Feast
of the Visitation
(A feast
warm to the heart of all loosely defined Sisterhoods;)
Luke
1:39-56
Detail of
Magnificat/De Silencio
by Maurice Denis, 1909
In
those days Mary set out and made haste to a Judean town in the hill country,
where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth
heard Mary's greetings, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled
with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud voice, "Blessed are you
among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And why is it that the
mother of my Lord should come to me?"
-Luke 1.39-43
But
that is what love does. Love goes. It seeks.
It overflows. Before faith and
before knowledge, love leads. Love is
always the first source.
My soul magnifies the Lord, and my Spirit rejoices
in God my Savior…
-Luke 1:46
One
pregnant woman’s response to the blessing of another…
The
song is in praise of God who has blessed two dear friends and kinswomen, two of God's 'little ones" in an insignificant near-eastern backwater, and in so doing:
has brought down the powerful from their thrones,
and lifted up the lowly; who has filled the hungry with good things and sent
the rich away empty
- Luke 1:52-53
“If you meet the Virgin
Coming down the road,
Ask her into your house
She bears the Word of God.”
-john
of the cross, 16th century
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