Meditations Based on the Catechism
of the Catholic Church
On October 7, the Catholic Church celebrates a memorial liturgy in honor of Mary as Our Lady of the Rosary. October has also been traditionally known as the month of the Rosary. The recitation of the Rosary is a devotion based on Sacred Scripture. In 1974, Pope Paul VI wrote about the Rosary:
The Rosary draws from the Gospel the presentation of the mysteries and its main formulas . As it moves from the angel's joyful greeting and the Virgin's pious assent, the Rosary takes its inspiration from the Gospel to suggest the attitude with which the faithful should recite it. In the harmonious succession of Hail Mary's, the Rosary puts before us once more a fundamental mystery of the Gospel--the incarnation of the Word, contemplated at the decisive moment of the Annunciation of Mary. The Rosary is thus a Gospel prayer, as pastors and scholars like to define it, more today perhaps than in the past. (Marialis Cultus 44)
The Mary Page is pleased to present a meditation of the Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful, and Glorious mysteries in image and text from two cloistered Dominican monasteries. The artist and the author have creatively approached the Rosary devotion in our contemporary world. Both have given us permission to publish their works on the Mary Page. (For more information, see below). We invite you to take a quiet moment and ponder the images and texts. Recently, Sr. Mary Grace Thul completed the illustrations of the new series of mysteries, the mysteries of light. the accompanying texts are taken from John Paul II's letter on the Rosary.
The Joyful Mysteries
The Presentation in the Temple
The Luminous Mysteries
The Baptism of the Lord in the Jordan
The Self-Revelation of the Lord at the Wedding Feast of Cana
The Lord Jesus Proclaims the Coming of
the Kingdom
The Sorrowful Mysteries
The Glorious Mysteries
