Thursday May 31, 2001 Feast of the Visitation Reading (Zeph 3:14-18a) Gospel (St. Luke 1:39-56) In the first reading from the prophet Zephaniah, God is telling the people of Israel, and the people of Jerusalem, that they are to rejoice because God is in their midst. Of course we understand that God is in our midst as well. He is in our midst in a general way: the fact that He is present among His people always, that He holds us in being, and so on. But in the fulfillment of this prophecy, in a way that the people could...