LUMINOUS MYSTERIES.

We all know that Jesus said: “I am the Way, I am the Door, I am the Light.”   Pope John Paul II wanted us to stop on the last statement; ‘I am the Light’, that is why we now  pray the Luminous Mysteries.

Meditating on those five Mysteries we find a great shedding of light by Jesus Himself.

The first Mystery: ‘The Baptism in the Jordan’.

The message of Jesus was this: ‘Look I want to save you (humanity), to pull you out of the darkness of sin and corruption, after the Fall caused by the Original Sin. I am taking upon myself all your sins, corruption, misgivings, so that you can make it out of the ‘darknesss of sin’ and can walk back to the LIGHT.’ You can refer to Isaiah where he said that Jesus took upon himself all our iniquities….so back to the Light.

The second Mystery: ‘Jesus manifests His first signs at the marriage feast at Cana.’   

Yes, St.John calls the miracles performed by Jesus as ‘signs’, that is a sign of His Divinity. When we realise that Jesus is God in the form of a human being, we acclaim His Divinity and our eyes open … and we see everything clear as if in broad daylight…. so back to the Light.

The third Mystery: ‘Jesus proclaims His Mission and encourages repentance’.

If man repents and by the grace of God accepts Jesus’ Mission of Salvation, he would be walking in the Light…. so back to the Light.

The fourth Mystery:   ‘The Transfiguration’

Some Biblical scholars, are of the opinion that Jesus was not transfigured, per se, BUT, Peter, James and John, were granted the privilege on Tabor, to see how Jesus actually was, rather looked, in His Divinity. That is how Jesus always WAS. Not one of all the people, crowd that surrounded him daily, nor His disciples, not even His apostles had ever seen Him like he looked on Tabor. We shall see Christ like that, we hope, in His glory when we come face to face with Him in Heaven… a feast of Light…. so back to the Light.

The fifth Mystery: ‘The Institution of the Eucharist’.

If we want to find the Way, we need Light, and then we shall even find the Door. Jesus remained with us in the Blessed Eucharist to be our Way, our Light, our Door, and our food…. so back to the Light.

It is interesting to note that thirty years before Pope John II introduced these Luminous Mysteries, universally, these same luminous Mysteries were in the mind of St.George Preca … the Maltese saint (I have been posting Spiritual Guidelines from the Writings of this Saint). These same Mysteries were mentioned in St.George’s Writings, long before the Pope had the idea of introducing them to the Universal Church.

Hope I have answered your question. God bless us.