The Joyful Mysteries
(Said on Mondays, Saturdays, Sundays of Advent, and Sundays from Epiphany until Lent)
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Mary to Fatima has annunciate that for our time:
— ...to continue to recite the Crown every day to Our Lady of the Rosary for obtain the peace of the world and the end of the war; because only she will succour you.
How will she succour us?
Through the prayer of the Rosary and through what the prayer contains.
We notice, then, in which way she wants to succour the humanity. She wants to bring peace in the world, end "of the war", that is possible only with a big adhesion to Jesus Christ.
We can't certainly pretend that Mary begins to do many miracles for stop the wars and all the evil the souls commit in the world. We must instead think that she wants use signs, that there are already in the world, signs that we need to rediscover because they are forgotten or "hidden".
The new holy city Jerusalem, preannounced by the Apocalypse and already represented in the world by the Church, is also had to build, She's not had only to attend as miraculous intervention of God.
The Apocalypse (21,10) makes us know in this way the prophecy of Jesus, not remembered by the Gospels: «The holy city Jerusalem that descends:
— from the "sky"...», that is, in symbol, from the guides and from the entire people of God,
— and «...from God». Certainly she is also gift of God, particularly through Mary.
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In the first joyful mystery, let us contemplate: |
"The Annunciation" |
Luke 1,26-38 e Matthew 1,18-25. |
As every day, everybody is intent to his own matters, some pleasant ones, others more serious. It reaches Nazareth an angel, with an exclusive message for a girl...
Historical event
Joseph and Mary
"Jesus' brothers" |
I contemplate...
a historical moment narrated by the Luke or Matthew Gospels. |
I pray
Reciting the Hail Mary's I confront me with the select historical moment and I examine me.
How do I live the faith?
Do I have looked for the reasons that support my faith? Do I've looked for ones that are valid also for my fellow creatures? |
I decide...
not big decisions; but «the faith, without the work, is without heat» (Jc 2,20). |
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In the second joyful mystery, let us contemplate: |
"The Visitation" |
Luke 1,39-56. |
A normal meeting among two women. But here is the surprise: they communicate among them the two children. Events ever seen in this world.
The fact: two mothers meet them
Mary visits our reality
Children just conceived |
I contemplate...
one moment of the meeting between the two mothers, marked by the supernatural intervention. |
I pray
I examine me praying.
How do I participate to the Sacraments? |
I decide...
to have dearer the Sacraments:
through them, what God has given to Mary and to Elizabeth takes fruits in my daily life. |
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In the fourth joyful mystery, let us contemplate: |
"The Presentation in the Temple" |
Luke 2,21-38. |
Who knew this Child?
Introducing him to the Temple, Mary and Joseph introduces him to the world.
The fact: Jesus and Mary obeyed to the Jewish law
The Law and the Testimony |
I contemplate...
the actions of Joseph and Mary, or of Simeon, or of Anne: they express the historical realization of the promises of God.
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I pray
thinking about the prophecies and the facts; I pray so that many people remembers which work has completed God in those historical moments. |
I decide...
how testify what I have received. |
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In the fifth joyful mystery, let us contemplate: |
"The Finding of the Child Jesus in the Temple" |
Luke 2,39-52. |
Who was Jesus?
Here it is to affirm, in front of the authorities, to be Child of God.
The fact: a boy of superhuman wisdom
The gift of the divine charity |
I contemplate...
a boy that lets amazed the mother, the putative father and the researchers, in the house where his Father had established its own presence. |
I pray
asking me if I have done attention to the charity of the Father that the Child has sent. |
I decide...
to read any passage of the Gospel of John, where the Child of God reveals the secret of the Father, since «nobody has seen God ever». I read with the intention to convince me and other. |
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Historical event
It is year 2 B.C.
It is spring, around March 25.
Mary is a fourteen year-old girl, she lives to Nazareth and she is getting through the housework.
It respectfully enters to her house the angel Gabriel, turning her an unusual regard. The angels, in the Gospels, don't have the wings, they appear as men white dressed. She are not aware of the grace that possesses since her conception. But the angel puts Mary in contact with the world of God and he announces her that she will have a child, even if she «doesn't know man».
We are contemplating a historical fact, certified by Luke and reported with further details from Matthew. We don't try to explain how it is been able to happen, because «nothing is impossible to God». It is the fact that changes forever the history of the men, because they won't have to look for God anymore, they will have only to draw near to him, become fruit of conception.
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Joseph and Mary
And (Joseph) didn't know her, until she didn't give birth to a child». Matthew writes really so. That doesn't mean that, after the birth of her child, Mary has had conjugal relationships with Joseph, but that Jesus was child of God and not of a man.
The interest for the perpetual virginity of Mary had not risen yet.
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The fact: two mothers meet them
Elizabeth was cousin of Mary.
Jesus, therefore, was relative of John.
John, in womb from six months, receives from the presence of Jesus, just conceived in Mary, the Holy Spirit.
We imagine how the meeting has happened. Among two maternal sensibilities. Mary, fourteen years old, Elizabeth, different years older. Abducted both in manifold thoughts aroused by the interventions of the Heaven, taken by deep wonder for the realities that brought in themselves. They were two women of the people, but they brought the mystery of God.
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Mary visits our reality
To Fatima Mary let her from children see and they have described her. We pray Mary, but it is also convenient to see her together with the three children, through the image that has been graven.
We imagine in our reality Mary, girl as the fourteen year-old others, but without sin, mother of the Child of God and Virgin. What would it suggest to our life?
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Children just conceived
If we welcome the help of the Queen of the Rosary, they will find an unexpected solution many problems that have risen in our times for the believers in God.
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The fact: God is born Child in a stall
He was born in Bethlehem, not in a house, not in a hotel, but in a place in which Mary, to abandon her child, found only a manger (Luke 2,7-12). In the country just out Bethlehem, in the same zone where they had remained some shepherds with the flock, but certainly not to the open air, therefore in a stall.
If Luke and Matthew are informed well on the circumstances of the birth of this Child, talking to Mary, they have certainly asked her in that day he had been born. A lot of other people could have done it. This way to us as date of the Christmas that has been handed down: December 25. It was year 2 B.C.
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The Child Creator
Jesus was born in an enough precise place, in one day and in a year rather precise. It is possible to know it also today. The birth of Jesus Christ is a historical fact testified by the Gospels, that are historical documents. Every further reflection of faith on the Christmas has these solid bases and we doesn't have to forget her. The Lord, to realize his merciful purposes on the world, didn't make a lot of noise, but he made just meat as us, in the daily reality. The Creator was present there, to Bethlehem, in that Child.
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The point of view of whom has made the world
Many people have labored to try to understand the sense of the nature an of the world. Many people have looked for the way of dominating the nature, the life. But the melancholy, the sense of dismay, the conscience of our nothingness in the immense universe, everything disappears in front of Jesus Christ, of this Child that is «the street, the truth, the life», concrete poetry of the nature, of the whole universe and of every single creature.
Our reference are not all the impersonal and numerous things, that would disintegrate us. Our reference is a historical fact, this Child that, as Son of God, has created every thing. It will express, as adult, the beauty and the goodness of the creatures with his words and works, particularly in the parables. He will introduce the creatures with the point of view of the Creator, "proud" of the goodness of his work; and with simplicity, because he perfectly dominates it. He will offer so this simple dominion also to us his conscious creatures. For us it is the contact with whom has done us.
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A Christian really faithful to Christ is a true secular person
The reality of the birth of God Child is particularly involving for the Christian laymen.
A secular person has from the Church the assignment to live the truth and the charity of Jesus Christ in the reality of the world. But to be able to do this he needs convincing reasons for every person. The other ones can believe or not, but the reasons have to be valid for everybody. The reasons valid for all are the historical facts of the life of Christ, to rediscover in the most rigorous way and the works of his followers, also them to be rediscovered among the confusion of the information available today.
On the other hand the truth and the charity of Christ allow really to be "secular person" in the most unconditional way.
Knowing from where we come, because we live and what our destiny is, a Christian can valorize every relationship with other people, cultures and religions, because he is able to have dear every person and to meet her in the way more truth and depth. This is the true laity, that doesn't have other interest except the dignity of everyone and that through every interest pursues the dignity of everybody.
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The fact: Jesus and Mary obeyed to the Jewish law
The Child destined to establish the New Alliance passes for all the rules and laws of the Ancient one. Jesus Christ has fully been Hebrew and he has obeyed in the most authentic way to the Law of Moses.
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The Law and the Testimony
Jesus was introduced to the Temple to the custodians of the Law of Moses. It was unacceptable for the Jewish faith, that the invisible and Only God had a Child and he had done him be born man in the womb of a woman. Nevertheless, at that time, a man devout to God and a prophetess recognized the child as the Messiah. To the Temple the Messiah child was officially recognized. Therefore Luke, public official, confirms to have written word for word the official story that Mary preserved to memory with precision: «Mary, on her behalf, guarded all these words, collected in her heart» (Luke 2,19.51).
Despite all the dissents been born in the centuries among Christians and Hebrews, the Christians have to fully observe the spirit of the Law of Moses and the Hebrews don't have anything to lose in to accept the «Jesus' Christ testimony».
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The fact: a boy of superhuman wisdom
It was AD the year 12.
The doctors of the Law, the wise man that had to drive all the people, knew so many things, but they had to leave many problems unsolved.
The boy Jesus, entered hardly the world of the adults, marveled the doctors: he knew what it has in heart every person and he really knew the universe.
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The gift of the divine charity
What he promised was not built with the wisdom and the power but it was gift of his divine charity.
The sufferings, the narrowness, the sentences that are set us by the life, in the daily reality, they have already been known and won by the charity with which Jesus has had us darling, so that we are able, also us selves, to practice charity toward the fellow creatures.
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Updated on the 22nd of November 2007
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