This year, the Church recounts Mary’s visitation of Elizabeth. Today’s Gospel tells us that Mary “set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town in Judah” (1:39).

After the angel Gabriel announces Jesus’ forthcoming birth, Mary visits Elizabeth, who is pregnant with John. At Mary’s greeting, “the infant leaped in her [Elizabeth’s] womb,” and ...

Hearing that Elizabeth was six months pregnant with a son, Mary then went to the Hill Country to visit her cousin and share her good news with her. You can read it in Luke 1:39-45.

Elizabeth knows that, though she cannot see God, God is there with her—in Mary’s womb. This appears to leave Elizabeth puzzled, or even in disbelief, that God himself has come to her home.

In this moment, the greatest gift that Mary brought not just to Elizabeth, but to the whole world, “is Jesus, who already lives in her,” Francis said. “And he lives not only by faith and ...

It is now the 4th Sunday of Advent and Christmas is just a few days away. Today’s gospel reading comes from Luke 1:39-45, it is about our Blessed Virgin Mary visiting her cousin Elizabeth ...