Two women meet,
cousins but more than kin -
bound now to one another
by pregnant surprise.
Their unpredictable God
has laughed at nature
and made the childless
and the virgin bear.
She of the leaping womb,
though barren,
bears the restlessness of God.
And the virgin unknown
becomes the magnifying glass
that makes great her God for all to see.
The beginning of the poem Visitation
by Fr Harry Hagan OSB
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