Fifth Joyful Mystery
Finding in the Temple
Spiritual Fruit:
Greater commitment and devotion to Jesus.
Narrative:
Finding Jesus in the Temple
1. When Jesus is twelve years old, He goes with His parents to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover.
2. After the feast of the Passover, Joseph and Mary unknowingly set out for Nazareth without Jesus.
3. At the end of the first day’s journey they discover Jesus is missing.
4. His parents return immediately looking for Him.
5. This loss causes grief and anxiety beyond our understanding to the hearts of Mary and Joseph.
6. On the third day, they find Jesus in the Temple among the Doctors who were astonished at His wisdom.
7. Mary: “Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been searching for You in sorrow.”
8. Jesus: “Why did you search for Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?”
9. Jesus goes down with them to Nazareth, and is subject to them.10. Mary keeps all these things in her heart.
Spiritual Fruit:
Greater Commitment and Devotion to Jesus.
1. Chaplet of the Divine Mercy
2. Sacred Heart of Jesus
3. Chaplet of the Five Wounds of Jesus
4. Stations of the Cross
5. Eucharistic Adoration / Holy Hour
6. Chaplet of the Infant Jesus of Prague
7. Holy Face of Jesus
8. Chaplet of the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ
9. Devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus"
[1. Chaplet of the Divine Mercy]
Notable name:
Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska
“Be apostles of Divine Mercy under the maternal and loving guidance of Mary.”
-St. Pope John Paul II to the Marians, June 22, 1993
"The Message of Divine Mercy has always been near and dear to me… which I took with me to the See of Peter and which it in a sense forms the image of this Pontificate."
-St. Pope John Paul II speaking on his Pontificate'
[2. Sacred Heart of Jesus]
Notable name:
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
In one of the more celebrated visions, He showed her His Sacred Heart saying, “Behold the Heart that has loved men so much that It has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming Itself, in order to testify to them Its love. But in return I receive from the greater part of mankind only ingratitude, by reason of the contempt, irreverence, sacrilege, and coldness shown Me in this Sacrament of Love.”
-St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
[3. Chaplet of the Five Wounds of Jesus]
Notable names:
St. Alphonsus Liguori, Pope Leo XII and Pope Pius IX.
'The Chaplet of the Five Wounds of Jesus or the Little Chaplet of the Five Wounds of Jesus Crucified is an earlier devotional prayer written in 1761 by St. Alphonsus Liguori, a devotional writer and founder of the Redemptorist Fathers religious community.'
-Description by Wikipedia
[4. Stations of the Cross]
'The Stations of the Cross are a 14-step Catholic devotion that commemorates Jesus Christ's last day on Earth as a man. The 14 devotions, or stations, focus on specific events of His last day, beginning with His condemnation. At each station, the individual recalls and meditates on a specific event from Christ's last day. Specific prayers are recited, then the individual moves to the next station until all 14 are complete.'
-Description by Catholic Online
[5. Eucharistic Adoration / Holy Hour]
-Eucharistic Adoration-
Notable Name:
Saint Francis of Assisi
'In the Roman Catholic tradition, at the moment of Consecration the elements (or gifts as they are termed for liturgical purposes) are transformed (transubstantiation) into the actual Body and Blood of Christ. Catholic doctrine holds that the elements are not only spiritually transformed, but rather are actually (substantially) transformed into the Body and Blood of Christ.'
-Description by Wikipedia
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-Holy Hour Devotion-
Notable Event:
Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane
(Matthew 26:38-40)
'The Holy Hour devotion consists of an uninterrupted hour spent in Eucharistic adoration or in prayer in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament.'
-Description by Wikipedia
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[6. Chaplet of the Infant Jesus of Prague]
'The Infant Jesus of Prague is a famous statue of infant Jesus in the Church of Our Lady Victorious in Malá Strana, Prague. '
-Description by Wikipedia
[7. Holy Face of Jesus]
'It is a devotion that was first heard of through a Carmelite Nun named Sister Mary of St. Peter in France, 1844, who stated Our Lord revealed this devotion to her at Mount Carmel. Sister Mary of St. Peter stated that Our Lord wanted this devotion to be spread throughout the world with the goal of making reparation for the sins which offend God. '
-Immaculate Heart of Mary Apostolate, 2017
[8. Chaplet of the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ]
'Devotion to the Precious Blood was a special phenomenon of Flemish piety in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, that gave rise to the iconic image of Grace as the Fountain of Life, filled with blood, pouring from the wounded Lamb of God or the Holy Woundsof Christ.
The Catholic Church teaches that the bread and wine, through transubstantiation, become the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ—in other words, the whole Christ—when consecrated. '
-Wikipedia
[9. Devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus]
'The power of the name Jesus used in petitions is stressed in John 16:23 when Jesus states: “If you ask the Father anything in my name he will give it you.” Many Christian prayers thus conclude with the words: “Through Our Lord Jesus Christ”.[13] Several episodes in the New Testament refer to the power of the invocation of the Holy Name. In Mark 9:38-39 demons are driven out by the power of the name Jesus, in Acts 2:38 baptisms take place and in Acts 3:6, Acts 4:7-11 and Acts 9:34 miracles are performed.[3] Many Christians believe that as in Acts 16:18 the invocation of the name of Jesus provides protection by repelling evil.'
-Wikipedia
