Our modern age tends to look down upon the ordinary simple life and to glorify the exceptional. Some would do away with home life altogether. They see pleasure, wealth, or power as the goals for which men should live. God is ignored. Against this false idea the Joyful Mysteries furnish a pattern of humility, neighborly charity, and the beauty of home life wherein God is reverenced and His law fulfilled.
Every life is checkered with sufferings and conflicts.
The Sorrowful Mysteries offer consolation, strength and peace in the midst of defeat and humiliation. Christ's Passion is a school for young and old. Against this cheap idea of happiness, Jesus and Mary in the Rosary's Glorious Mysteries hold up a better promise-that of life everlasting and eternal happiness. The glory of Jesus and Mary is a prelude and promise of our own achievement of such happiness if we but conform our lives to the examples of the virtues they have left us. The aim of the Church has always been to make souls holy.