Mary’s trip [to visit her cousin Elizabeth] also demonstrates the call of community. Sometimes, our physical presence is the best gift we can give another person. Remember, too, that Mary is carrying Christ inside her, which gives another layer of meaning to her decision to offer support to her cousin. Pope John Paul II acknowledged this in a 1997 homily when he reflected on the Visitation and said, “In this act of human solidarity, Mary demonstrated that authentic charity which grows within us when Christ is present.”
Ultimately, the Visitation reminds us that no one is an island. We all live and thrive in relation to others. Sometimes we give in these encounters, and sometimes we receive. And often, as in the Visitation, it’s a beautiful combination of the two.
--Ginny Kubitz Moyer
HAPPY FEAST OF THE VISITATION!
Image source: The Visitation, mural designed by Bro. Mickey McGrath and painted by seven teenagers at a clinic in Nairobi, Kenya, that treats pregnant women with HIV. Br. Mickey says that the teenagers who helped to make this mural happen “remind me every day of the Magnificat springing to life.” https://www.kolbetimes.com/br-mickey-mcgrath/
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