12/23/18: 4th Sunday of Advent: What Gift will You Give Jesus this Year?

In today's Gospel of the Visitation, we see how Mary, at an extremely dramatic time of her life, makes a gift of herself in service to her elderly cousin Elizabeth. In doing so, she gives Elizabeth (and John in her womb) the gift of Jesus dwelling within her. God desires that we too would live in imitation of Mary, making a gift of our self and, in doing so, giving the gift of Jesus to another. To do so would be a beautiful gift we could make to Jesus this Christmas!