Glorious Mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary ~ part 2 ~

Glorious Mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary ~ part 1 ~

In Petition


Hail, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, my Mother Mary, hail! At thy feet I humbly kneel to offer thee a Crown of Roses--full-blown white roses, tinged with the red of the Passion, to remind thee of thy glories, fruits of the sufferings of thy Son and thee--each rose recalling to thee a holy mystery; each ten bound together with my petition for a particular grace.

O Holy Queen, dispenser of God's graces, and Mother of all who invoke thee! Thou canst not look upon my gift and fail to see its binding. As thou receivest my gift, so wilt thou receive my petition; from thy bounty thou wilt give me the favor I so earnestly and trustingly seek.

I despair of nothing that I ask of thee. Show thyself my Mother!


Let us pray :

Rosary a spur to evangelic Virtue

( Encyclical of Pope Pius XI - on the Recitation of Holy Rosary to combat modern evils )

The Holy Rosary, besides, not only serves admirably to overcome the enemies of God and Religion, but is also a stimulus and spur to the practice of evangelic virtues which it injects and cultivates in our souls. Above all, it nourishes the Catholic Faith, which flourishes again precisely in opportune meditation of the sacred mysteries, and raises minds to the truth revealed to us by God.

Every one can understand how salutary it is, especially in our times wherein sometimes a certain annoyance of the things of the spirit is felt even among the faithful, and a dislike, as it were, for the Christian doctrine.

Therefore, revive the hope of immortal welfare, while the triumph of Jesus Christ and of His Mother, meditated on by us in the last part of the Rosary, shows us Heaven open and invites us to the conquest of the Eternal Country.

Thus while an unbridled longing for the things of this earth has penetrated into the hearts of mortals and each one more ardently longs for the short-lived riches and ephemeral pleasures, all feel a fruitful call back to the heavenly treasures "where thieves do not break in and neither rust nor moth doth consume" (Matth. XII, 33), and to the wealth that will never perish.

And the charity which has been weakened and cooled in many, how can it fail to be rekindled into love in the souls of those who recall with a full heart the tortures and death of our Redeemer and the afflictions of His Sorrowful Mother?

From this charity towards God, then, there cannot but rise a more intense love of one's neighbor if one dwells on the labors and sorrows that Our Lord suffered for all, reinstating the lost inheritance of the children of God.

Today : Sorrowful Mysteries

The Sorrowful Mysteries are prayed on Tuesdays and Fridays, and all Sundays of Lenten Season.

1. The Agony in the Garden

Let us contemplate in this mystery how our Lord, Jesus Christ,was so afflicted for us in the Garden of Gethsemane, that his body was bathed in a sweat of blood.

Jesus, my Lord, though you prayed to the Father to take away the cup of suffering, yet immediately you added saying, “not my will, but your will”. Lord, when I am caught in the throes of pain, lead me that I may learn to Pray like you and accept the will of the Father.

2. The Scourging of Jesus

Let us contemplate in this mystery how our Lord Jesus Christ, being delivered up by Pilate to the fury of the soldiers, was tied to a pillar and most cruelly scourged.

Lord Jesus, You did not deserve and yet You accepted the punishment. Lord, when we are punished and insulted for no fault of ours, give us the strength to accept it and offer that little suffering with your passion for the salvation of the world.

3. The Crowning with Thorns

Let us contemplate in this mystery how those cruel soldiers plaited a crown of sharp thorns, and most cruelly pressed it on the sacred head of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Lord Jesus, you are the King of the Universe. Instead of wearing a crown of precious stones, you were made to wear a crown of thorns. Lord, you took upon yourself all the humiliation for my sins. Let me never ever hurt you by hurting and insulting others.

4. The Carrying of the Cross

Let us contemplate in this mystery how our Lord Jesus Christ, being sentenced to die, bore with the most amazing patience, the Cross which was laid upon him for his greater torment and ignominy.

Lord Jesus, the cross you did not deserve was put on you. Give me the strength to joyfully accept the suffering I do not deserve.

5. The Crucifixion

Let us contemplate in this mystery how our Lord Jesus Christ was stripped of his clothes, and how his hands and feet were most cruelly nailed to the Cross, on which he died, in the presence of his most afflicted Mother.

Lord Jesus, you could really mean and say “It is finished”. Give us the power of the Holy Spirit, so that we too may complete the task entrusted to us and repeat your Words when our earthly life comes to an end.