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Women believers<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n

After receiving God\u2019s call announcing to her that she will be the mother of the Messiah, Mary<\/b> sets out alone.\u00a0 A new life in the service of her son Jesus starts for her.\u00a0\u00a0 She goes \u201cin haste,\u201d with resolve.\u00a0 She feels the need to share her joy with her cousin Elizabeth and to be at her service the soonest in the last months of her pregnancy.<\/p>\n

The meeting of the two mothers is an unusual scene.\u00a0 No men are present.\u00a0 Only\u00a0two simple women, without any title or relevance in Jewish religion<\/b>.\u00a0 One is Mary who carries Jesus everywhere, and the other is Elizabeth who, filled with the prophetic spirit, dares to bless her cousin without being a priest.<\/p>\n

Mary enters the house of Zechariah, but she does not head toward him.\u00a0 She goes straight to greet Elizabeth<\/b>.\u00a0 We know nothing of the content of her greeting, only that the greeting fills the house with overflowing joy.\u00a0 It is the joy that Mary has been living since she heard the angel\u2019s greeting, \u201cRejoice, full of grace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elizabeth cannot contain her surprise and joy.\u00a0 As soon as she hears Mary\u2019s greeting, she feels the movement of the infant she carries in her womb and motherly interprets it as \u201cleap of joy.\u201d\u00a0 Right away she blesses Mary \u201cin a loud voice,\u201d saying,\u00a0\u201c<\/b>Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb<\/b>.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

At no time does she call Mary by name.\u00a0 She contemplates her as totally identified with her mission:\u00a0 she<\/b> is the mother of her Lord<\/b>.\u00a0 She sees her as a woman believer in whom will be fulfilled God\u2019s designs:\u00a0 \u201cBlessed are you who has believed.\u201d<\/p>\n

What most surprises her is Mary\u2019s behavior.\u00a0 She has not come to show her dignity as mother of the Messiah.\u00a0 She is not there to be served but to serve<\/b>.\u00a0 Elizabeth cannot get over her surprise.\u00a0 \u201cHow does this happen to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me?\u201d<\/p>\n

There are enough women who do not live in peace within the Church<\/b>.\u00a0 Disaffection and unrest grow in some of them.\u00a0 They suffer when they see that, despite their being the first co-workers in many fields, they are hardly counted on when it comes to thinking of, deciding on, and promoting the course to be taken by the Church.\u00a0 This situation is hurting us all.<\/p>\n

The weight of a centuries-old history, controlled and dominated by the male, prevents us from being aware of the\u00a0impoverishment that it means for the Church when it does without a more effective presence of women<\/b>.<\/p>\n

We do not listen to them, but God can raise up women believers, filled with prophetic spirit, who will infect us with joy and give the Church a more human face.\u00a0 They will be a blessing.\u00a0 They will teach us to follow Jesus more passionately and faithfully<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Antonio Pagola<\/p>\n

December 23, 2012
\n4 Advent (C)
\nLuke 1: 39-45<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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