The Visitation Excerpted from The Reed of God, Caryll Houselander
And Mary rising up in those days went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda. [Lk. 1:39]
How lyrical that is, the opening sentence of St. Luke's description of the Visitation. We can feel the rush of warmth and kindness, the sudden urgency of love that sent that girl hurrying over the hills. "Those days" in which she rose on that impulse were the days in which Christ was being formed in her, the impulse was his impulse
To Do:
Besides a nice dinner and dessert,
you could also use this last day of the Mary month of May to tidy up or add to your Mary garden.
And like Immaculate Conception--this can be another "Be Nice to Pregnant Ladies' Day" Can you visit someone who is expecting?
It is also a great day for Pro-life work. What can affirm the humanity of the fetus more than this--John the Baptist "filled with the Holy Spirit, leaps with joy?"