Meditating on the mysteries of the Holy Rosary, it is very informative and enriching to consider the relationship between the three groups of mysteries, the Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious.
In the 3rd Joyful mystery Christ the King gives up his crown and becomes a helpless child, born into the cold of the night in poverty, for the love of sinful man.
In the 3rd Sorrowful mystery, Christ the King recieves a crushing crown of thorns in the ultimate act of humility. Bearing the cruelest of insults, spitting, and the unimaginable pain of the physical thorns, he accepts all of this for the love of sinful man.
In the 3rd Glorious mystery, Christ the King sends His Spirit, crowning us, with the fire of Divine Love. "O Come Down Love Divine, Come fill this heart of mine" we sing.
We often hear the words "God is love" which have always seemed trite and empty to me. Not that these words are not true, even ultimately true, but often those things which are most profound and intimate are lessened by our attempts to describe them. How does one describe the perfume of a rose to one who has not experienced it?
Our society needs to recover the beauty of true intimacy. There have been private revelations over the centuries, some of which have had heavenly messages for the seers only, for example revelations of the Holy Trinity which were not to be revealed. I often wondered what the point of that was. Then I slowly came to the realization that intimacy with God is the point.
God desires intimacy with all of His children, but He needs our cooperation to grow close to Him.
"If a man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him." John 14:23
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