Visit is Mary's visit to Elizabeth as recorded in the Gospel of Luke, Luke 1: 39-56 . It is also the name of a Christian feast day commemorating this visit, celebrated on May 31 in the West (July 2 in the calendar period 1263-1969, and in modern regional calendars from some countries whose bishops' conference wanted to keep the original dates, especially Germany and Slovakia) and March 30 among East Christians.
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Narration
Mary visits her relative, Elizabeth; they were both pregnant: Mary with Jesus, and Elizabeth with John the Baptist. Mary left Nazareth immediately after the Annunciation and went "into the land of the hills... into the city of Judah" ( Luke 1:39 ) to serve her cousin ( Luke 1:36 ) Elizabeth. There are several possibilities about which of these cities, including Hebron, south of Jerusalem, and Ein Karem. The journey from Nazareth to Hebron is about 130 kilometers (81 mi) in a straight line, maybe up to half more by road, depending on the route taken. Elizabeth is in the sixth month before Mary comes ( Luke 1:36 ). Mary stayed for three months, and most of the scholars considered him to remain for the birth of John. Given the prevailing cultural traditions and the need for security etc., it is possible that Joseph accompanied Mary to Judah then returned to Nazareth, and came again after three months to bring his wife home. The appearance of the angel, mentioned in Matthew 1: 19-25, may have taken place to end the miserable doubts of Joseph concerning the motherhood of Mary.
In the Gospel of Luke, the author's account of the Annunciation and the Visit is constructed using eight points of literary parallelism to compare Mary with the Ark of the Covenant.
In Catholicism, it is held that the purpose of this visit is to bring divine grace to Elizabeth and her unborn child. Although he is still in his mother's womb, John becomes conscious of Christ's presence, and jumps joyfully because he is cleansed from original sin and filled with divine grace. Elizabeth also responded and recognized the presence of Jesus, and so Mary exercised her mediatrixal function between God and man for the first time.
And he [Elizabeth] speaks in a loud voice, and says, Blessed [you] among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And from where is it to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? Because, briefly, once your voices are heard in my ears, the baby jumps into my womb to rejoice. And blessed is he who believes: for there will be the performance of the things which are told of him from the Lord. ( Luke 1: 42-45 )
In response to Elizabeth, Mary proclaimed Magnificat My soul magnifies God ), Luke 1: 46-55 .
The word "blessed" is translated in Greek, not by the word "makarios", but as "evlogimeni", which is the only feminine second person, is used only once in the New Testament. The third masculine person who is a single companion of "evlogimenos" was used only for Jesus and only on this occasion and when He was welcomed to Jerusalem on Palm Sunday with: "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord." The third person of the masculine/plural mix "evlogimenoi" is used by Jesus only when referring to the righteous who must be resurrected to live in the Last Judgment.
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Feast
Western Christianity
The theme of the Feast of the Center of Visiting Mary responds to the promptings of the Holy Spirit to begin a charity mission.
This party dates from the Middle Ages. The book was kept by the Order of Friar Minor before 1263 when Saint Bonaventure recommended it and the Franciscan chapter adopted it, and Franciscan Breviary spread it to many churches. In 1389 Pope Urban VI, hoping to thereby end the Great Western Schism, put it in the Roman Calendar, for the celebration of July 2. In Tridentin Calendar, it is Double. When the Missal of Pope Pius V was replaced by Pope Clement VIII in 1604, the Visitation became Double of the Second Class, or, as would be called from 1960 by the reform of Pope John XXIII, a Second-Class Feast. It was continuously assigned to July 2, the day after the end of the octave after the birth party of John the Baptist, who was still in his mother's womb at the Visitation.
The 1969 calendar revision moved it to May 31, "between the Feast of the Lord (March 25) and the Feast of Saint John the Baptist (June 24), so that it will better harmonize with the Gospel Story."
The Catholic Church in Germany (along with the Lutheran church) has, with the consent of the Holy See, remains July 2 date as a national variation of the General Roman Calendar. Similarly, the Catholic Church in Slovakia also maintains the original date, due to the important national pilgrimage to the Basilica of Visits in the town of Levo? It has been held on the first weekend of July since the 13th century. July 2 was also observed by Traditionalist Catholics who used the pre-1970 calendar, and by the Anglican who used 1662 The Book of Common Prayer (in some Anglican traditions it was a warning rather than a feast).
In the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, Visitation is the Second Mystery of the Rosary.
Eastern Christianity
The celebration of the festival commemorating this event in the Eastern Orthodox Church was of a relatively new origin, only in the 19th century. The impetus to set a party day in the Liturgical calendar of the Orthodox Church, and the composition of services to be included in the Menaion, is the work of Archimandrite Antonin Kapustin (1817-1894), head of the Russian Orthodox Orthodox Mission in Jerusalem. The Gorneye Monastery in Jerusalem, built on the traditional site of Theotokos Meeting (The Virgin Mary) and St. Elizabeth, celebrates this Party on March 30th. (July 30 Julian calendar matches, until 2099, for the April 12 Gregorian Calendar.) If March 30 falls between Lazarus Saturday and Pascha (Passover), the Visit Party is moved to Friday Light. Visiting Party Feast has not been accepted by all Orthodox jurisdictions.
In Syrian Christianity, the Visitation feast is celebrated on the third Sunday of the Announcement Season just before Christmas.
See also
- Visitation Church
- Order of the Holy Mary's Visit
References
External links
Media related to Visitation (Bible) on Wikimedia Commons
- The Mother of God and Saint Elizabeth meetings - Orthodox icons and syntaxes
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