The infant leaped in her womb

Ct 2,8-14; or: Soph 3,14-17; Ps 32,2-3.11-12.20-21; Lk 1,39-45
21 DECEMBER

Those who reflect on the mystery of the Mother of the Lord will receive a powerful help to know her mystery. Mary is the Creature closest to God and closest to man. In her the eternal Word of the Father became flesh. The Holy Spirit with the full power of his communion of truth, grace, knowledge, wisdom, intellect, joy and love, lives in her. Where she is even the air you breathe is true breath of the Holy Spirit, because her breath is full of the Holy Spirit. She is the bearer in the world of the Father’s love, that is Christ Jesus, of the life of the Father, that is Christ Jesus and of the salvation and redemption of the Father, that is Christ Jesus. She can bring the Father and Christ always and only through the work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit must fill with himself John who is in the womb of his mother and is already in the sixth month. He must fulfil the word spoken by the Angel to Zechariah in the temple of Jerusalem: “Fear not, Zachariah, your prayer has been answered and your wife Elizabeth will give you a son, and you will call him John. You will have joy and exultation, and many will rejoice at his birth, for he will be great before the Lord; he will not drink wine or intoxicating drinks, he will be filled with the Holy Spirit from his mother’s womb and will bring many children of Israel to the Lord their God. He will walk before him with the spirit and power of Elijah, to bring back the hearts of the fathers. towards the children and the rebels to the wisdom of the righteous and prepare for the Lord a well-disposed people”. He does not descend directly into the womb of Elizabeth, but indirectly, through the Mother of God. This is why not only does he let himself be taken by her to Zechariah’s house. He is expired from her, as his breath, his voice and his vital breath, on Elizabeth. The child, full of Him, of the Spirit, rejoices in the womb. But also the mother is filled with him and in an instant she sees before her eyes all the mystery that Mary is living. She is the Mother of her Lord. She is blessed among women. The fruit of her womb is also blessed. All this happened in her because she believed in the Word of the Lord. The Holy Spirit brings Mary who in turn is the bearer of the Holy Spirit. This can be accomplished because she is full of grace, full of God and the living temple of the Lord.

During those days Mary set out and travelled 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.”

With baptism the Christian is also the living temple of the Holy Spirit, full of grace, light, truth and life. If he is the living temple of the Spirit, the mystery that has been realized in Mary must also be fulfilled in him. He must bring the Spirit. The Spirit must bring him. He must let himself be moved by the Spirit to go where the Spirit wants to be brought to fulfil the mission that the Father wants to be accomplished. However, if baptism remains a punctual event, it is not cured, revived and nourished, the new life created by it gradually fails less and dies. The Christian is no longer a living temple of the Spirit and what he works is only the fruit of his flesh. He walks from the flesh, he is moved by the flesh, he speaks from the flesh, he teaches from the flesh, he thinks God and Christ from the flesh and imagines time and eternity from the flesh. He presents himself to the world and from the flesh he explains the mystery of God and of the Church. The flesh speaks from the flesh of man. Only the Spirit speaks from the spirit. If the spirit of man is not pervaded by the Holy Spirit, enlightened by him, he might never understand the mystery, but he might not even speak according to the truth of the mystery. Mary’s voice is the breath of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit speaks to the spirit of Elizabeth. The spirit of Elizabeth, enlightened by the Holy Spirit, speaks to Mary and sings to her the whole mystery of which she is the bearer. If today man does not sing anything of God and of the mystery of the Christian, it is because the Christian speaks to him from the flesh and not from the Spirit. The unbelief of the world is also due to the fault of the Christian that speaks to him from the flesh.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints ensure that the Christian always speaks to the world from the Spirit.