Our Lady of Sorrows

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

Christ’s Suffering and Christ’s Love

DVRodriguez2025-07-14T09:36:22-04:00

There is nothing more conducive to the glory of God and sanctification of one’s soul than to think every day on the pains that Christ suffered for love of us. This is what Catholicism is. In these two mysteries –suffering & love– we learn the great truths about life. The Mass is our perpetual remembrance of them; at every moment it is being offered somewhere in the world. Yet the Mass is also a perpetual presence of His cross and death, from which we all can draw life, strength and grace. The more we do so, the more we reject sin [...]

Christ’s Suffering and Christ’s LoveDVRodriguez2025-07-14T09:36:22-04:00

The Devotion of Our Lady of Sorrows
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The Devotion of Our Lady of Sorrows

DVR Fatima2025-04-07T09:16:37-04:00

Origins of the Devotion Devotion to the Mother of Sorrows dates back to the beginning of the Church. The first explicit instance is St. John at the foot of the Cross. This devotion was enshrined in apostolic history through the fourth gospel narrative —“Now there stood by the Cross of Jesus, His Mother…” (John. 19:25) Though the devotion has always been part of Catholic piety, it was not until the 13th Century that the devotion of meditating on the sorrows of Our Lady began to flourish and spread. It was at this time that the hymn, Stabat Mater, was most likely [...]

The Devotion of Our Lady of SorrowsDVR Fatima2025-04-07T09:16:37-04:00

Our Lady of Sorrows and the Passion – Prayer

DVR Fatima2025-03-12T11:18:24-04:00

The prayer from the sermon 'Crux Fidelis' given on February 21, 2021 Holy Mary, Mother of sorrows, whose heart was pierced with 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 [...]

Our Lady of Sorrows and the Passion – PrayerDVR Fatima2025-03-12T11:18:24-04:00

Q&A with Father Carney

DVRodriguez2025-01-04T10:50:38-05:00

Q&A Session following the conference "The Holy Face and Fatima." - How do we start a local group? - How do we pray in Latin? - How can 10 defeat 100? - What of devotion to Our Lady of Sorrows? and more...

Q&A with Father CarneyDVRodriguez2025-01-04T10:50:38-05:00

Our Lady of Sorrows Carried Her Cross

DVRodriguez2024-11-21T16:47:42-05:00

When one makes the Sign of the Cross, he professes the two greatest Christian mysteries. In fact, the cross is the primary symbol of the Christian Faith. It is the source of all blessings and cause of all graces. It represents the mystery of Christ and His infinite love. There is no health of soul or hope of eternal life without the cross. Yes, the Cross is the proof that God loves us, but it is also the proof He requires of us to show our love fro Him. We must carry our share of the cross. Has anyone done this [...]

Our Lady of Sorrows Carried Her CrossDVRodriguez2024-11-21T16:47:42-05:00

¡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

Our Lady of the Assumption, Ora Pro Nobis!

DVR Fatima2025-08-14T22:01:41-04:00

From the sermon given on the Feast of the Assumption - August 15, 2019 We acknowledge thee and we venerate thee, Most Holy Virgin, Queen of Heaven, Lady and Mistress of the Universe, as Daughter of the Eternal Father, Mother of His well-beloved Son, and most loving Spouse of the Holy Ghost. We rejoice at thy glorious Assumption into Heaven; and now that thou art enthroned as Queen of Heaven and earth, forget us not, thy poor servants. From Heaven thou seest more plainly our miseries; hence thou must compassionate and succor us the more. Make us thy faithful servants on [...]

Our Lady of the Assumption, Ora Pro Nobis!DVR Fatima2025-08-14T22:01:41-04:00