1st Mystery of Light: The Baptism of the Lord in the Jordan
Each of these mysteries points the believer to the central meaning of the Mission of the Redeemer, Jesus Christ. The Mysteries of Light' or 'Luminous Mysteries' are now placed between the Joyful and sorrowful mysteries in our recitation of the Rosary on a sequential basis. If you donate just $5.00, the price of your coffee, Catholic Online School could keep thriving. We're not salespeople, but we depend on donations averaging $14.76 and fewer than 1% of readers give. If you have already donated, we sincerely thank you. Hi readers, it seems you use Catholic Online a lot that's great! It's a little awkward to ask, but we need your help. Each of these mysteries is a revelation of the Kingdom now present in the very person of Jesus.'
In proposing to the Christian community five significant moments - 'luminous' mysteries - during this phase of Christ's life, I think that the following can be fittingly singled out: '(1) his Baptism in the Jordan, (2) his self-manifestation at the wedding of Cana, (3) his proclamation of the Kingdom of God, with his call to conversion, (4) his Transfiguration, and finally, (5) his institution of the Eucharist, as the sacramental expression of the Paschal Mystery. 'Yet this truth emerges in a special way during the years of his public life, when he proclaims the Gospel of the Kingdom. He is the 'light of the world' (Jn 8:12). Certainly the whole mystery of Christ is a mystery of light. 'Moving on from the infancy and the hidden life in Nazareth to the public life of Jesus, our contemplation brings us to those mysteries which may be called in a special way 'mysteries of light'. He also proposed that the practice of praying the rosary would be enhanced by additional 'mysteries of light' for reflection. In 2002, Blessed John Paul II released an apostolic letter on the 'Rosary of the Virgin Mary' (RVM) in which he referred to the Rosary as a 'compendium of the Gospel'.
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