The Second Decade

Here are the ten mysteries of the Second Decade.

Quem die quadragesima
in templo praesentasti:
ac Moysi legitima
spontanee subisti. Ave Maria.


Whom thou upon the fortieth day
     In His own house presenting,
Didst freewill offerings duly pay
     To Moses' law consenting. Hail Mary.

The Flight into Egypt

Quem Herodem fugiens
Aegypto adduxisti:
tandem inde rediens
ad Nazareth venisti. Ave Maria.

Whom safe to Egypt thou didst bear
     Whilst Herod's rage was swelling;
But bring back with maternal care,
     To Nazareth thy dwelling.

The Sojourn in Egypt

The Return from Egypt to Nazareth

Jesus lost

Quem ad festum transiens:
dolenter perdidisti:
sed mox templum adiens:
gaudenter repperisti. Ave Maria.

Whom once as lost thou didst deplore,
     When from the Feast returning;
But in the Temple find once more,
     'Midst doctors Him discerning.

Jesus amidst the Doctors

Jesus found

The Youth of Jesus

Quem manuum per opera:
sollicite nutrivisti:
et in aetate tenera:
in omnibus providisti. Ave Maria.

Whom thou didst bring up at thy side,
     Due care and toil expending;
And for His food and needs provide,
     His holy childhood tending.








 

Saint John the Baptist sees Jesus from afar

Quem Iordanis flumine:
Ioannes baptizavit:
et agnoscens nomine:
digito demonstravit. Ave Maria.

Whom when baptized in Jordan's flood,
     John, His forerunner blesseth;
And pointing out the Son of God,
     His glorious name confesseth.

The Baptism of Jesus

Jesus tempted in the wilderness

Quem satanas astutiis:
trifarie tentavit:
salvatorem versutiis:
prudenter obviavit. Ave Maria.

Whom Satan laboured to delude.
     With threefold guile assailing;
But He the Tempter vile withstood;
     In wisdom all prevailing.

Jesus set upon a pinnacle of the temple

Jesus taken up into a high mountain

The Betrothed of Cana of Galilee

Qui tuo pro oraculo:
aquam in vinum mutat:
in quo suos miraculo:
discipulos confirmat. Ave Maria.

Who erst the water changed to wine,
     Thou for that boon beseeching;
So, by a miracle divine,
     His weak disciples teaching.

The Marriage in Cana

The Man with an unclean Spirit in the Synagogue

Qui obsessos plurimis:
daemonibus salvavit:
ac infirmos variis:
languoribus curavit. Ave Maria.


Who many souls from sin released,
     With saving power restoreth;
And health upon the poor diseased,
     Oft times in mercy poureth.

In the villages, the sick were presented unto Him.

Resurrection of Lazarus

Qui Lazarum cum filio:
viduae suscitavit:
puellam cum prodigio:
ad vitam revocavit. Ave Maria.

Who Lazarus and the widow's son
     With mighty word did quicken;
And back to life and parents won
     A maid with sickness stricken.

Young man, I say unto thee, Arise

The Raising of Jairus' daughter

Jesus eating with publicans and sinners

Qui cum peccatoribus:
frequenter manducavit:
hisque paenitentibus:
peccata relaxavit.


Who oft on earth to eat and live
     With guilty men consented;
Pleased all their errors to forgive
     If truly they repented.



Continue to the Third Decade.