Please read the Scripture passage before the homily.
Notice that Mary went in haste to the hill country. She went in haste, possibly to avoid being stoned for adultery; possibly to recount the joy and merriment of the time when King David brought the Ark of the Covenant which housed the Word of God, in Jerusalem; possibly alto to recall the fliting of the lovers in the Song of Songs.
The two mothers enjoy the dance of the pregnant, while the two boys play hopscotch, tag, Simon says, or follow the leader on their mothers’ wombs.
John is first because he must prepare the way of the lord. Jesus comes after John has prepared the way. Jesus is conceived exactly six months after John. John is born nine months less a day before Jesus. Jesus is born exactly 9 months, or 365 days, after his conception. Symbolically, this says that John is less perfect than Jesus since he is a preemie by one day and Jesus has the full nine months of gestation.
Why and for what do we go in haste? How do our actions reprise the dance of the mothers or the playfulness of the boys?