ROSARY WITH FRA ANGELICO AND GIOTTO, THE

Luminous Mysteries Compiled by Gary T. Johnson
Two extraordinarily popular booklets on the recitation of the mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary, Through the Rosary with Fra Angelico and Through the Mysteries of Light with Giotto and Fra Angelico have been combined in this little booklet. The artists whose works are the focus of the meditations are masters at conveying the sense of the sacred which is so conducive to reflective prayer. The method of reciting the rosary that is used here is praised by Pope Paul VI in his encyclical Marialis Cultus: “For the precise purpose of favoring contemplation and to help the mind correspond to the words being used, it was the practice at one time… to add to the name of Jesus in every ‘Hail Mary’ a phrase which would recall the mystery that had been announced” (n. 46).