![]() ![]() ![]() After the Transfiguration, Jesus foretells His crucifixion again. Peter, James, and John are there and they remember this event after His Passion and Resurrection. Peter confesses that Jesus is the Messiah Jesus foretells His Passion and Peter remonstrates with Him Jesus rebukes Peter, and then He is Transfigured with Elijah and Moses, and the voice of the Father commends Him again, as at the Baptism. The Transfiguration takes place in the context of that testimony and warning: in the three Synoptic Gospels the sequence is that St. As He proclaims the kingdom, Jesus testifies to the disciples that He will suffer, die and rise on the third day. The central message of the proclamation of the Kingdom is the message of Lent: repent and believe in the Gospel for the Kingdom of God is at hand. If this mystery is hard to meditate upon, that’s just because there is so much to choose from. The Proclamation of the Kingdom offers a wide range of themes to meditate on: the healings, the miracles, the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount, the conflicts between Jesus and the Pharisees and Scribes, and the parables. For more about this exchange and especially Jesus’s use of the word “Woman” when responding to His mother, read this explanation. When he performs this miracle of changing water into wine, however, He begins His messianic mission, which is to suffer and die for us on the Cross, and then rise from the dead. Jesus’s first response to Mary’s request for a miracle is that His hour has not yet come. The Marriage Feast of Cana is the third manifestation or Epiphany of Jesus, along with the visit of the Magi and the Baptism. He withstands the temptations of the Devil and gives us our pattern for Lent. After Jesus is baptized, He goes into the desert for 40 days and 40 nights, fasting and praying. That title points to His death on the Cross on Good Friday. John the Baptist testifies to Him as the Lamb of God. The Baptism of Jesus is both an event for Christmas time and for Lent: it is part of Jesus’s Epiphany, or manifestation, as He is proclaimed the Father’s Beloved Son and St. Each of the Luminous Mysteries lends itself to a Lenten interpretation. John Paul II provided some guidance for meditation on each of these mysteries in his Apostolic Letter, noting that “we contemplate important aspects of the person of Christ as the definitive revelation of God” because “each of these mysteries is a revelation of the Kingdom now present in the very person of Jesus”.įor Lent this year, I decided to alternate between the Luminous Mysteries and the Sorrowful Mysteries, starting on Ash Wednesday with the Sorrowful. The five Luminous Mysteries are: 1) The Baptism of Jesus 2) The Marriage Feast of Cana 3) The Proclamation of the Kingdom 4) The Transfiguration 5) The Institution of the Eucharist. Some have resisted the option to use these mysteries for various reasons, some of which Pope John Paul anticipated in his letter: Mary, the Mother of God, is absent in all but one of the mysteries (the second) the addition of five more mysteries breaks the linkage between the 150 Aves and the 150 Psalms, and one of the mysteries is termed hard to meditate upon (the third). In the almost 15 years since their introduction, the Luminous Mysteries have been included in most Rosary devotionals and meditation aids. 10 that year “to bring out fully the Christological depth of the Rosary” by including “the mysteries of Christ's public ministry between his Baptism and his Passion”. He proposed them in an Apostolic Letter on Oct. John Paul II introduced the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary in 2002, there’s no indication that he saw them as Lenten devotions. ![]()
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