{"id":2921,"date":"2012-05-11T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2025-09-28T19:52:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:52:58","slug":"the-man-who-composed-the-luminous-mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2921","title":{"rendered":"The man who composed the &#8220;Luminous Mysteries&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Catholic thing &#8211; the rosary of course. These were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americancatholic.org\/newsletters\/cu\/ac0104.asp\" target=\"_self\">the mysteries introduced by JP 2 in 2002<\/a>, as a way of filling in the time between the Joyful Mysteries (birth of Christ) and the Sorrowful Mysteries (death of Christ).<\/p>\n<p>I always presumed John Paul put them together but evidently he took them from this guy &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/ocarm.org\/en\/content\/liturgy\/st-george-preca-priest-m\" target=\"_self\">St. George Preca of Malta<\/a>, who wrote them in 1957.<\/p>\n<p>His feast was a couple of days ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Saint George Preca (1880 &#8211; 1962)He was born in Valletta, Malta, the  seventh of nine children. He was ordained a priest in 1906. Horrified at  the level of religious ignorance among the people, he set up the  Society for Christian Doctrine in 1907. This was a society of laymen who  would teach the catechism to the people while receiving instruction  themselves. This was unheard-of at the time, and it took twenty-five  years and much tension with the Church authorities (including at one  point the closure of the Society s houses) before the Society s  existence was officially approved. Today the Society has over a thousand  members and is responsible for the teaching of some 20,000 young people  in the Maltese islands, the UK, Australia, Peru, Albania, Kenya and the  Sudan.<br \/> &#0160; He lived a life of perfect unworldliness and evangelical poverty. He  composed the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary in 1957. He was canonized  by Pope Benedict XVI on 3 June 2007, being described as&#0160; Malta s second  father in faith&#0160; after St Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Catholic thing &#8211; the rosary of course. These were the mysteries introduced by JP 2 in 2002, as a way of filling in the time between the Joyful Mysteries (birth of Christ) and the Sorrowful Mysteries (death of Christ). I always presumed John Paul put them together but evidently he took them from this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8605,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions\/8605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}