And we should carry him everywhere we go, just as Mary took him to Elizabeth’s Home. Like her we too should open our lives to God and let Him reside in us. Her attitude, her lifestyle, but also her relationship with God, stands out. Poem: Mary Southhard, “ Visitation” in Julia Ahlers, Rosemary Broughton, and Carl Koch, eds., Womenpsalms(Winona, Minn.: St. Mary is the epitome of the symbol of what God’s disciple aught to be. Everything will happen as the Lord told you it would happen. Elizabeth spoke in a loud voice, “You are honoured among women! Your Child is honoured! Why has this happened to me? Why has the mother of my Lord come to me? As soon as I heard your voice, the baby in my body moved for joy. It is the message of Gabriel to Mary, you will bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus. Just as it is part of Mary’s answer to Elizabeth. At the same time Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. This is the testimony of today’s story of the Visitation, as Elizabeth greets Mary with the recognition that she is the mother of my Lord. This is the testimony of today’s story of the Visitation, as Elizabeth greets Mary with the recognition that she is the mother of my Lord. When Elizabeth heard Mary speak, the baby moved in her body.
She went to the house of Zacharias to see Elizabeth. That is why to focus on Mary.Here’s something to ponder today as we approach the celebration of the Word becoming flesh and real in our midst.Īt once Mary went from there to a town in the hill country of Judea. This is a great inspiration for our lives, whose trials are probably not as severe as hers. And she stayed with him when most of the other disciples fled. Mary did not ask to be mother of our Lord, but when the angel came to her with the news that she was to be the one, she accepted the role dutifully and joyfully, even though it did come with a great deal of sorrow - to see one's child grow up and then be killed by crucifixion. Or when we mediate on the annunciation, it is to remind us how one can be open to the call to serve God in whatever way He presents to us. That was to emphasize the holy nature of Jesus, that it is fitting that he be born of a woman without sin. When we focus on Mary it is in relation to Jesus, such as her immaculate conception. Now, if we instead focused on how Mary went to Tupperware party or was a really good cook, that would be focusing exclusively on Mary. Therefore time spent with Mary counts toward time spent thinking about Jesus. In almost every case, the reference to Mary is in the context of revealing something about Christ. All together they form the Communion of Saint - a vast cheering section for us that still labor on earth, to give us encouragement and strength to persevere. He is the central pivot around which all these other stories revolve. In a loud voice she exclaimed: Blessed are. The point is these people all help us to realize a community of faith that together is striving to live for Jesus. When Elizabeth heard Marys greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. Boneventure Monastery, welcoming all in need, and. Maximilian Kolbe who gave up his life in a Nazi prison camp so that a married man might live and return to his family, and Father Solanus Casey who acted as doorman at St. But we also focus on Mary, and Joseph, and Paul, and Peter, and Andrew, and Thomas, and Stephen, and Mary Magdalene, and Lazarus, and the man whose eyes were opened by Jesus making mud out of spit, and the many many martyrs who lost their lives proclaiming their faith during the Diocletian persecution, and St. After all, it is the same Lord that we proclaim and that Elizabeth proclaims.
If Elizabeth can refer to her in that fashion, then we should be able to as well. She referred to Mary by that title in a question, which confirms that Mary is in fact the mother of the Lord. Elizabeth did not say "Hail, mother of my Lord" as if she were using the term as a form of address.
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