Liturgical Year

Hail O Adorable Cross

DVRodriguez2025-04-29T20:20:40-04:00

Easter is the greatest day of the year for we celebrate Christ’s great victory. Yet the resurrection only comes by means of the cross. His cross is the source of all grace and blessings. The liturgy provides many examples of this, such as the Exsultet, the Paschal Candle, the Easter Sequence, and the Veneration of the cross. Keep in mind these two truths: [1] Jesus can never be separated from His cross. [2] in the cross is salvation. We must believe and live by these truths!

Hail O Adorable CrossDVRodriguez2025-04-29T20:20:40-04:00

Easter Vigil

DVRodriguez2025-04-17T06:58:25-04:00

Preparation for Easter by discussing the history, liturgy and theology of the three major parts of Holy Saturday's Easter Vigil, according to our immemorial Catholic Tradition (pre-1955).

Easter VigilDVRodriguez2025-04-17T06:58:25-04:00

Good Friday

DVRodriguez2025-04-16T15:22:57-04:00

Preparation for Easter by discussing the four singular parts of the sacred liturgy on Good Friday, according to our immemorial Catholic Tradition (pre-1955). Talk by Fr. James Mawdsley

Good FridayDVRodriguez2025-04-16T15:22:57-04:00

Frequently Sigh After Heaven

DVRodriguez2025-04-16T13:30:19-04:00

Our Lord provides a remarkable example: He raises His eyes to Heaven (to pray). The Church begins every Sunday Mass in Lent with a call to prayer. We rejoice today because we go to the House of the Lord, to be with Him in this ‘house of prayer.’ Everyone can pray, no matter their station or condition. Prayer, unlike many other laws or works, has no possible substitute. We often don’t pray as we ought. So don’t just go through the motions but apply yourself to prayer with diligence and care, fervor and devotion, and especially, great faith and love. We [...]

Frequently Sigh After HeavenDVRodriguez2025-04-16T13:30:19-04:00

Maundy Thursday

DVRodriguez2025-04-13T23:54:56-04:00

Preparation for Holy Week. Father explains how all the rites of this sacred day point to, are unified by, the Holy Eucharist. This includes the Reconciliation of Penitents, Consecration of Holy Oils, Institution of the Holy Eucharist, Vespers, Stripping of Altars, Washing of the Feet, and Nocturnal Adoration at the Altar of Repose.

Maundy ThursdayDVRodriguez2025-04-13T23:54:56-04:00

Palm Sunday

DVRodriguez2025-04-13T16:10:35-04:00

Preparation for Holy Week. Father explains the history, prayers, and theology behind the most important rites of the pre-1955 Palm Sunday liturgy. This includes the Blessing of Palms, the Procession with Palms, and the Mass.

Palm SundayDVRodriguez2025-04-13T16:10:35-04:00

Passion Sunday Prayer

DVR Fatima2025-04-06T00:24:54-04:00

The prayer from the sermon 'Passiontide and the Mass' given on April 7, 2019 Good and merciful Jesus —my blessed Savior!— what marvelous virtue Thou dost display in the flood of sorrows, sufferings, and humiliations, which overwhelmed Thy Sacred Heart in Thy passion from Gethsemane to Calvary! What humility, what meekness, what resignation to the divine will, what patience, what charity! Thou dost pray for those who outrage Thee. Thou offerest Thy sufferings for those who persecute and afflict Thee. How unlike I am to Thee, my divine Model! How great is the change that must be effected in me, if [...]

Passion Sunday PrayerDVR Fatima2025-04-06T00:24:54-04:00

Living Water from The Rock

DVRodriguez2025-04-06T00:19:48-04:00

Moses led the Hebrews –and Gentiles– in the wilderness. They had no water, which means certain death. God's people were ready to revolt and return to Egypt. Moses interceded, taking an impossible situation to God. But why was Moses unable to enter the Promised Land? Because he struck the rock (Christ) twice instead of obeying God. The two strikes from his wooden staff represent the two beams of a cross. This is a type of the Passion. Just as an abundance of water flowed from the Rock, so too an abundance of grace flows from Christ’s pierced side.

Living Water from The RockDVRodriguez2025-04-06T00:19:48-04:00

Primer on Prayer

DVRodriguez2025-04-05T21:03:51-04:00

Without the grace of God, man can do nothing towards his salvation. Yet grace is not given, in God’s ordinary providence, except to those who pray for it. Thus prayer is necessary for salvation. We ought to pray unceasingly and give thanks to God in all things. Prayer is an elevation of our soul to God to offer him our homage and ask His favors in order to grow in holiness for His glory. Prayer has four ends: adoration, thanksgiving, importation, and propitiation. We should always pray for: love of God, love of prayer, forgiveness of our sins, and a happy [...]

Primer on PrayerDVRodriguez2025-04-05T21:03:51-04:00

The Golden Rose

DVRodriguez2025-04-05T20:32:39-04:00

The origins of Rose Sunday lie in antiquity. The Pope would bless golden roses and give them as gifts. The symbolism is deep: gold for Christ the king, flower for beauty, fragrance for the Gospel, and thorns for the passion. This tradition reminds us that Christian joy and suffering are inseparably bound. Those who desire a life of joy only (or pleasure) are always angry, for this can’t be attained. Suffering is inevitable. The soul that accepts suffering, unites it with Christ, and offers it to God, receives many graces and lives at peace.

The Golden RoseDVRodriguez2025-04-05T20:32:39-04:00