Joyful Mysteries 2: Visitation

Meditations on the Visitation
 Recommendation: Please read the contents of one
of the 20 mysteries meditations before you start
your prayer with the video. Some of these
presentations (e.g. The Fifth Sorrowful Mystery:
The Crucifixion) contains over 60 slides. With so
much spiritual food that it is best to read and
contemplate on a few of the slides each time.
 We welcome biblical scholars, theologians,
lecturers and professors of theological institutions
and seminaries and lay people around the world to
contribute precious pictures and words to
accompany specific scenes in the Rosary in Visual
Art. You can contribute through the BLOG on our
website.

Second Joyful Mystery
The Visitation

Elizabeth was filled with the Holy
Spirit and cried out in a loud voice:
“Blessed are you among women,
and blessed art the fruit of thy
womb.”

Fruit of the Mystery: Love of Neighbour

Words of the Queen on
The Long Journey

1. Mary rose up and went with all haste to a city of Juda, in
the hill country. “I am in a hurry because the times have
arrived. Souls are daily being lost in greater numbers. I want
to save them through an extraordinary intervention of my
maternal love. I need your help and your love.” (Gobbi)

You thought of
others rather
than yourself.
Help us to be
selfless too,
and to put
other’s need
before our own.

Joseph von Fuehrich, Mary’s walk across the mountains, 1841.

2** Mary took a 4 day journey, travelling 80 miles south in the hilly country.
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of
those who bring good news.-----Isaiah 52.7
“Oh, in your days,
how beautiful are
the feet of those
who announce
peace, and spread
the good news of
salvation. You
must be the
vigilant sentinels
on mountains.”
(Gobbi)

Giotto, The visitation.

“I have come down from heaven to join you in your
journey. With you and through you, I want to manifest
myself, to save my children who are in such great need.”

May you run for
our Lady.
May Blessed
Juan Diego run
with you in all
your travels on
behalf of our
Lord and our
Lady.


“For you I leave heaven again; for you I set out on the road of the
world; for you I pray and ask help of many generous souls. My
decisive move is you. I want all these lost children to come back
through you.”

“Go to every part
of this vast
continent to
brighten up the
earth with the
light of your faith,
holiness and love.
I am always with
you on your
journey.”

2. Mary took a 4 day journey, travelling 80 miles south in the hilly country.
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of
those who bring good news.-----Isaiah 52.7
“You are on the
vigil of a long and
tiring journey to
many countries,
which I am asking
you to undertake
for me. The task I
have entrusted to
you is to bring my
announcement to
every part of the
world.” (Gobbi)

Words of the Queen on Your Long Journey
 “Do not be concerned over such a long and wearisome
journey, for which you are preparing yourself to
undertake in order to hold cenacles with the faithful of my
Movement.
 Entrust to the angels of light of my Heart all that has to do
with this new itinerary of yours. They will carry you on
their wings and will keep watch lest you strike your foot
against any obstacle.
 Oh, in your days, how beautiful are the feet of those who
announce peace, of those who spread the good news of
salvation and of the triumph of divine mercy! You must be
these announcers of peace. You must be today vigilant
sentinels upon the mountains of confidence and hope.”
(Gobbi)

 “The whole world awaits your announcement with
ardent hope. You are the apostles of this second
evangelization. Preach to all people that Jesus
Christ is the one and only Lord, your Saviour and
Redeemer, and that He is now about to return to
you in the splendour of his glory.
 Be vigilant sentinels in the dark time of infidelity
and apostasy. Be vigilant sentinels in the hour of
the greatest triumph of Satan. Be vigilant sentinels
who mark out the way of return to the God of
peace and life, of love and joy. Set yourselves
against the spirit of the world. Be vigilant sentinels
who announce that the great day of the Lord is
now imminent.

 “I am bringing you again to distant places and
asking of you such a very toilsome work and a very
heavy task, which is humanly impossible. But I am
carrying and leading you, sustaining and assisting
you, consoling and encouraging you. You must
bring all my little children into the refuge of my
Immaculate Heart.”
 “My little child, go without fear on this new
journey of yours. The angels of light of my Heart,
at my orders, will arrange everything for you. Walk
once again along all the roads of the world to
bring to all the announcement of the triumph of
my Immaculate Heart.”

 “Carried in my arms and led by me, you must go ever
farther.
 Ever farther, as regards the place, because you must reach
even the most remote and scattered parts of the earth. You
must gather up these precious heartbeats and place them
in the bright garden of my Immaculate Heart.
 Even farther in extent, where all united in one single and
great family, my children who are rejoicing in paradise,
being purified in purgatory, or who are still suffering and
struggling in the arid desert of this world.
 You are being called to contemplate this stupendous
reality which forms, in one profound unity, the great
family of the Church.

 “Even farther in time, because your mission is to unite, in
my Immaculate Heart, the hours of suffering to those of
joy; for the hours of the great tribulation to those of the
new heavens and the new earth; the painful hours of the
trial to those of my motherly triumph.
 Pay no regard to your weakness and poverty, to your great
fragility, to the weariness and exhaustion which takes hold
of you. Look on the other hand at the joy which, through
you, the heavenly Mother brings into hearts; to the grace
which fills souls; to the life which flourishes anew; to the
triumph of my Immaculate Heart.
 Love and bless all those whom you meet along a journey
which now, in place, in extent and in time, brings you ever
farther.”

 Oh such a burdensome journey. Rest on the Heart of your
heavenly Mother and rejoice in the response which you
receive everywhere from all my littlest children.”
 “I am consoled by you through your pledge to walk along
the road of holiness. Today, how necessary for the
salvation of the world is the holiness of priests! Walk with
joy along the road strewn with flowers of all the virtues,
and thus you will arrive at sanctity.
 I want to communicate to you the very holiness of your
heavenly Mother. I am consoled by you because you are
following the road which, in these years I have traced out
for you. Do not let yourselves become distracted, or enticed
along other roads. ( Gobbi)

I wish to visit you out of
love.

3.* The Greeting: There entering in, she gave
Elizabeth greeting.
“As I visited Elizabeth
out of love, I wish to
visit you out of love. I
wish to come into your
situation whatever it may
be: to be present with
you and to pray with you
and for you.”

“I am at your side when
you pray.” (Gobbi)

3A. The Greeting: There entering in, she gave
Elizabeth greeting.

“I am the Mother of
Consolation.

I am taking my place at
the side of each one of
you. I am at your side
when you pray and
work, when you rejoice
and suffer, when you are
lonely and abandoned.”

Rogier van der Weyden,1426
.Leipzig museum

4. The Leap for joy
No sooner had Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting
than the child leaped in her womb for joy.
God, when the infant John
leapt in Elizabeth’s womb
in recognition of Christ’s
divinity, You miraculously
showed us that the
sanctity of life begins
before birth. It was an
unborn child who first
paid homage to Our Lord.
Help our society to
recognize the sanctity of
lives of the unborn
Joseph Strub The Visitation. 1505. Madrid children.

4. The Leap for joy
No sooner had Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting
than the child leaped in her womb for joy.

“Feel in your hearts the
deep wounds caused me by
the millions of infants
slaughtered in the wombs
of their mothers.” (Gobbi)

Joseph Strub The Visitation. 1505. Madrid

5. Elizabeth’s Exultation Elizabeth was filled with the
Holy spirit and cried out in a loud voice: blessed art thou among women.

Whenever we pray
the rosary our
Heavenly Mother is
at our side, praying
with us and for us.
We should also jump
with joy and say to
ourselves: “How
have I deserved to
be thus visited by
the Mother of my
Lord?”
Domenico Ghirlandaio, The visitation, 1491. Musee du Louvre. Paris.

Bring Christ to the World.

Turn praise to God & Avoid
flattery

6.** Bring Christ
to others
“Speak always by
your life. Let your
life be your word.”
(Gobbi)

“Preach the Gospel
at all times, and if
necessary use
words.”
(St. Francis of Assisi)

6A. Bring Christ
to others
“Today the most urgent
duty is that of giving the
good example, which is
one of the most important
exigencies of your own
ministry.”
This mystery teaches us to
follow the example of Mary,
who brought Christ to
others. By our lives,
actions, and words, we
must be teaching Christ to
the people of our day.
Pray for His help.

6B. Bring Christ
to others
“You must live the Gospel
of Jesus to the letter. You
must be, purely and simply,
the living Gospel. Then
you must proclaim to all,
with strength and courage,
the Gospel which you live.
Your words will have the
power of the Holy Spirit
and the wisdom given you
by your heavenly Mother.”

6C. Bring Christ
to us
As the Ark of the
Covenant, Mary brings
the presence of God
become man to the
world. She continues
today her role of
bringing Christ into the
world through her
powerful intercession
for our lives.

7.**Turn praise to God
Mary, when Elizabeth
praise you, calling you
“blessed among all
woman”, you turned
your praise toward
God immediately. In
your humility, you saw
that you were but a
mirror of God’s own
glory. Help us always
to recognize Him as the
source of our own gifts
and blessings.
Visitation on glass window. Holy Rosary Church. Minneapolis. MN.

Words of the queen on Avoidance of praise and
flattery
“Learn especially to seek direction in the way of virtue and
of eternal life in all thy interactions with men. Do not allow
thyself to be influenced by even the least breath of flattery
and avoid the conversations which expose thee to it; for such
deceitful pleasure darkens the light and perverts the
unsuspecting mind. The Lord is so jealous of the souls
especially beloved by Him, that He will immediately turn
away from them if they find pleasure in the praises of men
and seek to recompense themselves by their flatteries; since
by this levity they become unworthy of his favors. It is not
possible to unite in a soul the adulations of the world and the
caresses of the Most High. For these latter are sincere, holy,
pure, and lasting: they humiliate, cleanse, pacify and
illumine the heart; while on the other hand the flatteries of
creatures are vain, fleeting, deceitful, impure and false,
issuing from the mouths of those who are all liars (Ps. 115,
11); and whatever is deceitful is a work of the enemy.”

 This Lady was the Mother of God, Queen of all creation,
superior in excellence and dignity to all creatures, and
yet She remained the humble servant of the least of them;
and never would She accept homage and service as if due
to Her, nor did She ever exalt Herself, or fail to judge of
Herself in the most humble manner. What shall we now
say of our most execrable presumption and pride? Since,
full of the abomination of sin, we are so senseless as to
claim for ourselves with dreadful insanity the homage
and veneration of all the world? And if this is denied us,
we quickly lose the little sense which our passions have
left us. This whole heavenly history bears the stamp of
humility, and is a condemnation of our pride. And since
it is not my office to teach or correct, but to be taught
and to be corrected, I beseech and pray all the faithful
children of light to place this example before their eyes
for our humiliation. -----Mystical City of God. Mary of Agreda.

The Magnificat

St. John the Baptist

Miracle in your life

8.* • Every time the Son of
. God comes to us in the
“
“poverty” of the
sacramental signs of
bread and wine, the
seeds of the new history
wherein “the mighty are
put down” and “the lowly
are exalted” takes root in
the world.
• The Eucharist has been
given to us so that our
life, like that of Mary,
may become completely
a Magnificat!
(Pope John Paul II )

8.
“In the Heart of my little
. ones, I find my greatest
“

joy. By means of them,
your heavenly Mother
can repeat her eternal
Magnificat.” (Gobbi)

•Mary praises God
“through” Jesus
“in” Jesus and
“with” Jesus. This is
itself the true
“Eucharistic attitude”.
(Pope John Paul II)

8. The Magnificat tells us
. that what God has done
“
for this lowly woman of
Nazareth, He will do for
all who humbly serve
him. God will bless our
faithfulness, look
mercifully on our
lowliness, and exalt us in
our afflictions.
May we imitate Mary in
thanking and praising
God, who does “great
things” for us. May we
also sing with her: “My
soul magnifies the Lord.”

9.**St. John’s privilege Mary had been with her for about
three months, until John the Baptist was born. One of the privileges of
the Baptist is to have been first held by Mary, Mother of God.

Dear blessed Mother,
help me to share
Christ with others less
privileged spiritually.
Whenever I keep my
faith in Christ to
myself, please remind
me to share, at least
through the charity of
prayer.

Rogier van der Weyden, St. John the Baptist . 1450. Gemalde-galerie. Berlin.

 She offered to serve and assist Elisabeth as a handmaid,
for She said, that this was the purpose of visiting her and
consoling her. O what friendship is so true, so sweet and
inseparable, as that which is formed by the great bond of
the divine love!
 The Precursor was so fortunate that the great Queen,
with her own hands, sewed and prepared the swaddling
clothes and coverlets in which he was to be wrapped and
reared; for his mother Elisabeth, in her maternal
solicitude and attention, had secured for saint John this
good fortune humbly asking this favor of the heavenly
Queen. Mary with incredible love and subjection
complied with her request in order to exercise Herself in
obedience to her cousin, whom She wished to serve as
the lowest handmaid; for in humility and obedience most
holy Mary always surpassed all men. ----Excerpts from
the Mystical City of God. Mary of Agreda.

10.** Miracle in your Life.

“My children, never doubt that
God can work a miracle in your
life even if things seem
impossible: all things are
possible with God. Trust Him.

Offer this mystery to the
Heavenly Father that He will
also work a miracle of grace
in your life.” (Gobbi)

10. Miracle in your Life.

“Offer each day the flowers of love
and prayer to your heavenly
Mother. Offer the fragrant and
precious flower of your
suffering.”
“You, my beloved sons, be the
flowers which come to maturity
on the tree of your life of
consecration to my Immaculate
Heart, to cause the heavenly dew
of hope and consolation to come
down upon the immense desert of
today.”

10. Miracle in your Life.
“You are my lilies. From every snare
which Satan sets for you, you will emerge
purer, more beautiful and more renewed.
You are my roses which should give off
the fragrance of love only for my Son
Jesus and for me.
You are my cyclamens by reason of
your interior littleness, and your childlike
spirit. If you do not remain little in
this way, my designs cannot be realized.
Come to me, all of you, because you
are so little, so insecure, so helpless!
Come, because you are my little babies,
Because you have such need of me to walk
Along the way of perfect love!” (Gobbi)

My Gift to you
 “Everything in life has been arranged for you; in every
particular, by the providence of God the Father and of
your heavenly Mother; the moments of suffering, those of
spiritual trial and interior difficulties, the moments of joy
and of consolation, the moments of special fervour and of
union with me.
 Everything is the gift of God to you. It is also a gift from
me.
 The task of the Mother is to prepare this gift each day for
all; for the furthest away, it is a gift of mercy and pardon;
for sinners it is a sorrowful gift; for the many who suffer,
it is a gift of compassion and comfort; for those soon to
die, it is a gift of support.
 And for you, my beloved ones, the gift is one of most
particular predilection, expressing itself by the ordering of
all things, the arranging of every circumstance of your day
like an embroidery of perfect beauty woven by the fingers
of your heavenly Mother. (Gobbi)

 “Also a gift of my Immaculate Heart-O yes, a most
particular gift!—is the book containing my messages.
Read it, my beloved sons, meditate on it, live it! Have no
doubt; I am speaking to you. Only tomorrow will you
understand the importance of this maternal message of
mine. I speak to you in virtue of the light of paradise, in a
true communion of life the present, the past and the
future. I speak to you always in the vision of eternity.
 Above all, the gift of my Immaculate Heart will be the new
Pentecost. You the apostles of these last times can, with
your heavenly Mother, obtain a new effusion of the Holy
Spirit. It will be the Spirit of Love, with his powerful
action of fire and of grace renewing the very foundations
of the whole world. He will bring my Church to new
splendor, making it humble and poor, evangelical and
chaste, merciful and holy. It will be the Spirit of Love,
through the fire of innumerable sufferings renewing all
creation, like the sun of light reflecting its rays
everywhere.”

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, lead all souls to heaven, especially those who are 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

Joyful Mysteries 2: Visitation

Recommended

Recommended

More Related Content

What's hot

What's hot (7)

Viewers also liked

Viewers also liked (20)

More from QualityWebDesign

More from QualityWebDesign (20)

Recently uploaded

Recently uploaded (20)

Joyful Mysteries 2: Visitation