The Joyful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary are (1) the Annunciation, (2) the Visitation, (3) the Nativity, (4) the Presentation in the Temple, and (5) the Finding in the Temple. They show that God did momentous things, but he always accomplishes them humbly. The central Mystery here is, of course, the Nativity. There cannot be anything more momentous than God the Son entering this world to become one of us, yet he was born in virtual poverty. At the Annunciation, the Angel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary to tell her that God had chosen her to bear a Son to be named Jesus. She would conceive by the Holy Spirit. Mary willingly consented. At the Visitation, when Mary greeted her elderly cousin Elizabeth, who was already pregnant with John the Baptist, the baby leapt with joy in her womb. At the Presentation, Jesus was offered to God. The righteous and devout Simeon recognized that the infant Jesus was the Messiah. When Joseph and Mary found their lost 12-year-old son in the Temple in Jerusalem, he was listening to and questioning the teachers. To be humble like God is what we need to imitate from him the most.
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