Saturday, December 25, 2010

Good morning!
You're beautiful with God's beauty.
Beautiful inside and out!
God be with you.

Gabriel's greeting to Mary (Message Remix)


Yes, I see it all now:
I'm the Lord's maid, ready to serve.
Let it be to me
Just as you say.

Mary's response.


You're so blessed among women,
and the babe in your womb, also blessed:
And why am I so blessed that
the mother of my Lord visits me?
The moment the sound of your
greeting entered my ears,
The babe in my womb
skipped like a lamb for sheer joy
Blessed woman, who believed what God said,
believed every word would come true!

Elizabeth to Mary.


I'm bursting with God-news;
I'm dancing the song of my Savior God.
God took one good look at me, and look what happened--
I'm the most fortunate woman on earth!
What God has done for me will never be forgotten,
the God whose very name is holy, set apart from all others.
His mercy flows in wave after wave
on those who are in awe before him.
He bared his arm and showed his strength,
scattered the bluffing braggarts.
He knocked tyrants off their high horses,
pulled victims out of the mud.
The starving poor sat down to a banquet,
the callous rich were left out in the cold.
He embraced his chosen child, Israel,
he remembered and piled on the mercies, piled them high.
It's exactly what he promised,
beginning with Abraham and right up to now.

Mary to Elizabeth

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