The Rosary
The Glorious Mysteries

Meditated on Wednesdays and Sundays

Photo taken in the chapel

He is Risen!
The Glorious Mysteries celebrate Christ's triumph over the forces of darkness. St Matthew, one of the 12 Apostles, who was originally a ax collector, recounts in detail life in Palestine and he quotes extensively from the Old Testament to prove that Jesus is the promised Messiah, King of the Jews, He who fulfills the Scriptures.
His theme is Jesus the man: so he starts his account with the genealogy of Jesus.
With careful teaching, he offers a well organized catechisis divided into chapters: five long sermons and then the Passion. And he reveals the Church, with the knowledge that it is the real Israel, God's people who will bear fruit.
We relive here, the joy of those to whom Christ showed himself, and also Mary's joy. To the glory which, through The Ascension, places Christ at the right of His Father, she herself will be associated with them through The Assumption. Finally, by her Crowning, she shines as Queen of the Angels and the Saints.
At the centre of this glorious journey made by the Son and His Mother, Pentecost shows us the face of the Church as a family united to Mary, enlivened by the effusion of the Spirit and ready for the evangelistic mission.