The First Joyful Mystery:

The Annunciation

(Intention: Population and right to life)

The Second Joyful Mystery:

The Visitation

(Intention: Aged and Social Justice)

The Third Joyful Mystery:

The Nativity

(Intention: Motherhood, Poverty, Social Ethnic Groups)

The Fourth Joyful Mystery:

The Presentation

(Intention: Mentally Retarded)

The Fifth Joyful Mystery:

The Finding of the Child Jesus in the Temple

(Intention: Family life and Youth)

The First Sorrowful Mystery:

The Agony in the Garden

(For the ability to do God's Will and to accept the cross)

The Second Sorrowful Mystery:

The Scourging at the Pillar

(To overcome the weaknesses that strip us of grace

and lead us on to faithfulness)

The Third Sorrowful Mystery:

The Crowning with the Thorns

(To overcome pride, worry and resentments,

and for increase in faith)

The Fourth Sorrowful Mystery:

The Carrying of the Cross

(To obtain courage in sickness and sorrow)

The Fifth Sorrowful Mystery:

The Crucifixion

(To forgive and love unselfishly)

The First Glorious Mystery:

The Resurrection

(To remember the joys to come and to preserve to the end)

The Second Glorious Mystery:

The Ascension

(To rise above the things of this world)

The Third Glorious Mystery:

Decent of the Holy Spirit

(To increase in Love and Divine Indwelling)

The Fourth Glorious Mystery:

The Assumption

(To possess a deep awareness of the glory to come)

The Fifth Glorious Mystery:

The Coronation

(To one day be united to God in His Kingdom)