The infant leaped in her womb

23 DICEMBRE (Lk 1,39-45)

The Virgin Mary is now full of the Holy Spirit. This dwells in her as he dwells in the heart of the Blessed Trinity. Between Mary and the Spirit of God there is an inseparable union, stronger than the very spousal union, in which the two become one flesh. In the mystical marriage between the Spirit and the Virgin Mary, the two have become one spirit, one mystical reality. The Virgin Mary does not need any inspiration or motion of the Holy Spirit; she moves in so strong a union with him, that if only the Bridegroom moves, the bride also moves. The bridegroom heads for the house of Elizabeth and the bride follows him, walking with Him, together with Him, for Him. We can apply to the Virgin Mary, what the prophet Ezekiel says of the chariot of God.

As I looked, a storm wind came from the North, a huge cloud with flashing fire (enveloped in brightness), from the midst of which (the midst of the fire) something gleamed like electrum. Within it were figures resembling four living creatures that looked like this: their form was human, but each had four faces and four wings, and their legs went straight down; the soles of their feet were round. They sparkled with a gleam like burnished bronze. Their faces were like this: each of the four had the face of a man, but on the right side was the face of a lion, and on the left side the face of an ox, and finally each had the face of an eagle. Their faces (and their wings) looked out on all their four sides; they did not turn when they moved, but each went straight forward. (Each went straight forward; wherever the spirit wished to go, there they went; they did not turn when they moved.) Human hands were under their wings, and the wings of one touched those of another. Each had two wings spread out above so that they touched one another’s, while the other two wings of each covered his body. In among the living creatures something like burning coals of fire could be seen; they seemed like torches, moving to and fro among the living creatures. The fire gleamed, and from it came forth flashes of lightning.

As I looked at the living creatures, I saw wheels on the ground, one beside each of the four living creatures. The wheels had the sparkling appearance of chrysolite, and all four of them looked the same: they were constructed as though one wheel were within another. They could move in any of the four directions they faced, without veering as they moved. The four of them had rims, and I saw that their rims were full of eyes all around. When the living creatures moved, the wheels moved with them; and when the living creatures were raised from the ground, the wheels also were raised. Wherever the spirit wished to go, there the wheels went, and they were raised together with the living creatures; for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. Over the heads of the living creatures, something like a firmament could be seen, seeming like glittering crystal, stretched straight out above their heads. Beneath the firmament their wings were stretched out, one toward the other. (Each of them had two covering his body.) Then I heard the sound of their wings, like the roaring of mighty waters, like the voice of the Almighty. When they moved, the sound of the tumult was like the din of an army. (And when they stood still, they lowered their wings. (Ez 1,4-24).

Today, the Holy Spirit must go into the house of the world to convert the hearts, make them leap for true repentance, conversion, will of return to their Lord and God. The Church has divorced from the Holy Spirit, she turned away from Him. Without the Spirit the hearts cannot be filled with grace and truth and they harden in sin.

During those days 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, “Most 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.”

The mystery of the Church is great. She is called to be a single breath, a single Word, a single motion, a single “emanation”, a single action of salvation with the Holy Spirit of God. For the Church to bring the Spirit it is necessary that the Church is brought by the Spirit. If this union is not created, she is not true way of salvation.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints make us bearers of the Spirit.