Luke 1:45 (WEB)
Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!”
Catechism · 2
I Believe
“Elizabeth greeted her: "Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfilment of what was spoken to her from the Lord."” — Catechism footnote: Lk 1:45
"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"
Against all human hope, God promises descendants to Abraham, as the fruit of faith and of the power of the Holy Spirit. In Abraham's progeny all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
Fathers and councils · 30
Tertullian
“Elizabeth exults with joy, (for) John had leaped in her womb; Mary magnifies the Lord, (for) Christ had instigated her within.” — editor's note: Luke i. 41–45.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“And Elizabeth, talking with Mary, speaks in like manner: And blessed is she that believed; for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.” — editor's note: Luke i. 45.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…Him, recognized Him; that Zacharias, being filled with the Holy Ghost, said many things; that Mary herself received the Holy Ghost to conceive the Lord.” — editor's note: Luke i. 35–79.
Read the whole comment“…the infant Lord; and that Zacharias and Elisabeth uttered by the Holy Spirit so many predictions concerning Him, when He was not yet born, but only conceived.” — editor's note: Luke i. 41–45, 67–69.
Read the whole comment“…aged Simeon, who believed on Him when an infant; of Anna the prophetess; of Zachariah and Elisabeth, who prophesied of Him before He was born of the Virgin; of their son John, His forerunner, the friend of the Bridegroom, who both recognized Him in the Holy Spirit, and preached Him in His absence, and pointed Him…” — editor's note: Luke i. 41–45, 67–79.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
The Angel, when he announced the hidden mysteries to the Virgin, that he might build up her faith by an example, related to her the conception of a barren woman. When Mary heard it, it was not that she disbelieved…
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For Jesus who was in her womb hastened to sanctify John, still in the womb of his mother. Whence it follows, with haste.
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
The grace of the Holy Spirit knows not of slow workings. Learn, ye virgins, not to loiter in the streets, nor mix in public talk.
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
She went into the mountains, because Zacharias dwelt there. As it follows, To a city of Juda, and entered into the house of Zacharias. Learn, O holy women, the attention which ye ought to shew for your kinswomen with…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
Or else the Virgin kept to herself all those things which have been said, not revealing them to any one, for she did not believe that any credit would be given to her wonderful story; nay, she rather thought she…
Read the whole comment - A Greek expositorCatena Aurea on Luke
But to Elisabeth alone she has recourse, as she was wont to do from their relationship, and other close bonds of union.
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
But soon the blessed fruits of Mary’s coming and our Lord’s presence are made evident. For it follows, And it came to pass, that when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb. Mark the…
Read the whole comment - A Greek expositorCatena Aurea on Luke
For the Prophet sees and hears more acutely than his mother, and salutes the chief of Prophets; but as he could not do this in words, he leaps in the womb, which was the greatest token of his joy. Who ever heard of…
Read the whole comment - OrigenCatena Aurea on Luke
He was not filled with the Spirit, until she stood near him who bore Christ in her womb. Then indeed he was both filled with the Spirit, and leaping imparted the grace to his mother; as it follows, And Elisabeth was…
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She who had hid herself because she conceived a son, began to glory that she carried in her womb a prophet, and she who had before blushed, now gives her blessing; as it follows, And she spake out with a loud voice,…
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Mary is blessed by Elisabeth with the same words as before by Gabriel, to shew that she was to be reverenced both by men and angels.
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
But because there have been other holy women who yet have borne sons stained with sin, she adds, And blessed is the fruit of thy womb. Or another interpretation is, having said, Blessed art thou among women, she…
Read the whole comment - Titus of BostraCatena Aurea on Luke
Now she rightly calls the Lord the fruit of the virgin’s womb, because He proceeded not from man, but from Mary alone. For they who are sown by their fathers are the fruits of their fathers.
Read the whole comment - A Greek expositorCatena Aurea on Luke
This fruit alone then is blessed, because it is produced without man, and without sin.
Read the whole comment - BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
This is the fruit which is promised to David, Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne. (Ps. 132:11.)
Read the whole comment - A Greek expositorCatena Aurea on Luke
From this place we derive the refutation of Eutyches, in that Christ is stated to be the fruit of the womb. For all fruit is of the same nature with the tree that bears it. It remains then that the virgin was also of…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
She says it not ignorantly, for she knew it was by the grace and operation of the Holy Spirit that the mother of the prophet should be saluted by the mother of his Lord, to the advancement and growth of her own…
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Now in saying this, she coincides with her son. For John also felt that he was unworthy of our Lord’s coming to him. But she gives the name of “the mother of our Lord” to one still a virgin, thus forestalling the…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
But in order to say this, as the Evangelist has premised, she was filled with the Holy Spirit, by whose revelation undoubtedly she knew what that leaping of the child meant; lamely, that the mother of Him had come…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
The mother of our Lord had come to see Elisabeth, as also the miraculous conception, from which the Angel had told her should result the belief of a far greater conception, to happen to herself; and to this belief…
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You see that Mary doubted not but believed, and therefore the fruit of faith followed.
Read the whole comment - BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
Nor is it to be wondered at, that our Lord, about to redeem the world, commenced His mighty works with His mother, that she, through whom the salvation of all men was prepared, should herself be the first to reap the…
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But happy are ye also who have heard and believed, for whatever soul hath believed, both conceives and brings forth the word of God, and knows His works.
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But every soul which has conceived the word of God in the heart, straightway climbs the lofty summits of the virtues by the stairs of love, so as to be able to enter into the city of Juda, (into the citadel of prayer…
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
She was touched with the spirit of prophecy at once, both as to the past, present, and future. She knew that Mary had believed the promises of the Angel; she perceived when she gave her the name of mother, that Many…
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Cross-references · 11
Cited together in Catechism §2676.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 26.
Cited together in Catechism §2676.
Cited together in Catechism §148.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 26.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 26.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 26.
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 1:39–45 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 26.
Cited together in Catechism §2676.
Cited together in Catechism §2676.