21/12/2021

This morning the Gospel passage is a repeat of St Luke's story of the the Visitation. Both women have been blessed with the conception of a child. Elizabeth's is received as a great gift from God for she had been considered to be barren. Mary knows that the Father of her child is God.

We have to ask ourselves what this really means as we come up to the celebration of the Nativity. We don't need a lot of words to do this. There have been countless millions of words expounded already. What we do need is to be able to see that the Mary's child is truly God in all his complete Glory. And all we can do is worship the Baby Jesus in awe and wonder.

Dear Lord you know how difficult it is for mere men to live in the knowledge of you without weakening in hope. Strengthen my resolve and let me follow Mary with a "be done unto me according to thy word" of my own.