Readings: I - Zeph. 3:14-18
II - Luke. 1:39-56
VISITATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY - Feast
Humility is the mother of all virtues. It is in being humble that our love becomes more genuine, expressed in selfless service and ardent worship. Today the Church celebrates the feast of the Visitation of our Blessed Mother Mary to St. Elizabeth.
Mary did not sink in the glory of the greetings and the Good News of the angel Gabriel. Instead the highly favoured one, full of grace and the mother of the Lord, as the scripture says, “went with haste” to help her cousin Elizabeth who was with a child in her old age. This is selfless service.
Elizabeth praises Mother Mary calling her “Blessed among all women” and “the Mother of the Lord”. Mary was unperturbed by her praises instead attributed them all by magnifying the marvelous deeds of the Mighty God. This is ardent worship.
Today we run after subscribers, likes, friends, fans and followers for every click and post aspiring to become familiar, popular, successful, recognised and in short we wish to become someone great even at the cost of basic humanness. The feast of the day teaches us that we become great in our selfless service and ardent worship. Like our Mother Mary if we learn to humble ourselves before the lord, we will realise that we are His followers and not masters designing our own way. May we in our selfless service to the humanity express our ardent worship to the Lord in all humility and charity.
