The Luminous Mysteries/The Mysteries of Light

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I do, except sometimes when my brain goes on auto-pilot and brings up the Joyful Mysteries. But that’s ok, it’s all good.
 
I love the Luminous Mysteries…pray them four times each week…especially enjoy meditating on the Institution of the Eucharist.
 
Among the Luminous Mysteries, the fifth decade (The Institution of the Eucharist) is the least challenging one to meditate on.
 
In Aramaic, there is a word which translates as “Body” which actually means “broken, mutilated sacrificial body”, and a word which translates as “Blood” which actually means “spilled, half-coagulated blood of sacrifice”…meditate on that…
 
I love the Luminous mysteries. I think they were a great addition.

The Rosary is not part of my regular prayer routine, but when I do pray it, it is either the Sorrowful or the Luminous mysteries.
 
In the 3rd Luminous Mystery, the Proclamation of the Kingdom, I meditate on Our Lord healing people.
 
FloridaCatholic said:
It would be nice if there was a different set of mysteries for every day of the week!
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Well we could have one set for Jesus’s miracles. One set for the sermon on the plane and one for the sermon on the mound. Off the top of my head. One would study it thoroughly. The multiplication of the loaves and fishes is a story that really speaks to me.
 
I pray the Rosary every single day, and no, I don’t include them.
 
I sometimes make my own set of things I wish to meditate on. One set kinda goes like this (and makes for a long rosary time because of how much I just sit and meditate on the mystery beads):
  • Creation and the Fall
  • Moses, the Exodus, and God’s Covenant with the Jewish people and His faithfulness
  • The Immaculate Conception tied with the Annunciation (and the imagery of the Ark of the Covenant tied with the previous contemplation point)
  • Jesus’ birth, ministry, and death
  • Jesus’ resurrection and the early church
It’s not very conventional, but sometimes I just love to spend a long time just meditating on as much of salvation history as I can. Mary’s a lovely companion through all of it.
 
I do pray the Luminous Mysteries, every Thursday.
The way of meditating on the mysteries of the rosary whereby we try to visualize the biblical scene or imagine ourselves there has never been my way. So for example, in the 3rd Luminous Mystery, the Proclamation of the Kingdom, I bring to mind all who preach and teach the Good News, especially our Holy Father, priests, catechists, and apologists, and I pray that my heart will be like the good soil in the Parable of the Sower, so that the Word can take root and produce a good harvest.
 
I don’t mind the extra meditation. So yes I do. I’ve heard the arguments for not using them and it’s rather not very compelling since I’ve delven into the “Secret of the Rosary” by Louis de Montfort and there’s there that implies anything bad about meditating on other mysteries.
 
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especially the third one, since it does not focus on one particular event.
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I’ve read that the Proclamation of the Kingdom is where Jesus presented the Beatitudes during the Sermon on the Mount. I enjoy meditating on them during this mystery.
 
Not on those rare occasions I do the full 150 decade Rosary–I think in those cases it is important to keep the parallel with the Psalms.

But for the usual weekly routine of 50 a day, the Psalter parallel is already thrown off so I include them. I think they are important mysteries to meditate on given the spiritual problems of our time.
 
The luminous mysteries are based on the “Mysteries of Light” developed by St. George Preca. The latter’s specifically focused the third mystery on the beatitudes. Here is how he arranged them.

After Jesus Christ was baptized in the Jordan, he was led into the desert.
Jesus reveals Himself as true God by word and by miracles.
Jesus teaches the Beatitudes on the mountain.
Jesus is transfigured on the mountain.
Jesus has His final supper with the Apostles.

(you can see that JPII made the second mystery more specific, but the third a little less).
 
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do you include the Luminous Mysteries or not, and why
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I used to pray the Luminous mysteries when I first started praying a daily rosary.

But now I prefer to pray it without. I feel a connection to Mother Mary knowing that I am praying the rosary with the same decades as in the time of St. Dominic, the same decades as the ones she prayed with St. Bernadette and the children of Fatima. There’s also a sense of connection to my ancestors who prayed the rosary the traditional way.

I’m not against the Luminous mysteries, but simply prefer without for the above reasons.
 
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