Let Us Glorify The Lord!

    The Glorious Mysteries are in reference to three principle events, these events are what guides the Christian in their efforts and beliefs. As Saint Paul said to the Corinthians "If Christ had not been raised, then our preaching has been in vain, and your faith is in vain" (1 Cor 15:14).

    These events, in particular the first three of the Glorious Mysteries are so important, or central to the Christian faith, is because of the nature of the event, how they are caused, and what they point to as our nature as a Child of God. The last two mysteries are about the Blessed Virgin Mary, on the face of it anyways, but they are Christological at their core. These events as they happen to the Blessed Virgin Mary could not have occurred in without her relation to Christ as His Mother, especially the fifth mystery concerning her queenship.  

    The Glorious Mysteries are as follows: 

1. His Resurrection:
1. To iterate Saint Paul, the Christian faith would be in vain if Christ had not arisen from death. His defeat of death has shown to us that not only is He the Lord of Life, but the Lord of Death in that He has redeemed us from the wages of our sins. 
2. His Ascension:
1. A very important aspect of this mystery is the nature by which it occurs, in opposition to how the Blessed Virgin Mary is assumed in the fourth mystery. He ascends into heaven, and as we proclaim in the Creed, "He Ascended into Heaven and sits at the Right Hand of the Father Almighty, from there he shall come again to judge the living and the dead." 
3. The Descent of the Holy Ghost: 
1. This mystery is most easily recognized as the day of Pentecost. In the book of Acts the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit has come down in fulfilment of Christ's promise to send the Counselor from the Father, to guide and maintain the Church that He, Jesus, had established with Peter as it's Rock. 
4. The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary:
1. The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the event wherein Mary at the natural end of her life, Christ had assumed her up to Heaven. This is in similar fashion to the Assumption of Enoch, Moses (states that he died and God buried him, but none can find his body; he is present at the Transfiguration of Christ indicative of being in heaven, and Elijah (who is also present at the Transfiguration of Christ). However, it is Sacred Tradition that she was assumed into heaven to be with her Son at the end of her life, and was made Dogma by Pope Pius XII in 1950. 
5. The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary as Queen:
1. We see an overt allusion to her Queenship in Revelation where there is a Queen who goes through birthing pangs and the consensus has been that of the birth of Jesus by the Blessed Virgin Mary, and also the "birthing of the church", which Christ is the head of the church and the believers and clergy make up the body the birthing moment still points to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Many protestant denominations point to the title of her being Queen as detracting from Christ, but they fail to understand two things. First, the type of kingdom that is in heaven; that is a Davidic Kingdom, as Christ is the fulfillment of a promise made to David by God. Second is the extension of the first. Mary is the mother of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and the Queen in the Davidic Court is not the spouse of the king (otherwise David and Solomon would have had a vast multitudes of queens), but is the mother of the King. The mother of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords is the Blessed Virgin Mary. 

These are the Glorious Mysteries. The Glorious Mysteries are to help us ponder on the absolute glory and absolute majesty of God, His Kingdom, and His Church through which He had passed on His teachings through revelation and tradition. 

The images used correspond to the associative mystery. In the order of top left (Resurrection), top center (Ascension), bottom left (Pentecost), bottom center (Assumption), and right side (Coronation).