The Mysteries of the Rosary

            The Five Joyful Mysteries
                   Said on Monday and Saturday
            1. The Annunciation
            2. The Visitation
            3. The Nativity
            4. The Presentation
            5. The Finding in the Temple

                The Five Sorrowful Mysteries
                   Said on Tuesday and Friday
            1. The Agony in the Garden
            2. The Scourging at the Pillar
            3. The Crowning of Thorns
            4. The Carrying of the Cross
            5. The Crucifixion

            The Five Glorious Mysteries
                   Said on Wednesday and Sunday
            1. The Resurrection
            2. The Ascension
            3. The Descent of the Holy Spirit
            4. The Assumption
            5. The Crowning of the Blessed
                Virgin

In October 2002, the month of the Holy Rosary, Our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, issued a special apostolic letter in which he announced the creation of a new set of Mysteries to be used in praying the Rosary.

Our Holy Father states: "The Rosary clearly belongs to the kind of veneration of the Mother of God described by the Second Vatican Council: a devotion directed to the Christological center of the Christian faith, in such a way that when the Mother is honored, the Son...is duly known, loved and glorified."

The new Mysteries center around decisive events in the life of Christ. Our Holy Father calls them "The Mysteries of Light" because Christ in his public life manifests himself as the "Mystery of Light." These events are:

                  The Five Mysteries of Light
                         Said on Thursday
                   1.  His Baptism in the Jordan
                 2.  His self-manifestation at the wedding
                  of Cana,
            3.  His proclamation of the Kingdom
                         of God, with his call to conversion.
            4.  His transfiguration,
            5.  His institution of the Eucharist, as the
                 sacramental expression of the Paschal
                 mystery.

The group of mysteries will be called the "luminous" mysteries. The Pope suggests that they be prayed on Thursday. The joyful mysteries would be used on Monday and Saturday, the sorrowful on Tuesday and Friday, the glorious on Wednesday and Sunday.

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