Liturgical Year

Man Needs Spiritual not Ecological Conversion

DVRodriguez2025-12-05T11:34:35-05:00

Environmentalism presents a new false spirituality and religion. It claims all need an ’ecological conversion’ and seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists. In truth, this is simply a repackaging of pantheism and leads to apostasy. Only Catholic spirituality is authentic, supernatural and salvific. All other spiritualities are either natural or from a demonic influence. Advent represents the first stage in Catholic spirituality and true conversion – it is the purgative state.

Man Needs Spiritual not Ecological ConversionDVRodriguez2025-12-05T11:34:35-05:00

Mercy or Justice

DVRodriguez2025-12-05T11:16:29-05:00

There is always a tension between mercy and justice because they are irreconcilable. Only a Divine Person can bring them into balance. The enemies of Christ laid a double trap for Our Lord by bringing before Him a woman caught in adultery. Jesus writing on the ground connects this event to the apostasy of the Golden Calf. With a wisdom greater than Solomon He administers justice and mercy perfectly. None of us can make up for even the slightest sin because our offense is against Infinite Majesty. However Jesus’ life is of infinite value so His death can satisfy divine justice. [...]

Mercy or JusticeDVRodriguez2025-12-05T11:16:29-05:00

Noise and Silence of Advent

DVRodriguez2025-12-05T11:02:16-05:00

It is the first day of the new [liturgical] year and time for a fresh start – to put things in the right order. We commemorate Christ’s coming in the flesh and prepare for when He will come again. So we must “look up” with our minds. We often fail to do this on account of the noise all around us: from the world which we can’t avoid, from technology that is self-inflicted, and from our own lips. Strive to have a spirit of silence this Advent that you may hear and love God more than you did the past year.

Noise and Silence of AdventDVRodriguez2025-12-05T11:02:16-05:00

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

The Sweet Yoke of Christ

DVRodriguez2025-11-05T11:23:22-05:00

All nations are to be bought under the sweet yoke of Christ’s rule. Christ must first reign in our souls. Then He can use us to transform souls and extend His kingdom to others. But have we been infected by the spirit of the world? Do we think the Catholic life is too difficult, that we can’t live as the Church calls us to or as our ancestors did? This is simply not true. Christ is King and He remains so for all eternity. His power extends over everything. We have to know Him and His truth. Be confident that Christ [...]

The Sweet Yoke of ChristDVRodriguez2025-11-05T11:23:22-05:00

Will You Reject God’s Invitation

DVRodriguez2025-11-04T10:43:01-05:00

Have you ever wondered why Our Lord told a parable where a king has a wedding guest bound and cast into the exterior darkness for simply failing to have proper attire? Father explains this parable (Matthew 22:1-14), noting that the Church is signified by the wedding feast. Clearly, it is not sufficient to simply be a member of the Church. Now those who preferred worldliness –or killed the messengers– are the Jews, and their city is destroyed (70 AD). Their fall opened the Church to the Gentiles, bad and good alike. In baptism, the soul “puts on Christ,” I.e. Jesus’ mind, [...]

Will You Reject God’s InvitationDVRodriguez2025-11-04T10:43:01-05:00

Good Priests Are Being Persecuted

DVRodriguez2025-11-04T10:43:40-05:00

On account of their fidelity to Christ, good priests are being persecuted by those who wield ecclesial authority over them! This is happening throughout the entire Church. The canonical processes which are intended to uphold truth and justice have become blatantly corrupt. Some of the very worst pastors are being placed into high positions of power. It is imperative that we pray for the Church. Pray for the conversion of the hierarchy. And support your faithful priests! An extremely powerful prayer is the Rosary, but we must use it well. While the Rosary consists of both meditative and vocal prayer, it [...]

Good Priests Are Being PersecutedDVRodriguez2025-11-04T10:43:40-05:00

Blasphemous Philosophy of Liberalism

DVRodriguez2025-11-04T10:44:06-05:00

The philosophy of liberalism has infected our minds and our hearts. We must fight against this heresy with all our strength. In brief, liberalism is the error that man (as an individual or as a society) has the right to decide the norms by which he will regulate his life, that he is the arbiter of right and wrong, or that he may think and believe whatsoever he wills. The truth is that ALL things - visible and invisible – were created in Christ, by Christ, and for Christ (Col 1:16). Everything without exception must be subject to Christ and serve [...]

Blasphemous Philosophy of LiberalismDVRodriguez2025-11-04T10:44:06-05:00

Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

DVR Fatima2025-10-27T19:07:31-04:00

Prayer prescribed by Pius XI for the Feast of Christ the King.[Read the encyclical Quas Primas, 1925] Most sweet Jesus, Redeemer of the human race, look down upon us humbly prostrate before Thy cross. We are Thine, and Thine we wish to be; but to be more surely united to Thee, behold, each one of us this day freely consecrates himself to Thy most Sacred Heart. Many, indeed, have never known Thee; many, too, despising Thy precepts have rejected Thee. Have mercy on them all, most merciful Jesus, and draw them to Thy Sacred Heart. Be Thou King, O Lord, not only of the faithful who have never forsaken Thee, but also [...]

Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart of JesusDVR Fatima2025-10-27T19:07:31-04:00