Confessional Address for Advent 4: Luke 1:26-45

Few passages in Scripture astound as much as Elizabeth’s words to her younger cousin, Mary.  Exclaiming loudly, she does with Mary what her unborn child, John the Baptizer, would later do for Jesus.  She proclaims the coming of the Lord. Elizabeth’s prophetic words begin with, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit […]