God breaks into human life at every turn (Joseph F. Chorpenning, OSFS)

   The Visitation is not an event consigned to the past, but ever present in the here and now in daily experience: God breaks into human life at every turn, and Mary, in the first place, and the saints of the Visitation* model the appropriate human response to these daily divine visitations.

--Joseph F. Chorpenning, OSFS

   *Per St. Francis de Sales, “the saints who were present at the mystery of the Visitation” were “the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, St. Joseph, St. John the Baptist, patriarch of hermits, St. Zechariah, and St. Elizabeth.”

Image source:  James Janknegt, The Visitation (2008). For an interview with the artist, see https://www.creatorspiritus.org/creator-spiritus-blog/2016/12/17/the-visitation-an-interview-with-artist-james-janknegt  To view several more images of the Visitation at which St. Joseph and Zechariah are present, see: https://osjusa.org/st-joseph/art/subjects/visitation/
Quotation source: Joseph F. Chorpenning, OSFS, “Mother of Our Savior and Cooperator in Our Salvation: Imitatio Mariae and the Biblical Mystery of the Visitation in St. Francis de Sales,” Marian Studies 53 (2002), Article 8.