Baptism: People are not baptizing their children today.5th Luminous Mystery: the Institution of the Eucharist.4th Luminous Mystery: the Transfiguration, and.3rd Luminous Mystery: the Proclamation of the Gospel,.2nd Luminous Mystery: the Wedding at Cana,.These are the proposed Luminous Mysteries because these are the Catholic truths of the faith that are being denied at this time. This is not to say that there are no attacks today on the same teachings as back then, but there is a very significant attack today on these particular ones. He says that the Luminous Mysteries have particular significance for our day and time when certain teachings and truths of the faith are under attack, but not the same ones that were attacked by the Albigensians. At 22:39 Fr Mitch asks Fr Donald about the Luminous Mysteries and why they matter, and why he included them. Donald Calloway, MIC, discussing Fr Calloway’s book, 10 Wonders of the Rosary. Put simply, it amounts to: “It messes up my rhythm” and “I don’t wanna.” Fine. This seems to me to be the most convincingly honest argument for not accepting the Luminous Mysteries. I’m used to praying the traditional three sets of mysteries and four would disturb my rhythm. The idea of meditating on the public life of Jesus-which is what the Luminous Mysteries present to us-was one I found to be inspiring and inspired. I remember reading the Pope’s letter on the Rosary when it was released in English as soon as I could get hold of a copy. ![]() John Paul II did was to propose these same mysteries to the universal Church. Later they became known outside the Society and spread further on the internet. George Preca) and shared with his Society of Christian Doctrine. John Paul II, either before or after Vatican II. Perhaps I’ll write more about that another time.)īy the way, the Luminous Mysteries were not invented by Pope St. (Tracing the history of the development of the Rosary is far beyond the scope of this simple blog post, but there are books out there, and probably web articles, too, that do cover it. Dominic the Albigensians were attacking certain teachings and truths of the faith, and the Blessed Mother gave the saint a way to reach their misguided hearts and minds to bring them back to the Church. She has appeared and appeared, with messages that are similar but not exactly the same. Otherwise she could simply have appeared one time, relayed her message and that could have been that. But it seems equally obvious to me that the Blessed Mother comes to give a message that has special importance to the place and time in which she appears, perhaps even more importance to the time than the place. They certainly do! Think of Fatima, Lourdes, Guadalupe, and more. This is not to say that her messages do not have continuing relevance. The Blessed Virgin Mary has appeared in many places and times to many different people, and her messages are meant for the people of those places and times. If Mary had wanted us to have them, she would have given them to us then. I find the argument “not in the orginal Rosary” to be not very convincing. ![]() So apparently that change and development was acceptable, but other ones are not or, at least, this one isn’t. The standard fifteen mysteries, in three sets of five, were not established by Pope Pius V until the sixteenth century. But the original Rosary is not the Rosary we have now. ![]() Now, I did some research on the Rosary when I first became interested in the Church, and I discovered that the Rosary had been through quite a bit of development over the centuries.
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