Lectio Divina: For Fourth Week of Advent - Cycle C

Please read slowly and reflectively.

Slowly count to five at the end of each line.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL OF JESUS ACCORDING TO LUKE (FIRST READER ONLY)

MARY TRAVELED TO A TOWN IN THE HILLS OF JUDAH/

SHE ENTERED THE HOUSE OF ZACHARIAH AND GREETED ELIZABETH./

WHEN ELIZABETH HEARD MARY’S GREETING,/

HER BABY LEAPT IN HER WOMB./

ELIZABETH, FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT,/

CRIED OUT IN A LOUD VOICE SAYING,/

“HOW IS IT THAT THE MOTHER OF MY LORD/

SHOULD COME TO ME?/

THE MOMENT THE SOUND OF YOUR GREETING REACHED MY EARS,/

THE INFANT IN MY WOMB LEAPT FOR JOY./

BLESSED ARE YOU WHO BELIEVED/

THAT THE LORD’S WORD WOULD COME TRUE.”/