Creation, Fall and Restoration: Keeping the Ultimate Goal Always Before Us

Creation, Fall and Restoration: Keeping the Ultimate Goal Always Before Us

On October 16, 2002, Pope St. John Paul II issued his Apostolic Letter on the Rosary, Rosarium Virginis Mariae (“The Rosary of the Virgin Mary”). In it, he gave us the luminous mysteries of the rosary. These mysteries, he explains, are those that are manifested in our Lord’s public life. Whereas the joyful mysteries have…