In both the narrative and Elizabeth’s witness, the connection is made between the greeting and the infant leaping for joy.  Mary’s salutation activates what is growing in Elizabeth, what is coming to birth in her.  What is growing in her is God-directed.  Humility and lowliness are the proper responses.  These interior attitudes form our Franciscan vocations, and open the door between human impossibility and divine possibility.

Father’s Homily – text