said to her, “Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb”; and the Blessed Virgin answered her in the beautiful words of the Magnificat, that we sing at Vespers while the priest incenses the altar. (3) The Nativity, or birth of Our Lord, which reminds us how He was born in a stable, in poverty and lowliness. (4) The Presentation of the child Jesus in the Temple.  According to the law of Moses, the people were obliged to bring the first boy born in every family to the temple in Jerusalem and offer him to God.  Then they gave some offering to buy him back, as it were, from God.  The Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph, who kept all the laws, took Our Lord and offered Him in the temple—­although He Himself was the Lord of the temple.  Nevertheless others did not know this, and the Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph observed the laws, though not bound to do so, that their neighbors might not be scandalized in seeing them neglect these things.  They did not know, as she did, that the little Infant was the Son of God, and need not keep the law of Moses or any law, because He was the maker of the laws.  We should learn from this never to give scandal; and even when we have good excuse for not observing the law, we should observe it for the sake of good example to others; or at least, when we can, we should explain why we do not observe the law. (5) The fifth Joyful Mystery is the finding of the child Jesus in the temple.  All the men and boys, from twelve years of age upward, were obliged, according to the Old Law, to go up to Jerusalem and offer sacrifice on the great feasts.  On one of these feasts the Blessed Virgin, St. Joseph, and Our Lord went to Jerusalem.  When His parents and their friends were returning home Our Lord was missing.  He had not accompanied them from the city.  Then the Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph went back to Jerusalem and sought Him with great sorrow for three days.  At the end of that time they found Him in the temple sitting with the doctors of the law asking them questions.  Our Lord obediently returned with His parents to Nazareth.  At thirty years of age He was baptized by John the Baptist in the River Jordan.  The baptism of John was not a Sacrament, did not give grace of itself; but, like a sacramental, it disposed those who received it to be sorry for their sins and to receive the gift of faith and Baptism of Christ.  The eighteen years from the time Our Lord went down to Nazareth after being found in the temple till His baptism is called His hidden life, while all that follows His baptism is called His public life.  It is very strange that not a single word should be given in the Holy Scriptures about Our Lord during His youth—­the very time young men are most anxious to be seen and heard.  Our Lord knew all things and could do all things when a young man, and yet for the sake of example He remained silent, living quietly with His parents and doing His daily work for them.  Thus you understand what is meant by the five Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary:  the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Nativity of Our Lord, the Presentation of the child Jesus in the temple, and the finding of the child Jesus in the temple.  You meditate on one of these before each decade (ten) of the beads.