[Officium]
Feria VI Quattuor Temporum in Adventu

[Officium] (rubrica innovata)
Feria VI infra Hebdomadam III Adventus

[Lectio1]
Evangélium szent Lukács Evangélista kőnyvéből
!Luke 1:39-47
Azon időben Mária útnak indult, és a hegyekbe sietett, Júda városába. Zakariás házába tért be és üdvözölte Erzsébetet. És így tovább.
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Homily by St Ambrose, Bishop (of Milan,)
!Commentary on Luke, Bk. ii. c
When any one asketh another for credence, he is bound to give some reasonable ground. And so the Angel, when he announced to Mary the counsel of God, gave, as a proof, the conception of Elizabeth, then aged and barren, that Mary might perceive, by this example, that with God nothing is impossible. When the holy Virgin had heard it, she arose and went to visit her cousin. She did not go to see if what she had heard was true, because she did not believe God, or because she knew not who the messenger had been, or yet because she doubted the fact adduced in proof. She went joyfully as one who hath received a mercy in answer to his vow goeth to pay the same. She went with devotion, as a godly person goeth to execute a religious duty. She went into the hill country in joyful haste. And is it not something that she went up into the hills? God was already in her womb, and her feeling bore her continually upward. The grace of the Holy Spirit knoweth no slow working.