Thank You Jesus for giving us Your Mother. She is so loving, so understanding, so kind. Upon receiving the Good News, she is the first to share it and to be there to help for her aged cousin who was to bear St John the Baptist. Filled with the Holy Spirit, her greeting brought Your peace, love and such joy.
By her example which is most pleasing to God, may we put others before self. May we always and everwhere give thanks and praise to God our heavenly Father by both our word and deeds. May we always stand ready and prepared to give answer for the reason for our hope, peace and joy to be found in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen
FIRST READING
Zephaniah 3:14–18a
GOSPEL
Luke 1:39–45
Mary set out in those days 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.”
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