GLORIOUS MYSTERIES OF THE ROSARY

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GLORIOUS MYSTERIES OF THE ROSARY
Resurrection Lk 241-12, Mt. 281-8, Mk. 161- 6
Ascension Mk.1619 20, Lk. 2450 53, Acts
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Descent of Holy Spirit upon the Apostles
Acts21-13
Assumption of BVM
Crowning of Blessed Virgin Mary
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RESURRECTION
Luke 241- 22 But at daybreak on the first day
of the week they took the spices they had
prepared and went to the tomb. They found the
stone rolled away from the tomb but when they
entered, they did not find the body of the Lord
Jesus. While they were puzzling over this,
behold, two men in dazzling garments appeared to
them. They were terrified and bowed their faces
to the ground. They said to them, "Why do you
seek the living one among the dead? He is not
here, but he has been raised. 2 Remember what he
said to you while he was still in Galilee, that
the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners and
be crucified, and rise on the third day." And
they remembered his words. Then they returned
from the tomb and announced all these things to
the eleven and to all the others. The women were
Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of
James the others who accompanied them also told
this to the apostles, but their story seemed like
nonsense and they did not believe them
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ASCENSION
ACTS 116 22 When they had gathered together
they asked him, "Lord, are you at this time going
4 to restore the kingdom to Israel?" He answered
them, "It is not for you to know the times or
seasons that the Father has established by his
own authority. But you will receive power when
the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be
my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and
Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." When he
had said this, as they were looking on, he was
lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight.
While they were looking intently at the sky as he
was going, suddenly two men dressed in white
garments stood beside them. They said, "Men of
Galilee, why are you standing there looking at
the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from
you into heaven will return in the same way as
you have seen him going into heaven." Then they
returned to Jerusalem from the mount called
Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's
journey away.
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DESCENT OF HOLY SPIRIT
ACTS CHAPTER 2 When the time for Pentecost was
fulfilled, they were all in one place together.
And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like
a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire
house in which they were. Then there appeared to
them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to
rest on each one of them. And they were all
filled with the holy Spirit and began to speak in
different tongues, 4 as the Spirit enabled them
to proclaim.
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ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED MOTHERINTO HEAVEN
THE ASSUMPTION After the apostles have
dispersed, the Blessed Mother goes to live with
John, the beloved disciple. Mary lives many years
on earth after the death of Christ. She is a
source of comfort, consolation and strength to
the apostles. As she had nourished the infant
Jesus, so she nourishes spiritually the infant
Church. Mary dies, not of bodily infirmity, but
is wholly ravished in a rapture of divine love.
Her body as well as her soul is taken up into
heaven. After her burial the apostles go to the
tomb and find only fragrant lilies. Jesus does
not permit the sinless body of His Mother to
decay in the grave. Corruption of the body is an
effect of original sin from which Mary is totally
exempted. The bodies of all mankind, at the last
judgment, will be brought back and united again
to the soul.
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CORONATION OF BVM
THE CORONATION As Mary enters heaven, the entire
court of heaven greets with joy this masterpiece
of God's creation. Mary is crowned by her divine
Son as Queen of heaven and earth. More than we
can ever know the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
overflow with joy at this reunion. Only in heaven
will we know the great majesty of that
coronation, and the joy it gave to the angels and
saints. Even the angels, who by nature are
greater than humans, hail Mary as their Queen.
Mary shares so fully in the glory of Christ
because she shared so fully in His suffering.
Only in heaven will we see how central is the
role of Mary in the divine plan of redemption.
The angels and saints longed for the coming of
her whose heel crushes the head of the serpent.
Mary pleads our cause as a most powerful Queen
and a most merciful and loving Mother. A great
sign appeared in heaven a woman clothed with the
sun, the moon under her feet, and on her