Joyful Mysteries

First Mystery – The Annunciation

The Rosary relates the Christian life to that of Mary. The four great mysteries of the Rosary – the Joyful, the Sorrowful, the Glorious, the Luminous– are the brief description of earthly life contained in the Creed: birth, struggle and victory. The Christian life is inseparable from the joys of birth and youth, the struggles of maturity against the passions and evil, and finally, the hope of glory in Heaven.

Reflection

In human love, man desires, woman gives. In Divine love, God seeks, the soul responds. God asks Mary to give him a human nature with which he may start a new humanity. Mary agrees. A woman’s role is to be the medium by which God comes to Man.