{"id":35093,"date":"2018-05-31T07:06:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T11:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=35093"},"modified":"2018-05-31T07:06:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T11:06:24","slug":"the-visitation-gods-in-breaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2018\/05\/the-visitation-gods-in-breaking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Visitation, God&#8217;s in-breaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/visitation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35094 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/visitation-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/visitation-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/visitation-768x1026.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/visitation-766x1024.jpg 766w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/visitation.jpg 961w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Today we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is the in-breaking of God\u2019s joy in history.<\/p>\n<p>The theological explanation of the Vistiation reminds us that at the annunciation, the Archangel Gabriel informs Mary that her cousin Elizabeth is six months pregnant. A startling divine gift.<\/p>\n<p>Then we see Mary hurrying to visit Elizabeth.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0An interior in-breaking extroverting itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I think the key here is Mary\u2019s selflessness and her sharing in the joy of God. Containing the joy she feels is impossible. In her visitation Mary brings the joy of God to both Elizabeth and to John the Baptist who moves in Elizabeth\u2019s womb.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As we know, this second of the joyful mysteries of the Rosary is about Joy who desires to expand into our heart and abide there. Let\u2019s pray for the movement of joy in our life today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is the in-breaking of God\u2019s joy in history. The theological explanation of the Vistiation reminds us that at the annunciation, the Archangel Gabriel informs Mary that her cousin Elizabeth is six months pregnant. A startling divine gift. Then we see Mary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2018\/05\/the-visitation-gods-in-breaking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Visitation, God&#8217;s in-breaking<\/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],"tags":[32088,2916],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35093"}],"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=35093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35095,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35093\/revisions\/35095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}