The Visitation --- Luke 1:39
"I had scarcely taken taken flesh when I asked my mother to take me to the house where John was to be born, so that I might sanctify him before his birth. In the Incarnation, I gave myself to the world for its salvation. Even before my birth I was working at my task, the sanctification of mankind - and I moved my mother to work at it with me. She is not the only one I have ever moved to work at the sanctification of souls from the first moment of being given to them: I do the same in every soul to which I give myself. On one occasion I said to my apostles, 'Preach,' and I gave them their mission and laid down rules for their fulfillment of it.
"Here and now I am saying to other souls - to all those who have been given me and now lead hidden lives, possessing me without having been gtiven a mission to preach - I tell them to sanctify souls by carrying me among them.. ...
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