Luminous Mysteries

 If I haven't said it before, I will now. The Luminous mysteries are my favorite.

I prayed in the garden today. There sun is bright, the air is crisp and fresh today. It is like the air beside waters. It is almost summer and yet it feels fully spring. The backyard has been a lazy project I've been working at in between real breaks of deadening boredom. I saw someone running, for instance, and began to race within my mind. 

In the corner where my small shrine to Mary is I sat looking up at Mary, Queen of Heaven, our Holy Mother. She saw me sitting there, perhaps, on the cool dark earth, brown and damp in the shady corner. I'd knelt and then sat with my legs crossed, saying the rosary in dedication to the recommendation we remember the mysteries as we pray. So I did, with the token of Mary, a small card covered in tape for its protection, hanging in the tree above me by the tiny miraculous meddle keychain that it came with in the mail.

They are my favorite mysteries for a reason. The point, of course, is to meditate on these mysteries. 

 - I feel guilt -  wondering about things that are very deep. And today, I even felt that Matthew 5 said teaching them is a small danger. But how do we not love them? 

The idea of Jesus being the material of the Holy Spirit? Is that not a grand mystery!? The wedding at Cana? The proclamation of the Kingdom! The transfiguration, and finally, most definitely, the institution of the Eucharist! 

Awesome!

One wonders how they fit together? Is not the Eucharist the perfect ending there? Is not the holy dove in flight, the artistic representation of God's symbolic plan? Is the wine of Cana not Gods symbol of making new the feelings he has had with sinners, by showing us what love and feasting really is?

See who at the banquet?