FIRST JOYOUS MYSTERY
The Annunciation of Blessed Mary the Virgin and the Incarnation of the Only-Begotten Son of the Eternal Father
1. Blessed Mary the Virgin is predestined from all eternity to the Divine Maternity and the plenitude of glory and grace.
2. The Law and the Prophets foretell the advent of Jesus and Mary in types and oracles.
3. Sts. Joachim and Anne bring forth the Immaculate Conception, whose humble and spotless life hastens the advent of our blessed Saviour.
4. The Archangel St. Gabriel greets blessed Mary the Virgin, who humbly and modestly responds with silence and sacred dread
5. The Archangel reverently announces unto Mary that she is to bring forth the Saviour and King of Israel.
6. Blessed Mary renews her vow of perpetual and inviolate virginity.
7. Blessed Mary will not forfeit her immaculate purity, for she will conceive the Saviour by operation of the Holy Ghost, the Lord almighty Who has vouchsafed St. Elizabeth to conceive in her ancient sterility the Precursor St. John the Baptist.
8. Blessed Mary the Virgin in an act of heroic faith, hope, charity and humility pronounces her life-giving Fiat.
9. The only-begotten Son of the Eternal Son assumes unto His Divine Person a human nature in the spotless womb of Blessed Mary the Virgin.
10. The Immaculate and Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary are indissolubly and everlastingly united in a charity that surpasses the finite limitations of all created intellects and wills, angelical and human.SECOND JOYOUS MYSTERY
The Visitation of Blessed Mary the Virgin unto Her Kinswoman Saint Elizabeth
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1. Blessed Mary the Virgin comes forth from her ecstatic adoration of the Incarnate Word of the Father and hastens unto her kinswoman St. Elizabeth.
2. Throughout the sojourn, Mary is ever recollected in continual contemplation and adoration of her beloved Jesus.
3. Blessed Mary reverently greets St. Elizabeth, who is replenished with the Holy Ghost together with her child.
4. Jesus chooses Mary to be the Vessel of Singular Devotion whereby He sanctifies and consecrates His Precursor and makes the hidden work of the Incarnation manifest to souls.
5. St. Elizabeth praises blessed Mary for her heroic and selfless faith and declares her to be Mother of her Lord.
6. Blessed Mary intones her marvellous Canticle, wherein she praises the Lord almighty and tells of the prodigies of graces that have been wrought and shall be wrought in her, with her and through her throughout the ages.
7. Despite her royal nobility and infinite dignity as Mother of God, blessed Mary humbly and reverently serves her kinswoman in her necessities.
8. At the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, Zachary exultingly intones his Canticle, whereby he praises the Incarnate Saviour and foretells the wonders of grace that shall be wrought by the Precursor’s preaching.
9. St. Joseph is vexed vehemently by anxieties in his sacred terror before the Incarnate Son of the Eternal Father and before His Immaculate Mother, whom he hesitates in espousing in the excess of humility.
10. The Angel of the Lord assures St. Joseph of his predestination to be the legal guardian and father of the Saviour and the protector of blessed Mary, to which Joseph humbly and obediently acquiesces.THIRD JOYOUS MYSTERY
The Virginal Nativity of Our Blessed Saviour in the City of Bethlehem
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1. Blessed Mary and St. Joseph travel to Bethlehem in humble and selfless abandonment to the inscrutable designs of Divine Providence.
2. Blessed Mary and St. Joseph patiently bear rejection, humiliation and poverty and suffer themselves to be led to a stable for the Nativity of the Saviour.
3. Our blessed Saviour comes forth from the immaculate womb of blessed Mary, whose integral virginity He marvellously perseveres.
4. The Divine Infant suffers Himself to endure the wants, necessities and weakness of other infants.
5. The Angel of the Lord announces unto the shepherds the Nativity of the Saviour.
6. The Angelical choirs adore their newborn King with their celestial Doxology.
7. The shepherds adore the Divine Infant in simplicity of heart and humility of mind.
8. The royal Sages adore the Divine Infant and confess Him as Lord, God and Saviour, offering gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
9. Beholding all these things, blessed Mary keeps her Immaculate Heart recollected in holy silence and interior solitude in order to render perfect adoration and thanksgiving to her Divine Son.
10. The Saviour humbly and obediently submits to the Circuмcision, receiving the glorious and life-giving name of Jesus.FOURTH JOYOUS MYSTERY
The Oblation of the Divine Infant Jesus in the Temple at Jerusalem and the Purification of Blessed Mary the Virgin
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1. Blessed Mary and St. Joseph sojourn to Jerusalem in humble obedience in order to present the Divine Infant
2. The Divine Infant makes an irrevocable and total oblation of Himself to the Father and offers Himself as divine Victim to His divine Justice.
3. Blessed Mary joins her Divine Son in His infinitely meritorious oblation and offers herself entirely and irrevocably as a h0Ɩ0cαųst of praise and reparation.
4. With docility to the graces and lights of the Lord Holy Ghost, holy Simeon is led to the Temple to meet the promised Redeemer.
5. Holy Simeon reverently takes the Divine Infant from the hands of Blessed Mary and rejoices exceedingly in holding the God Whose omnipotence and love uphold him and all created things.
6. Holy Simeon intones his sacred Canticle in adoration and thanksgiving to the Incarnate God, and pronounces his utter abandonment to the designs of His Providence.
7. The holy ancient praises our blessed Redeemer as the Divine Light that has come to glorify the ancient Jєωιѕн people in assuming His human nature from their stock and to illumine the heathen nations with His sacred Gospel.
8. The holy ancient declares in the spirit of prophecy the inscrutable mysteries of predestination that are consequent upon the Incarnation of the Son of the Eternal Father.
9. Holy Simeon prophesizes regarding the torments the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts of Jesus and Mary will endure for the redemption of mankind.
10. Blessed Mary renews her sacred Fiat, bearing the exceeding great pain of the sword of sorrow piercing her Heart but with serenity and joy as it well-pleases the Father and it unites her all the more to the Sacred Heart of her suffering Son.FIFTH JOYOUS MYSTERY
The Finding of the Child Jesus in the Temple at Jerusalem amidst the Doctors of the Law
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1. The Holy Family gives us an illustrious example of piety in the devout visit to the Temple in Jerusalem.
2. The Divine Infant is a shining example of total detachment to self and all created things and of absolute conformity to the Divine Will in departing from His Parents according to the mysterious design of Providence.
3. Blessed Mary and St. Joseph show us that Jesus is to be sought with an earnest and sincere heart.
4. For three days, blessed Mary and St. Joseph persevere in their search for their beloved Jesus with a courageous and steadfast heart amidst unimaginable aridity and anguish of spirit, abandoned entirely to Divine Providence.
5. Blessed Mary and St. Joseph rejoice in finding their beloved Jesus in the Temple.
6. The Divine Infant shows forth but a faint manifestation of His eternal and infinite wisdom in his discourses before the Doctors of the Law in the Temple.
7. The ancients and sages marvel exceedingly before the intelligence and eloquence of the Divine Child, Who is an exemplar of devout studiousness.
8. Blessed Mary and St. Joseph reverently pour forth their loving complaint at having lost the Divine Child for reasons not fully understood.
9. Our blessed Saviour instructs Blessed Mary and St. Joseph concerning the Divine Will of the Father and how it is the only yearning of His Sacred Heart.
10. Jesus reaffirms His filial piety and subjection to Blessed Mary and St. Joseph in descending to Nazareth with them, and shows us that the humble and hidden life of prayer and labour is to be desired and practiced.
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