Praised be the Holy Spirit by whose operation she was at once virgin and mother. Amen. Hail Mary. Praised be the Holy Spirit by whose power she was the living temple of the ever-blessed Trinity. Amen.

‘Filled with the Holy Spirit,’ Elizabeth is ... the barren-woman-turned-mother, to praise God. The Catechism continues: “Mary is ‘blessed among women’ because she believed in the ...