Today, we celebrate the Visitation of Mary, the Mother of God. This momentous event is a beautiful example of the bridge between the Old Testament and the New Testament, as well as a foretaste of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost which we just celebrated a week ago. Therefore it was prefigured and it, in turn, will prefigure something else. This is so important when one desires to get the greater context of scripture so as to understand the spiritual significance of an otherwise isolated event or theme.