Joyful Mysteries 4: Presentation

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Fourth Joyful Mystery
The Presentation
When the day came to purify them
according to the law of Moses, the couple
brought him up to Jerusalem so that he
could be presented to the Lord, for it is
written in the law of the Lord, “Every first-
born male shall be consecrated to the Lord.”

Fruit of the Mystery: Obedience

The Circumcision
Words of the Queen on
Obedience and
docility

1.** The Circumcision
(8th day)
“From the very moment
of his human conception,
He becomes obedient in
all things to the will of
the Father. He submits
himself to all the
prescriptions of the Law:
After 8 days, the
circumcision and after 40
days, the presentation in
the Temple.” (Gobbi)
Micheal Pacher, The Circumcision of Christ, 1479. St. Wolfgang Church. Austria.

1A. The Silence “This is a mystery of
silence, of prayer, of
offering and of personal
immolation.
Enter into the Temple of
my Immaculate Heart. I
am forming you to a deep
silence. Silence in order
to receive only the Word
of God. Silence to live it.
Thus you speak with
your life. Life becomes
your word.” (Gobbi)

1B. The Sacrifices “The Son of God, with
(8th day) immeasurable love, offered
up to the eternal Father
three sacrifices of so great
value that each one would
have been sufficient for the
Redemption of a thousand
worlds. 1.He assumed the
condition of a sinner.
2.The willingness to suffer
the pains.
3.The most ardent love with
which He began shed his
blood for the human race.
(Mary of Agreda)

1C. The Sacrifices Archangels Michael and Gabriel
(8th day) said to Mary:
This is the Name of your Son,
which the blessed Trinity has
given Him as the sign of
salvation for the whole human
race. But now He is to shed His
Blood in receiving it, since it is
that of the Saviour. This will be
the beginning of His sufferings
in obedience to His Father’s
Will.” That night Jesus’ pain
was so severe that He could not
rest and He often cried. (Mary of
Agreda).


 At the same time the Son of God, with immeasurable
love, offered up to the eternal Father three sacrifices of so
great value that each one would have been sufficient for
the Redemption of a thousand worlds. The first was that
He, being innocent and the Son of the true God,
assumed the condition of a sinner (Phil. 2, 7) by
subjecting Himself to a rite instituted as a remedy for
original sin, and to a law not binding on Him (II Cor. 5,
21). The second was his willingness to suffer the pains of
circumcision, which He felt as a true and perfect man.
The third was the most ardent love with which He began
shed his blood for the human race, giving thanks to
eternal Father for having given Him a human nature
capable of suffering for his exaltation and glory.
--------Mystical city of God. Mary of Agreda.

Words of the Queen to Mary of Agreda:
 “The saints in heaven, comprehending by the divine light
these mysteries, are astonished at themselves for not
having paid more attention to them during their life. And
if they were capable of pain, they would be deeply grieved
for their tardiness and carelessness in not having set
proper value upon the works for the Redemption, and for
failing in the imitation of Christ. All the angels and saints,
by an insight hidden to mortals, wonder at the cruelty of
human hearts against themselves and against Christ their
Redeemer. Men have compassion neither for the
sufferings of the Lord, nor for the sufferings they
themselves stand in danger of incurring. When the
foreknown, in unending bitterness shall recognize their
dreadful forgetfulness and their indifference to the works
of Christ.”

 “Cast out from thy faculties every image and
affection toward human creatures and turn all the
powers of thy heart and soul toward the mysteries
and blessings of the Redemption. Occupy thyself
wholly with them, ponder and weigh them, give
thanks for them as if thou alone wert in existence,
as if they had been wrought solely for thee, and
singly for each human being in particular (Gal. 2,
20). Thus thou wilt find life and the way of life,
proceeding thus thou canst not err; but thou shalt
find therein the light of thy eyes and true peace.”

2.*** Docility “I have asked you for the
consecration to my
Immaculate Heart to form
all of you to that interior
docility which is necessary
for me in order that I may
be able to work in each one
of you, bringing you to a
profound transformation.
I am forming you to prayer
which must always be
carried out by you in union
with me.” (Gobbi)
Mantegna, The circumcision, 1474. Uffizi, Florence.

Words of the Queen on Docility and abandonment
 “Beloved sons, when I appeal to you to become littler, it is
to make you like my child, Jesus, through docile and
perfect obedience to the divine will.
 Let yourselves be carried in my arms, as my tiniest babes,
and I will make you perfectly docile to the will of the
Father.”
 “Learn to abandon yourselves to me as little children and
to let yourselves be guided with the simplicity, the
confidence and the complete abandonment of children.
This abandonment of yours is necessary to me, so that I
can act in you and in your life.
 My motherly task is to transform you each day, so that you
may accomplish perfectly the will of the Lord.”

“Allow yourselves to be nourished and formed by
me; to be led by me with docility; to be signed by me
with my motherly seal. I am imprinting my seal on
your forehead with the most holy sign of the Cross of
my Son Jesus. I am imprinting upon your hands my
seal which is the sign of the Holy Trinity.” (Gobbi)

Words of the Queen on White flakes of snow
 In the great desert in which you are living, in the
immense sea of impurity which is submerging the
world possessed by the Evil One, white flakes of
snow are falling from my Immaculate Heart upon
you, children consecrated to me, so that you may
spread everywhere my fragrance from heaven and
become signs and instruments of Divine Mercy in
the world.
 “White flakes of snow are coming down from my
Immaculate Heart upon you, so that you may bring
everywhere the light of the divine Word and
become instruments which make shine everywhere,
in its greatest spendor, all the truth contained in
the Gospel of my Son Jesus.

 White flakes of snow are coming down from my
Immaculate Heart upon you, children consecrated
to me, so that you may bring to all my motherly
voice which leads you to hope and confidence.
Thus you can take by the hand many of my poor
children and cross together the bright thresholds of
hope, with the triumph of my Immaculate Heart,
the white snowflakes of Divine Mercy..” (Gobbi
:To the priests)

The Presentation
Humble Thanksgiving
Labours and sufferings
Your consecration

3.**Your Presentation
“My children, with
docility, let yourselves
be carried in my
motherly arms, and you
will see everywhere the
marvels of grace and
mercy of my
Immaculate Heart.
I am bringing you to the
Father. Expect and
receive everything as a
gift of love from the
Father.” (Gobbi)

Words of the Queen on Humble thanksgiving
 “My daughter, what thou must especially learn from this
chapter is, that thou accustom thyself to humble
thanksgiving for the benefits which thou receivest, since
thou, among many generations, art so specially signalized
by the riches of grace with which my Son and I visit thee
without any merit of thine. I was wont to repeat many
times this verse of David: "What shall I render the Lord
for all the things that he hath rendered to me?" (Ps. 15, 12).
 In such sentiments I humiliated myself to the dust,
esteeming myself altogether useless among creatures.
Therefore, if thou knowest what I did as Mother of God,
consider what then is thy obligation, since thou must with
so much truth confess thyself unworthy and undeserving
of all thou receivest, and so poorly furnished for giving
thanks and for making payment. Thou must supply thy
insufficiency and thy misery by offering up to the eternal
Father.”

Words of the Queen on Labors and Sufferings
 “In addition to this offering is the resignation with which souls
embrace and bear with equanimity and patience the labors and
difficulties of mortal life. My most holy Son and I were eminent
Masters in the practice of this doctrine. My Son began to teach it
from the moment in which He was conceived in my womb. For
already then He began to suffer, and as soon as He was born into
the world He and I were banished by Herod into a desert, and his
sufferings continued until He died on the Cross. I also labored to
the end of my life, as thou wilt be informed more and more in the
writing of this history.
 Since, therefore, We suffered so much for creatures and for their
salvation, I desire thee to imitate Us in this conformity to the divine
will as being his spouse and my daughter. Suffer with a
magnanimous heart, and labor to increase the possessions of thy
Lord and Master, namely, souls, which are so precious in his sight
and which He has purchased with his life-blood. Never shouldst
thou fly from labors, difficulties, bitterness and sorrows, if by any of
them thou canst gain a soul for the Lord.”

4.*** Your consecration
“Your act of consecration
to my Immaculate Heart
allows me to intervene in
your life in order to direct
it to the perfect fulfillment
of the will of the Father.”
“I am situated at your side
at each moment of your
day. Transform your day
into an act of unceasing
prayer. I want so much
prayer of you!” (Gobbi)
Jan van Scorel. Presentation at the temple. 1524. Kunsthistorisches Musee. Vienna

 Saint Louis de Montfort's highly influential
True Devotion to Mary synthesized many of the earlier saints'
writings and teachings on Mary. De Montfort's approach of
"total consecration to Jesus Christ through Mary" had a
strong impact on Marian devotion both in popular piety and
in the spirituality of religious orders. One of his well-known
followers was Pope John Paul II of the 20th century.
According to his Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae, the
pontiff's personal motto Totus Tuus (Totally yours) was
inspired by St. Louis' doctrine on the excellence of Marian
devotion and total consecration. He quoted:
 "Since Mary is of all creatures the one most conformed to Jesus
Christ, it follows that among all devotions that which most
consecrates and conforms a soul to our Lord is devotion to Mary, his
Holy Mother, and that the more a soul is consecrated to her
the more will it be consecrated to Jesus Christ."

Words of the Queen on Your Consecration
 “Renew each day your consecration to my
Immaculate Heart. Through this act, you make it
possible for me to enter as a Mother, into your life
and to dispose it for the perfect fulfillment of the
design which the Lord has on each one of you.
Thus you become my very own presence in the
world.
 I ask you to offer me the fragrant and precious
flower of your suffering. On the altar of my
Immaculate Heart I want to offer all my children,
in a perennial act of immolation and reparation,
Only through the suffering of my littlest children
can I hasten the time of the triumph of my
Immaculate Heart in the world.” (Gobbi)

 “I am imprinting my seal on your forehead with
the sign of the Cross my Son Jesus. I am opening
the intellect to receive his divine word.
 I am imprinting upon your hands my seal which is
the sign of the Holy Trinity. With the sign of the
Father, your human activity becomes directed
towards a perfect cooperation with the plans of his
divine Providence which is today arranges all
things for your good. With the sign of the Son,
your actions become inserted into the mystery of
redemption. With the sign of the Holy spirit,
everything you do becomes open to his powerful
force for sanctification.” (Gobbi)

Your offering

Your immolation

Live in the heart of the
Trinity

5.***Your Offering “Offer your whole life to the
Lord: your body, your heart,
your soul, you mind, your
will, your freedom. You
become the chosen victims,
precious and pleasing to God.
I am asking for a spiritual
immolation made up of the
acceptance with love of every
circumstance of your life as a
fulfillment of the will of the
Heavenly Father. Do always
and only the divine will.”
(Gobbi)

5A. I offer you to the Trinity
“Beloved, let yourselves
be offered by me to the
perfect glory of the most
Holy Trinity.
Be the gift of my trust for
the Church. Be the gift
of my trust for all this
poor humanity. Help it to
return to God along the
road of prayer and
penance.” (Gobbi)

Words of the Queen on Your Offering
 “In the temple of my Immaculate Heart, I offer you to the

glory of the Father, who takes delight in you. I lead you, at
each moment of your life, to do his divine will with love
docility and filial abandonment.
 I offer you to the glory of the Son, who pours out upon you

the torrents of his divine mercy, to wipe away every
shadow of evil and sin from your souls to make of you
yourselves light for revelation to all the gentiles.
 I offer you to the glory of the Holy Spirit, who give
Himself to you in inexhaustible abundance. I am
obtaining for you his seven holy gifts which give you the
courage and strength in the fulfillment of the mission
which has been entrusted to you.” (Gobbi)

 I am forming you for the greater splendor of the
Church. You become the help which it earnestly
awaits.
 I am bringing you to the heroic witness to Christ
and to his Gospel that you illumine with your light
the deep darkness of these times of great apostasy,
so that it may accomplish the task of the second
evangelization.
 In the hearts of all my little children, I take up my
dwelling where I find my refuge to be consoled by
your tender filial love and to obtain that great
reparation which I has asked of you and of which I
have need, in order to shorten the great sufferings
of these, your days.” (Gobbi)

Words of the Queen on Your Immolation.
 “The hour of your immolation has come.
 On the altar of my Immaculate Heart, you are being
immolated to the perfect glory of the Father. In you life,
He arranges with love every least circumstance for your
good. In you, in your life, in your peace, in your joy, the
Heavenly Father is glorified.
 The Son is glorified when the Will of the Father is
accomplished by all in a perfect way. His will is that you
all be perfectly one in the Son, so as to be perfectly one
with the Father.
 The Holy Spirit must be glorified. He is constantly being
given to you by the Father and the Son. The Holy Spirit is
glorified when, with his divine fire, He purifies you and
transforms you, so that you may love, in Him and through
Him, the Father and the Son.” (Gobbi)

 “Thus you live in the Heart of the Most Holy Trinity.”
 You are called to be strong witnesses of the Truth. The
hour of the great apostasy has come, and yours is the task
of giving to all the splendor of the divine Truth. You are
living the moments of the great perversion, during which
humanity has become pagan, and worse than the times of
the flood.
 You are being called to spread the light of holiness. Be
torches ablaze with holiness and purity in the deep
darkness of sin which has descended upon the world.
 You are being called to become strong witnesses of love in
the hour of violence and hatred, of unbridled egotism and
of war.
 I am ever close to you and I am leading you by the hand at
each moment, as a mother leads her little children. I will
be at your side, in an extraordinary way. (Gobbi)

Simeon’s prophesy

Recognizing Christ

Sign of contradiction

6. Recognizing Christ “Let your minds be
illumined to know
how to always
recognize Him under
the fragile and
painful features of
the little, the poor, the
sick, the dying, the
sinners, the needy,
the oppressed, the
marginalized, the
persecuted, and those
far away.” (Gobbi)
How to pray with icons. By Myroslaw Tataryn

7. Simeon took into his arms the master of the entire
universe, and in his joy he exclaimed: “My eyes have seen
your saving deeds. Now you may let your servant go in
peace.”
“The Holy
Spirit comes
down upon a
poor old man.
A poor old
man and a
woman come
to be the first
to understand
this great
mystery.”
(Gobbi)

8. Simeon’s Prophesy: He will be a sign of contradiction.
“You will be called today
to be this sign of
contradiction.
By your life which will be
purely a living Gospel.
By your word, which will
repeat loudly the truth
Jesus has revealed to you.
By your witness, which
must be a light and
example for all the
.

Church.” (Gobbi)
Rembrandt, The presentation in the Temple. 1628. Hamburg.

 My heart is pierced
 My Immaculate heart

The 4th mystery
 To St. Bridget of Sweden

Words of Jesus on
 The sorrowful heart of Mary

9.*** Our Lady of Sorrows
“My heart is bleeding, because
this humanity has not accepted
my repeated call to conversion,
to repentance, and a return to
God.

I am inviting you to suffering.
I urge you to transform all your
suffering into a perfect gift of
love. You will carry your cross
with joy. Your suffering will
become sweet and it will lead
you to true peace of heart.”
(Gobbi)

9A. Our Lady of Sorrows
“I ask that they offer
their sufferings in a spirit
of reparation, of
purification and of
sanctification.
I personally and lovingly
take care to give
consolation in suffering
and, if it be in the will of
the Lord, to offer the gift
of healing.” (Gobbi)

9B. “and a sword shall pierce
Thy heart.”
“My Immaculate Heart is being pierced
with numerous and painful thorns.”
“I am the mother of the transpierced
soul!
Therefore all your wounds are now
mine. I am close by you to close your
wounds.”
“I am the Mother of all sorrows and
tears are falling from my eyes. Do not
withdraw from the love of your
sorrowful Mother who wants to lead
you all to salvation.” (Gobbi)

Words of the Queen on My soul is pierced.
 “My soul is pierced by the pain of all this poor humanity,
which has distanced itself from its Lord in order to follow
the idols of pleasure and comfort, of pride and money, of
hatred and impurity. How great is the danger into which it
can fall, the danger of destroying itself by its own hands!
 My soul is pierced in seeing my Church prostrate beneath
the weight of a most painful agony. Sin is seducing the
minds and hearts of many of my children. Many are
giving in to the allurements of pleasures and falling into
slavery to Satan. The Church is now being called to live
through the hours of its passion and its bloody
immolation.”

 My souls is pierced by many souls who are being lost and
going each day into hell. Help me to save them. Help me
with prayer, with suffering , with your love , with your
faithfulness. I am asking you to multiply your cenacles of
prayer, in the conclusive time of the great tribulation. In
this way, you help me to save many of my poor children.
 My soul is pierced in seeing into what a dire situation this
great country, in which you find yourself , has fallen. It
has again become pagan, a victim of materialism, and of
the mad search for pleasure. The law of God is more and
more violated, and the gift of life is being daily attacked
through the innumerable abortions which are being
carried out. Cry out to all with a resolute voice to tell them
of my immense sorrow. Announce without fear that the
great chastisement has already begun, and that, to be
saved , you must enter into the safe refuge of my
Immaculate Heart.” (Gobbi.)

10.*** The Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary

“Teach souls to love the
Heart of My Mother pierced
by the very sorrow which
pierced Mine.
It is hearts that must be
changed. Recourse to My
Mother under this title I
wish for her universally, is
the last help I shall give
before the end of time.”
----Our Lord to Berthe Petit.

Picture discovered at the time of the 1918 armistice.

Words of the Blessed Virgin on the 4th Mystery to Mary
of Agreda. The mystical city of God,
 “ My daughter, the doctrine and example contained in this
mystery will teach thee to strive after the constancy and
expansion of heart by which thou may prepare thyself to
accept blessings and adversity, the sweet and the bitter,
with equanimity.
 “ How persistently the human heart forgets that its
Teacher and Master has first accepted sufferings, and has
honoured and sanctified them in His own Person!”
 “ Seek ever to preserve inward peace.

Full of trust in me, whenever tribulation comes over thee,
fervently exclaim: “The Lord is my light and my salvation:
whom shall I fear?”

Words of the Blessed Virgin to St. Bridget of Sweden:
“I did not need purification, like other women, because my
Son who was born of me, made me clean. Nevertheless,
that the Law and the prophecies might be fulfilled, I chose
to live according to the Law. Nor did I live like worldly
parents, but humbly conversed with the humble. Nor did I
wish to show anything extraordinary in me, but loved
whatever was humble.
On that day of the Purification my pain was increased. For
though by divine inspiration I know that my Son was to
suffer, yet this grief pierced my heart more keenly at
Simeon’s words. And until I was assumed in body and
soul to Heaven, this grief never left my heart, although it
was tempered by the consolation of the Spirit of God. Let
not, then, this grief leave thy heart, for without tribulation
few would reach Heaven.”

Words of the Blessed Virgin to Fr. Gobbi
“Allow yourselves to be carried in my motherly arms,
with humility, with docility and with meekness.
These are the times of your full manifestation. The
days of your public testimony have arrived.
The hour has come when I want to be glorified in
you before all the Church and the world.
Walk with me in the light of faith. You my beloved
ones must, today be the Gospel alone, lived out and
preached to the letter.
Walk with me in the light of love. Love the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Love with the very
Heart of Jesus, all your brothers, especially the
poorest, the sinners, those furthest away, the sick,
the wounded, the stricken, the marginalized, the
weak, the littlest.

Walk with me in the light of holiness. Walk along the
road of disdain for the world and for yourselves, of
unceasing prayer, of mortification of the senses, of
penance.
I am glorified in you when you are humble, poor ,
little, pure and merciful.”

Words of the Queen on My Immaculate Heart
 “My Immaculate Heart will triumph over this
ailing and materialistic humanity, bent on the mad
search for pleasure and comfort, which has built a
new civilization without God and has again
become pagan, after almost two thousand years.
The pagan society in which you live has denied its
God in order to build the idols of pleasure and
money, of pride and egotism, of amusement and
impurity---constitutes for you a grave danger of
betraying your Baptism.
 It is your refuge, in which you are defended
against the wicked influence of this world. It is
your refuge, which protects you from being
contaminated by sin and impurity. (Gobbi)

 My Immaculate Heart is your refuge in which I
gather you together, as in a new spiritual Cenacle,
to obtain for you the gift of the Holy Spirit, which
would transform you into apostles of the second
evangelization.
 It is you who must be the instruments of this
general return. It is you who must be the apostles
of this second evangelization.
 Be apostles of my Work. Go out from this cenacle
and go everywhere in search of my children.
 I am with you and am lighting up for you the way
along which you must go.

The ( National ) Rosary For the Evangelization of
(Nations)
1. Fatima Prayer: To Eucharistic Jesus, source of all
evangelization.
“O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of
hell, lead all souls to heaven, especially those who are in
most need of thy mercy.”

2. Invocation of the Holy Spirit: Principal agent of
evangelization.
“Come, Holy Spirit! Fill the hearts of the (National) people
and enkindle in them the fire of your love! Come by means
of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of
Mary, your well-beloved Spouse.”

3. Prayer to Our Lady of ( Nation ): Star of the new
evangelization.
“Hail Holy Queen, Mother of (Nation), come and present the
(National) people to Jesus, the fruit of thy womb.
Look upon them continually with mercy and through your

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