Visitation - Community Mass.- The Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist and an Angel

Prayer after Communion 

May your Church proclaim your greatness, O God,

for you have done great things for your faithful,

and, as Saint John the Baptist leapt with joy

when he first sensed the hidden presence of Christ,

so may your Church rejoice

to receive this sacrament the same ever-living Lord.

Who lives and reigns for ever and ever.

Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin of the Rocks
Compare; left, London National Gallery, right, Paris Louvre

Below see, Story of Painting by Wendy Beckett.

INTRODUSTION of  MASS             VISITATION 31 MAY 2013-05-31

We remember today Mary’s visit to Elizabeth and the graces given to both women.

Like most feasts of Our Lady the Visitation is closely linked with Jesus and his saving work.

John the Baptist recognises Jesus’ coming even while still in his mother’s womb.

But we celebrate more than a thoughtful visit of one pregnant mother to another.

Today we also recognise that God visits us in the comings and goings of our daily lives.

Kyrie:

1.   Lord, you are present in the concern of one person for another,
                                                                      - Lord have mercy.

2.   L, You make us vehicles of your love to those in need,
                                                                     - Christ have mercy.

3.   L, You raise us up and perform wonders in the ordinary, happenings of each day.
                                                                       - Lord have mercy.

Prayer of the Faithful:

Concl; God, our Father,
You come to us in our need.
Let us rejoice in your presence and in the help you give us.
We ask this ... 

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INTERIOR DEPTH

"We can always tell a Leonardo work by his treatment of hair, angelic in its fineness, and by the lack of any rigidity of contour. One form glides imperceptibly into another (the Italian term is sfumato), a wonder of glazes creating the most subtle of transitions between tones and shapes. The angel's face in the painting known as the Virgin of the Rocks in the National Gallery, London, or the Virgin's face in the Paris version of the same picture, have an interior wisdom, an artistic wisdom that has no pictorial rival.

"This unrivaled quality meant that few artists actually show Leonardo's influence: it is as if he seemed to be in a world apart from them. ... Sister Wendy Beckett

- From "Sister Wendy's Story of Painting", by Sister Wendy Beckett

 Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist (Burlington House Cartoon), 1499-1500, charcoal and chalk on paper, c. 1499-1500 (National Gallery, London).

YouTube https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history/art-history-1500-1600-end-of-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation/high-renaissance/v/leonardo--the-virgin-and-child-with-st-anne-and-st-john-the-baptist--1499-1500