At the sound of Mary’s greeting, Elizabeth’s child leaped within her and she was filled with the Holy Spirit.
~ Luke 1:45, Living Bible translation
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
What is amazing about this scene in the Bible is that Jesus was likely within the first week of gestation in Mary’s womb. Since Mary went in haste to her cousin Elizabeth after the Incarnation, Jesus was still an embryo by the time she arrived. Yet, even at that young age, his cousin John reacted to His presence.
The Feast of the Annunciation is March 25 (nine months before Christmas).
Tolkien picked this date for the destruction of the Ring, a bit of Catholic code in his fantasy tale of redemption.