We have arrived at the beginning of Autumn with Ember Week. It seems like eons since the last Ember Week during the Week of Pentecost. Now, fourteen weeks later we again remember the reason for the four sets of Ember Days in the Church's Liturgical Year. We are reminded of our need to recommit to fasting and penance. It comes at a time this year when tensions are high as all countries are plummeting into rebellion because of the financial collapse that has been inevitable for several decades and foretold in private revelation for several centuries. In the aftermath of Our Lady's feast of the Seven Sorrows we can see why she is so sorrowful at how her divine Son is so neglected today, and asks more to offer up prayers, penance and sacrifices in reparation for the sacrileges, outrages and indifferences to which He is subjected by a civilization out of touch with the final four things: Death, Judgment, Heaven or Hell.

    At the end of this week we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Ransom and we all know that Mary would ransom so much for the salvation of souls and yet she is derided and misrepresented as Protestants are wont to accuse Catholics of worshipping Mary. Any Catholic worth his salt realizes that is poppycock for Mary is the Living Tabernacle of the Divine Word, she is the way to Jesus and, as we are asked to imitate Christ, should we not honor her as her divine Son did? Of course. This is also a week of martyrs for in the eleven days leading to the feast of St. Michael the Archangel next week, we commemorate martyrs on eight of those days. They all knew the merit of prayer, fasting and sacrifice to the point of sacrificing their own lives for the Truth.

   Truth. Where has that gone? Like holy Mother Church Truth has been eclipsed by lies and made to look as if the world is topsy-turvy. What is virtue is considered vice by the world, what is vice to God is considered permissible by man. Which is it? We all know the answer to that, but so many refuse to acknowledge that simple equation. Sadly, it adds up to the embers of responsibility lost for entitlement has become the password to opting out of the narrow path that leads to Heaven and choosing instead the wide path strewn with roses and promises that we know ends in hell. But stupidity and stubbornness prevent the majority from seeing the obvious. This week's Gospel says it best: "No man can serve two masters for he will hate the one and love the other, or he will sustain the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon." We can see how this is playing out today where man has rejected such sound divine logic and forged their own stubborn road of insisting they can serve two masters. And why not when they are told they can have it all, Heaven, too, but don't have to work for it, don't have to obey the Commandments, live as they please. Just be tolerant and diversify for the good of the community. Puhlease! It is time to revise the chapters of Book Three in the Revelations and Prophesies to St. Bridget, which we do this week with five installments.

    And...after four months of silence, editorially-wise, it is time for this editor to speak out with a series of three editorials with the first titled "Stupidity or Sabotage" in which the mind and body have been attacked where worldly things have taken priority with the ultimate outcome being the corruption that is so prevalent in the world today from the social engineering to thinking one can have their cake and eat it, too while staying young forever contrary to the natural life cycle. Corruption is everywhere from the highest echelon of the White House to the local car dealerships and all points in between and nobody seems to realize the consequences and where this is all heading. Just look at Europe and watch the dominos. Once they start falling, they will fall fast and furious.

    Next week we'll focus on the heart, and how hearts have been hardened, so much so that few realize the sabotage of the Church was carried out by the stupidity of Catholics not truly knowing their Faith and seeing how the heart has been led astray by a false courter whose intentions are not pure, and commitment is no longer set in stone, nor is any other tenet of the Church according to the wolves in sheep's clothing.

    The third installment will zero in on the soul, for that is really the only thing that matters for the body, the mind, the heart will all die and decay, but the soul goes on forever. That is why it is mandatory that the Traditional movement get its act together and forge an alliance among the bishops to perpetuate the true Faith, something so necessary with the inevitable sell-out by Bishop Bernard Fellay of the SSPX. We must provide a forum and shelter for those who will break from the cowards who cave to the conciliar con and, in so doing, build the numbers of the sedevacantists who are the last bastion of the Church, the only true priests and bishops who can provide the true Sacraments.

   One of the main forces of the movement, if not the largest, is the Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen - the CMRI (Congregatio Mariae Reginae Immaculatae) and they are holding their Annual Fatima Conference in a few weeks from October 5-9 where Mario Derksen will be a featured speaker. As mentioned in our last two editions, Mario was the first published contributing writer here at The DailyCatholic who broached the subject of sedevacantism dating back to his first article he wrote in January 2002. He will be speaking on his treatise on the Thuc Bishops, a work he researched and analyzed for nearly four years before releasing his findings early this year.

    Out of necessity, we continue to remind those who may not have seen Cyndi's Letter during the summer, that we depend on our readers to assist us in keeping The DailyCatholic on line and ask you to pray on what you can do to help. We are so appreciative of those few who did respond, but what is disappointing is that few pledged and thus we cannot budget expenses because other than a few monthly donations, we have no idea what will be coming in to keep The DailyCatholic going. If you haven't donated yet, it is not too late. We still need help very much and ask in all humility if you could at least look at our plea and see where you can help by contributing to the Cause of Carrying on the Apostolic Mission ...in Their Footsteps

    So many times we scratch our heads and ask "what more can I do to right the ship?" These times are indeed the times that try men's souls and if we are not rooted in the Faith and have faith, hope and charity to outlast the devil, if we do not pray we will be prey. The equation is there for hardwork, knowledge and attitude to add up to all our efforts, but no matter how much we give, God always gives more and it is our love and devotion to Him that measures a man's success; not man's opinion. Below we provide a fascinating and inspiring three minute proof of that taken from YouTube. May we all place ourselves in the care of the Most Sorrowful Mother during her month of September and ask the protection of holy St. Michael against the wiles and snares of the devil.

Michael Cain, editor