{"id":26788,"date":"2011-12-21T11:05:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T15:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/12\/the-visitation-as-a-model-for\/"},"modified":"2011-12-21T11:05:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T15:05:43","slug":"the-visitation-as-a-model-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/12\/the-visitation-as-a-model-for\/","title":{"rendered":"The Visitation as a model for Christian life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Visitation%20LRobbia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Visitation LRobbia.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/12\/Visitation LRobbia-thumb-300x409-10729.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"409\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>Advent is moving us closer and closer to the Incarnation of the Eternal Word of God&#8211;Jesus. Among the rich readings of sacred Scripture we have in the Liturgy, there is today&#8217;s that recalls for us Mary&#8217;s visiting her cousin Elizabeth who is pregnant with John the Baptist. The Visitation is the second of the Joyful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Looking at what is given to us to meditate on, the vocation of woman is brought out. Looking around us the culture does&#8217;t offer too many exceptional models of woman for us to take inspiration.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This morning we prayed the Sacrifice of the Mass with the young women of New York&#8217;s Dominican Academy, Dominican Father Ignatius Schweitzer said he noticed six characteristics which portray Mary, the Mother of Jesus, as a fitting role model for all people, but noteworthy of women. While Mary may be a little removed from some Christians real experience, I think the lack is filled with Mass readings today.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The six characteristics are:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1. Mary is a woman of faith;<\/div>\n<div>2. Mary puts her faith into action;<\/div>\n<div>3. Mary takes the initiative;<\/div>\n<div>4. Mary brings joy to Elizabeth;<\/div>\n<div>5. Mary is a community-builder;<\/div>\n<div>6. Mary is a caring mother.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It is up to us to flesh out the details of these characteristics because TODAY the Savior is recognized.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advent is moving us closer and closer to the Incarnation of the Eternal Word of God&#8211;Jesus. Among the rich readings of sacred Scripture we have in the Liturgy, there is today&#8217;s that recalls for us Mary&#8217;s visiting her cousin Elizabeth who is pregnant with John the Baptist. The Visitation is the second of the Joyful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/12\/the-visitation-as-a-model-for\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Visitation as a model for Christian life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,32],"tags":[32088,2036,2916],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}