Since we have our "midnight Mass at 4:00 on Christmas Eve, we will have the Oakwood veilee at 2:30 and it is being prepared by our community director. Since there are nine of us who pray together each night in Westwood, we have decided to have our own veilee and each of us will bring something to share. Mine will be Pope Francis' Admirabile Signum, On the Meaning of the Nativity Scene, but only a bit of this Apostolic Letter issued in 2019.
I have something taken from Genevieve Glen's reflection a few years ago and will share it now as it is definitely before Christmas, but it may be about the first trip Mary made into the hill country. After the Angel Gabriel told Mary that her cousin, Elizabeth, had conceived in her old age, Mary set out in haste to visit her. It may have been ninety miles and Mary would have been on foot or on a donkey. She has a betrothed husband, but Mary is now carrying a child that is not his. She cannot give any explanation that others would understand. What does she have to praise God for? Yet she gives us "My soul doth magnify the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior."
She praises God for his love for her but then praises God for all the good He will do for others through her Son...Let us spend some time with Mary, thanking her and asking her to help us to prepare for her Son's birthday. Maybe Mary will help me to know what Jesus would like me to give Him for his birthday.
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