“Blessed are you who have believed” Lk. 1:39-45

In today’s Gospel, Luke presents Mary and Elizabeth in an encounter that makes the Baptist jump for joy and fills Elizabeth with the Holy Spirit, as she exclaims: “Blessed is you, Mary, who have believed, for what the Lord has said will be fulfilled.”

Believing in God is a personal experience. It is not enough to believe in what others preach to us about God. In short, what you really believe in your heart is not what you hear others say. To believe in God, it is necessary to move from a passive faith to a more personal and responsible faith.

The faith of those who trust in God is beyond words, it is living trusting in a God close to you by whom you feel loved unconditionally. Faith is a living attitude that keeps us attentive to God, open every day to his mystery of intimacy and love

Mary is the best model of this living and trusting faith. The woman who knows how to listen to God in the depths of her heart and lives open to his plan of salvation. Her cousin Elizabeth praises her with these memorable words: “Blessed are you who have believed!”

And blessed are you, too, if you learn to believe.