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Elizabeth exclaimed with a loud cry, \\u201cBlessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.\\u201d Who was the blessed woman, and what does it mean to be blessed in the first place? Dustin is an emerging Mariologist, and he walks us through the unfamiliar early life of Mary before Jesus as he explores what it means to be beloved and blessed by God, and the way he sees the SMC community fulfilling that blessing.

Sermon begins at minute marker 4:53
Genesis 17.15-22; Luke 1.39-45

Photo from The Church Council of Greater Seattle
Hymn: Voices Together 216, Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming. Lyrics: stanzas 1\\u20132 anon., \\u201cEs ist ein Ros\\u2019 entsprungen,\\u201d (present-day Germany), 15th c.; Alte Catholische Geistliche Kirchengas\\xe4ng, 1599; trans. Theodore Baker (USA), 1894; stanza 3 Friedrich Layritz (Germany), Liederschatz, 1832; trans. Harriet K. Spaeth (USA), The Hymnal, 1940, alt. Music: German traditional, 15th c.; Alte Catholische Geistliche Kirchengas\\xe4ng, 1599; harm. Michael Praetorius (Germany), Musae Sionae VI, 1609 Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Resources

• A Woman\\u2019s Lectionary for the Whole Church (Year W): A Multi-Gospel Single-Year Lectionary, Wilda C. Gafney, Church Publishing Incorporated, 2021.
• \\u201cThe Gospel of James\\u201d translated by Stevan Davies in The Infancy Gospels of Jesus: Apocryphal Tales from the Childhoods of Mary and Jesus - Annotated & Explained, SkyLight Paths Publishing, 2009
• RadioLab, \\u201cThe Ashes on The Lawn,\\u201d December 2, 2022. http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/ashes-lawn-2212/
• I Use My Love to Guide Me. Barnard Center for Research on Women, 2018. https://bcrw.barnard.edu/i-use-my-love-to-guide-me/

This sermon was written for Seattle Mennonite Church as the second in a 12-week exploration of the Journey of Mary through messages and messengers that began on the first Sunday of\\xa0 Advent and lasted until Lent.