Monday, December 12, 2011

Gospel for the Day: The Visitation

I find it amusing that the first thing Mary does after the Annunciation is to travel in haste to the hill country to visit her cousin Elizabeth.

Maybe she went to see if Elizabeth was really pregnant despite her advanced age, which would have been nothing less than miraculous. And if her cousin Elizabeth were really pregnant, then everything the angel said would really happen to her. Maybe that's why she proclaims her Canticle after receiving confirmation.

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