Visual Rosary: The Joyful Mysteries | Our Lady of Grace Rosaries (2024)

BIBLE

LUKE 1:30-31, 38

The angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And now, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you will name him Jesus.

Then Mary said, “Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.

CATECHISM

CCC 484, 490, 492, 973

The Annunciation to Mary inaugurated the time of the fulfillment of God’s promises and preparations. She was chosen by God, before the foundation of the world, to be entirely holy and “full of grace”. By pronouncing her “fiat” at the Annunciation and giving her consent to the Incarnation, Mary was already collaborating with the whole work her Son was to accomplish.

BIBLE

LUKE 1: 43-44

And why has this happened to me, that the mother of my Lord comes to me? For as soon as I heard the sound of your greeting, the child in my womb leaped for joy.

CATECHISM

CCC 495, 966, 2677

Called in the Gospels “the mother of Jesus”, Mary was acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and even before the birth of her Son, as “the mother of my Lord”. She is our mother in the order of grace. Because she gave us Jesus, her Son, Mary is the Mother of God and our mother. We can entrust all our cares and petitions to her: she prays for us. By entrusting ourselves to her prayer, we abandon ourselves to the will of God together with her: “Thy will be done.” (Matthew 6:10)

BIBLE

LUKE 2:6-7

While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger because there was no place for them in the inn.

CATECHISM

CCC 51, 74, 458, 525

Jesus was born in a humble stable, into a poor family. Simple shepherds were the first witnesses to this event. In this poverty, heaven’s glory was made manifest. The Word became flesh so that we might know God’s love. “God sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.” (1 John 4:9). It pleased God, in his goodness and wisdom, to reveal himself and to make known the mystery of his will. God desires that all of humanity be saved.

BIBLE

Luke 2: 22, 34-35

When the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. Then Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, “This child is destined for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be opposed so that the inner thoughts of many will be revealed—and a sword will pierce your own soul too.”

CATECHISM

CCC 529, 523

The presentation of Jesus in the temple showed him to be the firstborn Son who belongs to the Lord. With Simeon and Anna, all of Israel awaited its encounter with the Saviour, the long-expected Messiah, the light to the nations, and the glory of Israel. When the Church celebrates the liturgy of Advent each year, she makes present this ancient expectancy of the Messiah, for by sharing in the long preparation for the Saviour’s first coming, the faithful renew their ardent desire for his second coming.”

BIBLE

Luke 2: 46-47, 49, 51

After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. He said to them, “Why were you searching for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?” Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them. His mother treasured all these things in her heart.

CATECHISM

CCC 531, 534

The finding of Jesus in the temple is the only event that broke the silence of the Gospels about the hidden years of Jesus. Here Jesus lets us catch a glimpse of the mystery of His total consecration to a mission that flows from His divine sonship. Mary kept all these things hidden in her heart during the years Jesus remained hidden in the silence of ordinary life. During the greater part of his life, Jesus shared the condition of the vast majority of human beings: a daily life spent without evident greatness, a life of manual labour. From this whole period, he “increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.” (Luke 2:51-52)