2nd Joyful Mystery: The Visitation

Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb! And how have I deserved that the mother of my Lord should come to me? Tags: Holy Rosary, Service, Our Lady

3rd Joyful Mystery: The birth of Jesus

He is born in a stable. —And His Mother wraps Him in swaddling clothes and lays Him in a manger. Cold. —Poverty... —I am Joseph's little servant. Tags: Jesus Christ, Holy Rosary, Our Lady, Christmas

4th Joyful Mystery: The presentation

And this time it will be you, my friend, who will carry the cage with the doves. —Just think: She —the Immaculate!— submits herself to the Law as if she were defiled. Tags: Piety, Holy Rosary, Our Lady

5th Joyful Mystery: The Finding of the Child Jesus in the temple

I cry my eyes out and wail to heaven and earth... to make up for those times when I lost Him through my own fault and did not cry. Jesus: may I never lose Thee again. Tags: Contemplation, Holy Family, St Joseph, Holy Rosary, Our Lady

1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan

“Let it be so now, for so it becomes us to fulfill all justice.” Then he permitted him. And when Jesus had been baptized. Tags: Baptism, Holy Rosary

2nd Luminous Mystery: The Wedding Feast at Cana

Mary was the only one who noticed the wine was running out. Don’t these scenes from Christ’s life seem familiar to us? The greatness of God lives at the level of ordinary things. Tags: Marriage, Holy Rosary, Solidarity, Our Lady

3rd Luminous Mystery: Jesus Proclaims the Kingdom of God

When you seek to draw close to our Lord, remember that he is always very close to you, that he is in you: The kingdom of God is within you. You will find him in your heart. Tags: Doctrine, Holy Rosary

4th Luminous Mystery: The Transfiguration

Jesus, we want to see you, to speak to you! We want to contemplate you, immersed in the immensity of your beauty, in a contemplation that will never cease! It must be wonderful to see you, Jesus! Tags: Joy, Heaven

5th Luminous Mystery: The Institution of the Eucharist

What we cannot do, our Lord is able to do. Jesus Christ, perfect God and perfect man, leaves us, not a symbol, but a reality. He himself stays with us. He will go to the Father, but he will also remain among men. Tags: Eucharist, Generosity, Grace, Sacraments, Holy Rosary

1st Sorrowful Mystery: The agony in the garden

Then Jesus came with them to a country place called Gethsemani, and he said to his disciples, “Sit down here, while I go over yonder and pray.” Tags: Abandonment to God, Suffering, Holy Rosary

2nd Sorrowful Mystery: The scourging at the pillar

It is the last extreme of human cruelty. Finally, exhausted, they unbind Jesus. —And the body of Christ yields to pain and falls limp, broken and half dead. You and I are unable to speak. Tags: Self-denial, Holy Rosary, The Way of the Cross

3rd Sorrowful Mystery: The crowning with thorns

—You and I..., haven't we crowned Him anew with thorns, and struck Him and spit on Him? Never more, Jesus, never more... And a firm and concrete resolution marks the end of these ten Hail Marys. Tags: Holy Rosary, The Way of the Cross

4th Sorrowful Mystery: The carrying of the cross

Love the Cross. When you really love it, your Cross will be...a Cross, without a Cross. And surely you, like Him, will find Mary on the way. Tags: Cross, Holy Rosary, The Way of the Cross

5th Sorrowful Mystery: The crucifixion and death of Jesus

You and I do not see Him writhe on being nailed: suffering all that can be suffered, He spreads His arms with the gesture of an Eternal Priest. Tags: Abandonment to God, Cross, Obedience, Holy Rosary, Unity

1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection

But on the first day of the week at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared, and they found the stone rolled back from the tomb. Tags: Faith, Jesus Christ, Holy Rosary