Joyful Mysteries

The first Joyful Mystery: Annunciation

Let us contemplate how the Angel Gabrel, Saluted our Blessed Lady, with the title: Full of grace, and declared to her, the incarnation of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

The Second Joyful Mystery: The visitation

Let us contemplate how the Blessed Virgin Mary understanding from the angel that her cousin St.Elizabeth had conceived went with haste in to the mountains of Judea to visit her, and remained with her three months.

The third Joyful Mystery: The nativity

Let us contemplate how the Blessed Virgin Mary when the time of her delivery had come brought forth our redeemer Jesus Christ at midnight and laid him in a manger at Bethlehem.

The Fourth Joyful Mystery: The presentation

Let us contemplate how Blessed Virgin Mary on the days of her purification presented the child Jesus in the temple where Holy Simeon giving thanks to God with great devotion received Him into his arms.

The Fifth Joyful Mystery: The finding of Jesus in the Temple

Let us contemplate in this mystery how the Blessed Virgin Mary after having lost her beloved son sought him for three days and at last found him in the temple in the midst of doctors.