NEWS AND UPDATES

➫ EVENT: Fr. Michael Rodríguez will speak on the Third Secret of Fatima in the Chicago area on Friday October 30, 2026. All are invited.

➫ Are Catholics Engaged in Spiritual Self-Denial (substack)

➫ A Misunderstanding of Obedience: Ignatian or Thomistic (link to the article "Tyranny and Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: A Jesuit Tragedy" by Dr. John R. T. Lamont)

➫ Archive of News and Updates

MOST RECENT SERMONS

St Teresa of Avila and St Anthony Mary Claret View description ▼ The Rosary is particularly effective in enabling us to receive the graces which come from God and a most excellent way by which we can cooperate with those graces - all through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Consider the Rosary Miracles of Austria after WW II and the Miracle Bridge in Quebec (1879). Both St. Anthony Mary Claret and St. Teresa have much to teach us about prayer and the Rosary. October 18, 2026 by Fr. Michael Rodríguez
Count Your Trials as Joy View description ▼ God will never allow you to be tempted beyond your capability – because He is good and faithful. During these trials, He offers graces that you may grow in faith, charity, prayer, etc. Know that a trial tests and purifies your faith. When you cooperates with His grace, His cross triumphs (exalts!) in your life. Our Lady loved and venerated the cross, that is, privations, humiliations, mortifications, and sufferings. Turn to Our Lady of Sorrows for the graces to have the same sentiments that are in her Immaculate Heart. September 6, 2026 by Fr. Michael Rodríguez
May the Adorable Will of God be Magnified Forever View description ▼ The Rosary is a marvelous treasury of all the virtues man needs. By meditating on its mysteries, we renew our mind and put on the ‘New Man’ of whom St. Paul speaks. Yet we must pray for this grace of renewal. Stories of rosary miracles fill us with confidence: a serial killer was prevented from killing a young girl (1978), and Our Lady stopped tanks from bulldozing nuns and faithful in the Philippines(1986). October 11, 2026 by Fr. Michael Rodríguez
Our Lady of Ransom View description ▼ For centuries Barbary pirates harassed the coastline of Christendom and kidnapped Christians. Under Our Lady’s guidance, St. Peter Nolasco founded the order of Mercedarians with the purpose of ransoming captives. He was supported by St. Raymond Peñafort and King James I of Aragon. Today many are unable to freely practice the Catholic Faith. Catholics are still being persecuted, even killed. Many are enslaved to the wickedness of the world, the flesh, and the devil. Yet Our Lady continues to break the chains of slavery and ransom us. She is always ready to help us! September 27, 2026 by Fr. Linus Clovis

For sermons posted in 2026, see Most Current Sermons under the audio tab in home menu.

PODCAST: SPECIAL INTERVIEWS

Significance of October in Catholic Devotion View description ▼ Fr. John Lovell, host of Hope in the Desert, interviews David Rodríguez on regarding Marian and rosary connections to October.

Fr. John Lovell interviews David Rodríguez regarding Marian devotion in the month of October.

How Should One Respond to an Unjust Excommunication View description ▼ On 2 July 2026, the Vatican issued documents claiming the SSPX was schismatic and excommunicated. Media news outlets have been weaponized to quickly spread this propaganda. So how should faithful Catholics respond? Hold fast to the truth that Christ reveals. Exercise charity. Remain at peace. Live a faithful Catholic life. This is the witness which all men, especially other Catholics, need to see.

Vatican Response to SSPX Episcopal Consecrations Reveals the Great Crisis with Fr. Michael Rodríguez and Fr. James Mawdsley.

FLASHBACK: SERMONS

Christ's Kingship Enlightens Us View description ▼ From 1878-1958 all the popes began their pontificate by writing about the evils of society. And they proposed the same solution: the Kinship of Christ. He is our King, Lawgiver, and Judge. Christ must reign in our mind, our hearts, our lives, our families and our nations. His kingship enlightens us about {1} the spiritual battle for souls, (2) knowing who Jesus is, and (3) how to pray (specifically, consider the Our Father).
Time Flies Remember Death View description ▼ St. Paul the Hermit, first of the desert fathers, leaves us a powerful example. The pagans say “Let us drink and eat and be merry for tomorrow we die.” Catholics know this very short live determines our eternity. Healthy reminders of death and eternity are part of Christian society (grim reapers strike public clocks and mottos such as ‘tempus fugit memento mori’ decorate buildings). Whatever is not eternal is ultimately nothing. Before any act, think “What is this to eternity?”
Ready to Die Ready to Live View description ▼ Many die young and unexpectedly. Unnatural vice or excessive pleasure are often the cause of such untimely deaths. People who live in vice are terrified of death and never want to think about it. Yet it is only the man who is ready to die, that is the man who is ready to truly live. We find this disposition in heroic Catholic soldiers, the great saints, and even the little children of Fatima. Let us frequently pray "Jesus, for Thee I live. Jesus, for Thee I die. Have mercy on me a sinner." Read text of sermon.

RECOVER AND RESTORE TRADITION

Maximizing Your Use of This Website

Brief Orientation of this Website
Brief Orientation of website for Donors

Fatima and The Latin Mass

Fatima and The Third Secret

View the entire Third Secret series at the Fatima Center's website.

Greatest When Catholic

Audio Only Podcast

VIDEOS

Special Report: Lepanto Institute

Anchor Team 269: Fatima's Ongoing Significance
Host: Michael Hichborn of the Lepanto Instittute

The Message of Fatima

Basic Marian Apologetics: The First Three Dogmas
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Conference from Maine
Leo XIII Unlocks the Power of the Rosary
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Conference from Maine

Month of Our Lady and Her Rosary

[October] Salutations to Mary - Pray this litany with Fr. Rodriguez. For an audio-only version of this litany, click HERE. Text can be downloaded HERE.

Series: Holocaust Narrative

HN1 - Is "Fear of the Jews" Ruling the World? No More.
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HN3 - Extermination Camp? Homicidal Gas Chambers? Majdanek? Vanishingly Improbable.
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HN5 - Auschwitz-Birkenau No Gas Chambers
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HN2 - Twists to Gas Chamber Accounts in WWII Germany and Austria
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HN4 - The Impossible Genocide at Treblinka, Sobibor & Belzec. Re-Examining the Holocaust.
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HN6 - The Final Solution is Not What We Have Been Told.
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HN10.3 - How The Jewish Question Can Be Answered by Church and State

A Litany to the Precious Blood of Jesus

Prayer from a sermon given on July 1, 2019 (Feast of the Precious Blood)

Precious Blood of Jesus, shed in the circumcision, make me chaste of mind, heart, and body.

Precious Blood of Jesus, oozing from every pore, in the agony of Gethsemani, grant me to love above all things the holy and adorable will of God!

Precious Blood, flowing abundantly in the scourging at the pillar, inspire me with a keen sorrow for my sins and a love of suffering!

Precious Blood, falling in profusion from the crown of thorns, grant me a love of humiliations!

Precious Blood, fructifying the way to Calvary, fill me with the courage necessary to walk unfalteringly in the footsteps of Jesus.

Precious Blood, shed so profusely in the Crucifixion, make me die entirely to self-love!

Precious Blood, shed to the very last drop by the opening of the Sacred Heart, grant me that generous
love that sacrifices all for God!

Precious Blood, sacred source whence flow all virtues and all graces, apply Thy infinite merits to my soul!

O Divine Blood of Jesus, I adore Thee from the depths of my heart! Thee I ardently invoke, for Thou art my salvation, and through Thee I hope to obtain the joys of Paradise.

Most Precious Blood of Jesus, cry to Thy Divine Father for mercy upon us and deliver us. Amen.