The theme of expectation and anticipation – is another great homilist.
Fr. Montoya described these feelings of anticipation and expectation linked to getting a gift, losing a job, watching games, and these two pregnancies.
One by Elizabeth, who became pregnant in her old age with Zacarias, whose son would be named John. Elizabeth had to isolate herself and stayed in seclusion for five months.
He spoke of how every cloud has a silver lining. Of how the impossibility of a barren old woman becoming pregnant and later that impossibility becomes its opposite, with faith.
Of how Mary also became pregnant with the child Jesus, where these two women became expectant with joy and pregnant with hope.
These are two stories of problems transformed into blessings, using Bishop David’s previous homily, of a mystery becoming part of us, integrated as part of our faith.
“Where shame gets transmuted to honor and where we see the joy of family, chosen by God to be lifted up with overflowing joy and guidance, and family becomes a source of rejoicing.”