Gospel:
Luke 1:39-56
Mary set
out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she
entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. 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, “Most blessed are you among
women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me,
that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For at the moment the sound of
your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed
are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be
fulfilled.”
And Mary
said: “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God
my Savior, for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant. From this day all
generations will call me blessed: the Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
He has
mercy on those who fear him in every generation. He has shown the strength of
his arm,he has scattered the proud in their conceit. He has cast down the
mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up the lowly. He has filled the
hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty. He has come to
the help of his servant Israel for he has remembered his promise of mercy, the
promise he made to our fathers, to Abraham and his children for ever.”
Mary
remained with her about three months and then returned to her home.
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Reflection:
Would you
exert effort to give a relative a surprise visit? Many of us are very busy that
we hardly have time for this kind of human relation effort. But if many of us
have no time to reach out to our relatives the Blessed Mother always has time.
Just
imagine the Blessed Mother travelling for days on a donkey while pregnant just
to give cheer to her pregnant cousin Elizabeth. Who among us would do that?
Perhaps only a few because we have no time.
We have
already allowed this world to dictate upon us to always get busy with things of
this world. Get busy at the expense of strengthening our bond with our friends and
relatives? Yes, when we allow ourselves to become overly busy with worldliness
the tie that binds us with our friends and relatives take a backseat.
But not
the Blessed Mother for she is an extra ordinary Blessed woman who is always
full of love, care and compassion towards her relatives and to us also. The
Blessed Mother never thought of her own safety and her own predicament (Because
she was also pregnant at that time). She braved the very long distance and the
stress on herself just to give herself to her cousin Elizabeth.
How many
of us are still willing to forget ourselves just to visit our poor relative/s
and make them happy with our presence? – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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