Blessed Virgin Mary

Fidelity to God’s Grace

DVRodriguez2024-11-11T07:58:05-05:00

Saintly mystics of the Church provide us with an account of Mary's birth, which we celebrate today. Our Lady was conceived without sin and with the ability to know and love God. Within St. Anne's womb, Mary was already faithfully corresponding to this first grace – and thus growing in grace. Let us be more aware of the graces God gives us and do our very best to correspond with them. Yet attachment to sin and to the world impedes our growth. We prefer what is easier and more comfortable. To counter this, grow in your devotion to Mary, especially Our [...]

Fidelity to God’s GraceDVRodriguez2024-11-11T07:58:05-05:00

Depths of the Immaculate Heart

DVRodriguez2024-11-06T10:23:29-05:00

All of Our Lady's feasts manifest the immense, incomprehensible and incomparable love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for God, and for us poor sinners. No where else does the adorable will of God reign so perfectly and so we can never adequately revere her Heart. Her tremendous love continues its role in heavenly meditation today. Her intercession is so powerful because her love is so great. In the depths of her heart are the mysteries of God, the Passion of her Son, and all He said and did. Those who truly love and honor Mary receive abundant gifts, favors and blessings [...]

Depths of the Immaculate HeartDVRodriguez2024-11-06T10:23:29-05:00

Christ the King, Mary the Queen

DVRodriguez2024-10-22T11:39:10-04:00

Christ is Lord of All. This truth is upheld by the reaching on the social and universal Kingship of Christ. Few Catholics proclaim this truth today, yet we must accept it to be saved for it is an infallible dogma. We also celebrate several feasts of Our Lady in these days. October 11 is her Divine Maternity. This is the principal mystery of her life from which flow all her privileges. On October 12 we celebrate her first apparition to St. James (a type of her miraculous pillar is found in Exodus). Our Lady wrought the great Miracle of the Sun [...]

Christ the King, Mary the QueenDVRodriguez2024-10-22T11:39:10-04:00

Three Examples of the Incredible Power of the Rosary

DVRodriguez2024-10-07T22:21:33-04:00

In 1571, Pope St. Pius V called all Christendom to pray the Rosary. In response, Our Lady routed the superior Moslem forces at the naval Battle of Lepanto. At Hiroshima, She protected eight Jesuits priests, living the Message of Fatima, from the atomic bomb. In the 1960s, Brazil was saved from communism by the Rosary. The Blessed Mother told St. Dominic that the Rosary is a most powerful means to [1] dissipate heresy, [2] extinguish vice, [3] spread virtue, [4] implore God's mercy, and [5] obtain her protection. And in our time, God has granted the Rosary even more power, so [...]

Three Examples of the Incredible Power of the RosaryDVRodriguez2024-10-07T22:21:33-04:00

Greatest of All Apparitions

DVRodriguez2024-09-28T22:46:15-04:00

Catholics follow many devotions and apparitions, yet 99% do not know the full Message of Fatima. This is a glaring red flag because Fatima is the greatest of all apparitions and the one most necessary for our time. No other apparition has received as much papal approval or so great a sign of divine confirmation. Every Catholic must know about the First Saturday Devotion and the need for Russia’s Consecration. St. John Eudes also gives us reasons why devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary is so important.

Greatest of All ApparitionsDVRodriguez2024-09-28T22:46:15-04:00

To Really Believe in the Assumption

DVRodriguez2024-10-02T12:36:20-04:00

Many mysteries are commemorated in the Assumption. They are a window into the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Our Lady stayed on earth making the greatest sacrifice to help build up the Church and propagate the Faith. These mysteries teach us how to live as faithful Catholics. We must persevere in God’s grace, greatly desire Heaven, not be attached to this earth, and prepare for a holy death.

To Really Believe in the AssumptionDVRodriguez2024-10-02T12:36:20-04:00

Our Lady Requests Churches Be Built

DVRodriguez2024-09-15T21:59:39-04:00

In the heat of Rome's summer, Our Lady dropped snow to indicate where the greatest church in her honor was to be built. St. Mary Major is home to both the manger from Bethlehem and Salus Populi Romani, St. Luke's miraculous painting of Madonna and Child. Our Blessed Mother is inseparable from Her Divine Son. Jesus chooses to enter the world – and our life – through her! At many of her apparitions, Our Lady requests a church be built, not only to receive our prayers and come to our aid, but to renew the Sacrifice of Her Son. Strive to [...]

Our Lady Requests Churches Be BuiltDVRodriguez2024-09-15T21:59:39-04:00

Santo Nombre de María – 12 de septiembre
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Santo Nombre de María – 12 de septiembre

DVR Fatima2024-09-12T07:14:12-04:00

TEOLOGÍA DE LA FIESTAVeneramos el nombre de «MARÍA» porque pertenece a Aquella que es la Madre de Dios y, como el mismo Espíritu Santo profetiza inerrantemente en la Sagrada Escritura: «Todas las generaciones la llamarán bienaventurada». Ella es la más santa, la más grande y la más bella de todas las criaturas de Dios. Ni toda la gloria que le ofrece el resto de su creación iguala la gloria que le ofrece María. En palabras del seráfico Doctor de la Iglesia, San Buenaventura: «María es aquel ser que Dios no puede hacer más grande; puede hacer una tierra y un cielo [...]

Santo Nombre de María – 12 de septiembreDVR Fatima2024-09-12T07:14:12-04:00

¡Oh, Virgen Dolorosa!

DVR Fatima2024-09-12T06:52:21-04:00

¡Oh, Virgen dolorosa, Reina de los mártires! Por los méritos detus dolores te pido que me alcances verdadero dolor de mispecados, enmienda completa en las costumbres, y continua yafectuosa compasión de las penas de mi Señor Jesucristo yde las tuyas. Y, pues, que ambos, siendo inocentes, padecierontanto por mí, alcancenme que yo, reo de muerte eterna, sufratambién algo por tu amor. Finalmente, Madre mía, por aquellacongoja que sintió tu amoroso pecho al ver a tu Hijo inclinar lacabeza y expirar en el madero de la Cruz, te pido me obtengasla gracia de una buena muerte. En aquella hora de combate yagonía [...]

¡Oh, Virgen Dolorosa!DVR Fatima2024-09-12T06:52:21-04:00

Holy Mary, Mother of Sorrows!

DVR Fatima2024-09-12T07:28:54-04:00

From the sermon Four Virtues for Spouses (September 19, 2021) Holy Mary, Mother of sorrows, whose heart was piercedwith a fresh sword of grief at every Station on the Way of the Cross,obtain for us, we beseech thee, O most loving Mother, a perpetual remembrance of our Blessed Savior’s cross and death, and a true and tender devotion to all the mysteries of His most holy Passion. Obtain for us the grace to hate sin, even as He hated it in the Agony of the Garden; to endure wrong and insult with all patience, as He endured them in the judgment [...]

Holy Mary, Mother of Sorrows!DVR Fatima2024-09-12T07:28:54-04:00