Sorrowful Mysteries

And the same truth is told again in the sorrowful mysteries.

Daly and his wife, Mary Margaret, played by Susanna Frazer, lead lives encompassing "sorrowful mysteries and ebullience," in words culled from the script.

The rosary now encompasses 15 mysteries, grouped into three sets: the joyful mysteries, revolving around Christ's birth and infancy; the sorrowful mysteries, revolving around his suffering and death; and the glorious mysteries, revolving around his resurrection.

And here are some more glorious and sorrowful mysteries: how race and nation, faith and place, define and divide us endlessly; how ethnicity makes fast friends of strangers and also poisons the well of humanity; how religion calls us to worship and so miscalculates our Gods.

On Tuesdays and on Fridays, days of the sorrowful mysteries, he touched the sores thrice in the name of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost, and the invisible worm widening the raw coin on the skin dies, power of magic and religion killing the slow worm patiently circling.