From the rosary mysteries to the Mystery of Christ
Every authentic form of Christian prayer must always focus on the mysteries of Christ and must never be totally separated from its liturgical root. Among the forms of Christian prayer, the Rosary of Mary has grown more and more important. The Rosary is a true and proper training in holiness: it forms believers, through contemplation, to achieve the connection to Christ. The prayer of the Rosary, by means of devout contemplation, recalls the liturgical mysteries to the mind of the person praying and stimulates the will to draw from them the norms of living.
The main feature of the rosaries as a "Gospel prayer" is that it reviews with a meditative approach the many historical mysteries of Jesus' life, which constitute a living Rosary. Contact with the humanity of Jesus becomes the path to the encounter with the hidden face of his Divinity. This explains the importance of the imitation of Christ in contemplating the mysteries of his life - from his childhood to his passion, death and Resurrection, and Pentecost.
Indeed, rosaries enable the believer to accompany Jesus Christ on his journey through life up until death on the cross, and then to recognize him as risen, a pilgrim on the paths of the world. In this time of confusion, the human being, who has made great advances in scientific knowledge of his own situation and of the world, seems to have lost the meaning of his own deepest "truth", the "meaning" and "ultimate purpose" of his "life". Consequently, his traveling on the path of the historical events of faith, in the company of the mysterious pilgrim on the difficult paths of the world, is the only way to rediscover the light of the mystery he carries with him. Then one can truly say that each mystery of the Rosary, properly meditated upon, sheds light on the mystery of man.