New Rosary Mysteries

[JReducation]

The rosary is not new any more than the mass is new. You cannot change the essence of a thing. You can change prayers, externals and add or delete. But just as the mass remains the mass, the rosary remains the rosary.

If you present the rosary that we knew to St. Dominic, he would certainly see the differences. But he woiuld recognize the essence of it, a chain of roses to Our Lady. I’m not saying that one has to like the Luminous Mysteries or to pray them. I’m saying that those who do not like to pray them should leave well enough alone and allow others to pray them without making them feel that something is wrong, because nothing is wrong. When we post things against them, we’re jarring people’s consciences unnecessarily. Where is the charity in that?

There are many simple souls out there who read these posts and walk away frightened that they are doing something wrong. That’s a horrible thing to do to anyone. Those who know better should also know that since the rosary is a private prayer, it can be said in hundred of different ways and has been said in hundreds of different ways. Rules without charity are chains that enslave. Rules are meant to lead men to holiness, not to despair.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF

 

[Shin]

Despair? Chains? Enslavement? Well, let us not go over the top here…

There’s another article on the subject besides the one already mentioned that goes further into the history of this matter…

Ferrera is as always spunky and hard hitting to my mind, in ways which I’ve never loved, but putting that feel aside and reading the actual points, he makes not a few ones which people familiar with tradition will understand, and hopefully those not might pick up at least part of.

I must say it requires a certain understanding of just how fundamentally it is a problem to keep changing and changing things… because it creates disunity… and destroys discipline… and causes people not to know what is going on and what they are doing and what to expect…

Once people understand spiritually the love of tradition and instinct against effacing it by endless options and changes… they gain a deeper appreciation for maintaining Catholic culture and a respect for the sacred… which is not something lightly touched…

I will quote from the beginning:

"Not content with his central role in the disastrous “liturgical renewal” of Pope Paul VI, Annibale Bugnini also proposed a “renewal” of Marian devotional practices. In September 1972 he drafted a schema in this regard and submitted it to the Congregation for Divine Worship. In this schema, Bugnini proposed to rearrange the Rosary so that the Our Father would be recited only once at the beginning, and the Hail Mary edited to include only “the biblical portion of the prayer.” The “Holy Mary, Mother of God” would be said “only at the end of each tenth Hail Mary.” There would also be a new “public” version of the Rosary, consisting of readings, songs, homilies, and “a series of Hail Marys, but limited to one decade.”(1)

Paul VI responded to this ridiculous proposal through the Vatican Secretary of State: “[T]he faithful would conclude that ‘the Pope has changed the Rosary,’ and the psychological effect would be disastrous…. Any change in it cannot but lessen the confidence of the simple and the poor.”(2) Undeterred by this rejection, Bugnini obstinately presented two more schemas calling for revisions in various practices of Marian devotion. In each schema Bugnini smuggled in more paragraphs calling for revisions to the Rosary. His third schema prompted a specific request by Pope Paul VI for “deletion of some paragraphs on the rosary and the removal also of a reference to a different order of the mysteries.” The Pope admonished Bugnini that: “The rosary is to remain single in form and unchanged from what it now is. Let any new forms of Marian devotion take their place alongside the Rosary.” Recognizing his defeat, Bugnini noted that “in the fourth schema all references to a revision of the rosary have disappeared…”(3) Two years later Bugnini was suddenly sacked as Secretary of the Consilium and sent off to Iran, after Pope Paul was given a dossier on Bugnini’s alleged Masonic affiliations—a dossier whose existence Bugnini himself admits in his autobiography. The traditional Rosary had been spared the fate of the traditional Mass."

And also from the end:

"I next address the claim that RMV’s innovations are “optional” and that traditionalists therefore have no reason to be concerned. Granted, RVM suggests that the new mysteries of the Rosary are “a proposed addition to the traditional pattern” to be “left to the freedom of individuals and communities.” But upon reading RVM as a whole, it becomes clear that the nature of this “freedom” is a tolerated departure from what is obviously expected to become the new de facto norm very quickly.

For one thing, RVM does not merely suggest the new mysteries as additional objects of meditation at one’s pleasure. Rather, it “proposes” that the “luminous” mysteries be “inserted” into the traditional Rosary cycle on Thursdays. This is clearly a measure that, once implemented—as it surely will be—will produce a new universal norm (at least de facto) for the practice of the Rosary devotion. Moreover, RVM contains a discussion of “the mysteries” of the Rosary that includes the “luminous mysteries” as if they are now to be considered an integral part of the Rosary."

Obviously it’s the changes to tradition and practice that are the ‘offense’ here… I wonder how many of the faithful have been put in ‘despair’, ‘chains’, and ‘enslavement’ not by hearing people speak against the changes, but by the changes…

Well I won’t go so far as to use those terms, but I can imagine people whom thinking at least one thing sacred was left untouched… in fact might have reacted that way, as Pope Paul VI, never my favorite Pope foresaw.

People have suffered a good deal. A very great good deal, due to this sort of change for ‘the good’ that left nothing precious untouched. Always something ‘good’ replacing of course… always something ‘flawed’ before that required it somehow it is said.

 

[simple_soul]

Despair? Chains? Enslavement? Well, let us not go over the top here…

There’s another article on the subject besides the one already mentioned that goes further into the history of this matter…

Ferrera is as always spunky and hard hitting to my mind, in ways which I’ve never loved, but putting that feel aside and reading the actual points, he makes not a few ones which people familiar with tradition will understand, and hopefully those not might pick up at least part of.

I must say it requires a certain understanding of just how fundamentally it is a problem to keep changing and changing things… because it creates disunity… and destroys discipline… and causes people not to know what is going on and what they are doing and what to expect…

Once people understand spiritually the love of tradition and instinct against effacing it by endless options and changes… they gain a deeper appreciation for maintaining Catholic culture and a respect for the sacred… which is not something lightly touched…

I will quote from the beginning:

"Not content with his central role in the disastrous “liturgical renewal” of Pope Paul VI, Annibale Bugnini also proposed a “renewal” of Marian devotional practices. In September 1972 he drafted a schema in this regard and submitted it to the Congregation for Divine Worship. In this schema, Bugnini proposed to rearrange the Rosary so that the Our Father would be recited only once at the beginning, and the Hail Mary edited to include only “the biblical portion of the prayer.” The “Holy Mary, Mother of God” would be said “only at the end of each tenth Hail Mary.” There would also be a new “public” version of the Rosary, consisting of readings, songs, homilies, and “a series of Hail Marys, but limited to one decade.”(1)

Paul VI responded to this ridiculous proposal through the Vatican Secretary of State: “[T]he faithful would conclude that ‘the Pope has changed the Rosary,’ and the psychological effect would be disastrous…. Any change in it cannot but lessen the confidence of the simple and the poor.”(2) Undeterred by this rejection, Bugnini obstinately presented two more schemas calling for revisions in various practices of Marian devotion. In each schema Bugnini smuggled in more paragraphs calling for revisions to the Rosary. His third schema prompted a specific request by Pope Paul VI for “deletion of some paragraphs on the rosary and the removal also of a reference to a different order of the mysteries.” The Pope admonished Bugnini that: “The rosary is to remain single in form and unchanged from what it now is. Let any new forms of Marian devotion take their place alongside the Rosary.” Recognizing his defeat, Bugnini noted that “in the fourth schema all references to a revision of the rosary have disappeared…”(3) Two years later Bugnini was suddenly sacked as Secretary of the Consilium and sent off to Iran, after Pope Paul was given a dossier on Bugnini’s alleged Masonic affiliations—a dossier whose existence Bugnini himself admits in his autobiography. The traditional Rosary had been spared the fate of the traditional Mass."

And also from the end:

"I next address the claim that RMV’s innovations are “optional” and that traditionalists therefore have no reason to be concerned. Granted, RVM suggests that the new mysteries of the Rosary are “a proposed addition to the traditional pattern” to be “left to the freedom of individuals and communities.” But upon reading RVM as a whole, it becomes clear that the nature of this “freedom” is a tolerated departure from what is obviously expected to become the new de facto norm very quickly.

For one thing, RVM does not merely suggest the new mysteries as additional objects of meditation at one’s pleasure. Rather, it “proposes” that the “luminous” mysteries be “inserted” into the traditional Rosary cycle on Thursdays. This is clearly a measure that, once implemented—as it surely will be—will produce a new universal norm (at least de facto) for the practice of the Rosary devotion. Moreover, RVM contains a discussion of “the mysteries” of the Rosary that includes the “luminous mysteries” as if they are now to be considered an integral part of the Rosary."

Obviously it’s the changes to tradition and practice that are the ‘offense’ here… I wonder how many of the faithful have been put in ‘despair’, ‘chains’, and ‘enslavement’ not by hearing people speak against the changes, but by the changes…

Well I won’t go so far as to use those terms, but I can imagine people whom thinking at least one thing sacred was left untouched… in fact might have reacted that way, as Pope Paul VI, never my favorite Pope foresaw.

People have suffered a good deal. A very great good deal, due to this sort of change for ‘the good’ that left nothing precious untouched. Always something ‘good’ replacing of course… always something ‘flawed’ before that required it somehow it is said.

*Dear Shin,

I understand that people have suffered a great deal. But why did they suffer so much?*

 

[Shin]

I think the answer to that is to look to the people who caused the suffering in the first place.

 

[StTommyMore]

I think the answer to that is to look to the people who caused the suffering in the first place.

Yes. the Traditionalists who have unceasingly attempted to make anyone who attend the Novus Ordo feel inferior.

 

[mick321]

My private rosary is prayed using the Dominican format. I have 15 decade rosaries for this purpose.

That said, I’m not afraid of a handful of Luminous Mysteries. In fact, I’m learning to take this sort of thing in stride.

When I pray with a small group, I will gladly pray whatever mysteries are called out. Needless to say, I recite MY decades in Latin.

The Novus Ordo is what it is. There is no need to feel inferior.

 

[Like]

I am deeply sadden for all the misled souls who recite 50 extra Hail Mary’s due to JPII’s foolling around with the Traditional Rosary! How dare he add these 5 Mysteries of Light? And without Her permission! She surely would not like her Son receiving the extra attention.

NOT!!!

 

[simple_soul]

I think the answer to that is to look to the people who caused the suffering in the first place.

*I do believe that would be a very good place to start.
My father used to say, “we are our worst enemy.” The sad thing is even though he said this I do not know that he knew it. I watched him drive himself around in circles trying to find out how to prove to the Church that she was in error with all the “changes” that had been made. He even went so far as to remove the family from church because he believed it was that full of corrupt leaders. As he was nearing death, with his body riddled with cancer, he was still trying to figure out how to fix the church’s problems. The Greek Orthodox Priest from his parish, he had joined the Greek Orthodox Church at this point, gave him the advice that I believe he needed to hear and wish he had heard years before. He said, “let the Church solve Her problems you need to worry about yourself. You need to prepare yourself to meet your Crater.” I found this short sentence to be so profound.
I so believe our main focus should be to prepare ourselves to meat our Creator. After all, we never know the day nor the hour.

The saddest thing about all of this is that after God brought me back to the Church I have learned that if he had just stopped for a minute and actually listened and learned what the Church was actually teaching us I truly do believe he would have come to find out that his line of thinking was more in-line with the Church than he realized. So I can see clearly how, in his own words, “he was his worst enemy.”

So this goes back to my question, who really caused all the suffering?
Was it really the Church or was it ourselves inflicting it upon ourselves because we think we know better than our Apostolic Church Leaders? *

 

[simple_soul]

Yes. the Traditionalists who have unceasingly attempted to make anyone who attend the Novus Ordo feel inferior.

*Dear StTommyMore,
I read your post earlier and I have not gotten it out of my mind all morning so I had to come back to share something.
I grew up hearing all kinds of things about the Novus Ordo all negative. When I went to my first Norvus Ordo Liturgy I did not know what to expect so I just kind of went with it. I walked away with a certain kind of peace that I did not expect to have. I found that I had been contemplating on God’s face the whole time.It was like just Jesus and me in Communion with others. You so know that Jesus’ Love had been poured out for you in His Body and Blood so that you could receive Him and return your love to Him. It just seemed so focused on Him and how great His Love is for us and nothing else and it left my mind to be only focused on Him and nothing else. Reflecting on this experience it made me think of how Mary must have been so completed just contemplating on God’s face all the time. I found that in it’s simplicity it was actually very beautiful.
I just wanted to share that I did not find the Norvus Ordo to be “inferior” to any other form of the Liturgy at all.
As always I hope and pray this makes some sense.

 

[simple_soul]

What great information on the rosary, Alex. Thank you.

I second this, thank you Alex

 

[JReducation]

Making people feel guilty about things that they need not feel guilty aboiut causes people unnecessary suffering. The argument of some, against the Luminous Mysteries, is just one of those times. If you don’t want to pray them, don’t do so. There is nothing in Canon Law that says that you have to do so. The Rosary is a private devotion. You can pray it anyway you want to pray it. There have never been any rubrics for the rosary. That’s why we have so many variations of it.

For God’s sake, stop finding every conceivable fault with the Luminous Mysteries, just because you don’t like them or don’t like the addition. You don’t have to like them. There is nothing to like. It’s not a meal plan. It’s a rosary, a form of prayer to Our Lady. There is nothing that is going to offend Our Lady or her son if we meditate on the events of his public life, which is what the Luminous Mysteries are.

I grew up with a Jewish mother whose middle name I thought was GUILT. Now, I’m finding that many Catholics share my mother’s middle name.

I would love to see all of these folks who are so worried about the Mysteries of Light post as passionately about abortion, the condition of the poor, the decline in our national morals, the neglect of the elderly by fellow Catholics, human trafficking and the many other sins that offend our Lord and Lady. Five new mysteries do not break our Lord’s heart. One abortion does, one child who dies of hunger does, one person who is euthanized does, one person who dies without being loved does. Let’s focus on the real evils in the world. I believe that Satan uses these things as distractions while he does his best behind our backs. I see it every day in my ministry to the poor, unborn, elderly and the sick.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF

 

[StTommyMore]

Making people feel guilty about things that they need not feel guilty aboiut causes people unnecessary suffering. The argument of some, against the Luminous Mysteries, is just one of those times. If you don’t want to pray them, don’t do so. There is nothing in Canon Law that says that you have to do so. The Rosary is a private devotion. You can pray it anyway you want to pray it. There have never been any rubrics for the rosary. That’s why we have so many variations of it.

For God’s sake, stop finding every conceivable fault with the Luminous Mysteries, just because you don’t like them or don’t like the addition. You don’t have to like them. There is nothing to like. It’s not a meal plan. It’s a rosary, a form of prayer to Our Lady. There is nothing that is going to offend Our Lady or her son if we meditate on the events of his public life, which is what the Luminous Mysteries are.

I grew up with a Jewish mother whose middle name I thought was GUILT. Now, I’m finding that many Catholics share my mother’s middle name.

I would love to see all of these folks who are so worried about the Mysteries of Light post as passionately about abortion, the condition of the poor, the decline in our national morals, the neglect of the elderly by fellow Catholics, human trafficking and the many other sins that offend our Lord and Lady. Five new mysteries do not break our Lord’s heart. One abortion does, one child who dies of hunger does, one person who is euthanized does, one person who dies without being loved does. Let’s focus on the real evils in the world. I believe that Satan uses these things as distractions while he does his best behind our backs. I see it every day in my ministry to the poor, unborn, elderly and the sick.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF

:clapping:

 

[simple_soul]

Making people feel guilty about things that they need not feel guilty aboiut causes people unnecessary suffering. The argument of some, against the Luminous Mysteries, is just one of those times. If you don’t want to pray them, don’t do so. There is nothing in Canon Law that says that you have to do so. The Rosary is a private devotion. You can pray it anyway you want to pray it. There have never been any rubrics for the rosary. That’s why we have so many variations of it.

For God’s sake, stop finding every conceivable fault with the Luminous Mysteries, just because you don’t like them or don’t like the addition. You don’t have to like them. There is nothing to like. It’s not a meal plan. It’s a rosary, a form of prayer to Our Lady. There is nothing that is going to offend Our Lady or her son if we meditate on the events of his public life, which is what the Luminous Mysteries are.

I grew up with a Jewish mother whose middle name I thought was GUILT. Now, I’m finding that many Catholics share my mother’s middle name.

I would love to see all of these folks who are so worried about the Mysteries of Light post as passionately about abortion, the condition of the poor, the decline in our national morals, the neglect of the elderly by fellow Catholics, human trafficking and the many other sins that offend our Lord and Lady. Five new mysteries do not break our Lord’s heart. One abortion does, one child who dies of hunger does, one person who is euthanized does, one person who dies without being loved does. Let’s focus on the real evils in the world. I believe that Satan uses these things as distractions while he does his best behind our backs. I see it every day in my ministry to the poor, unborn, elderly and the sick.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF

 

[Joe_5859]

I had already posted a link to this; not that I’m trying to take credit for already doing this. Just sometimes this is the kind of stuff that makes me think my posts for the most part just get ignored.

Sorry about that.

I know the feeling, though. Sometimes I have to post links two or three times in at thread before people notice. As I came to the thread rather late in the game, I sort of skimmed through and was somewhat surprised that more discussion wasn’t centered around the actual document which first put forth these new Mysteries.

 

[lisalisa777]

I pray them. Indeed the Pope is Vicar of Christ here on earth. As Jesus Himself said …whatever He binds on earth is bound in Heaven and whatever He looses on earth is loosed in Heaven. So I can’t imagine how it would be wrong to pray the Luminous mysteries. Infact …I only fathom blessings arising from such prayer. Keep in mind too that the Church is dynamic, not changing the ultimate truth that Christ has brought to us, but changing to make our human experience of that truth even better.

 

[PioKolby]

I pray them. Indeed the Pope is Vicar of Christ here on earth. As Jesus Himself said …whatever He binds on earth is bound in Heaven and whatever He looses on earth is loosed in Heaven. So I can’t imagine how it would be wrong to pray the Luminous mysteries. Infact …I only fathom blessings arising from such prayer. Keep in mind too that the Church is dynamic, not changing the ultimate truth that Christ has brought to us, but changing to make our human experience of that truth even better.

Sometimes it is hard to see the forrest from the trees. EWTN has recently highlighted what Pope John Paul II had to deal with in both Poland and Rome. The Communist infiltration into the Church was and is profound along with many other enemies of the cross. Check out this EWTN interview youtube.com/watch?v=kE6ttHo-B9Q With this admission by EWTN that Vatican II had Communist agents in the council itself and with the well documented changes in this documentary video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6874482611768050603&q=%22vatican%22%2B%22freemasonry%22&hl=en# It is in this historical and theological context that orthodox Catholics often reject the new rosary. It is seen as part of the modernist package deal of error. Perhaps one day when a larger number of Catholics in communion with Holy Mother Church rid themselves of the modernism, protestantism,communism and freemasonry and return to Tradition maybe then the new rosary will have a place in the devotional tradition of orthodox Catholics but I doubt it.

 

[StTommyMore]

Sometimes it is hard to see the forrest from the trees. EWTN has recently highlighted what Pope John Paul II had to deal with in both Poland and Rome. The Communist infiltration into the Church was and is profound along with many other enemies of the cross. Check out this EWTN interview youtube.com/watch?v=kE6ttHo-B9Q With this admission by EWTN that Vatican II had Communist agents in the council itself and with the well documented changes in this documentary video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6874482611768050603&q=%22vatican%22%2B%22freemasonry%22&hl=en# It is in this historical and theological context that orthodox Catholics often reject the new rosary. It is seen as part of the modernist package deal of error. Perhaps one day when a larger number of Catholics in communion with Holy Mother Church rid themselves of the modernism, protestantism,communism and freemasonry and return to Tradition maybe then the new rosary will have a place in the devotional tradition of orthodox Catholics but I doubt it.

The Luminous Mysteries have NOTHING to do with modernism, protestantism, communism, or freemasonry. Give me a break.

 

[ElizabethPH]

referring to piokolyby:
How disingenuous his charity is in some of his posts when he then turns around and says something as insulting as his last post. John Paul fought communism and to insinuate that the Luminous mysteries have anything to do with it is just, for lack of a better word hyperbole.

Me thinks that he no doubt came up with all this nonsense just to get under the skin of those who are faithful to the rosary. For the most part I highly doubt that any trad Catholic is going to connect these mysteries to communism, free masonry and protestantism. Their reasons are probably more likely do to the fact that they cannot stand change of any kind in the Church; and their exaggerated sense of fear that anything new means something sinister.

 

[GaryTaylor]

Lets look at this from another angle. If the Mysteries of Light shouldn’t be involved than the Prayer of Fatima also should be removed?

“O Jesus, forgive us for our sins, save us from the fires of hell, take all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of your mercy.” Amen

Of course Pope John Paul II also added that. Or is this OK and just the Myteries are wrong?

Mysteries of Light are evil?

The Baptism of Jesus

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?”
Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented.
As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. (Matthew 3,13-17)

The Baptism in the Jordan is first of all a mystery of light. Here, as Christ descends into the waters, the innocent one who became “sin” for our sake ( 2Cor 5:21), the heavens open wide and the voice of the Father declares him the beloved Son ( Matthew 3:17 and parallels), while the Spirit descends on him to invest him with the mission which he is to carry out.

The Wedding of Cana

On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”
“Dear woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied, “My time has not yet come.”
His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.” They did so, and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”
This, the first of his miraculous signs, Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee. He thus revealed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him. (John 2,1-12)

Another mystery of light is the first of the signs, given at Cana ( John 2:1- 12), when Christ changes water into wine and opens the hearts of the disciples to faith, thanks to the intervention of Mary, the first among believers.

The Proclaimation of the KIngdom of GOD

“The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!” (Mark 1,15)

The preaching by which Jesus proclaims the coming of the Kingdom of God, calls to conversion (Mark 1:15) and forgives the sins of all who draw near to him in humble trust (Mark 2:3-13; Lk 7:47- 48): the inauguration of that ministry of mercy which he continues to exercise until the end of the world, particularly through the Sacrament of Reconciliation which he has entrusted to his Church (John 20:22-23).

The Transfiguration

About eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John and James with him and went up onto a mountain to pray. As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning. Two men, Moses and Elijah, appeared in glorious splendor, talking with Jesus. They spoke about his departure, which he was about to bring to fulfillment at Jerusalem. Peter and his companions were very sleepy, but when they became fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men standing with him. As the men were leaving Jesus, Peter said to him, “Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters–one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” (He did not know what he was saying.)
While he was speaking, a cloud appeared and enveloped them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud. A voice came from the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, whom I have chosen; listen to him.” When the voice had spoken, they found that Jesus was alone. The disciples kept this to themselves, and told no one at that time what they had seen.(Luke 9,28-35)

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” ( Luke 9:35 and parallels) and to prepare to experience with him the agony of the Passion, so as to come with him to the joy of the Resurrection and a life transfigured by the Holy Spirit.

The Instutide of the Eucharist

While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take it; this is my body.”
Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, and they all drank from it.
“This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many,” he said to them. “I tell you the truth, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it anew in the kingdom of God.” (Mark 14,22-25)

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 (John 13:1), for whose salvation he will offer himself in sacrifice.

And as far the LIGHT “word” being debatable? Well how about this here?

“This then is the message we have heard of HIM, and declare unto YOU, that GOD IS LIGHT, and in Him is no darkness at all.” 1 JOHN 1:5

So what does the speculation really come down to?

 

[Waiting]

The changes you refer to are not changes to the core of Catholicism itself, but only a new way of encouraging the faithful to practice their faith – such as a change of clothing – a new hat, a new dress or suit, etc, can be a boost to one’s outlook without changing the person, himself. Nothing fundamental in Catholicism has changed, or can change. Some people are resistant to any change, even an advantageous one, such as enhancing our contemplation of the life of Christ by adding the Luminous Mysteries. This, it seems to me, is a form of obsessive, compulsive disorder. Hang on for dear life to everything familiar. Nothing new permitted, even if it makes the old more understandable and enjoyable. Did you give a thought to maybe the addition of the Luminous Mysteries might have been accomplished because it was the desire of Jesus, Himself?

This message was on Page 7, so you can see how long this same argument has been going on. I now fully believe that what I described above is what we have here, and nothing – absolutely nothing will, or can, change a person who shows the symptoms of OCD. Might as well just let it be.