![]() ![]() The evangelist writes that Jesus “let his glory be seen, and his disciples believed in him” (Jn 2:11b). Jesus worked them to strengthen our faith in his divine mission. The Jerusalem Bible explains to us, in a footnote, why Jesus worked this and other signs. The Wedding at Cana. Jesus caused quite a stir at Cana when he changed the water into wine. The word remain in this context emphasizes the permanence of this ongoing relationship of God’s Spirit with us as well.Ģ. When the evangelist John described the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus, he placed these words on the lips of the Baptist: “I saw the Spirit come down like a dove from the sky and remain upon him” (Jn 1:32). When Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, he was anointed by his heavenly Father “with the Holy Spirit and with power” (Acts 10:38). Baptism of Jesus. Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan River illuminates not only Jesus’ identity as God’s beloved Son, but it also reveals with bright clarity his mission as Messiah-the anointed one-as well. ![]() Therefore, we will now reflect briefly upon five major events in Jesus’ public ministry, which Pope John Paul II has described as the Luminous Mysteries.ġ. What had been left out was a large part of the Gospel story, namely, the public ministry of Jesus. When Pope John Paul II added the Luminous Mysteries to the three already existing mysteries of the Rosary, my heart immediately responded with “Right on!” For years I had been puzzled with the “public ministry gap,” which, in my mind, had left a big hole in the traditional sequence of the Rosary’s Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious Mysteries. ![]()
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