Please read the passage before the homily.
Sometime around the year 950 B.C., a royal procession danced its way to Jerusalem. It was King David and the arc of the covenant with the ten words God had given Moses on Mt Sinai in it. The Word of God was coming to God’s people in Jerusalem.
In today’s passage, Mary dances her way to the home of Elizabeth and Zechariah. She has conceived the Son of God who is also the Word of God in her womb. She is processioning with the Word of God into the hill country to the home of Elizbeth. Mary is visiting Elizabeth and Zechariah, but her unborn Son is also visiting, conversing with, the unborn John the Baptist.
See in this visitation God’s salvation reaching to the ends of the earth. See in this visitation the arc of the covenant processing to Jerusalem as it did in the days of David.
See in this visitation God visiting God’s people. See in this visitation that even today God is visiting God’s people.
See in this visitation that God is coming into our world and saying, “Behold, I come to do God’s will.”
See in this our challenge to dance with this Word of God into the hill countries, homes, places and other circumstances in which we find ourselves today. See also in this visitation our challenge to see the Lord coming to save us though those people whom we meet today.
Blessed are those who believe that what was spoken to them by the Lord would be fulfilled.”