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Month of the Holy Rosary (Oct 23-25)

October 23, 2025

Fr. John Colacino C.PP.S.

Third Mystery: Burial (Oct 23)

Just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so for three days and three nights the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth. (Matt. 12:40)

Then, because of the Jews’ Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand), they laid Jesus there. (Jn 19:42)

The women who had come with him out of Galilee followed after, and saw the tomb and how his body was laid. (Lk 23:55)

Joseph of Arimathea rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid. (Mk 15: 46b-47)

Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate, saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’ (Mt 27:62-63)

Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, ‘He is risen from the dead;’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.” (Mt 27:64)

Pilate said to them, “You have a guard. Go, make it as secure as you can.” ⁶⁶So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone. (Mt 27:65-66)

They made his grave with the wicked and his tomb with the rich, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth. (Isa. 53:9)

“I will allot him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out himself to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.” (Isa 53:12)

We were buried therefore with Christ through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. (Rom 6:4)

O God, whose Son, dying on the altar of the Cross,

willed that the most Blessed Virgin Mary,

whom he had chosen as his Mother,

should be our Mother also,

graciously grant, we pray,

that we, who fly to her protection,

may find comfort by invoking our Mother’s name.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

(Masses of the Blessed Virgin Mary; The Holy name of the Blessed Virgin Mary)

Fourth Mystery: Descent (Oct 24)

For our sake God made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Cor. 5:21)

I am counted among those who go down to the Pit; I am like those who have no help, like those forsaken among the dead. (Ps. 88:4)

The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid. ⁵The cords of Sheolwere around me. The snares of death came on me. (Ps 18:4-5) I was caught by the cords of death; the snares of Sheol had seized me; I felt agony and dread. (Ps 116:3)

You have put me in the depths of the Pit, in the regions dark and deep. Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. (Ps. 88:6-7)

For the waves of death encompassed me, the torrents of perdition assailed me; the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me. (2 Sam. 22:4-6)

For it is not Sheol that gives you thanks, nor death that praises you; Neither do those who go down into the pit await your kindness. (Is 38:18)

“What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the Pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness? (Ps. 30:9)

What is man, that he should live and not see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? (Ps 89:49)

Out of my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me; From the womb of Sheol I cried for help, and you heard my voice. (Jon 2:3)

All-holy Father, you chose the Easter Mystery

as the way of our salvation;

grant that we, whom Jesus entrusted from the Cross

to his Virgin Mother,

may be numbered among your adopted children.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

(Masses of the Blessed Virgin Mary; The Commending of the Blessed Virgin Mary)

Fifth Mystery: Ascent (Oct 25)

Blessed be God who lives forever, because his kingship lasts for all ages. For he afflicts and shows mercy, casts down to the depths of Hades, brings up from the great abyss. (Tob 13:1b-2)

God will redeem my life, will take me^* from the hand of Sheol. (Ps 49:16)

O LORD, you brought up my soul from Sheol, restored me to life from among those gone down to the Pit. (Ps. 30:3)

Your mercy to me is great; you have rescued me from the depths of Sheol. (Ps 86:13)

Turn, O LORD, save my life; deliver me for the sake of your steadfast love. For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who can give you praise? (Ps. 6:4-5)

For you have dominion over life and death; you lead down to the gates of Hades and lead back. (Wis 16:13)

He has redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and my life shall see the light. God indeed does all these things, twice, three times, with mortals, to bring back their souls from the Pit, so that they may see the light of life. (Job 33:28-30)

Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, who in former times did not obey. (1 Pet. 3:18-20)

The gospel was preached even to the dead^* that, though condemned in the flesh in human estimation, they might live in the spirit in the estimation of God. (1 Pt 4:6)

“Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last, and the living one. I was dead, and see, I am alive forever and ever; and I have the keys of Death and of Hades. (Rev. 1:17-18)

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