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The Glorious Mysteries
(Said on Wednesdays, and Sundays throughout the year)
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Jesus Christ has done so that in the world they remained some signs of his first arrival, when it was born in Bethlehem, he talked to the people and he performed works of mercy, he died and resuscitated.
To His Mother, in our time, God has entrusted the task to reassume the signs, to point out the way of making them always again active, to take care of the many evil of the world...
The principal signs that we have are the Gospels, that is the testified facts of the life of Jesus, its divine words and historical works.
But there are other signs to rediscover.
They can be of reference for all those souls that get near God.
Through the work of whom has faith in God and is sustained by the testimony of the martyrs, many evil of the world can be treat. The Immaculate Heart of Mary succors the world this way.
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In the first glorious mystery, let us contemplate: |
"The Resurrection" |
I advise you to read, at the page «historical reading», the report of the facts contained in the four Gospels, up to John 20,23. |
A man named Jesus had been crucifix, who could imagine that he would have returned in life more glorious than before?
The fact
The beginning of a new creation
We will rise as him
The Son makes us children of God |
I contemplate...
these marvelous facts, unexpected and historically testified. |
I pray
with joy together with the Heart of Jesus and with the Immaculate Heart of Mary. |
I decide...
how to bring Christian joy, joy of resurrection also in the situations most difficult. |
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In the third glorious mystery, let us contemplate: |
"The Descent of the Holy Spirit" |
Acts 2,1-41. |
The disciples of Jesus Christ are reunited and they don't know whether to do; a strong wind comes that is heard in all Jerusalem and the disciples receive tongues as of fire, so that people of every language of the world understand them
The fact: the Holy Spirit manifests its power
How does He act?
The Church goes out to the open air
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I contemplate...
the strong wind and the tongues as of fire, sensitive sign of the Holy Spirit for the disciples of Jesus. |
I pray
with Mary the other Lawyer, to have grace to understand better the teaching of Jesus Christ. |
I decide...
how "to go out in the open air" and to show to the world some sign, also small, of life lived in the Holy Spirit. |
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In the fourth glorious mystery, let us contemplate: |
"The Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven" |
From the Church Tradition |
Maria, Mother of Jesus Christ, certainly received special gifts, but they would not have appeared so clear if she had not appeared so beautiful to the children of Fatima and the Pope had not defined in 1950 the dogma of the Assumption
The testified fact
Way of living to the shade of the resurrection
The answer |
I contemplate...
in Mary the gifts that God has granted her with the resurrection, also through the image of the graven statues according to the indications of Lucia of Fatima. |
I pray
with the feelings inspired by the image of risen Mary. |
I decide...
how to renew something of my life, knowing that, after their resurrection, Jesus and Mary can be present next to everyone with their merciful Hearts. |
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In the fifth glorious mystery, let us contemplate: |
"The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary" |
From the Church Tradition |
The Mother of the Savior is Queen of the Heaven and of the Earth, but she is the Lady very beautiful about 15 years old, a simple girl that talks to the children
The testified fact
The Immaculate Heart has taken the initiative
Salvation becomes very concrete
The most urgent technical problem |
I contemplate...
Mary that, appearing to Fatima, manifests the authority received by God. |
I pray
the Immaculate Heart of the Queen of the Rosary and, together, her Child's Jesus Heart. |
I decide...
some simple ways to obey to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, so that to obey to the Heart of Jesus, for "to reign" together with them in the daily reality. |
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The fact
The evangelical narration is not uncertain; there we can notice the artifices of Matthew not to repeat what it was already writing, but for the rest it is possible to discover episodes of that day that cannot be assume reading separately every Gospel.
We notice the ocular testimonies of Luke and John; in fact risen Jesus didn't make him see from all the people but, nevertheless, from a considerable number of people, more than six hundred if we compare 1 Cor 15,3-8 with Acts 1,15. Among these there were some public official, as scribes (Matthew and others: the ones of Mt 13,51-52) and physicians (Luke); there were very practical people that didn't want to believe in the extraordinary fact, as Peter and the other disciples gotten used by Jesus to be very concrete; there was a whole community of "more than five hundred men" (probably a part of the inhabitants of Gamla). We also notice that the Apostles are mentioned by S. Paul as official testify, because in that period their authority was recognized both from the Hebrews and from the Romans.
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The beginning of a new creation
The fact of the resurrection is scientifically inexplicable, that is we cannot say "what way Jesus is risen". It is a historical fact, to accept as gift of whom could do it, that is of the Creator until that knows the nature in the more intimate: God Father, his Son and the Holy Spirit.
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We will rise as him
It is a fact rich in promises and perspectives for us. In fact we will be in a condition as that of Jesus when He, as he has said, will resuscitate us (John chapter 11).
Jesus is risen with the body and the women have seen him happy, prompt in to collect his disciples, to Jerusalem and then on the mountain at the parts of the Galilee. We can say it, because a man that has completed what had to do is satisfied.
Jesus Christ can appear to doors dams, he can assume a different aspect and a different age, he can contemporarily be present in more places, he can eat a portion of fish and being touched, he can talk to his friends.
Jesus, body, soul and divinity, are now live forever and nothing can strike anymore him: he is our rock of salvation.
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The Son makes us children of God
God is Father of all the men, because he makes the world available for the men and, during the conception, he creates the soul of each person. Then he care everybody during the whole life.
But, we are aware that, with all of our good wish, our intelligence, with all of our abilities, we can us consider at the most servants of God. An original sin prevents us from entering the grace (the favor and the familiarity) of God. This however was more original: God has created the first man and the first woman in his grace.
Now, only who come from the sky is able to really make us know God, his fatherly charity, and to give us the power to become really his sons.
Jesus Christ, entered with the body and the soul the kingdom of his Father, drags in the familiarity with God those that believe him. They are the details of the facts to mark the street to the Father. In fact Jesus has taught and shown how to think and to act as children of God; after the resurrection he has made us known the destiny that the Father reserves to our person: to also get a glorious body.
The hope (that is certainty for the testimony of the Gospels and the Tradition) in the resurrection makes our body precious and makes us free from all derives from the fragility and from the limits of the deadly body.
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The fact: Jesus ascend with his body to his Father
We make to notice, also here, how is possible to compose with historical rigor the John's, Matthew's and Luke's narrations: Jesus ascended to the sky the morning and the evening of the day of the resurrection, but «he appeared to them live for forty days...». He ascended to his Father and he returned to his disciples.
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Resurrection and eternal life
Jesus can ascend aloft and disappear, go and come between Sky and Earth. The resurrection and the ascension are historical facts that illustrate the eternal life.
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The King of the souls and of the hearts
When the Son of the man definitely climbs to the Sky, the man Jesus becomes universal King close to his Father. His is the Kingdom of eternal life.
His friends don't see him anymore, the world doesn't see him anymore. He doesn't condition the human history, if not through the souls that believe in him. The Kingdom of Jesus Christ is the kingdom of the freedom. Its spaces (physical, cultural, artistic, and who more has of it more puts of it...) are immense.
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The Paradise
Of an only thing there is necessity in the world and in the life. There is necessity of the Kingdom of God. There is need that «its Kingdom comes» (Luke 11,2) on the souls in the world, because «its wish is done» (Matthew 6,10) of well, of liberty, of benevolence...
Jesus announced the Kingdom of God and was king himself during the three years of his ministry:
You are those that have persevered with me in my proofs; and I prepare to you a Kingdom, as my Father has prepared it to me, so that you can eat and drink to my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones to judge the twelve tribes of Israel.
Luke 22,28.30
He prepared himself to the Kingdom that his Father put aside for him and he prepared it for his friends.
The place that Jesus prepares in his Kingdom is also a table to eat and to drink with him.
While Jesus was on the cross, in the middle of two robbers, one of them told him: "Jesus, remember me when you will enter your Kingdom".
He answered him: "In truth I tell you, today you will be with me in the Paradise".
Lc 23,42-43
The word "paradise" means "park", from the Greek, and "fenced place" from the Iranian.
The Paradise is a beautiful garden, but we cannot say how it is, we cannot even imagine how much beautiful is.
The Paradise is the Kingdom of Jesus: he is universal king of the cosmos, after the resurrection and the ascension.
«Jesus answered them: "The sons of this century take wife and they take husband; but those people that have been judged worthy of belong to that century and to the resurrection from the corpses, doesn't take wife neither they take husband; they even are not able to die, in fact they are as angels and they are sons of God, being children of the resurrection».
Lc 20,34-36
Jesus explains what we could not know, or rather the passage of the death and the situation that there is later. Death is not anything else other than to pass through a judgment of God, that decides if one is worthy of "that century". Who is in his "century" belongs to the resurrection from the corpses; he lives a full life, rather immortal and similar to that of the angels. He lives as child of God, in the Paradise, that is in the "garden" of God (Lc 23,43).
Subsequently, Luke and all the disciples of Jesus Christ, while they attended to the stories of this world, had in the heart what Jesus had revealed about the other world.
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In Paradise as risen Jesus
Jesus Christ risen is the first man entered the Paradise and all the others that will enter will be as him.
Jesus, the afternoon of the day when he resuscitated, drew near to two his disciples that were in walk from Jerusalem to Emmaus, but they didn't recognize him. He had changed his aspect and could become more youth or more old man, greater or smaller, etc.
That evening, then, he appeared in the middle of his disciples reunited in a room, without opening the door that was well closed. But he wanted that his disciples touched him, to become themselves convinced that he was indeed alive, and he ate a piece of roast fish. Therefore he could appear and to disappear, but also to eat and to drink as before to die.
Then he made some recommendations to his friends and he brought out them toward the Mountain of the Olives. From there he elevated him toward the sky. This is another power that they will have the bodies after the final resurrection.
After forty days, Jesus ascended for the last time to the sky, next to his Father. But he is always alive as he was in that days. It doesn't feel age anymore, he can change aspect, he can be next to everybody...
This way it will be for every human being that has deserved eternal life.
A hair of our head doesn't even go lost; it must not be lost anything of what we are, of what we are worth in front of God: but we have to be worth in front of God and to act putting the words of Jesus into practice to have something to preserve. We have to deserve the Paradise.
For the one who has not deserved the eternal life, because he has had neither darlings nor God, neither Jesus, neither the fellow creatures there is another "place": the hell.
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The fact: the Holy Spirit manifests his power
Also the facts of the Pentecost year 33 are historical, testified by the public official Luke to the ex high priest Theofile. This priest of Jerusalem appears as lawyer to the trial that the apostle Paul had to sustain in Rome in front of Nero.
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How the Holy Spirit acts?
The facts themselves tell us who is the Holy Spirit and how it acts. We don't owe create strange ideas: the Holy Spirit is just as he is seen and heard the day of the Pentecost and in various moments of the life of Jesus; He is as Jesus himself has said. He is the «other Lawyer» for the one who approaches to God, Lawyer near the men and near God.
«When however he will come, the Spirit of truth, will drive you in the whole truth, in fact he won't speak from himself, but he will talk what he will hear and He will expose you the things that will come.
He will glorify me, because he will take of mine and it will expose it to you.
What my Father possesses is mine; for this I have said that he takes of mine and it will expose it to you».
Gv 16,13-15
He takes from Jesus and from the reality of every day, that is of the Father and of Jesus, and it reports us how to live this all.
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The Church goes out to the open air
To Pentecost the Church, founded and already "organized" by Jesus, receives strength and she is made to go out in the open air by the Holy Spirit.
These facts tell us who is the Holy Spirit and how it acts. We don't owe have strange ideas: the Holy Spirit is just as he has been seen and heard that day and in various moments of the life of Jesus; it is as Jesus himself has said. He is the «other Lawyer» for the one who approaches to God, lawyer beside the men and beside God.
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The testified fact
Mary's Virgin assumption in sky, also with the body, it is her resurrection; it is a gift that has been her granted to similarity of her Son. This mystery is not testified by the Gospels, but by the alive Tradition of the Church. In the 1917 apparitions to Fatima she was about 15 years old, she was very beautiful and all bright. This is sign of the resurrection because, as risen Jesus, is not tied anymore to the age that had when she died.
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Way of living to the shade of the resurrection
Immaculate,
virgin mother,
risen very beautiful,
powerful fifteen-year-old,
defense, protection,
model,
light and celestial security,
witness...
Have in our mind and in our heart her, her Immaculate Person, is to really live to the shade of the resurrection.
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The answer
Are we destined to what?
How we will be?
What sense does it have the life?
Risen Mary, appeared to Fatima and in other places, is the answer.
If therefore Mary is the example of what waits us for the eternity, what can we fear? Only to live in the sin and not to get what is promised us.
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The testified fact
This mystery is not even testified by the Gospels. Here that to Fatima, Mary behaves as Queen, fully to knowledge of the decisions divine respect to the world. Herself seems to decide to the place of God who to recover, who to free from the difficulties, who to come to take from this life...
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The Immaculate Heart has taken the initiative
The devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary mainly is not the wish of us creatures to venerate Mary. It is the share to what God has done through her and it is the contemplation of a concrete but supernatural fact: Maria, saved and risen creature, now is as she has appeared to Fatima.
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Salvation becomes very concrete
She is, so, reflection of the divine light for us and she is our young and splendid Queen; sweet and severe toward the world.
This way Mary is the image of everyone of us, of the women particularly, freed from the temptations and from the blackmails of the hell on our body and on our soul, and returned to the full dignity that Jesus points out us in the children. That concrete image makes also clear the mystery of our body.
Her Heart, together with the Heart of her Child Jesus, vigil on the world. He wins our invincible faults and he points out the direction to follow in our works.
The world need this today: the risen Queen and her Immaculate Heart.
Her Heart drives and sustains us in welcoming who is different from us.
The Virgin Mary, to Fatima, with simple words, normal actions and small signs, have made nearby and transparent the Sky for us.
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The most urgent technical problem
Mary, Queen of the Heaven and the Earth, with the third secret of Fatima, has shown "flames that seemed had to set on fire the world".
Why not to see in this image the problem of the overheating of the terrestrial globe because of the "greenhouse gases"?
And why not to remember that «only she (the Madonna of the Rosary) can assist you», in our days?
Particularly she can assist us with the courage that gives us to see, and then to say, the truth. Without the truth on the situation, a person doesn't know what contribution to give for resolving the problem.
And the first truth to be said is this: which are the "greenhouse gases"?
We don't have to let us confuse; the "greenhouse gas" is practically only one, the carbonic anhydride (Co2).
It is evolved into atmosphere every time a fuel burns for heating, to make to work a motor, to make to fly an aircraft, etc..
"To limit the emissions of carbonic anhydride" means emissions of "fossil" carbonic anhydride, that comes from the methane, from the petroleum, from the fossil coal.
The carbonic anhydride coming from fossil fuels makes to increase the atmospheric pressure. At the same time, being also composed of oxygen coming from the atmosphere, it reduces the quantity of the oxygen in the air.
Someone will have noticed that about forty years ago the "low pressure" had values around the 900 millibars, while today it is being around the 1000 millibars.
With the taller atmospheric pressure the precipitations are more limited or however more turbulent.
Besides, in the combustions aqueous vapor is also produced, for which water increases and doesn't decrease on the Earth.
If, therefore we burn a fuel that comes from under earth, that is fossil, and we introduce the carbonic anhydride in the atmosphere, all this happens.
Instead who burns for instance firewood, immediately contributes not to introduce other fossil carbonic anhydride in the atmosphere.
If we burn firewood and other substances produced by the vegetables, cultivated currently, we introduce in the atmosphere the same carbonic anhydride that the vegetables have absorbed for growing. We maintain a cycle that doesn't increase the "greenhouse gas".
In a few words: the methane, the petroleum, the fossil coal produce the "greenhouse gas", when we burn them.
Instead the firewood, the alcohol, the corn, etc. maintains the natural cycle.
It can be suggested to the oil magnates and to whom extracts methane from the subsoil, to quickly reconvert their business in to produce electric energy with the sun or with the wind, in the deserts and on the mountains; or in to produce synthetic fuels, so immediately recuperating CO2 and water fossils from the atmosphere, with the solar energy that is more than enough, contemporarily getting immediately three effects..
It is clear that, stopping using the fossil fuels, the whole productive system should be changed, but it is really where petroleum is produced that a lot of photovoltaic or wind power could be produced, because in that states there is a lot of solar irradiation or a lot of wind. In the same places solar energy could be concentrated with mirrors for recovering from the atmosphere the carbonic anhydride in excess and to transform it in building materials of plastic kind, studying them in such way that they lasts in the millennia. To exploit this possibility would create new job for many, among which new possibility to cultivate the earth.
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Giovanni Conforti
Updated on the 16th of October 2007
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