The Visitation

From:  Mary My Hope [Father Lawrence G. Lovasik, S.V.D.] pages 56-57 How humble you were! Though you were the Mother of the Most High, you wanted to become the nurse of Elizabeth and the infant John. Though declared blessed among women, you considered yourself the servant of two of God’s beloved children. Help me to [...]

The Feast of the Visitation

“The staying of the Mother of God quiets the human mother. The angel could calm Mary with just a few words; Mary, as a human, must proceed more slowly; she calms Elizabeth by staying with her. But she has learned from the angel how one gives peace. She knows from her own experience that the [...]

The Feast of the Visitation

The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth before the birth of Saint John the Baptist is the second joyful mystery of the Rosary.  The theme of the liturgical celebration of this Marian Feast is “sharing feelings of joy by praising God.”  Everywhere we turn in the unfolding of the Visitation we [...]