 The Rt Rev Jack L Iker, SSC, Bishop The Rev Mark A Stockstill, SSC, Vicar Office 325.356.2997 Vicarage 325.356.2198 Cell 325.330.2411 mstockstill@fwepiscopal.org |
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After the
angel Gabriel had announced to Mary that she was to become the mother of Our
Lord, Mary went from Galilee to Judea to visit her kinswoman Elizabeth, soon
to be the mother of John the Baptist. This visit is recorded in Luke
1:39-56. Elizabeth greeted Mary with the words, "Blessed are you among
women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb." Mary burst forth with the
song of praise which we call the Magnificat, beginning, "My soul proclaims
the greatness of the Lord." We are told that even John the Baptist, still
unborn, leaped for joy in his mother's womb. Thus we are shown, side by
side, the two women, one seemingly too old to have a child, but destined to
bear the last prophet of the Old Covenant, of the age that was passing away;
and the other woman, seemingly not ready to have a child, but destined to
bear the One Who was Himself the beginning of the New Covenant, the age that
would not pass away.