Second Joyful Mystery
Visitation
Spiritual Fruit:
Love of Neighbour
Narrative:
Mary Visits Elizabeth
1. Mary visits her elderly cousin Elizabeth.
(Lk. 1:40)
2. Elizabeth is with child. His name is John.
(Lk. 1:13)
3. She greets Mary: “Blessed are you because you believed.”
(Lk. 1:45)
4. Mary herself is with Child, through the Holy Spirit.
(Mt. 1:18)
5. She answers: “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord.”
(Lk. 1:46)
6. “His mercy reaches from age to age.”
(Lk. 1:50)
7. Mary, the Mother of God, stays to help Elizabeth.
(Lk. 1:56)
8. After three months Mary returns to her home in Nazareth.
(Lk. 1:56)
9. Do good to all.
(Gal. 6:10)
10. Be at peace with everyone.
(Rom. 12:18)
Spiritual Fruit:
Love of Neighbor
1. One of the Two Great Commandments
2. No Harbouring of Revenge or Grudges
3. Honor your Father and Mother
4. Willing to Lay Down One's Life for others
5. Sharing in the Suffering of Others
[1. One of the two great commandments]
"The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no commandment greater than these.”
[2. No Harbouring of Revenge or Grudges]
"Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord."
- Leviticus 19:18
[3. Honor your Father and Mother]
"honor your father and mother,' and 'love your neighbor as yourself.”
- Matthew 19:19
"for the Lord has given fathers authority over their children and given children the obligation to obey their mothers. If you respect your father, you can make up for your sins, and if you honor your mother, you are earning great wealth. "
- Sirach 3:3-4
[4. Willing to Lay Down One's
Life for others ]
"Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends."
-John 15:13
"He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it. "
-Matthew 10:39
[5. Sharing in the Suffering of Others]
"Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ."
- Galatians 6:2
"I do not desire to die soon, because in Heaven there is no suffering. I desire to live a long time because I yearn to suffer much for the love of my Spouse."
- St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi
"If God gives you an abundant harvest of trials, it is a sign of great holiness which He desires you to attain. Do you want to become a great saint? Ask God to send you many sufferings. The flame of Divine Love never rises higher than when fed with the wood of the Cross, which the infinite charity of the Savior used to finish His sacrifice. All the pleasures of the world are nothing compared with the sweetness found in the gall and vinegar offered to Jesus Christ. That is, hard and painful things endured for Jesus Christ and with Jesus Christ."
- Saint Ignatius of Loyola
