"Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary"

 31^st May, 2022:

TUSEDAY,  SEVENTH WEEK OF EASTER (C)

(Zep 3: 14-18a); (Lk 1: 39-56)

"Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today we commend the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the day when we praise the second when Mary, the Mother of God visited Elizabeth, her cousin, who was additionally the mother of St. John the Baptist, the Herald who might deliver the report about the Messiah and declare Him to the world. Mary visited Elizabeth who was with St. John the Baptist in her belly while she has additionally as of now had Jesus in her Immaculate belly. Mary and Elizabeth's second together likewise uncovered to us a greater amount of the reality of the two newborn children present in their wombs.

Mary came to Elizabeth in the wake of hearing the report about her supernatural pregnancy that occurred in her advanced age, an indication of God's endowments, which happened to her too in light of the fact that she had likewise considered a Son, through the force of the Holy Spirit, the Divine Word and Son of God manifest in the flesh through her. Jesus was at that point in Mary's belly when she went to visit Elizabeth. It is a genuinely blissful event when two ladies confirmed and upheld one another, both having been honored by God and through whom the salvation of God would come for all of humankind, one to broadcast the approaching of that salvation, while the other One is the Savior Himself.

Both Mary and Elizabeth showed us the ideals of their confidence and devotion to the Lord. Both were noble and secured themselves on the Lord. They have been devoted to the Lord and submitted to the Lord's decrees and permitted themselves to be essential for God's arrangement of salvation. Elizabeth was able to become the mother of the Savior's Herald, and in her advanced age, the Lord detracted from her the disgrace of her desolateness. What's more, by the will and force of God, Mary likewise considered the Son of God in her, eagerly tolerating the job that the Archangel Gabriel had declared to her, to become the Mother of God.

Presently, brothers and sisters in Christ, after us all conference what had occurred during the Visitation and all that Mary and Elizabeth had done, and what they addressed, we all are reminded that we ought to follow the Lord dependably in the manner that those two astonishing ladies had done. We are all, as Christians, called to be good examples and motivations to each other in confidence, and by they way we ought to carry on with our lives as Christians, as the blessed individuals of God so every one of the people who witness our works, hear us and see us in our day to day living, our collaborations and our exercises might come to share our confidence in Christ and to have faith in Him also.

Elizabeth's satisfaction and decree after seeing Mary, her cousin, saying that the Mother of her Lord had come to see her, and all the delight going with their experience ought to likewise be our reaction when we come to look for the Lord through Mary, His mom. We ought to cheer and want to come to the presence of the Lord, at whatever point we come and go into His House, the Church and where He is genuinely present, enthroned in His Real Presence in the Tabernacle and in the Holy Mass. Furthermore, we ought to cheer to come to see Him, to laud the Lord and endeavor to such an extent that an ever increasing number of individuals might come to know the Lord.

However, a considerable lot of us are tepid in confidence, not being eager to come and see the Lord, and we wind up investing much more energy doing things that are against God and His reality. We did things that embarrass our confidence in God and His Church, and, surprisingly, the holiness of His Name and Presence. This made others get some distance from the Lord, and to be reluctant to come and follow the Lord too. Periodically, the response given by the people who were inquired as to why they didn't become Christians or decline to become one and be submersed is that they had seen Christians doing corrupt things and living mischievously, and subsequently, those things deterred and prevented them from putting stock in God.

Brothers and sisters in Christ, today as we commend this Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, let all of us help ourselves to remember the confidence that we ought to have in the Lord, and how Mary, the Mother of God showed us, all of us ought to give our lives to God and to concede to His way, doing God's will and strolling in the way that He has shown us and called us to go through. We are undeniably called to encapsulate our confidence in all our words, activities and deeds, so we can lead more individuals to draw nearer to God and to motivate others to stay solid in their confidence and faith in God.

May the Lord favor us all in our consistently minutes and lives, and may through His Blessed Mother Mary, and every one of the extraordinary holy people, heavenly people who had devoted their lives to God, we all may likewise be more roused to live similarly that they had done, be perpetually deserving of God in each of our activities, words and deeds. May God be with us generally, presently and evermore. Heavenly Mary, Mother of God, petition God for us delinquents and assist us with carrying on with our daily routines in the way you have experienced yours. Amen.