Joseph carries a flask of wine. Zacharias waits in the doorway; After a lifetime of barrenness, Elizabeth and Zacharias were blessed with child six months before the Annunciation to Mary; their child ...

(cf. Lk 1:41-45) Pope Paul VI in Marialis Cultus, #7, observes that in the "celebrations that commemorate salvific events in which the Blessed Virgin Mary was closely associated with her son” ... “the ...

During his weekly General Audience, Pope Francis reflects on the mystery of the Visitation, and urges the faithful to follow ...

Visit the homepage for more information. "Blest is she who trusted that the Lord's words to her would be fulfilled." Everything in the visitation scene is motion and excitement: Mary's haste, her ...

Christians are called to follow Mary's example by responding to God's love with action, reaching out to others instead of withdrawing from the world.

Across the pond, Mary’s cousin Elizabeth I, who’d ascended to the English throne in November 1558, was watching her closely. The daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, the new English queen ...

is a retelling of the Visitation in the Bible, in which the Virgin Mary, who was pregnant with Jesus , visited Elizabeth, her ...