"The great
mystery of the Incarnation,
which meant that God became man so that
man might become God,
was a joy that made us want to kiss the earth in worship,
because His feet once trod
that same earth."
~Dorothy Day [The Long
Loneliness]
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Mary set out
and traveled to the hill
country in haste
to a town of Judah,
where she entered the house
of Zechariah
and greeted Elizabeth.
When Elizabeth heard Mary's
greeting,
the infant leaped in her
womb,
and Elizabeth, filled with
the Holy Spirit,
cried out in a loud voice and
said,
"Blessed are you among
women,
and blessed is the fruit of
your womb.
And how does this happen to
me,
that the mother of my Lord
should come to me?
For at the moment the sound
of your greeting reached my ears,
the infant in my womb leaped
for joy.
Blessed are you who believed
that what was spoken to you
by the Lord
would be fulfilled."
[Luke 1:39-45]
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"For me it is the
virgin birth,
the Incarnation,
the resurrection
which are the true laws of
the flesh and the physical.
Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of
these laws.
I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body.
It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified.”
~Flannery O'Connor [The
Habit of Being]
NOTE: All photos from our pilgrimage in September 2018 to the
Church of the Visitation,
Ein Karem,
Israel
