The Glorious Mysteries

Prayed on Wednesdays and Sundays 1. The Resurrection  (John 20: 8)  The morning of the third day after his death and burial Jesus arose from the dead as he had promised and later appeared to his mother and his disciples, filling all their hearts with unspeakable joy. 2. The Ascension (Acts 1: 7 - 9) After forty days on earth after his Resurrection "showing them in many ways that he was still alive and speaking to them about the Kingdom of God," Jesus went with his disples to a mountaintop where he promised to be with them always and then ascended before their eyes into heaven.  3. The Descent of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2: 3 -4)  On Pentecost, when the disciples, including his Mother, were assembled in an upper room in Jerusalem and the Holy Spirit descended upon all of them in the form of fiery tongues, inflaming their hearts with the fire of divine love, teaching them all of the truths, and giving the gifts of wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. 4. The Assumption of Our Blessed Mother into Heaven  (Thessalonians 4; 14)  Mary was consumed with the desire to be united with her son in heaven her soul departed her body and united itself to him, who out of love he bore for her - the woman who was his first tabernacle-caused her body to be assumed into heaven and miraculously reunited with her soul amidst the acclaim of angels and saints. 5. The Crowning of our Blessed Mother as Queen of Heaven and Earth (Revelations 12: 1) Having been taken up to heaven after her death she was triply crowned as the august Queen of Heaven and Earth by God the Father as his beloved daughter, by God the Sonas his dearest mother, and by God the Holy Spirit as his chosen spouse she became the most perfect adorer of the Blessed Trinity, pleading our cause as our most powerful and merciful Blessed Mother.