; his head must have smarted from that fallen-apple;)

Dear Reader, in 1927, Georges Lemaitre (1894-1966), a practicing-Catholic scientist, proved that our Sun was “not” the center of the universe, and that our solar system was only part of a larger vast galaxy, which we call our Milky Way. And, that the Milky Way is only one galaxy of billions throughout our infinite-universe, so to speak. This epiphany or Hubble’s law is widely accredited to Edwin Hubble (1889-1953), who published this law in 1929.

Dear Reader, we all can see that, from our standpoint on Earth, every object in our universe rises in the east and sets in the west. Every object in our universe seems to revolve around Earth. What or where, then, is the center of the universe?

Regardless, if we looked at Earth from far above its northern pole it rotates counterclockwise, and yet, from far below its southern pole, so to speak, it rotates clockwise. Hmmm! There is no north, east, west, nor south (NEWS) in space anyway. Can there even be a “center” of the universe?

In fact, if you visit a geography class in the southern hemisphere, the globe is viewed upside-down so to speak, to us, northern-hemisphere beings, but not to those who live elsewhere. What is the truth? Furthermore, the city of St. Petersburg, Russia, was always St. Petersburg to the good God-fearing Russians, despite what the hateful communist-atheists called it – Leningrad! So why do we allow these lies to permeate in our school textbooks?

Not to be dismayed, Dear Reader, the question of “what” or “where” is the center of the universe can only be solved by asking the correct question, “Who!” Who is the center of the universe? Jesus, the Christ, is the Center of the Universe; Christocentric! From His Incarnation on Earth to His Ascension into Heaven, Jesus established that Earth was indeed the center of the universe! This is the place of His Passion, Death, and Resurrection.

Our Earth is where Jesus instituted the Most Holy Sacrament. In an unbroken Apostolic Succession for over two thousand years, the Holy Eucharist is the Center of the Universe. The Sacred Heart of Jesus is, without doubt, the Most Precious Substance in the entire universe! Christocentric!

Now, Dear Reader, whether I believe it or not does not make it so. Truth is neither contingent on one’s belief, nor altered by the words one tries to describe it, nor wounded if neglected. Truth is as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be! Furthermore, Dear Reader, there is only one true faith – Catholic, one true God – the Most Blessed Trinity, and only one true Holy Baptism – Christocentric!

In any event, Dear Reader, despite what disagreements Galileo had with his catholic faith, and in particular some Catholic University scholars, if I had a dime for every time some atheist, or non-catholic, or even worst, a non- practicing catholic used “Galileo” and the wrong that was done to him by the Church, despite his imprudence, then I would be a rich man. “If I were a rich man . . .”

Whatever happened, Dear Reader, in and around 1992, Pope John Paul II, recognized the flaws of humans both inside and outside the Church concerning human explorations and discoveries. Pope John Paul II exonerated Galileo and all scholars involved in that moot, yet perpetual debate. To that extent, even today, modern scientists are now rewriting known scientific laws concerning many happenings in our universe, for instance, the formation of new stars.

Up until a few months ago, astronomers theorized and agreed that a new star formed about once a year, somewhere in our universe; however, with new discoveries because of the “hubble” telescope, astronomers have become perplexed at a new phenomenon in the universe where stars are forming daily! The laws of the life of stars are being rewritten as we speak!

Accompanying, when I taught astronomy to grade-schoolers back in the early 1990s, the textbooks claimed, infallibly, that Jupiter has six moons. Now we see that astronomers say that Jupiter has sixty-seven “confirmed” moons! The laws of science, Dear Reader, are ever evolving, and they are ever being created. And, that evolution, that creation, is a good thing because the exploration and the discovery of our universe is God’s Will.

Conversely, and “with” the Standing of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Doctrines of the Catholic Church have stood the test of time. Never was it known that a future Pope needed to back track to reverse a Sacred Dogma of the Catholic Church because it is flawed. The Holy Magisterium, in union with the Pope and all of Sacred Tradition has endured the test of time to be infallible. Dear Reader, Truth is simply the truth!

Side by side, Dear Reader, an expectant mother should be amidst the center of our family life, part and parcel of our universe. This woman is in the creative act of forming new human life, who someday may rewrite the laws of our ever-forming galaxies. Or even better, the person of the womb may help us to reinforce the structure of the family, and not to redefine it, as we mollycoddle the “Galileos” of our postmodern world who think that their unproven and misguided definition of a family should be the law.

Never to forget to mention, Dear Reader, that when our pregnant Blessed Mother Mary walked on Earth, she was the Center of the Universe! In truth, she forever-continues to point us in the direction of Jesus; she is Christocentric. In like manner, My Jesus is geocentric, so to speak; our Earth is filled with the children of God. The Truth, the Good NEWS, is that we are the apple of His Eye! We are the apple of His Most Sacred Heart! Viva Cristo Rey!

O Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart like Your Heart!

O Mary, blessed is your womb that gave nourishment to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus!

Blessed be Jesus Christ, True God & True Man!

Stay-tuned for “The Lesser of the Evils” on Thursday, October 11.

Peace & JAMLY,

hobo euie