Multilingual Rosary - The Joyful Mysteries meditated by Don Antonio D'Osasco - English

Multilingual Rosary - The Joyful Mysteries

meditated by Don Antonio D'Osasco

Translated by

Barbara Meloni

English

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“ Oh, Holy Spirit, Soul of my soul, I adore You.

Light me up, guide me, fortify me, comfort me.

Tell me what I have to do, let me know what You want from me. 

I promise to submit myself  to what You want from me

and to accept all that You allow to happen to me.

To know Your will is enough for me”

1st JOYFUL MISTERY

The Annunciation: the Angel Gabriel says to Mary that She is going to be the Mother of Jesus. 

For the first time, only to Mary it is revealed the mystery of love of the Holy Trinity. The Archangel Gabriel reveals to the Virgin the existence in God, the Father, of His Son Jesus and that of the Holy Spirit. The words pronounced by the prophet Isaiah more than 700 years earlier will be coming true: “The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel”. 

There comes the “salvation”, the Gates of Heaven are reopened, not  the earthly Heaven anymore, but  the heavenly one, for all eternity. 

With the Announcement of the future  Incarnation of Jesus, God does not impose His wish to save the whole of humanity, but He rather makes it depend on Mary’s assent: “Behold, the handmaid of the Lord; be it to me according to Your word."

And after that everything changed in human history.

Thank you Mary




2nd JOYFUL MISTERY

The Visitation: Mary visits Her cousin Elizabeth to tell her how happy She is that she is going to have a baby.

 Mary is pregnant and learns by the Angel of Her cousin Elizabeth, already quite old, that she is going to have a baby too. She is not frightened at all by the 150 Kilometres that She will  have to cover to make a great  act of charity. 

The dialogue between the two mothers is really beautiful, as well as the other one, silent and hidden, between the two Sons who are still in their mother’s wombs. John the Baptist rejoices as soon as He listens to Mary’s greeting to Elizabeth.

A real hymn to joy, to God’s mercy completes this mystery: it is the MAGNIFICAT  which  gets all of us involved  and opens us to the hope for life in Christ.

Thank you Mary full of joy

3rd JOYFUL MYSTERY

After a second journey, as long as the previous one, to meet a civil law, the census, Mary gives birth to Her Son.  It is announced by Luke- using an only  verse- a second Big Bang, a new creation that will change the whole  human history. 

Everything  occurs in a place that will soon become famous, as the prophet Micheas (5:1) said: “And thou Bethlehem art a little one among the thousands of Juda”

Not only: Jesus comes into the world in a cave of shepherds and not, as King of all Kings, in a royal palace, but in the arms of a very sweet Mother a little bit more than a teenager. 

Along with Her and  Her love there is  Joseph’s love.

In Bethlehem, that means “house of  bread”,  Jesus is being placed in a manger, to be eaten, after the Institution of The Eucharist, by all believing souls.

Thank you Mary, Thank you Jesus

4th JOYFUL MYSTERY

Still in order to meet the law, (this time Moses’ religious law), the Parents take the Child Jesus to the Temple to offer Him to God.

It is not quoted any of their words, but those words spoken in the Temple by Simeon, “an upright and devout man” are very meaningful; Simeon, inspired by the Holy Spirit, takes the Child in his arms……a bit something like we do when we receive Him in the Eucharistic Communion.  

Simeon’s prophecy (2:34) is illuminating and terrible at the same time: “He is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel” and he says to Mary(2:35): “a sword will pierce your soul”. 

After him, also the prophetess Anna “gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of Him to all those who looked for redemption in Jerusalem.”

Thank you Mary and Thank you Joseph

5th JOYFUL MYSTERY

Jesus is only 12 years old and for the first time He takes part in the Jewish Feast of Easter in Jerusalem with Mary and Joseph.

Owing to a misunderstanding, on the day of their return  to Nazareth, after a day of travel, Mary and Joseph realize that Jesus is missing. 

In the convoy, frequently men walked among men, separated from both women and children could choose whichever group to  stay in.   

Mary’s and Joseph’s anguish is big. 

They have been  travelling for a  whole day. 

A second day goes by on their way  back to Jerusalem.

They find Him only on the third day, and they are really full of joy, in the Temple.

“Behold, Your father and I have been  searching for You in great distress.”. Jesus replied: “Why were you looking for me?” He asked. “Didn’t you know that I must  be about My Father’s business?” But they did not understand what He was saying to them.”

Jesus affirms very explicitly for the first time that God is His Father and will talk about it on thousand occasions revealing His face, His mercy, His Love. 

This finding in the Temple is a  joyful mystery, but it is  preceded by a lot of both concern and anguish……..the sword prophesised by Simeon starts to pierce Mary’s life and soul. 

Thank you Mary, Thank you Jesus