Mysteries of the Rosary

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At our Bible study class last evening, our friend who is not Catholic mentioned that she just purchased a Rosary booklet and wondered why they are called the “Mysteries”? We are looking for a solid answer for her.

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In conformity with the usage of the inspired writers of the New Testament, theologians give the name mystery to revealed truths that surpass the powers of natural reason. Mystery, therefore, in its strict theological sense is not synonymous with the incomprehensible, since all that we know is incomprehensible, i.e., not adequately comprehensible as to its inner being; nor with the unknowable, since many things merely natural are accidentally unknowable, on account of their inaccessibility, e.g., things that are future, remote, or hidden. In its strict sense a mystery is a supernatural truth, one that of its very nature lies above the finite intelligence.
newadvent.org/cathen/10662a.htm
 
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