MONDAY 21th DECEMBER 2020
Luke 1, 39-45:
“Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a city of Judah; and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth She entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Isabelle… Isabelle was filled with the Holy Spirit and raised her voice and said, ‘Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! Who am I that the mother of my Lord should visit me?”.
Upon receiving the angel’s message, Mary set out. Thus Mary sets out on a journey of faith and trust in the Lord. When she enters the house of Zechariah, she will be proclaimed happy because she has believed.
Mary is presented to us today as a model of the believer. In a few days we will contemplate God as a child in Bethlehem. It takes a good dose of faith to worship God in the crying of a newborn baby, in the nappies of a baby, in a little creature hanging on the breast of a young mother, in a little child lying in a manger… And God is there. He is the Emmanuel, the God with us.
Be with us and be accompanied today by Mary. May she teach you to believe and may she also teach you to see God in the small and the humble even if he is wrapped in swaddling clothes.
Ask her to help you prepare for Christmas by focusing on the essential and putting the secondary in the background. The important thing is the Child, not the nappies.
Good morning.
Antonio Sanjuán Marín, cmf
