I want a felicitation speech for my principal in her feast day ...the visitation of mother Mary to Elizabeth
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- As soon as Mary received word from the Angel Gabriel that her elderly cousin Elizabeth was already six months pregnant, she immediately set out in haste for the Hill Country of Judea to offer personal assistance to her cousin Elizabeth.
- "Blessed are you, O Virgin Mary, who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled."
- “Blessed are you, O Virgin Mary, who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.”
- ST. LUKE RELATES THE STORY OF MARY’S JOURNEY TO JUDEA:
- Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.
- When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, “Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy.
- Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.”
- AND MARY REPLIED:
- “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant. From this day all generations will call me blessed: the Almighty has done great things for me, and holy is his Name. He has mercy on those who fear him in every generation.
Explanation:
As well as the lavish frontispiece and portrait of Elizabeth, digitised here is an account of Elizabeth I’s speech to Parliament of February 10, 1559. The speech is a response to a petition from the House of Commons urging her to marry and produce an heir. It is the first of a number of speeches she gave between 1559 and 1567, following continued pressure from Parliament to marry. Throughout these debates, Elizabeth reserved the right to choose who she would marry, and indeed whether or not she would marry at all. From the early 1580s she began to be represented as a perpetual Virgin Queen.
In this speech Elizabeth explains her belief that she was born only to do what relates to the glory of God and that therefore she has ‘made choyce of this kinde of life, which is most free, and agreeable for such humane affaires as may tend to his service onely’. She also states that now she is responsible for governing the kingdom, it would seem folly ‘to draw upon my selfe the cares which might proceede of marriage’. Elizabeth reminds her audience of the rites of her coronation where she was (symbolically) married to her kingdom with the receiving of the coronation ring. She expands this metaphor, calling England her husband and her subjects her children. Elizabeth praises her subjects for not having chosen her a husband, an act that would have overstepped their bounds. Although she doesn’t rule out marriage altogether and assures her subjects she will only choose someone who would be to the common good, she ends her speech saying that it will be enough for her if she is described on her tomb: ‘A Virgin pure untill her Death’.