MI 5:1-4A
PS 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19
HEB 10:5-10
LK1:38
LK 1:39-45
On this Fourth Sunday of Advent, we are given the Gospel passage describing the joy of the Visitation between Mary and Elizabeth and they share the news of the unlikely gifts they had received from God in bearing new life into the world. Not only would both bear sons, but those sons would be figures around whom the whole history of salvation would turn. Mary and Elizabeth probably could not fathom what that would mean but they both knew something big was happening, that God was asking their cooperation in it and though they both saw themselves as unlikely candidates for being so pivotal in the salvation of the human race, they humbly, modestly, but also confidently, had the grace to cooperate with what God was proposing. May we ask for a share in that sort of disposition of Elizabeth and especially Mary; to be open to the Word of God in our loves, the be humble enough listen and confident enough in God to cooperate. And in all the little yeses of our lives, may we share the joy of that yes with those around us!
Fr. Christopher Collins, SJ
Assistant to the President for Mission and Identity
Saint Louis University
Assistant to the President for Mission and Identity
Saint Louis University
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