And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
A psalm of David. The Lord says to my lord: “Sit at my right hand, while I make your enemies your footstool.”
While he was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and his brothers appeared outside, wishing to speak with him.
John tried to prevent him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and yet you are coming to me?”
cried out in a loud voice and said, “Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.
For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy.
For today in the city of David a savior has been born for you who is Messiah and Lord.
Therefore, I did not consider myself worthy to come to you; but say the word and let my servant be healed.
You call me ‘teacher’ and ‘master,’ and rightly so, for indeed I am.
Thomas answered and said to him, “My Lord and my God!”
Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory; rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves,
More than that, I even consider everything as a loss because of the supreme good of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have accepted the loss of all things and I consider them so much rubbish, that I may gain Christ
Casting herself prostrate upon the ground, she said to him, “Why should I, a foreigner, be favored with your attention?”
Rising and bowing to the ground, she answered, “Let your maidservant be the slave who washes the feet of my lord’s servants.”