The Babe Leapt
Recent images of babies smiling, laughing, and crying in the womb drive home to the modern mind the point that the Holy Ghost was communicating through St. Luke almost two thousand years before technological advances would allow us to glimpse with our eyes the reality he so poignantly described. In the very first chapter of Luke's gospel, after the Annunciation, we see the unborn John the Baptist leap with joy in the womb of his mother at the sound of the Virgin Mary’s voice, so that we are told his mother Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost and proclaimed, “Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?”
2006-06-14
22:38:39
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