Make us long to encounter you with joy that we may discover again the quality of your giving and of carefree, self forgetting love through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The name of the Father and Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. We read from the Gospel of Luke, chapter one, starting off from verse 39. Mary set out at that time and went as quickly as she could into the hill country to a town in Judah. She went into Zechariah's house and greeted Elizabeth