Today, we have had some technical difficulties with the online Rosary and Mass so there will be no livestream this evening. However, the Rosary will still be said by our clergy this evening for the deliverance from the Coronavirus.
The meditations that were to be used in the livestream are shown below so that you may use them yourself.
First Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection
This is the day which the Lord has made, let us be rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalm 118.24
In Genesis we read that God rested on the seventh day, and that day was always kept holy by the Jewish people. On Saturday in Holy Week, the body of Our Lord rested in the tomb, and on the first day of the week He rose again, victor over death and sin.
That glorious resurrection was indeed the proof that Jesus was truly God, and He has promised that those who follow Him in this life, taking up their cross daily, shall also share in the resurrection and have life everlasting.
May His sweet Mother be our help, our advocate, and bring us at last to where she reigns in glory, Queen of angels and of men.
Second Glorious Mystery: The Ascension
Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in.
Psalm 24:7
Although Christ ascended on high, and clouds of glory hid Him from His disciples, we know that His Name is ever mighty on earth, and more, that we have His abiding presence on our altars. He allowed His brethren to witness the Ascension, not only for their consolation, but also for ours; that, believing their testimony, our hope of eternal life, of rising from the dead to reign with Christ in Heaven, might be strengthened and hallowed.
May Mary help us to live for Christ, that we may share the expectation of ascending to the heavenly Kingdom which was her joy and consolation after her Divine Son had left her behind in this world to work for Him here below.
Third Glorious Mystery: The Descent of the Holy Spirit
… The Holy Spirit, with a sudden sound, came down on the disciples and changed their minds, filling them with love for Himself.
Breviary, Whit Sunday
The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Love, was sent to pour that spirit into the hearts of men. And never, since that first Pentecost, has the world so needed an outpouring of love. A large number of people are cold and indifferent, Christ and His Kingdom do not enter into their calculation; others are tired, exhausted, despondent, the Gospel has no meaning for them. Far worse still are those who are fixed in their hatred of the Cross, of God, of all religion. Let us beg Mary, who longs for the salvation of all mankind, to help us so to fill our own lives with the love of God, that we may be able to shed its warmth on our fellow men, and by prayer and sacrifice help to uphold the Cross which alone can redeem and comfort.
Fourth Glorious Mystery: The Assumption
How should corruption attack that body into which the Lord was received? For her there was prepared a straight, smooth, and easy way to Heaven. For if Christ, the Life and the Truth says, Where I am there also shall My servant be; how much more shall not His Mother be with Him?
St John Damascene
We will beg our heavenly Mother that at the moment of our death our souls may be found worthy to be taken to Paradise, to be joined again to our bodies at the general resurrection. May her intercession be mighty on our behalf, and when we have passed through the gate of death, may she “show to us the blessed fruit of (her) womb, Jesus”.
Fifth Glorious Mystery: The Coronation
Truly happy are you, O holy Virgin Mary, and worthy of all praise, for from you has dawned the sun of justice, Christ, our God.
Breviary
Our sweet Mother, Mary, is crowned by her Son, Queen of Heaven, of the whole hierarchy f angels, and of all those of mankind who have believed in God and followed Christ on earth. May their happy lot be ours.
Hail, then, O Mother … pray without ceasing for us to Jesus your Son and Our Lord, that through you we may find mercy in the day of judgment, and may be able to obtain those good things which are prepared for those who love God.
Breviary
And there, in the joy of the presence of God, and the company of all the saints, we shall keep our true Easter.
Note:
The meditations above are based on those found in the ninth chapter of Simple Rosary Meditations by a Dominican Tertiary, 1951.
