ROSARY MEDITATIONS FOR HEALING

When we are praying for healing we can proclaim specific graces that flow from the different acts of Jesus life for ourselves and for others. I have included some of the prayer insights that may assist you when you meditate on the Rosary mysteries.

The Joyful Mysteries

1. Annunciation

• Jesus filling me with Joy and hope
• Jesus’ word becoming alive within me
• Jesus overshadowing me with the power of His Holy Spirit
• Jesus blessing me in my mother’s womb

2. Visitation

• Jesus affirming me in faith
• Jesus shining his light into my life

3. The Birth of Jesus

• Jesus bringing the gift of salvation
• Jesus birthing me into a new life of grace

4. Presentation of Baby Jesus in the Temple

• Jesus inspiring Simeon’s proclamation of joy
• Jesus inspiring Anna to praise God and give witness
• Jesus a sign of contradiction to reveal peoples’ inner thoughts
• Jesus light to the nations and the glory of God’s people

5. The Finding of the Child Jesus in the Temple

• Jesus wholly dedicated to His Father’s affairs
• Jesus proclaiming the radical nature of the Gospel
• Jesus challenging us with the absolute demands of the Kingdom

The Sorrowful Mysteries

1. The Agony in the garden

• Jesus in anguish before the will of Your Father
• Jesus embracing His Father’s will
• Jesus’ “yes” reversing Adam’s “no”
• Jesus encountering all the temptations and confronting all the sins of humanity
• Jesus in emotional pain
• Jesus faithful to the Father in His emotional pain
• Jesus enduring the tension of being faithful to His mission

2. The Scourging at the pillar

• Jesus in physical pain
• Jesus faithful to the will of His Father
• Jesus our co-sufferer
• Jesus abandoned by all His friends

3. The Crowning with Thorns

• Jesus being mocked and humiliated
• Jesus suffering physically, spiritually and emotionally

4. The Carrying of the Cross

• Jesus revealing the love of God and the meaning of a human being
• Jesus making me feel the need to be another Simon of Cyrene
• Jesus persevering
• Jesus in whom is found the origin, the meaning and fulfilment of human beings

5. The Crucifixion

• Jesus the God who humbles Himself out of love
• Jesus the God who humbles Himself unto death, death on a cross
• Jesus, Ecce Homo!
• Jesus revealing the depth of God’s love
• Jesus surrendering Himself to the will of God
• Jesus revealing the life-giving power of God’s love
• Jesus dying for my sins and for the sins of the world

The Glorious Mysteries

1. The Resurrection

• Jesus as King of Glory
• Jesus empowering us with a new life of grace.
• Jesus, victorious over, temptations, sin and death

2. The Ascension

• Jesus filling us with his glory in times of doubt and fear.
• Jesus liberating us from being heavily burdened
• Jesus enabling us to believe in the promises of God.

3. The Descent of the Holy Spirit

• Jesus giving birth to the Church
• Jesus, anointing us with His Holy Spirit
• Jesus empowering us to evangelise and bring the” good news”

to the poor

4. Assumption

• Jesus giving us hope through Mary ‘s humility
• Jesus sharing His victory with Mary
• Jesus promising us our assumption

5. The Coronation

• Jesus bestowing upon Mary her intercessory prayer crown of mystical jewels.
• Jesus crowning Mary as Queen of Angels and Saints
• Jesus revealing Mary as a prayer role model for our lives.

   

Prayer Comment:

Popes and many people have written innumerable books about the graces and blessings that flow from the Rosary. Check out on the web what the promised blessings are for those who pray the Rosary.