The First Mystery of Light: Bach for a musical meditation...

(Vatican Radio) In October, a month dedicated in a special way to the Rosary, Pope Benedict XVI called on Catholics to turn to this Marian prayer once again.

Music historian Monsignor Philip Whitmore brings us a musical meditation focusing on Our Lord's Baptism, the first of the Mysteries of Light , the five new mysteries that Blessed John Paul II added to the traditional fifteen when he published his encyclical letter on the Rosary, 'Rosarium Virginis Mariae'.

Each of the 'Mysteries of Light' is a revelation of the kingdom now present in the Person of Jesus.

A programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick .

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