joyful mysteries meditation

Luke 1:28, 31, 38. 22.—And when the days of her purification according to the law o Moses were accomplished, they brought Him to Jerusalem, to present Him to the Lord. Observe that here three different ordinances are intertwined and joined together. So S. Ambrose says, “Elizabeth first heard the word, but John first experienced the grace. Now listen to what we say, which takes the form of a brotherly exhortation to piety of the type of which the great apostle Paul gave an example in addressing his beloved Timothy: “Attend to the public reading of scripture, to preaching, to teaching. 1, says, “In place of purple some rags are got together, instead of the regal equipage a few fragments; the Mother is also the nurse and pays devoted attention to her beloved Offspring.” The Ethiopian version, instead of “wrapped Him in swaddling clothes,” has “bound His thumbs,” as though this were the sign by which the Infant was recognised by the shepherds. 20, and Baronius in his annals, vol. Christ was placed in the manger for two reasons; first, because there was no place better fitted to hold Him—the straw in it forming a kind of bed on which the tender babe might repose; and, secondly, that in the rigour of winter, He might be warmed by the breath of the ox and the ass. Glorious Mysteries. The Lord is with you.” But she was greatly troubled at what was said and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. Something similar is true of his dying. Announce “The Fifth Joyful Mystery – Finding Jesus in the Temple” and then say the Our Father. . Her virginity and womb remains intact, “as the rays of the sun penetrate glass.”. A decree about the autonomy of the church of Cyprus. If anyone says that as man Jesus was activated by the Word of God and was clothed with the glory of the Only-begotten, as a being separate from him, let him be anathema. formed in purest fashion from the flesh and blood of the Virgin alone His Human Body. It is to focus on the realism of the mystery of the Incarnation and on the obscure foreshadowing of the mystery of the saving Passion. This man was righteous and devout, awaiting the consolation of Israel, and the holy Spirit was upon him. Hiding Himself away, however, He was made manifest and glorified by God, through the star that summoned the wise men, the angels sent to the shepherds, the over-turning of idols, and other miracles which Orosius, bk. Most of the scriptural verses can be read in the time it takes to complete the Hail Mary prayer. Rosary Meditations: The First Joyful Mystery – The Annunciation Scripture References Luke 1:26-38; Isaiah 7:14 The Story in Brief Mary was a young, but very holy, Nazarene girl. by Father John Gregory of the Trinity, O.D.M. She is called blessed among women just as Jael and Judith were similarly praised as precursors, yet in a far more excellent way for she excels them and all virgins a thousand times in blessings, gifts, and graces. Ground for spiritual life. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, she was found to be with child of the holy Spirit.” But who would ever consider that the godhead of the only begotten was a creature of the Spirit? 800-532-7478 Together, they are like a little monastic community. He said this as being indeed son of David according to the flesh, but his Lord according to his godhead.) Let all Christians look at and contemplate Christ in the manger, and consider Who and What He is,—what He does, for whom and why He does it. God in His power might have assumed a human nature by force, as the hand of a man lays hold of a rose. After the feast of the Passover, Joseph and Mary unknowingly set out for Nazareth without Jesus. If anyone dares to say that Christ was a God-bearing man and not rather God in truth, being by nature one Son, even as “the Word became flesh”, and is made partaker of blood and flesh precisely like us, let him be anathema. [Nicene Creed], Following in all points the confessions of the holy fathers, which they made with the holy Spirit speaking in them, and following the direction of their opinions and going as it were in the royal way, we say that the only-begotten Word of God, who was begotten from the very essence of the Father, true God from true God, the light from the light and the one through whom all things in heaven and earth were made, for our salvation came down and emptying himself he became incarnate and was made man. This means that. . True riches, true pleasures, undying honours are in heaven;—these doth God enjoy, and His angels and His saints;—aspire after these. These are the traditions of the holy fathers. Rather do we follow the divine Paul who clearly proclaimed: “The first man was of the earth, earthly, the second man is the Lord from heaven”. But since God the Word, who came down from above and from heaven, “emptied himself, taking the form of a slave”, and was called son of man though all the while he remained what he was, that is God (for he is unchangeable and immutable by nature), he is said to have come down from heaven, since he is now understood to be one with his own flesh, and he has therefore been designated the man from heaven, being both perfect in godhead and perfect in humanity and thought of as in one person. During a week of summer camp, I presented five talks, each based on one of these mysteries. The central dogmatic act of the council is its judgment about whether the second letter of Cyril to Nestorius, or Nestorius’s second letter to Cyril, was in conformity with the Nicene creed which was recited at the opening of the council’s proceedings. Luke 1:42-44. Elizabeth was filed with the Holy Spirit and cried out in a loud voice: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb…The moment your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe in my womb leapt for joy. For it is quite likely that some should spread it abroad that I have thought or said such things. I pass over the insults against us contained in your extraordinary letter. This Novena is prayed from 30 November to 24 December.Â. Instead he is to be subjected to the bishops of his own province and the surrounding metropolitans, provided they be orthodox, even to the extent of being completely deposed from the rank of bishop. She could face disapproval. But if any discussion should arise in connexion with the present business among the most godly bishops Valerian, Amphilochius and the other reverent bishops in the province, and if something difficult or ambiguous crops up, then in such a case it seems good that the godly bishops of Lycia and Lycaonia should be brought in, and the metropolitan of whatever province these choose should not be left out. And it has, in fact, happened that the first compact looses from the second tie, but that the second tie takes the position of the first which has been cancelled. . The first is that of Lev. If the number of those who are distressed is very large, then surely we should use every skill and care to remove scandals and to expound the healthy word of faith to those who seek the truth. For man when he was in honour did not understand, and was comparable to the senseless brutes and became like unto them. This is what Paul says to all. 47, implies that, at His birth, Christ came of His own accord into the hands of His sweet Virgin Mother, and this may be piously believed with great probability. THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES by St. Alphonsus de Ligouri. Any who dare to compose or bring forth or produce another creed for the benefit of those who wish to turn from Hellenism or Judaism or some other heresy to the knowledge of the truth, if they areÂ, In the same way if any should be discovered, whether bishops, clergy or laity, thinking or teaching the views expressed in his statement by the priestÂ, the manner of the incarnation of the only begotten Son of God —. JOYFUL MYSTERIES. ch. Hence the Blessed Virgin incurred no defilement, and therefore was not bound by the law of purification. The Visitation. Therefore we confess one Christ, one Son, one Lord. . Roll round again; and mighty years begun The Blessed Mother is preserved from the punishment of original sin and so experiences no labor pains in childbirth. 6. “0 God, we have thought of thy loving kindness in the midst of Thy temple. For it is necessary for such as are attracted by the name “propriety” to make God the Word share, because of this same propriety, in being fed on milk, in gradual growth, in terror at the time of his passion and in need of angelical assistance. Ver. Mary remains with Elizabeth for about three months serving her until the birth of John the Baptist. iii. Mary leads us to discover the secret of Christian joy, reminding us that Christianity is, first and foremost, For, with such exultation and gladness of soul did I bear Him that I felt no trouble nor any pain; but straightway I wrapped Him in the clean clothing which I had prepared long before. But every one will allow that we are [composed of] a body taken from the earth, and a soul receiving spirit from God. So too, when his flesh was raised to life, we refer to this again as his resurrection, not as though he had fallen into corruption–God forbid–but because his body had been raised again.So we shall confess one Christ and one Lord. I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth; And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, died, and was buried. One day the archangel Gabriel appeared to Mary, who was perplexed at his greeting. I, whom the heavens cannot contain, am shut up in a tiny body and in this paltry manger, and art thou, Christian, ashamed to be despised as a little one and lowly? Yet, in her zeal for humility, in order to make herself like other women who bear children, that she might not give scandal in seeming to be singular, and that she might conceal her virginity and her conception by the Holy Ghost, the Blessed Virgin was willing to be purified, even as Christ, for similar reasons, was willing to be circumcised. And Joseph and his mother knew not of it, because Jesus asked leave of His parents, who were lingering a little in Jerusalem from motives of devotion or business, to visit His relations, as if he were about to go on with them, and, having obtained permission, went to them, but soon withdrew quietly to the Temple—God so directing—in order that His parents, though at other times always solicitous about Him, should be unaware of this, and think that He was in the company of His kinsfolk. These are the precepts of the holy scriptures. In this Paul was their teacher who, when he remembers the divine becoming man and then wishes to introduce the suffering, first mentions “Christ”, which, as I have just said, is the common name of both natures and then adds an expression which is appropriate to both of the natures. Home:: How To Pray The Rosary:: Meditations on the Joyful Mysteries “Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother. . For who will not be astonished if he look thoughtfully at this Child and ask Him, Who art thou, 0 Babe of Bethlehem? Peyton provides a unique view of the myeteries of the rosary. Appearing to the three Shepherd children at the Cova Da Iria, Mary called herself “Our Lady of the Rosary” and encouraged the faithful to pray the Holy Rosary daily. His poverty, therefore, is my heritage, and the weakness of my Lord is my strength.”, A fourth reason is that we could not conceive the idea of God, who is a pure and uncreated spirit, so God clothed Himself in our flesh that we might see Him with our eyes and hear Him with our cars. Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. “Because He hath regarded the humility of His handmaid; for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.” These words are a prediction of that honor that the Church in all ages will pay to the blessed Virgin. Reflection: In the quiet of a garden, God proposes (through an angel) and a woman accepts. Furthermore it seemed good that the filthy book of this heresy, which has been published and is called by them Asceticon, should be anathematised, as being composed by heretics, a copy of which the most pious and religious Valerian brought with him. We do not say that his flesh was turned into the nature of the godhead or that the unspeakable Word of God was changed into the nature of the flesh. I imagine her kneeling in wonderment at the angel Gabriel, his hands encompassing hers, his forehead pressed against hers as he tells her of God’s great plan. God was asking a great amount of her. 43.—And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem. In the Greek, after they had finished, or gone through, the days—namely, of the Passover; for this feast was kept for seven days, and S. Luke here implies that Mary and Joseph kept all these days at Jerusalem, though they were not bound by the law to remain so long—tarried behind in Jerusalem, there to shed some little ray of His wisdom and Divinity, as though longing to begin the ministry for which His Father had sent Him. 3, “The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib,”—such is the explanation given on these passages by S. Jerome, Nazianzen, Cyril, Paulinus, and others, quoted by Baronius. In Greek α̉γζαυλου̃ντες—passing the night or keeping their flocks in the field. For αυ̉λή is a fold or enclosed place, and αγζός is a field. vi. God who is and was the Creator becomes a creature, He who is unmeasured is held, He who makes men rich is made poor, the Incorporeal is clothed with flesh, the Invisible is seen. Joyful Mysteries. I also applaud your statement that God the Word needed no second generation from a woman, and your confession that the godhead is incapable of suffering. (Hence also Christ calls himself the lord and son of David: ” ‘What do you think of the Christ ? If anyone, therefore, says that it was not the very Word from God who became our high priest and apostle, when he became flesh and a man like us, but as it were another who was separate from him, in particular a man from a woman, or if anyone says that he offered the sacrifice also for himself and not rather for us alone (for he who knew no sin needed no offering), let him be anathema. But to use the expression “accept as its own” as a way of diminishing the properties of the conjoined flesh, birth, suffering and entombment, is a mark of those whose minds are led astray, my brother, by Greek thinking or are sick with the lunacy of Apollinarius and Arius or the other heresies or rather something more serious than these. For it is a rule of S. Augustine and of theologians, that whoever has or has had original sin, has also sinful desire, and consequently commits venial sin; but John had original sin, therefore he must have committed venial sin. . Mary says to Him in wonder and reverence, “Son, why has Thou done so to us? The child, however, so offered might be redeemed by his parents for five shekels (Num. After a day’s journey, His parents discover that Jesus is not with their kinsfolk and return to Jerusalem in order to find Him. If you hold his hand in the darkness, he will give you strength, peace, and an intimate joy that nothing can take away. Love the Madonna and pray the Rosary, for her Rosary is the weapon against the evils of the world today. In my view these subsequent views seemed to subvert what came first. 0 mysteries! They were amazed at God the immeasurable as it were straitened into a span’s breadth, they venerated Him and adored Him. Joyful Mysteries. According to this understanding of the unconfused union, we confess the holy virgin to be the mother of God because God the Word took flesh and became man and from his very conception united to himself the temple he took from her. IN THE ANNUNCIATION, the birth of the Son of God in the flesh is made to hinge on the consent of a woman, as the fall of man in the garden of Paradise hinged on the consent of a man. We made investigation and the god-fearing and reverent Valerian produced a synodical document concerning these people, which had been drawn up in great Constantinople in the time of Sisinnius of blessed memory. We give neither ourselves nor them the licence to alter any expression there or to change a single syllable, remembering the words: “Remove not the ancient landmarks which your fathers have set”. In addition, when they come together, they should commit clearly to writing whatever conduces to the creation of concord, communion and order. Both councils sent legates to the emperor Theodosius, who approved neither and sent the bishops away. In that I applaud your division of natures into manhood and godhead and their conjunction in one person. All those who have a clear and blameless faith will understand, interpret and proclaim it in this way. Hear these words that the gospels proclaim: “The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham.” It is clear that God the Word was not the son of David. In reverential fear and awe, they come and adore the Infant, their King, Creator, and God. First Mystery: The Annunciation of the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary. And even as she, having indeed a husband, Adam, but being nevertheless as yet a virgin (for in Paradise they were both naked, and were not ashamed, Genesis 2:25inasmuch as they, having been created a short time previously, had no understanding of the procreation of children: for it was necessary that they should first come to adult age, and then multiply from that time onward), having become disobedient, was made the cause of death, both to herself and to the entire human race; so also did Mary, having a man betrothed [to her], and being nevertheless a virgin, by yielding obedience, become the cause of salvation, both to herself and the whole human race. All other authorities, however, agree in the contrary view, since the Virgin’s parturition was perfectly pure. John’s profession of faith was accepted by Cyril and became the doctrinal formula of union. It is included here, together with Cyril’s letter in which he at some length praises John’s profession and accepts it, adding to it some explanation about his own expressions; this letter is mentioned in the definition of Chalcedon. In fact the church daily progresses here and through the grace of Christ there is such an increase among the people that those who behold it cry out with the words of the prophet, “The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the water covers the sea”. Cornelious Lapide, The Great Biblical Commentary, Gospel of St Luke Chapter 1, v. 44. 1. 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