Red stands for love, white for virginity (S. Bernard). The two colors are also metaphors of charity and purity. The rose bush represents the third series of Rosary mysteries, the glorious mysteries.

He is the Risen One." (Novo Millennio Ineunte, #28) We invite our readers to meditate upon the Glorious Mysteries with the help of a recently published booklet of meditation on the rosary by Sister M.

"Christian prayer tries above all to meditate on the mysteries of Christ, as in ... the Rosary." "Meditation engages thought, imagination, emotion, and desire. This mobilization of faculties is ...