Advent 4 A: The Visitation of Mary

December 18, 2022
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Today, Catholic Christians celebrate the Fourth Sunday of Advent.  If you have a traditional Advent wreath, you would light all four candles today – the 3 purple and 1 pink one.

On this day, we read about the Visitation of Mary to her cousin Elizabeth’s house in the Gospel of Luke (1: 39-45).  We read:

During those days Mary set out 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.”