Immaculate Heart of Mary: What Does it Mean?
Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar
The Marian Fathers
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🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
In this new talk on the Immaculate Heart of Mary and Sacred Heart of Jesus, Fr. Chris Alar gives updated information about this incredibly important devotion in the Church. But what does it mean and what do we have to do to receive the graces promised by Christ?
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| 0:00.0 | Well, good morning, everybody. It is absolutely finally great to be back. I'm Father Chris here at the |
| 0:06.8 | National Shrine of the Divine Mercy after having traveled all the way circumventing the globe. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm back for the 11 o'clock seminary series that we are glad you could be with us. Today, a special day because for five years, we've been |
| 0:24.5 | doing first Saturdays talking about the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and I've never done but one talk |
| 0:32.7 | on the triumph of the Immaculate Heart, and I realize it was four years ago back in 2021. And so today, |
| 0:39.9 | I've added a bunch of things. We're going to be talking about new aspect of this important, |
| 0:45.2 | incredibly important fact of our faith, the Immaculate Heart of Mary. It's more than just a |
| 0:51.5 | devotion. We'll explain that. So we are grateful that you could join us. |
| 0:56.5 | It's a big day here at the shrine. We have Vietnamese Day. They're here with us. And if you're in the |
| 1:03.3 | area, I just announced, we have a full house here at the shrine for the first time in 50 years. |
| 1:13.9 | Tonight at 5.30, if you're in the area, we are celebrating the Latin Mass here at the National Shrine, public, public Latin Mass. And that'll be at 530 today. |
| 1:22.9 | And so praise me to God if you're in the area. I know most of you won't be able to, but it's a beautiful grace. |
| 1:28.8 | So let us begin with the prayer in the name of the Father and to the Son and of the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:34.2 | Amen. |
| 1:34.7 | Heavenly Father, we ask through the intercession of our blessed mother that her immaculate heart |
| 1:41.4 | will be our refuge, our safety net, to be able to guide us and always |
| 1:47.6 | return us to your son. And Mother Mary, we ask through your powerful intercession that you |
| 1:55.7 | wrap your mantle around us, and you can make us disciples of Christ and we ask all this through Christ our Lord amen |
| 2:04.0 | in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit amen well so a lot going on |
| 2:11.5 | here today it's so exciting because every Saturday first Saturday the month we talk |
| 2:17.4 | about this, but today |
| 2:19.1 | I'm going to go back to how all this started. The first Saturdays, I've talked a little bit about |
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