First Saturday 15-Minute Meditation | Fifth Joyful Mystery: The Finding in the Temple (2024)

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Fifth Joyful Mystery: The finding of Jesus in the temple

After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions; and all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers" (Lk 2:41-47).

FIRST SATURDAY MEDITATION

It means spending 15 minutes with Our Lady thinking about, in a prayerful way that opens your soul to God's graces, some of the mysteries of the rosary. This doesn't require meditating on all 15 mysteries in one go during the 15 minutes meditation; it can be one mystery or more.

First Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation to Mary

You shall conceive and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus… Mary answered, “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to your word.” Reflection: In the quiet of a garden, God proposes (through an angel) and a woman accepts.

Third Joyful Mystery-The Birth of Jesus

Silence, poverty, simplicity, and innocence fill the scene. The voices of angels are heard in the heavens announcing the peace that the newborn Infant brings into the world. The first to adore him are Mary, his mother, and Joseph, his foster father.

This is the answer that Jesus gave to His Mother when, after three days' search she had the joy of finding Him in the Temple. Gospel. In these words Jesus sums up His whole person, His whole life, His whole mission. They reveal His Divine Sonship; they testify to His supernatural mission.

In verse 52, Luke then adds the only information the Gospels give between this incident in the Temple and when Jesus launches His public ministry at the age of 30: "And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man." The fruit of this Rosary mystery is obedience, says Fr.

To those who practice the devotion of the First Saturdays in reparation, Our Lady promises her assistance at the hour of death "with the graces necessary for salvation" -- she does not promise them eternal salvation itself, but the heavenly graces necessary for salvation.

Focus on What You're Doing in this Moment …

All meditation techniques, from ancient times to the present, begin with this one fundamental rule: Whatever you are doing at this moment must be exactly what you are doing at this moment, and nothing else. No distractions!

Accompany Our Lady by meditating on the mysteries of the Holy Rosary. This can be done by reading the biblical texts of the mysteries of the Holy Rosary slowly thinking of their content. You could meditate on one mystery for 15 minutes at the end of the prayer as Sr Lucia did.

At the beginning of each decade, announce the "mystery" to be contemplated, for example, the first joyful mystery is "The Annunciation". After a short pause for reflection, recite the "Our Father", ten "Hail Marys" and the "Glory be to the Father". An invocation may be added after each decade.

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First Mystery: The Annunciation

The First Joyful Mystery is the Annunciation. The angel Gabriel came to Mary and told her that she would bear the Son of God, who would bring redemption to the world.

The Joyful Mysteries are marked by the joy radiating from the event of the Incarnation. The Angel Gabriel appears to Mary, announcing she is to be the Mother of God. Elizabeth greets Mary: “Blessed art Thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb!”

Fourth Joyful Mystery: The Presentation in the Temple

"Jesus' circumcision, on the eighth day after his birth, is the sign of his incorporation into Abraham's descendants, into the people of the covenant. It is the sign of his submission to the Law" (CCC, 527).

Second Joyful Mystery: The Visitation

And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and she exclaimed with a loud cry, 'Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!"' (Lk 1:39-42).

In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.

Mary and Joseph take Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem, forty days after his birth, 'to present him to the Lord', as the Law of Moses required (Luke 2:22). St Luke stresses that the parents fulfil all their religious obligations meticulously; and the offering of two birds shows their humble poverty.

The Joyful Mysteries celebrate when Joy entered the world, when God entered into the mess of the world because of his incredible love for us. The First Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation. The Second Joyful Mystery: The Visitation. The Third Joyful Mystery: The Birth of Jesus.

In the Roman Catholic Church, the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple is the fourth Joyful Mystery of the Rosary.