Visitation of the blessed virgin mary

May 31 - Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Collect: Let us pray. Almighty ever-living God, who, while the Blessed Virgin Mary was carrying your Son in her womb, inspired her to visit Elizabeth, grant us, we pray, that, faithful to the promptings of the Spirit, we may magnify your greatness with the Virgin Mary at all times. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, (one)God, for ever and ever. Amen.

May is traditionally the month of Mary, and today we celebrate the feast of the Visitation, when the Virgin Mary, carrying Jesus in her womb, went to visit her cousin, Elizabeth. #VisitationoftheBlessedVirginMary

On so many levels, The Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth speaks - I would even say it sings - to my life as a cloistered heart. Mary visited Elizabeth (Luke 1:39-56) because she had BEEN Visited by God. She did not go to Elizabeth alone - she went with the Presence of Christ inside her. As one living "cloistered for Jesus" in the midst of the world, I carry Christ inside me as well. Oh, not in the same unique way, certainly. But according to Scripture and Church teaching, I indeed carry Him…

”Mary attributes nothing to her own merits. She refers all her greatness to the gift of the one whose essence is power and whose nature is greatness, for he

Feast of the Visitation

The Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - "Most Blessed are you among women! And blessed is the fruit of your womb!" - (Luke 1:42)

The Archangel Gabriel, at the time of the Annunciation, informed the Mother of God that Her cousin Elizabeth had miraculously conceived and was soon to be the mother of a son, the destined precursor of the Messiah. The Blessed Virgin in Her humility concealed the wonderful dignity to which She Herself was raised, through the Incarnation of the Son of God in Her womb, but in the transport of Her holy joy and gratitude, determined to go to congratulate and assist the mother of the Baptist…

Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Our Morning Offering – 31 May – The Last Day of Mary’s Month and the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary The Magnificat, is Mary’s great gift to scripture, one of i…

#FeastDay #Memorial: Presentation of the #BlessedVirginMary or The Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple (Nov 21) The Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple of Jerusalem, by Eustache Le Sueur (1640) #painting #art in State Hermitage Museum, #StPetersburg, #Russia

Thought for the Day – Saturday of Advent 21 December Mary visits Elizabeth Saint Ambrose of Milan (340-397) Great Latin Father and Doctor of the Church An excerpt from A Commentary on Luke, B…