Chronology of Our Faith

From this Old to New Testament outline of the principle factors of our faith, one can see how the eighth day as New Creation become condensed into seven with the Resurrection and return of Our Lord in Glory as Son of God and Son of Man with the merging of the forms of prayer with the gifts of the Holy Spirit that are recognized within Christ.

Both servile and filial (piety) fear of the Lord were present in Noah, Abraham, Moses, David and Joseph; and without fault or sin, the perfection of piety was present in the Mother of God’s Son. She facilitates our reception of perfect knowledge and fullness of the gifts of the Holy Spirit that are brought to fruition within Jesus Christ as Our Lord and Savior. Through Mary’s prayerful participation as the Holy Font and Mother of Wisdom and Christ’s Church, she precedes our love of God the Father in faithful fidelity to God’s Holy Word.

To facilitate a perfect order for these mysteries, by merging the forms of prayer and the gifts of the Holy Spirit and place them on Wednesday following the Joyful Mysteries on Tuesday, they include the perspective of the birth of Our Lord as He grows in grace before God and man fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah “of the spiritual kingdom of Christ, to which all nations shall repair.”

“And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root. And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: the spirit of wisdom, and of understanding, the spirit of counsel, and of fortitude, the spirit of knowledge, and of godliness. And he shall be filled with the spirit of the fear of the Lord. He shall not judge according to the sight of the eyes, nor reprove according to the hearing of the ears.” [Isaiah 11:1-3.]