The generosity of the young Virgin Mother of our Savior is honored today. As the prayer below says, Mary was moved by the promptings of the Holy Spirit, we also ought to make God's greatness known, loved and imitated.
On this feast I want to pray for 4 things:
1. for Giovannimaria, 7, who died yesterday after a prolonged illness;
2. for my friend Fr Edward Oakes, SJ, who was recently diagnosed Type-4 pancreatic and liver cancer;
3. for the Order of the Visitation
4. for those who need visit from a person and who lives a lonely existence.
Mary tells us of God's mercy given to all generations.
With the Church we 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.
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