most evidently a mystery of light: 'While I am in the world, I am the light of the
world' (Jn 9:5)” (RVM 19). ... Pope John Paul II judged the introduction of the
Luminous Mysteries appropriate: It is fitting to add, following reflection on the
Incarnation ...

The great majority of the twenty Rosary mysteries are explicitly dedicated to the
life of Jesus. As for the last two mysteries, the Assumption and Coronation of
Mary, these mysteries illustrate the application of the graces of the victorious
Christ to ...

The Mysteries, which should be meditated on while the Rosary is being recited,
are intended to honor our Lord as the Saviour, and His Blessed Mother as the
most important auxiliary in effecting our salvation. They are divided into three ...

That the symbolic sense was intended in the ceremonies of faith, is proved from
the ancient fathers. Thus St. Ambrose says to the Neophites, who have been just
initiated by baptism into the Christian mysteries, " Recollect what you have done, ...

These are the mysteries. ... There are mysteries everywhere, and we admit them.
... There is mystery in the grain of sand on the ocean's margin, mystery in the drop
of water, in the flower, in the tree, in the small insect, in the largest animal, ...

OBSCURITY OF RELIGIOUS MYSTERIES. BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES
BELLORD, D.D. "If any man love me he will keep my word, and my Father will
love hin and we will come to him and will make our abode with him." — John xvi,
23.

"The existence of different opinions regarding these sacraments and other
mysteries in the Church, arises from the fact that I manifest and give light
concerning one set of mysteries to some teachers, and illumine others
concerning other ...

And n when they carry the mysteries (without), they shall suffer none but the sick
to partake. And they shall not do according to favour and give unto one beside
the sick, but unto the sick alone. And if any constrain them that they should give y ...

spake to them that had understanding, not by words only, but even by the
miracles themselves. The five loaves signified the five books of Moses' Law. The
old l>aw is barley compared to the Gospel wheat. In those books are great
mysteries ...

Meus est qui amat unitatem ; non est meus qui separat," says St. Columban.2 " It
is not the knowledge of mysteries which is required ; it is the constant meditation
on the life of Christ which strengthens the mind against vain and perishable ...