Do We Need Triumphant Mysteries of the Holy Rosary?

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This is a new prayer, proposed for private devotion. “How dare you change to the Rosary!?,” you ask? Well, read on…

If we accept that the Rosary is intended to recall the milestones of salvation history, and that it is meant for the active prayer of the faithful, then there is a gap with the current set of mysteries. All four sets of mysteries happen in the past. They do not include the events that remain in our future that are foretold in the Gospels and the book of Revelation. They also leave our active participation, as the faithful, out of the equation.

We find the Triumphant Mysteries by following Holy Scripture. We do not invent this; it is revealed to us in the Word. Along the way, we find ourselves written into the story of salvation. These new mysteries begin with the public call to conversion and end with the New Jerusalem.

Thoughts? Positive or negative, I would love your thoughts.

The First Triumphant Mystery: The Clarion Call

We read in the book of Revelation that at the end of this age, Jesus Christ is revealed to all the world as the lamb of triumph and the savior of all. He alone was found worthy to open the scrolls. At that time, a clarion call issues forth from the mouths of all: “To the one who sits on the throne … be blessing and honor, glory and might, forever and ever.”

The Second Triumphant Mystery: The Presentation of the Elect

After the call goes forth to all the earth, we see the Holy Ones of God assembled before us. These are those who withstood the test! “After this I had a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation, race, people… They stood before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes and holding palm branches.”

The Third Triumphant Mystery: Victory in the Battle of Heaven and Earth

Again in Revelation we read of a great battle that ensued, consuming those in Heaven and on the Earth. “Then I saw the heavens opened, and there was a white horse; its rider was called ‘Faithful and True.’ He judges and wages war in righteousness. His eyes were like a fiery flame, and on his head were many diadems.” In the end, our Lord earns his triumph over evil!

The Fourth Triumphant Mystery: The Final Judgement

The battle is ended and Jesus has triumphed! Now, Our Lord sits in judgement over all humanity. We read in Matthew: "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit upon his glorious throne, and all the nations will be assembled before him. And he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

The Fifth Triumphant Mystery: The City of God

And now, the city of God awaits us! We read in Revelation:“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The former heaven and the former earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. I also saw the holy city, a new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.”
 
What a superb idea!

I love this!

Of course, there’s no reason that one can’t say these in private, but it would be much better if one were saying them in union with others.
 
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Positive or negative, I would love your thoughts.
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I’m not sure about praying these Mysteries. But I think my reasons are very subjective.
philipanthonyxavier said:
All four sets of mysteries happen in the past.
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Precisely. To me, praying the Rosary has something to do with the imitation of Christ – meditating on the past events of His earthly life, so that, as one of the concluding prayers says, I “may imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise”.

Where future events which have yet to unfold are concerned, I have nothing to imitate, no model on which I can regulate my life – which is a way we faithful are included in the Rosary, so that these mysteries can be shown by our lives – except Christ’s Resurrection and Ascension, and Mary’s Assumption and Crowning, which we already meditate upon. I can simply hope and pray for them. That’s quite a good thing to do, but it’s not the reason I personally pray the Rosary.

That said, as the Rosary is a private devotion, nothing prevents you from meditating on these Triumphant Mysteries if they help you !
 
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I think this is a nice idea, but I agree with @OddBird. Furthermore, what spiritual fruit would one gain from meditating on these mysteries? The current mysteries each teach us a particular fruit through the contemplation of a particular event in the lives of Jesus and Mary, and this helps us grow in holiness.

I nevertheless think it’s perfectly fine for you to pray these in private, as it is perfectly acceptable for one to compose private prayers and say them.

God bless.
 
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For a long time the Final Judgment was included as the last of the Glorious mysteries until it gradually came to be replaced with the coronation of Mary. Honestly, I’ve always found this to be fitting, especially since the queenship of Mary can be integrally included in the meditating on the Assumption itself. I haven’t yet made it part of my Rosary routine though.
 
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For a long time the Final Judgment was included as the last of the Glorious mysteries until it gradually came to be replaced with the coronation of Mary. Honestly, I’ve always found this to be fitting, especially since the queenship of Mary can be integrally included in the meditating on the Assumption itself. I haven’t yet made it part of my Rosary routine though.
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When I pray the Rosary in private, I include the Final Judgment as the last mystery. That’s when salvation history - the work of Jesus - will reach completion.
 
There are whole books and websites full of alternate Rosary mystery sets. If you want to say them as a private devotion, feel free. Doesn’t mean “we” as in all of us need to say them.

The Last Judgment is already a traditional mystery of the Brigittine/ Carmelite rosary, which has 6 mysteries per set.
 
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Furthermore, what spiritual fruit would one gain from meditating on these mysteries? The current mysteries each teach us a particular fruit through the contemplation of a particular event in the lives of Jesus and Mary, and this helps us grow in holiness.
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It’s pretty easy for people to come up with a spiritual fruit for alternate mysteries. I often come up with new spiritual fruits for the existing traditional ones. When you’re doing a 54 day rosary novena and extra rosaries on top of that, the same 15 fruits get boring pretty quick.
 
Not sure why they have to be codified…they could be used in day to day private devotions using the Rosary as a format.
 
I once read a set of mysteries that were Eucharistic. First was the Manna from Heaven, I wish I’d kept a copy of those. I love new sets of mysteries!
 
Have you ever prayed the St Joseph Rosary? It has its own set of mysteries which model the joyful mysteries in many ways, but from St Joseph’s perspective.
 
They’re not strictly in the past. Our Lady is the perfect type of the Church, thus her destiny foreshadows that of the Church. I understand the mysteries of the Assumption and Coronation to also be opportunities to meditate on the Church’s final “assumption” into heaven and glorification as the bride of Christ.
 
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The 20 mysteries were revealed to and through two Saints.

Hmmm. You are free to contemplate any and all mysteries your heart desires.

Having been a court officer, I am fascinated by Jesus’ trial before Pilate. Therefore, I occasionally contemplate the 1) Agony, 2) Trial, 3) Scourging+Crowning, 4) Carrying of the Cross and 5) the Crucifixion.

But, that’s just me.
 
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