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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Visitation of the BVM
DESCRIPTION:THE FULLNESS OF GRACE \nFrom the encyclical Redemptoris Mater by St John Paul II \n◊◊◊ \nImmediately after the narration of the Annunciation\, the Evangelist Luke \nguides us in the footsteps of the Virgin of Nazareth towards “a city of Judah” \n. \nMary arrived there “in haste”\, to visit Elizabeth her kinswoman. The reason for \nher visit is also to be found in the fact that at the Annunciation Gabriel had made \nspecial mention of Elizabeth\, who in her old age had conceived a son by her \nhusband Zechariah\, through the power of God… The divine messenger had \nspoken of what had been accomplished in Elizabeth in order to answer Mary’s \nquestion: “How shall this be\, since I have no husband?”. It is to come to pass \nprecisely through the “Power of the Most High”\, just as it happened in the case \nof Elizabeth\, and even more so. \nMoved by charity\, therefore\, Mary goes to the house of her kinswoman. \nWhen Mary enters\, Elizabeth replies to her greeting and feels the child leap in \nher womb\, and being “filled with the Holy Spirit” she greets Mary with a loud \ncry: “Blessed are you among women\, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!” \n…. \nWhile every word of Elizabeth’s greeting is filled with meaning\, her final words\, \nwould seem to have fundamental importance: “And blessed is she who believed \nthat there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord” \n. \nThese words can be linked with the title “full of grace” of the angel’s greeting. \nBoth of these texts reveal an essential Mariological content\, namely the truth \nabout Mary who has become really present in the mystery of Christ precisely \nbecause she “had believed”. The fullness of grace announced by the angel \nmeans the gift of God himself. Mary’s faith\, proclaimed by Elizabeth at the \nVisitation\, indicates how the Virgin of Nazareth responded to this gift… \nIndeed\, at the Annunciation Mary entrusted herself to God completely\, \nwith the “full submission of intellect and will”\, manifesting “the obedience of \nfaith” to him who spoke to her through his messenger. She responded\, \ntherefore\, with all her human and feminine “I”…. By accepting this \nannouncement\, Mary was to become the “Mother of the Lord\,” and the divine \nmystery of the Incarnation was to be accomplished in her… Mary uttered this \nfiat in faith. In faith she entrusted herself to God without reserve and devoted \nherself totally as the handmaid of the Lord to the person and work of her son. \nAnd this Son – as the Fathers of the Church teach – she conceived in her mind before she \nconceived him in her womb: precisely in faith! Rightly therefore does Elizabeth praise Mary: “And \nblessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the \nLord.” These words have already been fulfilled: Mary of Nazareth presents herself at the threshold \nof Elizabeth and Zechariah’s house as the Mother of the Son of God. This is Elizabeth’s joyful \ndiscovery: “The mother of my Lord comes to me”!
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