31 May 2019, Mary visits Elizabeth
BLESSED IS SHE WHO BELIEVED (Luke 1:39-56)
This is the first ‘missionary journey’. Mary hastens to share the good news with
Elizabeth. And Elizabeth is awed and responds, ‘Blessed is she who believed that
the promise made to her by the Lord would be fulfilled’. Elizabeth immediately recognises that Mary
has embodied in her own response the whole promise of God in the former times
of Abraham and all who followed him.
What is that promise? It is that human kind will now rise above its
bleak concerns for security and survival to blossom in a new way of life that
releases all the pent up hopes of generations.
Mary is the porta coeli, the
one who opens the door to a new humanity where all will be fulfilled.
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