For centuries, Catholics have prayed three sets of five mysteries when saying the Rosary: the Joyful, the Sorrowful, and the Glorious. The Luminous Mysteries were only added in 2002, so should we really be including them? On this score, the Luminous Mysteries don't disrupt the association between the Rosary and Catholic spirituality, but ignores that association altogether and shoehorns its way in without a connection. Is there a fourth stage after the unitive? Or between the purgative and the illuminative? Why don't Traditionalists pray the Luminous Mysteries? This article hopes to provide a reasoning to why some traditionalists don't pray the Luminous Mysteries.
Opinions may vary, but this article hopes to articulate a reasonable argument to why some don't pray it. The laity were largely illiterate, so the Psalms were off the table as an option for them. I like the imagery of the parallel between the Hail Marys and the Psalms, so that's why I pray the original three sets of mysteries.
Of course, by all means, pray the Luminous Mysteries if you find them to be beneficial in your spiritual life! The problem with the Luminous mysteries is simply that they aren't a requirement, but a recommendation. However, if you look at just about any Catholic pamphlet on the Rosary, they automatically include the Luminous mysteries, as if it was a new Dogma. Upon issuing the document Pope St.
John Paul II states. The luminous mysteries are prayed on Thursdays. All four mysteries together reveals the life of a Jesus from Conception through to Death and Resurrection, with special emphasis on Our Lady's co.
Catholic Customs The Luminous Mysteries: Novelty Clashes with Tradition Atila S. Guimarães Some of our readers are asking TIA for solid evidence that the introduction of the Luminous Mysteries by John Paul II was a progressivist initiative. They don't agree with these new mysteries, which hurt their Catholic sense, but they don't know how.
Mysteries of Light - The Mysteries of the RosaryHow to pray the Rosary? In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. O God come to my aid; O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. At the beginning of each decade, announce the "mystery" to be.
The Luminous Mysteries combat such erroneous thinking by drawing Christian minds and hearts to the central mysteries of Our Lord's earthly ministry-the revelations of his divine sonship at his baptism, his divine power in the first of his signs, his reign in his preaching of the Kingdom, his future glory in the Transfiguration, and his Real. The new "Luminous" Mysteries We come to the point that constitutes the principal difficulty: the addition of five " mysteries of light." It is true that, in itself, the choice of the mysteries of the rosary is not untouchable; in itself, the form of the rosary could equally be different.