Antiphon
O Oriens

O Morning Star,
splendour of light eternal and sun of righteousness:
Come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness
and the shadow of death.
(cf Malachi 4.2)

Readings

Song of Songs 2.8-14 | Psalm 33.17-21 | Luke 1.39-45 |

Salutation
by Luci Shaw

Framed in light,
Mary sings through the doorway.
Elizabeth's six-month joy
jumps, a palpable greeting,
a hidden first encounter
between son and Son.

And my heart turns over
when I meet Jesus
in you.

Prayer

Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life:
grant us to perfectly know your Son Jesus Christ
as the way, the truth and the life, and that,
caring for each other as Mary and Elizabeth cared
we may faithfully walk in the way that leads to eternal life.

The Visitation of Mary to her cousin Elizabeth. Lichfield Cathedral.

Bless The Lord, O My Soul (S. Rachmaninoff "All-Night Vigil" / Vespers, op. 37, no. 2)

Adrian Nikiel, Katarzyna Bieniaszewska, Michał Raczkowski, Joanna Dacko, Irina Bogdanovich (solo), Adrianna Jarzębowska, Jakub Kozioł, Teresa Gręziak, Rafał Brzeziński. Cathedral of St Mary Magdalene, Warsaw.