Advent Confrontation: Bearing the Son of God to the World, Luke 1:39-56

When the Virgin Mary visited her aged relative Elizabeth, both women were filled with the Holy Spirit and uttered astonishing words of praise for the one that the Virgin was carrying. St. Mary is truly the God-bearer because she is carrying God himself in the flesh in her womb and thus bears the Son of God into the world for the world’s sake.

Image: The Visitation, photo by Lawrence OP, Detail from a tapestry dating to c. 1450-75, believed to have been made by a Dominican nun in Switzerland. The tapestry is part of the Burrell Collection in Glasgow. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Image location: https://www.flickr.com/photos/paullew/7306904510

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The House that God Built, Luke 1.26-38

King David wanted to build a house for the worship of Yahweh, but instead Yahweh said he would build David’s house and give him a son to rule on his throne forever. The incarnation is the accomplishment of this promise and through it Yahweh builds for himself an earthly house to bring eternal life to his people.

image: The Annuciation, Jean Hey, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Image Location: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Annunciation,_1490-1495,_by_Jean_Hey_(Master_of_Moulins)_-_Art_Institute_of_Chicago_-_DSC09637.JPG