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Luminous Mysteries

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  1. The Baptism of Jesus
  2. The Wedding of Cana
  3. The Proclamation of the Kingdom
  4. The Transfiguration
  5. The Institution of the Eucharist

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4 Responses to “Luminous Mysteries”

  1. maryfe escabel on November 2nd, 2009 2:20 pm

    i’m so glad to read this on how to pray the rosary,thank you

  2. peter on February 19th, 2010 12:53 am

    i did’nt know there was “luminous mysteries…when was this invented?

  3. Domingo Fameron on March 31st, 2010 7:04 am

    It would be nice if you include the significance and relevant readings related to each mystery

  4. Michael Ryan on April 21st, 2010 8:42 pm

    I am staying with the Dominican Rosary of 15 Decades. Mon, Thu = Joyful; Tue, Fri = Sorrowful; Wed, Sat = Glorious; Sundays in Advent->end of Epiphany=Joyful; Septuagesima & Lent = Sorrowful; Easter to end of “Ordinary Time” = Glorious. I note that His Holiness Pope John Paul II stated that the Luminous Mysteries were only advisory and optional. To me they destroy the lovely symmetry of the Dominican Rosary; they relegate Our Lady; and they do not fully follow the pattern of specific events to meditate upon. For 30 years I have meditated on ‘the Seven Signs of S. John’, usually saying Our Father, 10 Hail Marys & Glory Be; but this is external to the 15 Mysteries, 5 per night, that we say as a family and which Our Lady at Fatima requested. With the greatest of respect to the then Holy Father, this was not among his best ideas … as neither was his public kissing of the Koran, or the inter-faith meetings at Assisi, the second of which Pope Benedict, then Cdl Ratzinger, bluntly refused to attend. We can safely stake our lives on The Faith, but we most certainly are not required to follow every one of a pope’s private ideas.

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