Luminous Mysteries: Introduction

Begin the Cenacle by
recitation of the Holy Rosary with Mary,
Our Lady of all Nations
For the New Evangelization
of Nations
“O Lord, Take from us all lukewarmness in
meditation and all dullness in prayer. Give us
fervour and delight in thinking of you.” (St. Thomas
More)
Pray the Creed

Cenacle with Mary
 The Cenacle is Group prayer,
 with Mary and all the angels and saints,
 using the Rosary, and her own words,
 to invoke the descent of the Holy Spirit (a
second Pentecost),
 for a second Evangelization of continents
and nations. (Asia, Africa, Russia, China,
India, etc)
Pray the Our Father

The Cenacle Pray with 3 virtues
1. Faith
2. Hope
3
3. Love.
Pray with 3 choirs 2
1. Angels 1
2. Saints
3. Confraternity
of the Rosary
To invoke the descent
of the Holy Spirit upon
nations
The prayer of the Rosary is no
longer a monologue or a dialogue,
but a chorus, a TRUE
COMMUNION OF ANGELS
AND SAINTS

First luminous Mystery
The Baptism in the Jordan
After Jesus was baptized, he came up from the
water and stood there praying; and behold, the
Heaven was opened.
The Holy Ghost came down upon him like
a dove. And a voice came from Heaven saying
“This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well
pleased.”
Spiritual fruits: Submission to God’s will.
Gratitude for the gift of Faith.
(St. Louis de Montfort)

1. John is baptizing in the Jordan proclaiming a
baptism of repentance.
The Jordan
river
connects to the
stories of
Israel’s
entry into the
Promised land
with Joshua, &
to Israel’s crisis
and call for
renewal by
Elijah and
Elisha.
The river
symbolized a
Nicolas Poussin, new exodus, a
The Baptist baptizes the crowd. 1632.
Louvre Museum. Paris new beginning.

2. Behold the lamb of God. “He should become
2. Behold,
more and more and I
the lamb of God.
should become less
and less”
Total opposite to 21st
century philosophy:
I am the most
important, my
freedom, my rights.
The highest value of
all values is Jesus in
my life.
Dieric Bouts, 1415-1475. Ecce
Agnus Dei. Alte Pinakothek
Munich. Germany.

3. St. John the Baptist is a challenging personality. He
challenged people to change, and opposed powers of this
world. He paid for the truth with his head.

Freedom is
not the first
value. The
1st value is
the Truth.
Jesus said,
I am the
Truth. The
Truth will
set you
Peter Rubens, The Feast of Herod,
National Gallery of Scotland. free.
Edinburgh.

4. He took on our sins
“He allows himself to
be numbered among
sinners. He is already
‘the lamb of God who
takes away the sins of
the world’. Already he
is anticipating the
‘baptism’ of his bloody
death.” (Cathechism)

Jusepe de Rubera. 1643
Naples. Italy.

5.*The Theophany
of our Lord.
When you O Lord,
were baptized in
the Jordan, the
worship of the
Trinity was made
manifest.
Through baptism
we all enter into an
awareness of this
great mystery that
God is three, and
How to pray with icons. By Miroslaw Tataryn
yet one.

6. The Holy Spirit at
our baptism
“ I have baptized you with water.
He will baptize you with the Holy
Spirit.”
As the Holy Spirit descended
on Jesus at His baptism, so
He descends on us at our
baptism and inspires us to a
loving union with God, and
transforms us with His
supernatural life. We become
new creations.
We are adopted as sons or
daughters of our Heavenly
Father. We too become
heirs.
“Live in Love”

7. We die to our old selves
Through baptism we die to
our old selves and are born
into Christ. To continue our
journey we must renew our
baptismal promise to die
and rise with Christ.
“Do you not know that all of us
who have been baptized into
Christ were baptized into his
death?”–St. Paul

How are we to continue to
bury sin in our lives?

8. Wash at the fountain
“Go and wash at the
fountain!
Wash yourselves at the spring
of living water which flows
from the pierced Heart of my
son Jesus, through the
sacrament of
reconciliation.
I want you pure in mind,
heart and body.” (Gobbi)
Reni Guido, Baptism of Christ,
Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Vienna.

9. The Holy Spirit descends on Him to invest Him
with the mission which he is to carry out.
In our baptism
we are
anointed
as Christians.
This means we
are followers
of Christ. Just
as Christ faced
the cross and
embraced it,
we too will
have suffering
& crosses in
our lives.
Pietro Perugino, The Baptism of Christ,
1490, Musee des Beaux-Art, Rouen

10. In this heavenly manifestation is instituted
the sacrament of baptism. We pray for a
deeper
awareness
of the adoption
we received at
our baptism,
when we
became sons
& daughters of
our Father in
heaven. Help
us in dying to
sin and in living
Joachim Patinir, to holiness and
The baptism of Christ, 1515. the life of
Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna.
grace. Amen.

The ( National ) Rosary For the Evangelization of
(Nations)
1. Fatima Prayer: To Eucharistic Jesus, source of all
evangelization.
“O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell,
and lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of
thy mercy.”
2. Invocation of the Holy Spirit: Principal agent of
evangelization.
“Come, Holy Spirit! Fill the hearts of the (National) people and
enkindle in them the fire of your love! Come by means of the
powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your
well-beloved Spouse.”

3. Prayer to Our Lady of ( Nation ): Star of the new
evangelization.
“Hail Holy Queen, Mother of (Nation), come and present the
(National) people to Jesus, the fruit of thy womb.
Look upon them continually with mercy and through your
intercession with the divine Redeemer, heal them of their
sufferings, deliver them from all evil, and fill them with your

The ( National ) Rosary For the Evangelization
of Nations (Abridged version)
evangelization.
“O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the
fires of hell, and lead all souls to heaven,
especially those in most need of thy mercy.”

evangelization.
“Come, Holy Spirit! Fill the hearts of the (National)
people and enkindle in them the fire of your love!
Come by means of the powerful intercession of
the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well-beloved
Spouse.”
Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament.

Second Luminous Mystery
The Marriage Feast at Cana.
On the third day there was a wedding in Cana in
Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there…
When the wine ran short Mary said to Him, “They
have no wine.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, how
does your concern affect me? My hour has not
yet come.” His mother told the servers, “Do
whatever He tells you.”

Spiritual fruit: Fidelity
Devotion to Mary

1. Wedding Feast at Cana.

Paolo Veronese, The Marriage at Cana, 1562. Museum of Louvre. Paris

2. Here the supply of wine failed.

Gerard David, Marriage at Cana. Early 16th century.

3.** The Mother of Jesus said to Him:
They have no wine left.
This scene is an
example of
“Mary’s
solicitude for
human beings,
her coming to
them in the wide
variety of their
wants and
needs”, and her
role in “bringing
those needs to
Christ.”
(Pope John Paul II)

4. The Mother of Jesus said to Him:
They have no wine left.
“It is a quality of
mercy to regard
another’s distress
as one’s own,
because to be
merciful is to have
a heart distressed
at the distress of
another.”
(St. Thomas Aquinas)

5. Mary said to the waiters:
“Do whatever He tells you.”

“It is an exhortation to
trust without hesitation,
especially when one does
not understand the
meaning or benefit of
what Christ asks.”
(Pope John Paul II)
Marten de Vos 1603,
Vrouwe-kathedraal.
Antwerp.

6. Jesus bids the waiters
to fill the jars with water,
and then draw some out
and take it to the master.
Pure water was changed into
excellent wine, to demonstrate
that lukewarmness and
negligence should give place
to love and zeal.
Am I aware that my life should
be completely changed by the
presence of Christ from water
into wine?

Byzantine icon. Fresco in
St. Seraphim Orthodox
Cathedral. Dallas. Texas

7. Only the servants who had drawn the water
knew where the wine came from.

Mattia Preti, The Marriage at Cana.
1613. National Gallery. London

8. The master said to the
groom: “Everyone serves
the good wine first…but
you have saved the good
wine until now.”
At the last supper, He would
change bread and wine into
His Flesh and Blood, and
thus He would remain with
them until the end, to
strengthen and console
them.
Paolo Veronese,
The Marriage at Cana,
1562. Louvre Museum.
Paris.

9. A wonderful mother "In dangers, in doubts,
in difficulties, think of
Mary, call upon Mary.
Let not her name leave
thy lips, never suffer it
to leave your heart."

This mystery shows us
that Mary, our Mother is
concerned with our daily
needs, even material ones:
“They have no wine left.”
The Children’s illustrated bible. Her intercession is
Hermes House. powerful. Jesus will never
refuse her requests.

10. Marriage Sacrament By His presence,
Christian marriage was raised to the dignity of a sacrament.

Help us to do whatever
You tell us, through
Mary’s intercession.
May the grace of
obedience to the
teachings of the
Church come down
into our souls.
Paolo Veronese,
The Marriage at Cana, 1562.
Louvre Museum. Paris.

The ( National ) Rosary For the Evangelization
of Nations. (Abridged version)
evangelization.
“O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the
fires of hell, and lead all souls to heaven,
especially those in most need of thy mercy.”

evangelization.
“Come, Holy Spirit! Fill the hearts of the (National)
people and enkindle in them the fire of your love!
Come by means of the powerful intercession of
the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well-beloved
Spouse.”
Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament.

Third Luminous Mystery
The Proclamation of the Kingdom
After John had been arrested, Jesus came to
Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God:
“This is the time of fulfillment. The Kingdom of God
is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”

Spiritual fruit: Desire for Holiness,
Grace of Conversion.
Pope John Paul II suggested that we focus on
Christ’s call to conversion and his forgiveness.

1. With Jesus He fasted for forty
in the Desert days, offering his fast
to the eternal Father
as a satisfaction for
the disorder and vice
of gluttony. He
satisfied the offenses
committed through
them by the exercises
of the virtues contrary
to them.
In satisfaction for our
pride He offered his
profound humility; for
our avarice, his
voluntary poverty .
(Mary of Agreda)

2. “Seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness,
and all these things shall be yours as well.”
In this most
secularized society
today, am I also
putting worldly
pursuits of fame,
fortune, pleasures and
enjoyment of life first,
and the kingdom of
God last?
We need to reassess
our lives often and
turn back to God.
(True conversion)

3. “ My Kingdom is not of this world .”
“Today the Gospel should be lived with the simplicity of little ones,
with the ardour of martyrs, and with the fidelity of courageous
witnesses; it should be lived to the letter! You are being called to
follow me along the road of heroic and pure faith.” (Gobbi)

4. The inauguration of the ministry of mercy and
healing, and the forgiveness of sins

El Greco 1541-1614
Christ Healing the Blind
Gemaldegalerie. Dresden Germany.

5. He instructed his disciples not only the mysteries of faith, but in all
virtues by word and example. He searched out the poor and afflicted,
consoled the sick and sorrowful, visited the infirmaries and prisons,
performing miracles of mercy as well for body as for soul. (Mary of
Agreda)

6. Ministry of Mercy and Forgiveness:
Christ came to us not as a just judge but a saviour,
offering us forgiveness & chance to start over again.
When we
confess our
sins in the
sacrament of
reconciliation,
we also
encounter
Jesus who
offers us
Paolo Veronese, forgiveness,
Christ addressing a kneeling woman.
1528. London Gallery. and grace to
strengthen us.

7. Go everywhere to gather the weakest.

“Go everywhere to
gather the weakest,
the littlest, the most
fragile, those who
are suffering most,
those who are
farthest away, those
who are lost.
Bring all to me. I
want to save all my
children, through
you.” (Gobbi)
Bartolome Murillo, Christ healing a paralytic. 1671. National Gallery. London

8. The Raising of Lazarus

Sebastiano del Piombo, Raising of Lazarus. 1485. National gallery. London

9. The Multiplication of loaves

Giovanni Lanfranco, Multiplication of loaves,1624. National Gallery. Ireland.

10. The walking on waves Why do you doubt?

John Arvid Nelson. Why do you doubt.

The ( National ) Rosary For the Evangelization of
(Nations)
evangelization.
“O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell,
and lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of
thy mercy.”
evangelization.
“Come, Holy Spirit! Fill the hearts of the (National) people and
enkindle in them the fire of your love! Come by means of the
powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your
well-beloved Spouse.”
3. Prayer to Our Lady of ( Nation ): Star of the new
evangelization.
“Hail Holy Queen, Mother of (Nation), come and present the
(National) people to Jesus, the fruit of thy womb.
Look upon them continually with mercy and through your
intercession with the divine Redeemer, heal them of their
sufferings, deliver them from all evil, and fill them with your
love.”

Fourth Luminous Mystery
The Transfiguration
 While Jesus was praying His face changed in
appearance and His clothing became dazzling
white. And behold two men were conversing
with Him, Moses and Elijah, who appeared in
glory and spoke of His exodus that He was
going to accomplish in Jerusalem.
 Spiritual fruit: Spiritual courage.
Holy fear of God.

1. The Holy Mountain: He went up the mountain to pray.
“The mountain is the place of ascent—not only outward but also inward
ascent. It is a liberation from the burden of everyday life, a breathing in
the pure air of creation. It offers a view of the broad expanse of creation
and its beauty; it gives one an inner peak to stand on and an intuitive
sense of the Creator.” (Pope Benedict XVI)

Lorenzo Lotto, 1480-1556. Christ leading the apostles to mount Tabor.
The State Hermitage museum, St. Petersburg.

2*. The Transfiguration

The transfiguration of
Christ symbolizes the
transformation God
wishes to bring about
in our lives.
Christ calls us to
reflect the glory of
God, and be changed
into his own likeness
from one degree of
glory to another.

United Episcopal Church

3. Ascend the holy mountain of his wisdom.
“Ascend the
holy mountain
of his wisdom,
which is
revealed to you,
if your remain
little, humble
and poor.
With courage
you will
pronounce the
word of Jesus
to the men of
Titian. The Transfiguration. today.” (Gobbi)

4. Ascend the holy mountain of his heart
“Ascend the holy mountain of his heart, that you may be
transformed by the burning bush of his divine charity. You
will become meek and humble of heart. You will be truly
able to love those most in need, those who are lost.” (Gobbi)

5. Ascend the Holy mountain of his divine humanity.
“Ascend the holy mountain of
his divine humanity: his eyes
in your eyes, his hands in your
hands, his heart in you hearts,
his wounds in your wounds,
his cross in your cross, his
sufferings in your sufferings.

In this way you will become the
potent presence of Jesus who,
by means of you, can still today
work mightily to bring all to
salvation.” (Gobbi)
Gerard David 1460-1523. The Transfiguration. Notre Dame. Brussels.

6 Peter said to Jesus
“Master, how good it
is for us to be here.”
If we are to pray,
we must settle down
relax and feel “how
good it is for us
to be here.”

“The Lord has
pitched the tent of
his body among
us and has thus
inaugurated the
messianic age.”
(Pope Benedict XVI)
How to pray with icons. By Miroslaw Tataryn

7. Make us cleaner and whiter
This is the preeminent
light-giving icon. It is
good for us to look at
it and meditate on it.

We implore you to
bathe us in his light.
With this feast, make
us cleaner than spring
water; wash us and
make us whiter than
snow.

8. Glorious manifestation of the Trinity.

The Transfiguration
and the Cross go
hand in hand.

We show God’s
glory in the most
magnificent way
through our own
sacrificial love.

Fra Angelico, The Transfiguration, 1440. San Marco Convent. Florence.

9. Your personal transfiguration
“Climb up the mountain of
your personal transfiguration.
On this mountain, you will
also feel the extraordinary
presence and action of your
heavenly Mother, so that you
may be trained and moulded
until Christ is ‘fully formed’ in
you. You will become a
powerful witness of his love.”
(Gobbi)

The transformation of one soul
can lead to the salvation of
thousands more.—St. Seraphim

10*** Go down with me

Jesus himself is the divine
Word of revelation. Jesus
is the Torah. The disciples
must accompany Jesus
back down the mountain
and learn ever anew about
•the necessity of the
Passion as the way to
glory, and to
•‘listen to Him.’
(Pope Benedict XVI)

Raphael, The Transfiguration, 1520. Museo del Prado. Madrid.

Fifth Luminous Mystery
The Institution of the Eucharist
 “I am the living bread that came down from
Heaven; whoever eats this bread will live
forever; and the bread that I will give is my
flesh for the life of the world.”

The Holy Eucharist gives us not only grace
but the Author of all grace, Jesus, God and
Man. It is the center of all else the Church
has and does.
Spiritual fruit: Love of our Eucharistic Lord

1. Institution of the Holy Eucharist
Christ offers his body and blood as food under the signs of
Bread and wine and testifies “to the end” his love for
humanity, for whose salvation he will offer himself in
sacrifice. No one has greater love than He who lays down
his life for those whom He loves.

Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper.

2. The Eucharist is the same sacrifice as on Calvary

In the Eucharist the sacrifice
of Christ becomes also the
sacrifice of the members of
his Body. The lives of the
faithful, their praise,
sufferings, prayer, and work
are united with those of
Christ and with his total
offering. Christ’s
sacrifice present on the altar
makes it possible for all
generations of Christians to
be united with his offering.
(Catechism)

3. Bread of life: “I am the living bread that come down from heaven.
.
Whoever eats of this Bread will have life and I will raise him up on the last
day. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in
him. I am with you always, to the end of the ages.” (in the Eucharist.)

Tintoretto, The Last supper. 1561.

4. Daily Communion
“Write this admonition in thy
heart; and since without thy
merit the Almighty has
ordained, that thou receive holy
Communion daily, seek by all
possible means to preserve
thyself in the good dispositions
from one Communion to the
other. It is the will of the Lord
and my own, that with this
sword thou fight the battles of
the Almighty in the name of the
holy Church against the
invisible enemies. (Mary of Agreda)

5. United with the Holy Trinity!
The Eucharist is a true banquet
in which Christ offers himself
as our nourishment. He also
grants us the Holy Spirit.
“Grant that we who are
nourished by his body and
blood may be filled with his
Holy Spirit.”

Whoever is united with One of
the Three Persons is thereby
united to the whole Blessed
Trinity, for this Oneness is
indivisible.
(St. Faustina Kowalska)

Titian, The Last Supper.

6. The Eucharist: source and summit of all evangelization.
In holy communion
each of us receives
Christ, and Christ
receives each of
us.
Holy Communion
brings about the
mutual “abiding” of
Christ and each of
his followers.
The Eucharist thus
appears as both
the source and
summit of all
evangelization.
(Pope John Paul II)
Joos van Ghent, The Communion of the apostles, 1460 Palazzo Ducale. Urbino.

7. The Eucharist is a priceless treasure

“The Eucharist is a priceless
treasure: by praying before it
outside of Mass we are
enabled to make contact with
the very wellspring of grace.”
(Pope John Paul II)

“Of all devotions, that of
adoring Jesus in the Blessed
Sacrament is the greatest
after the sacraments, the one
dearest to God and the one
most helpful to us.”
(St. Alphonsus Ligouri)

8. Sorrowful mother of the Eucharist.
“Today my motherly heart is deeply wounded and saddened because I
see that about the divine presence of Jesus in the Eucharist there is
much emptiness, silence, neglect, and abandonment.
I want to bring you here with me, prostrate before every
tabernacle, in an act of adoration and reparation.” (Gobbi)
Let every (retired)
person understand
that your greatest
contribution to the
Church’s mission lies
in your adoration and
reparation before the
Blessed Sacrament !
Many souls can be
saved by praying the
Divine Mercy prayer at
3 pm.

9. Communion of life with Jesus
“Before the tabernacle, you
should be in a communion of
life with Jesus. Make of Jesus
your dearest friend. Tell your
love to Jesus .

This communion of life with
Jesus will develop and mature
into your holiness, and of a
possibility to transform evil into
good, and to act profoundly
that souls may be led by you to
salvation.” (Gobbi)

10. Jesus washes the feet of his disciples
“Today is the day of the new commandment: ‘Love one another as I
have love you.’ Beloved sons, put yourselves ever at the service of all.
You must also wash the feet of your brothers, pour balm on their
wounds, share with them in their needs and their poverty.” (Gobbi)
“

Ford Maddox Brown, Jesus washing Peter’s feet.

Consecration to the Immaculate Heart (Short version)
“ Virgin of Fatima, Mother of Mercy, we who belong to the
Marian Movement, consecrate ourselves in a special way to
your Immaculate Heart. We also consecrate our motherland
(Nation) to your Immaculate Heart. We intend to live with you,
through you and for you, all the obligations assumed by our
Baptismal consecration to bring about in ourselves that
interior conversion so urgently demanded by the Gospel, that
we may be available only to do always the will of the Father.
Allow us to dwell in the garden of your Immaculate Heart .
Lead us to a spiritual renewal with prayer and penance, with
the daily recitation of the Holy Rosary, the fervent
celebration and adoration of the Holy Eucharist, the practice
of Christian virtues, and in the works of the apostolate .
Help us to be the disciples of The Marian Movement to
multiply everywhere Cenacles of prayer made with you for the
evangelization of the world, and the Divine Mercy prayer , for
the salvation of the world. Help us to do everything with you
in a spirit of humility, prayer and penance.”

Finally pray one Our Father,
one Hail Mary, and one
Glory be, to the Holy
Father’s intention.

End of the Cenacle

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