How many luminous mysteries

He will come again in glory 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. 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.

The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Oh My Jesus O my Jesus, forgive us our sins. By the way, the Luminous Mysteries were not invented by Pope St. They were proposed in by Fr. George Preca now St. George Preca and shared with his Society of Christian Doctrine. Later they became known outside the Society and spread further on the internet.

What Pope St. John Paul II did was to propose these same mysteries to the universal Church. 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.

This seems to me to be the most convincingly honest argument for not accepting the Luminous Mysteries. Mitch Pacwa, SJ, guest Fr. 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. 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.

These are the proposed Luminous Mysteries because these are the Catholic truths of the faith that are being denied at this time. Much more can be said about all of this, but these are the main points I felt it important to present right now.

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Used by permission. All rights reserved. See copyright information. Our Father Prayed on the first large bead Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

This is the task of the "New Evangelization. Then, as loyal sons and daughters of that Church, He is calling us into the fields of contemporary culture which are ripe and ready for harvest. About eight days after saying this, he took Peter, John, and James, and went up onto a mountain to pray. While he was praying, his face changed in appearance and his clothes became dazzling white.

Suddenly two men were talking with him, Moses and Elijah. They appeared in glory and spoke of his passage, which he was about to fulfill in Jerusalem. Peter and those with him had fallen into a deep sleep; but awakening, they saw his glory and likewise saw the two men who were standing with him. When these were leaving, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, how good it is for us to be here. Let us set up three booths, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah. While he was speaking, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and the disciples grew fearful as they entered it.

Then from the cloud came a voice which said, "This is my Son, my Chosen One. Listen to him. The disciples kept quiet, telling nothing of what they had seen at that time to anyone. The mystery of light par excellence is the Transfiguration, traditionally believed to have taken place on Mount Tabor. The glory of the Godhead shines forth from the face of Christ as the Father commands the astonished Apostles to 'listen to him' cf.

Christians of the Eastern Church, Catholic and Orthodox, not only celebrate the importance of the Transfiguration liturgically, but they have held on to the ancient Christian understanding of its significance in our own lives. We will all be transfigured, as the Lord Himself was transfigured, when our redemption is complete in the Resurrection of the Body.

From the earliest centuries, the Christian Church emphasized the centrality of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Our experience of our life in the Lord - and in His Church - is only the beginning of what is to come in the kingdom.

Our life is already a participation in that new reality. The Church, in the words of the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council, is a "seed of the kingdom" to come. Our life within the Church is a participation in the eternal realities of the life to come in a new heaven and a new earth - but it begins in the here and now. This event on the Mountain was meant to strengthen the faith of these three disciples.

They were about to witness the events that would lead their Lord and Master along what would appear to be an ignominious path, up Golgotha's lonely hill, to be crucified, a fate reserved for common criminals. Their own faith would be shaken, tested and tried. He loved all who were His own in this world John Yes, as so many beautiful writings in the Tradition remind us, the Lord wanted to encourage them - and to encourage us. However, this One who came from eternity and took upon Himself the limitations of time, was about to open the portal of eternity to all of us who are being re-created in Him.

He would reveal to Peter, James and John the eternal now of His own glory. He was doing so much more than simply encouraging them. He was showing them who He was - and who they would become in Him. He was revealing to them what had already begun; and giving them a vision that would forever change the way they viewed themselves, their daily lives and their mission, after He would return to the Father.

As they lived their lives no longer for themselves but for Him they began to undergo their own trials and walked the way to their own transfiguration.

This is the path of all who bear His name. We entered through the waters of the womb of Holy Baptism into the life of the Church which is His Body. We are members of His Body now and through the Sacraments and our participation in the life of grace, he communicates His energy, His Divine Life to us.

We who bear the name Christian are "in process", works "in progress", being re-created and transfigured in Him. He has brought heaven to earth and earth to heaven, through the Paschal mystery. They were invited to exercise their freedom and embrace the path that He had prepared.

So are we, right now. He was grounding them in the eternal Truth, and opening up for the countless millions who would hear this story from their faithful witness a glimpse of the Glory that is to come as we also choose Him in our daily lives. Peter would later write of this experience:. Through these, he has bestowed on us the precious and very great promises, so that through them you may come to share in the divine nature, after escaping from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire.

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, virtue with knowledge, knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with devotion, devotion with mutual affection, mutual affection with love For he received honor and glory from God the Father when that unique declaration came to him from the majestic glory, "This is my Son, my beloved, with whom I am well pleased.

The Christian vocation is real a "participation in the Divine Nature. This transfiguration will only be complete when the entire person, including the body, is fully redeemed and transformed. The effects of the transfiguration involve the entire created order; it too will finally be reconstituted in Jesus Christ and handed back to the Father. The Beloved Disciple John used this event of the Transfiguration as a "hermeneutic", a lens through which he gave the early Christians a deeper insight into their difficulties, struggles and mission.

In his first Letter to the early Churches, he encouraged them to persevere and live differently by referring to the event that occurred on that Mountain.

He encouraged them to not be surprised or discouraged that the "world" did not recognize them, but rather to persevere in love through holding the vision of a transfigured life before them:. Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure, as he is pure" 1 John 3. The Lord Jesus has shown us the way up the mountain. He has invited us into a new way of living in Him through living within the communion of the Church. Living in that Church we are invited to go into the world and invite all men and women, through the waters of the womb of Baptism, into the new communion of love where they can begin the process of conversion and transfiguration.

Born again, we are all invited to join with Peter, James and John and cry out in our day: "It is good for us to be here. As we reflect on the Transfiguration of Jesus, let us enter more deeply into the mystery it reveals by living in the Transfiguration now. It truly is good for us to be here.

Let us draw encouragement from the account of the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ and respond to the invitations of grace in our daily lives in order to grow more fully into the Image and likeness of Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord revealing His Transfigured glory to a world waiting to be born anew. We are being called into an ongoing transformation in Jesus Christ, beginning right now.

I tell you, I will not drink this fruit of the vine from now until the day when I drink it new with you in my Father's reign.

A final mystery of light is the institution of the Eucharist, in which Christ offers his body and blood as food under the signs of bread and wine, and testifies 'to the end' his love for humanity Jn , for whose salvation he will offer himself in sacrifice' Blessed John Paul II, RVM, Each day the people are to go out and gather their daily portion; thus will I test them, to see whether they follow my instructions or not Jesus connects this Old Testament account in the Gospel lesson from St.

Here is a portion: ' Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, as it is written: 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.

I myself am the living bread which has come down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread he shall live forever; and the bread which I shall give is my flesh for the life of the world' John 6: , God met His people Israel in the desert of their despair.

Out of His love He fed their physical hunger. After hearing their cry, he miraculously intervened by providing 'manna'. Yet, sadly, these same people who had received this provision soon began to murmur and complain to Moses about God's provision. At a place called Taberah, they cried out 'But now we are famished; we see nothing before us but this manna" Numbers, Gods' miraculous provision had not changed, the people had. Their hearts had turned away from God and they fell out of communion.

The blessing of heaven soon became their cause for complaint. That can happen to us when we fail to cultivate our relationship with the Lord who now gives us Bread from Heaven. However, God continued to love the people of Israel. It was His design to manifest through them His saving plan for the whole world. God's love is a Love of Gift. He reached out to embrace a world lost in the desert of sin and separation by sending us One like us who could do for us what we could never do for ourselves.

The Cross became the bridge which rejoined heaven and earth. In the Incarnation of Jesus Christ, creation began anew. The Word became flesh and through His saving Life, Death, Resurrection and Ascension, everything and everyone was changed. The Bread Jesus gives is His flesh for the Life of the world. This is the Living Bread which satisfies every hunger. In His outstretched arms, the Savior gathered the world to Himself on the Second Tree of the Cross where creation began anew.

On that Altar of Divine Love on Golgotha, the place of the skull, death was defeated through death.