A VISIT FULL OF MEANING

PRAYER MOMENT             

Saturday 31 May 2014

A VISIT FULL OF MEANING

Pause. Be still in the presence of Mary and El;izabeth

Reading: “Blessed is she who believed that the promise made to her by the Lord would be fulfilled.” (Luke 1:39-56)

Reflection. We meet people all the time and most of our meetings are soon forgotten. But there are meetings when some new electricity is generated! Something happens. We come away feeling renewed. I have come across the expression ‘the sacrament of meeting’, meaning some life changing grace is generated. Mary, we are told, ‘hurried’ to meet Elizabeth. She could not wait to tell her the news. Elizabeth knew in her heart something big had happened and expresses her blessing. Mary in her turn acknowledges the event and breaks into a song of praise which would be repeated in the Church all over the world ‘from this day on.’ God made all his plans dependent on the consent of a humble obscure girl in a remote village.

Prayer. Lord, we honour your Mother and ours on this day of her visit to her cousin. We thank you for the gift of Mary and pray that she may help us to come close to you. Amen.

David Harold-Barry SJ