The Joyful Mysteries

[Music] the joyful mysteries 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 he descended into hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of god the father almighty from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead i believe in the holy spirit the holy catholic church the communion of

saints the forgiveness of sins the resurrection of the body and life everlasting amen our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray

for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen glory be to the

father and to the son and to the holy spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end amen the first joyful mystery is the enunciation the enunciation focuses on the most elevated creature mary the virgin mother of god the angel's greeting to mary is important hail mary full of grace mary is being addressed as someone who's able to accept gifts who's ready to receive then the angel announces to the maid of nazareth that she's been chosen to be the mother of god here's what gabriel says behold you will

conceive in your womb and bear a son and you shall name him jesus he will be great and will be called son of the most high and the lord god will give him the throne of david his father and he will rule over the house of jacob forever and his kingdom will have no end no first century israelite would have missed the meaning here this child shall be the fulfillment of the promise made to king david and this means that the child is in fact the king of the world the one who would bring unity

and peace to all the nations the conviction grew upon israel that this mysterious descendant of david would be king not just for a time and not just in an earthly sense but forever and for all nations this definitive king of the jews would be king of the world he would be our king as well as we pray this decade i invite you to contemplate how you have allowed jesus to be the king and lord over your whole life [Music] our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done

on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the

fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and

at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with

thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy

mary mother of god pray for us sinners now at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen glory be to the father and to the son and to the holy spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end amen oh my jesus forgive us our sins save us from the fires

of hell lead all souls to heaven especially those most in need of thy mercy the second joyful mystery is the visitation i've always been fascinated by mary's haste in the story of her visitation to elizabeth upon hearing the message of gabriel concerning her own pregnancy and that of her cousin mary we hear proceeded in haste into the hill country of judah to see elizabeth why did she go with such speed and purpose because she had found her mission her role in the theodrama we are dominated today by the ego drama and all of its ramifications

and implications the ego drama is the play that i'm writing i'm producing i'm directing and above all that i'm starring in we see this absolutely everywhere in our culture freedom of choice reigns supreme i become the person that i choose to be but the theo drama is the great story being told by god the great play being directed by god what makes life thrilling is to discover your role in that drama and this is precisely what happened to mary she's found her role indeed a climactic role in the theo drama and she wants to commune

with elizabeth who has also discovered her role in that same drama throughout this decade of the rosary i invite you to contemplate what god reveals to us in the mystery of the visitation have you searched for your place in god's story abandoning the ego drama for the theodrama with a response as bold and simple as mary's our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who

trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail

mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed

is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners

now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is

with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen glory be to the father and to the son and to the holy spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end amen oh my jesus forgive us our sins save us from the fires of hell lead all souls to heaven especially those most in need of thy mercy [Music] the third joyful mystery is the nativity when

we turn to luke's familiar account of the birth of jesus we see that commences as one would expect poems and histories in the ancient world to commence with the invocation of powerful and important people emperor augustus and quirinius the governor of syria but then luke pulls the rug out from under us for we promptly learn that the story isn't about augustus and quirinius at all but rather about two nobodies making their way from one forgotten outpost of augustus's empire to another when mary and joseph arrived in david city there was no room even at the

crude traveler's hostel and so their child is born in a cave where some scholars have recently suggested the lower level of a dwelling the humble part of the house where the animals spent the night luke therefore sets up his story is the tale of two rival emperors caesar the king of the world and jesus the baby king while caesar rules from his palace in rome jesus has no place to lay his head while caesar exercises rangy power jesus is wrapped in swaddling clothes while caesar surrounds himself with wealthy and sophisticated courtiers jesus is surrounded by

animals and shepherds of the field and yet the baby king is more powerful than augustus and this is signaled by the presence of an army stratis in the greek of angels in the skies over bethlehem all four of the gospels play out as a struggle culminating in the deadly business of the cross between the worldly powers and the power of christ for jesus is not simply a kindly prophet with a gentle message of forgiveness he's god coming in person to assume command he is the lord the word made flesh as we pray this decade i

invite you to contemplate the great mystery of the nativity and the subversive presentation of the arrival of the new king [Music] our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy

womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour

of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art

thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of

god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen glory be to

the father and to the son and to the holy spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end amen oh my jesus forgive us our sins save us from the fires of hell lead all souls to heaven especially those most in need of thy mercy the fourth joyful mystery is the presentation in the temple the importance of this mystery is rooted in the importance of the temple for ancient israel the temple was in practically a literal sense the dwelling place of the lord of all the mountains in the

world yahweh preferred mount zion and here he had chosen to live it was the place of encounter par excellence at the temple israel was most itself and most in touch with its mission to bring the worship of the true god to the whole world in the temple divinity and humanity embraced and the human race was brought back online with god whenever someone offered sacrifice in the temple he was turning his mind his life his will back to god he was becoming reconciled that means eyelash to eyelash with the lord but the sins of the nation

had according to the prophet ezekiel caused the glory of the lord to depart from the temple therefore one of the deepest aspirations of israel's people was to re-establish the temple as the place of right praise so that the glory of the lord might return we can hear this longing in the prophets in the psalms and in communities like the essenes when joseph and mary bring the infant jesus into the temple therefore we are meant to appreciate that the prophecy of ezekiel is being fulfilled the glory of the lord has returned to his temple as we

pray this decade i invite you to contemplate the mystery of the presentation of the infant jesus god with us god here and now with you our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is

the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now

and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is

with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus

holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our

death amen glory be to the father and to the son and to the holy spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end amen oh my jesus forgive us our sins save us from the fires of hell lead all souls to heaven especially those most in need of thy mercy the fifth joyful mystery is the finding in the temple after their visit to jerusalem mary and joseph along with the bevy of their family and friends were heading home to nazareth they presumed that the child jesus was somewhere among

his relatives in the caravan instead he was in the temple of the lord conversing with the elders and masters of the law distraught mary and joseph spent three days looking for him any parent who's ever searched for a lost child knows the anguish they must have felt can you imagine what it was like as they tried to sleep at night spitting out the worst scenarios in their mind [Music] when they finally find him they with understandable exasperation upgrade him child why have you treated us like this look your father and i have been searching for

you in great anxiety but jesus responds with a kind of devastating lacanism why were you searching for me did you not know that i must be in my father's house the story conveys a truth that runs sharply counter to our sensibilities even the most powerful familial emotions must in the end give way to mission though she felt an enormous pull in the opposite direction mary let her son go allowing him to find his vocation [Music] as we pray the final decade of the rosary i invite you to contemplate the paradox at the heart of this

joyful mystery that precisely in the measure that everyone in the family focuses on god's call for one another the family becomes more loving and more peaceful our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed

is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners

now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord

is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb

jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now at the hour of our death amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our

death amen glory be to the father and to the son and to the holy spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end amen oh my jesus forgive us our sins save us from the fires of hell lead all souls to heaven especially those most in need of thy mercy hail holy queen mother of mercy our life our sweetness and our hope to thee do we cry poor banished children of eve to thee do we send up our size mourning and weeping in this valley of tears turn then

most gracious advocate thine eyes of mercy toward us and after this our exile show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb jesus o clement o loving o sweet virgin mary pray for us o holy mother of god that we may be made worthy of the promises of christ amen oh god whose only begotten son by his life death and resurrection has purchased for us the rewards of eternal life grant we beseech thee but meditating upon these mysteries of the most holy rosary of the blessed virgin mary we may imitate what they contain and obtain

what they promise through the same christ our lord amen [Music] you