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December 21, 2022For the most part, Christmas is a time when family members get together. They visit one another. They share with one another their journey of life and their memories. During the visit they hear one another’s stories, they encounter one another. It is a time to see where they are coming from and where they are right now. They also talk about their dreams for their future. Being together brings a sense of joy.
During Mary’s visitation, something similar happened. Mary and Elizabeth shared with one another their past, their present, and their future. They brought together not only their lives, but the lives of the ones who were in their wombs, John the Baptist and Jesus. They shared the love for one another and for their children. This visit is full of the kind of love that awakens all people’s senses to perceive the colors, the movements of nature, the change of seasons when the Lover is around, as described in the book of Songs. Mary and Elizabeth are full of love because they had been visited by the God, the Lover, and each one of them are filled with new life. Both are carrying in their wombs the new life given by God in the most impossible circumstances. And therefore, they are full of joy!
It is the same joy that the ill, the imprisoned, the elderly, and the broken-hearted experience when a Christian goes to visit them. A Cristian carries new life, the one given by God, the Lover. As Mary went to visit Elizabeth, Christians are called to visit those who are alienated by society, so that they may be reaffirmed that they have not been forgotten by God, in fact, that they are loved by God. It is a visit to remember that the new life given by God even in the most impossible circumstances is also given to them. During this time of the year, we are invited to visit someone, and to bring with us the new life and love of God so that we all can truly rejoice in the presence of God.
