Saturday, December 21, 2019

Active obedience bears fruit (Gospel for Dec. 21, 2019)

Mary set out in those days 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
."

Mary actively followed God’s direction.

She did so with alacrity.

Elizabeth gave voice to what the Holy Spirit prompted her to say.

We, and billions of others across the centuries, have been richly blessed by what resulted from their active obedience. 

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