The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin

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The Second Sunday of Advent, The Holy Eucharist, December 8, 2019

Luke gives us the story of John the Baptist’s annunciation to John’s father Zechariah[1] and the story of Mary’s visit to John’s mother Elizabeth when both women are with child.[2] We don’t hear anything else in Luke, or in any of the other gospels, about John the Baptist until he is an adult, in the wilderness, preaching and baptizing.
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