Blessed Virgin Mary

Prayer to the Immaculate and Sorrowful Mother of God

DVR Fatima2026-02-02T06:23:02-05:00

The prayer from the sermon Sorrow and Death given on Septuagesima Sunday in 2017 To thee, O Immaculate and Sorrowful Mother of God, do we have recourse in this supreme hour of mankind’s need, amidst such storms indeed as have never been known, shaking holy Mother Church to her very foundations. Thou, who standing by the foot of the Cross, didst once share so closely in the sufferings of thy Divine Son, with what compassion art thou not moved today for the suffering of His Mystical Body, the Church! Russia has so spread her errors throughout the world that the human [...]

Prayer to the Immaculate and Sorrowful Mother of GodDVR Fatima2026-02-02T06:23:02-05:00

Our Lady Speaks with Symbols

DVRodriguez2026-01-11T10:34:28-05:00

Our Lady appeared to two children at La Salette in 1846. She was weeping bitterly and gave mankind a powerful message. Much of her message is conveyed through the symbolism she uses: light, a mountain, hammer, pincers and more. Our Lady sorrows not just for sin but for our lack of repentance. Her symbols—the fading crucifix, the roses of charity, and the chains of sin—are not just historical details, but urgent calls to the modern world for reconciliation and prayer. Our Lady’s suffering is redemptive. She is the messenger that accompanies and leads us to God. And Mary herself is the [...]

Our Lady Speaks with SymbolsDVRodriguez2026-01-11T10:34:28-05:00

Our Lady Co-Redemptrix by Her Maternity

DVRodriguez2025-12-12T17:10:02-05:00

All the elect are called to cooperate with Our Lord in His work of the redemption of the world. Seriously take this to heart, because it is the purpose of your life. You are supposed to be cooperating with Our Lord in the salvation of the world, first your own salvation and then the salvation of those God places in your life. Our Lady has three distinct rights to the title Co-Redemptrix. In the same sense as the elect, but to a decree which no others approach, Mary cooperated in the salvation of all. Then, in a manner which no other [...]

Our Lady Co-Redemptrix by Her MaternityDVRodriguez2025-12-12T17:10:02-05:00

Our Lady’s Heart Serves as Our Model

DVRodriguez2025-12-11T15:05:55-05:00

Many prayers used by the Church at Holy Mass come from the Psalms. These reveal to us the heart of prayer and the Heart of Mary (e.g. today’s Offertory from Ps 30). Having true devotion to the Immaculate Heart means striving to model our heart after Mary’s. Seek to receive Holy Communion with her heart. Seek to pray with the dispositions of her heart. Seek to fulfill your daily duty with her mindset. Above all, accept trails and difficulties with the spirit of Our Lady.

Our Lady’s Heart Serves as Our ModelDVRodriguez2025-12-11T15:05:55-05:00

Our Lady Co-Redemptrix By Her Greatness

DVRodriguez2025-12-07T20:31:42-05:00

Know five principles that help us understand Christ’s work of redemption, our own role in salvation, and the absolutely unique role of Our Lady as Co-redemptrix. Jesus is the sole Redeemer. Yet all the elect cooperate with Him in this work. We do this in a secondary dependent sense and by participation in Christ. The more holiness you acquire, the more you can help others. There is nothing greater you can do for someone than to cooperate in their salvation. Our Lady’s role is far greater than all the angels and saints combined and qualitatively different from how we “fill up [...]

Our Lady Co-Redemptrix By Her GreatnessDVRodriguez2025-12-07T20:31:42-05:00

Three Miraculous Marian Images

DVRodriguez2025-11-17T10:07:27-05:00

To help you be more devoted to the image of the Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart of Mary, consider these three miraculous images. Our Lady of Montallegro in Ramalla Italy (1557) was brought by angels from Greece. Carmelite monks in Vilnius, Lithuania built a chapel to honor Our Lady at the Gate of the Dawn. And Mary promised a particular grace of devotion to all who venerated her image of Our Lady of Confidence, especially with the aspiration ‘My Mother, my confidence.” Our Lady will continue to work great miracles through those images which she chooses. After all, as St. John Eudes [...]

Three Miraculous Marian ImagesDVRodriguez2025-11-17T10:07:27-05:00

Our Lady Co-Redemptrix By Her Dolors

DVRodriguez2025-11-16T21:53:03-05:00

Our Lord is the sole redeemer of the world. We are each called to cooperate in His Redemption. Mary participates in the redemption as we do, but to a much greater degree. Moreover, she then also cooperates uniquely in Christ's redemptive work via her divine maternity and her sorrows. It is by His passion and death that Christ saves us. Our Lady's compassion with Christ had the same character of sacrifice and expiation as Our Lord's passion. In fact, God willed that Our Lady's sorrows form an integral part of Christ's saving passion.

Our Lady Co-Redemptrix By Her DolorsDVRodriguez2025-11-16T21:53:03-05:00

Prayer to the Queen of the Most Holy Rosary

DVR Fatima2025-10-25T12:54:24-04:00

The prayer from the sermon Our Help in Mary and Her Rosary given on October 7, 2018 O Mary, Queen of the most holy Rosary, in these times of such brazen blasphemy, heresy, and impurity, manifest thy power and crush the evils of communism, secularism, Islam, and modernism, which seek to destroy all that is Catholic. Crush the evil in Rome. Move the Holy Father to consecrate Russia to thine Immaculate Heart. Help us heed thy message at Fatima so that by prayer and penance, especially the Rosary, we may appease the just anger of God and obtain His forgiveness and blessing. Show thyself a Mother! O Queen of the most [...]

Prayer to the Queen of the Most Holy RosaryDVR Fatima2025-10-25T12:54:24-04:00

Saint Joachim

DVRodriguez2025-10-21T13:54:22-04:00

Saint Joachim is the patron of fathers, grandparents and married couples. His name means “Preparation for the Lord.” The glory and intercessory power that St. Joachim has are proportioned to the merit and dignity of being the Father of Mary and grandfather of Jesus. In fact, the more grace a soul possesses, the more powerful are its prayers. (Our prayers are often weakly effective for we lack grace.) The grace which a soul possesses at the moment of death is the grace it will have for all eternity. Rightly then is Our Lady called the Mightiest Helper of the Christian people.

Saint JoachimDVRodriguez2025-10-21T13:54:22-04:00

Called to Be Especially Devoted to the Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart

DVRodriguez2025-10-20T10:49:21-04:00

Our Lady’s Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart has loved God more purely and ardently than all the holy hearts of angels and saints combined. God used the blood in her heart to create the human nature of His Son. Christ depended upon His Mother’s Heart for His existence. Mary’s heart preserves and glorifies the marvelous mysteries of Her Son’s life, passion, death and resurrection. This is in fact the very mission of the Church. It is also an aim of the Rosary. We all need conversion and Mary’s heart serves as a marvelous ‘road map’ in this necessary work. Being devoted to [...]

Called to Be Especially Devoted to the Immaculate and Sorrowful HeartDVRodriguez2025-10-20T10:49:21-04:00