The Joyful Mysteries - Meditations of Alicja Lenczewska

The Annunciation

Just as I came to Mary through my angel, so I come to you to announce the good news: I desire to live in you and reveal myself to the world through you. Your decision is the beginning of my life in you. And this will happen through the Spirit, who will make your inner being my home when you utter your fiat.

The Visitation

Then I will send you to the people, so that you may bring them your joy and the truth of the conception of Divine life within you. So that you may be among them, helping them and bestowing upon them my love, which through this will grow within you.

The Nativity of Jesus

I desire the world to see Me in you: in your heart, on your face, in the touch of your hands, in the brightness of your eyes. I desire that I be recognized in your gentleness, your tenderness, and in your merciful bending down over their poverty and longing for true love.

The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple

Offer Me to them. Do not appropriate Me. Share my life within you with them. Share yourself – everything you have, everything you receive as my gift for you and for them through your heart and your hands.

The Finding of Jesus in the Temple

Find Me again and again: in the temple of your heart, in the temples of your brothers' hearts, in the temples built for your God on earth. There I wait for you, there I long for you. There I desire to tell you of my love. There I will reveal to you the secrets of Truth and the depth of wisdom. There I will sustain you with myself, to prepare you for the fullness of communion with Me: for the espousal in pain and love.