I found a really excellent post today on a blog that I stumbled upon as you do – Odyssey will now be appearing in my blog links.

The post gives a new take on evangelsim and the stories of Mary and Elizabeth when they meet up when they are both pregnant. To wet your appetite read this:

Charles de Foucauld, the missionary/monk who served as a witness to Jesus among the poor and largely Muslim communities on the living edge of the Saharah over 100 years ago, recently put this idea to work in my body. The visitation of Mary to her cousin Elizabeth, he says, is a model of evangelization. Mary, that wondrous host of God himself (Luke 1.31ff), enters her cousin’s household and Elizabeth and John in her own womb leap for joy (1.41). She evangelized “not by her words but by silently carrying Jesus close to them, to their dwelling.” Following her example, could we too “evangelize and sanctify the unfaithful by carrying Jesus to their midst in silence, by carrying him, our evangelical life, in our own lives which should provide an example of his.”

The rest of the post can be read here