Contemplate the mysteries of the Rosary

 

 

 The name Rosary, in the Castilian language, comes from the set of prayers, in the form of roses, dedicated to the Virgin4. The days of the Virgin were also like roses: "White roses and red roses; white roses of serenity and purity, red roses of suffering and love. St. Bernard, that lover of St. Mary, says that the Virgin herself was a rose of snow and blood.


"Have we ever tried to unravel her life, day by day, in our hands? "5. That is what we do when we contemplate the mysterious scenes from the life of Jesus and Mary that are interspersed every ten Hail Marys. In these scenes of the Rosary, divided into three groups, we go through the various aspects of the great mysteries of salvation: that of the Incarnation, that of the Redemption and that of eternal life6. In these mysteries, in one way or another, Our Lady is always present. In the Holy Rosary it is not only a matter of repeating the Hail Marys to Our Lady, which, as we try to do with love, perhaps by placing petitions in each mystery or in each Hail Mary, we do not find monotonous. In this devotion we will also contemplate the mysteries that are considered in each decade. Their meditation produces a great good in our soul, because it identifies us with the sentiments of Christ and allows us to live in a climate of intense piety: we rejoice with the joyful Christ, we are happy with the patient Christ, we live in anticipation in hope, in the glory of the glorified Christ7.


To better realize this contemplation of the mysteries, it can be practical to pause "for three or four seconds in meditative silence, considering the respective mystery of the Rosary, before reciting the Our Father and the Hail Marys of each decade "8; to approach the scene as one more character, to imagine the feelings of Christ, of Mary, of Joseph....

In this way, trying with simplicity to "peek" into the scene that is proposed to us in each mystery, the Rosary "is a conversation with Mary that also leads us to intimacy with her Son "9. We become familiar with the truths of our faith in the midst of our daily affairs, and this contemplation, which we can do even in the middle of the street, at work, helps us to be more joyful, to behave better with those with whom we interact. The life of Jesus, through Our Lady, becomes life also in us, and we learn to love more Our Heavenly Mother.

 

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