Our Lady of Good Success

The Rosary with Meditations
from Our Lady of Good Success

G.H., New York

In light of the Vatican’s recent moves to deprive Our Lady of her title of Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Graces and to introduce a Synodal Rosary, one of our readers from New York developed a set of Rosary meditations focused upon Our Lady of Good Success and her prophetic warnings for our times.

The aims of these Rosary meditations are to raise awareness of the prophecies of Our Lady of Good Success and to offer reparation for the disrespect shown to her.

The Fruits of the Mysteries are taken from St. Louis de Montfort’s The Secret of the Rosary. The Meditations are from various sources, primarily the books published by TIA and articles from its website. Each Mystery is accompanied by one of the prophecies of Our Lady of Good Success or words of Mother Mariana to her daughters.

Our reader suggests that those who make these meditations actively pray for the conversion of sinners (particularly our Vatican hierarchy), for the fortification of the just (counter-revolutionary lay Catholics and persecuted good priests), and for the relief of the Poor Souls in Purgatory.

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The Joyful Mysteries

1st: The Annunciation

Fruit: We ask through the intercession of Our Lady for a profound humility

Meditation: Our Lady to Mother Mariana: “Know, beloved daughter, that when your name will become known in the 20th century, there will be many who will not believe, claiming that this devotion is not pleasing to God … A simple, humble faith in the truth of my apparitions to you, my favored child, will be reserved for humble and fervent souls who are docile to the inspirations of grace, for our Heavenly Father communicates His secrets to the simple of heart, and not to those whose hearts are inflated with pride, pretending to know what they do not or infatuated with empty science.” (Fr. Manuel Sousa Pereira, The Admirable Life of Mother Mariana, Vol. II, pp. 39-40)

2nd: The Visitation

Fruit: We ask through the intercession of Our Lady for a perfect charity towards our neighbor
Meditation: Mother Mariana to her daughters: “Practice reciprocal holy charity, dear daughters. You should love one another as you desire to be loved. Be mutually considerate. Render those small daily services that captivate hearts and unite them with the indissoluble bond of holy fraternal love. Take great care to never say crushing, injurious, or disparaging words. Ignore the weaknesses proper to earthly life. Remember that only the Angels and Blessed are impeccable, and that to merit greater degrees of grace and glory, it is necessary to know how to support the bad moods and difficult temperaments of those around you.” (Ibid., p. 323)

3rd: The Nativity

Fruit: We ask through the intercession of Our Lady for detachment from the things of this world, love of poverty and the poor.
Meditation: Our Lady to Mother Mariana: “In this epoch, the Secular Clergy will be far removed from its ideal, because the priests will be careless in their sacred duties. Losing the divine compass, they will stray from the road traced by God for the priestly ministry and they will become attached to wealth and riches, which they will unduly strive to obtain.” (Ibid., p. 212)

4th: The Purification and the Presentation

Fruit: We ask through the intercession of Our Lady wisdom and purity of heart and body
Meditation: Our Lady to Mother Mariana: “The third reason that the lamp was extinguished is because of the spirit of impurity that will saturate the atmosphere in those times. Like a filthy ocean, it will inundate the streets, squares, and public places with an astonishing liberty. There will be almost no virgin souls in the world. The delicate flower of virginity, timid and threatened by complete destruction, will shine in the distance. Taking refuge in cloisters, it will find good soil there that will take root, grow, and live, its fragrance being the delight of my Most Holy Son and the shield against divine ire. Without virginity, it would be necessary for the fire of Heaven to fall upon these lands to purify them.” (Ibid., p. 211)

5th Joyful Mystery: The Finding in the Temple

Fruit: We ask through the intercession of Our Lady to convert us and all sinners, heretics, schismatics and pagans.
Meditation: Christ Child to Mother Mariana: “A thousand times cursed be those heretics and their followers who place in doubt these mysteries [especially of the Immaculate Conception] concerning Myself and My Mother. Let them be cursed! And let their eternal abode be the center of the earth, together with the father of the lie, Lucifer, and his henchmen, inside the fire created by Divine Ire for the rebellious angels and the men who follow them, severing themselves from the truth and leaving the Catholic Church.” (Ibid., p. 144)

The Sorrowful Mysteries
1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden

Fruit: We ask through the intercession of Our Lady for perfect sorrow for our sins & obedience to Thy Holy Will
Meditation: Our Lady to Mother Mariana: “Alas! If mortals – and above all, my priests and religious souls – would only realize how greatly wounded and displeased I am with the coldness, indifference, lack of confidence, and small inveterate imperfections coming from those who so closely belong to Me. Perhaps no one – or only those few souls whom I enlighten – has any idea of how many vocations, priestly as well as religious, have been lost after many years because of these deeply rooted infidelities. For such souls want to serve Me with a halfway dedication, keeping their personal quirks and caprices, following their own wills and taking liberties incompatible with the religious life and the profession of their vows. For this reason I do not tolerate them. Nothing that is done halfway pleases Me. I desire all or nothing – in accordance with My example. When I gave Myself, not a drop of blood or water remained in My ravaged Body on the Cross.” (Ibid., p. 151)

2nd Sorrowful Mystery: The Scourging at the Pillar

Fruit: We ask through the intercession of Our Lady for the grace to mortify our senses perfectly
Meditation: Mother Mariana to her daughters on the Epiphany: “On that feast day, she gave an invaluable talk in which she taught the religious how they should offer to the Child Jesus the gold of love, the incense of prayer, and the myrrh of constant mortification and voluntary penance, the latter, however, with the knowledge and blessing of one’s spiritual director so that it might be meritorious and pleasing to God. “My daughters, … love holy penance! Make it your favored virtue, for it is the jewel and ornament with which the bride of Christ adorns herself to make herself beautiful before her Divine Spouse, whose Holy Body was lacerated by brutal hearts precisely so that He might save our souls. … Oh! How sweet and delectable are the fruits of penance!” (Ibid., p. 297)

3rd Sorrowful Mystery: The Crowning with Thorns

Fruit: We ask through the intercession of Our Lady a great contempt of the world
Meditation: Our Lady to Mother Mariana: “What holds sway among those in the world is that cursed human respect, which makes one ask: ‘What will others say about this?’ Like iron chains, this enslaves them to every type of vice and passion. They clearly see that they are heading toward their eternal damnation and that there they will have to support greater sufferings and anguish than if they would follow Jesus Christ on the straight and narrow path that leads to Heaven. Even the greatest and most astonishing sufferings of this earthly life diminish and wane, and with death all disappear. But one single moment of suffering in Hell is most terrible, atrocious, and unspeakable – and this for all eternity!” (Ibid., p. 229)

4th Sorrowful Mystery: The Carrying of the Cross

Fruit: We ask through the intercession of Our Lady a great patience in carrying our cross in Thy footsteps all the days of our life.
Meditation: Our Lady to Mother Mariana: “The small number of souls who, hidden, will conserve the treasure of the Faith and the virtues will suffer an unspeakably cruel and prolonged martyrdom. Many of them will succumb to death from the violence of the suffering, and those who sacrifice themselves for Church and Country will be counted as martyrs. In order to free men from bondage to these heresies, those whom the merciful love of my Most Holy Son will destine for that restoration will need great strength of will, constancy, valor, and much confidence in God. To test this faith and confidence of the just, there will be occasions in which everything will seem lost and paralyzed. This will be, then, the happy beginning of the complete restoration.” (Ibid., p. 210)

5th Sorrowful Mystery: The Crucifixion

Fruit: We ask through the intercession of Our Lady for a great horror for sin, a love of the Cross, and the grace of a holy death
Meditation: Mother Mariana to her daughters: “For the more you are oppressed by sufferings, sorrows, and tribulations, the more you should consider themselves fortunate and closer to God. This is when you should raise your gaze from the earth so filled with sorrows and fix it on Our Lord Jesus Christ nailed to the Cross with three large spikes. His most holy Body had become one wound, and His Soul was enveloped in such bitter desolation that no soul, mortal or blessed, could comprehend the intensity of this suffering. If we compare this with the pains that we suffer in our bodies and spirits, we would think them nothing and feel shame for our cowardice and lack of love of God, Who suffered incomprehensibly simply because He loves each one of us with the infinite love of the Redeemer.” (Ibid., p. 107)

The Glorious Mysteries

1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection

Fruit: We ask through the intercession of Our Lady for a lively faith
Meditation: Our Lady to Mother Mariana: “Thus it is the wish of my Most Holy Son that you command a statue of me to be made… “In my left arm, place my Divine Child: first, so that men understand how powerful I am in placating the Divine Justice and obtaining mercy and pardon for every sinner who comes to me with a contrite heart, for I am the Mother of Mercy and in me there is only goodness and love; and second, so that throughout time my daughters will understand that I am showing and giving them my most Holy Son and their God as a model of religious perfection. They should come to me, for I will lead them to Him.” (Ibid., pp. 142-43)

2nd Glorious Mystery: The Ascension

Fruit: We ask through the intercession of Our Lady for a firm hope and a great longing for Heaven
Meditation: Mother Mariana to her daughters: “You should … strive to make your treasure known and loved by the greatest number of souls possible, assuring them that with this devotion they will always attain good successes in time and in eternity. Have recourse to her in all your spiritual and temporal needs. When your souls suffer temptations and hardships, and if the star of the divine vocation by divine permission is hidden from your soul’s sight, run to her with confidence and say, ‘Star of the tempestuous sea of my mortal life, make thy light shine so that I do not stray from the road that leads me to Heaven.’” (Ibid., p. 323)

3rd Glorious Mystery: The Descent of the Holy Ghost

Fruit: We ask through the intercession of Our Lady for Thy holy wisdom so that we may truly know, really love & practice the Faith & bring others to share in it
Meditation: Mother Mariana to her daughters: “Dire times will come, when those who should justly defend the rights of the Church will be blinded. Without servile fear or human respect, they will join the enemies of the Church to help them accomplish their designs. Woe to the error of the wise, to he who governs the Church, the Pastor of the flock that My Most Holy Son confided into his care! “But when they will appear triumphant and when the authority will abuse their power, committing injustices and oppressing the weak, their downfall will be near. Paralyzed, they will fall to the ground. And, happy and triumphant, like a tender child, the Church will rise again." (Ibid., p. 158)

4th Glorious Mystery: The Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven

Fruit: We ask through the intercession of Our Lady for true devotion to her to help us live and die in a holy way
Meditation: Our Lady to Mother Mariana in the 1st apparition: “I am Mary of Good Success, the Queen of Heaven and Earth ... I have come from Heaven to console your afflicted heart. I am the Queen of Victories and the Mother of Good Success, and it is under this invocation I desire to be known throughout time for the preservation of my Convent and of its inhabitants.” (Admirable Life, Vol. 1, p. 105)
“When tribulations of spirit and sufferings of body oppress them and they seem to be drowning in a bottomless sea, let them gaze at my holy Image, which will be for them a star for the shipwrecked. I will always be there, ready to listen to their lamentations and calm their weeping. Tell them that they should always have recourse to their Mother with faith and love, for it is my desire to live with them and in them.” (Ibid., p. 239)

5th Glorious Mystery: The Coronation

Fruit: We ask through the intercession of Our Lady for perseverance and to increase in virtue til death, and the eternal crown of glory
Meditation: “In order to dissipate this black cloud that prevents the Church from enjoying the clear day of liberty, there will be a formidable and frightful war, which will see the bloodshed of countrymen and foreigners, of secular and regular priests, and also of religious. That night will be most horrible, for, humanly speaking, evil will seem triumphant. This, then, will mark the arrival of my hour, when I, in a marvelous way, will dethrone the proud and cursed Satan, trampling him under my feet and fettering him in the infernal abyss. Thus the Church and Country will finally be free of his cruel tyranny.” (Admirable Life, Vol. 2, p. 213-14)