May 31, 2006
Summit
Visitation of the BVM
Cousins Mary and Elizabeth had only recently discovered that with God, nothing is impossible. But just to make sure, they were having a prenatal course correction about this surprising turn of events. Actually, it was a lot more. Call it a pre-Gospel summit, for it surely left us with two markers just short of the Lord’s Prayer, itself, to guide us along the Way [Lk 1.39-56].
Elizabeth’s benediction affirming grace incarnate nourishes and comforts untold numbers through light and dark, sorrow and joy. Mary’s paean of thanksgiving and prophetic challenge ranks alongside the Old Testament worthies in calling the church away from its ongoing obsession with navel-gazing and self-preservation and back to its Great Commandment and Commission.
Has there ever been a time when following and implementing the Rosary and the Magnificat were more essential to our good health and judgment than now?