Elizabeth's song

The babe leaps in my womb,

and the Spirit has filled all my soul:

blessed are you among women,

and blessed the fruit of your womb!

And why is it granted to me,

that the mother of my Lord should come?

For behold, when your voice came to me

the babe in my womb leaped for joy.

And blessed is she who believed

that the word of the Lord would in her

find fulfilment and dwell among men.

C.M.M.

Written a couple of years ago when a friend asked if I could write a song-like version of Elizabeth's words, posted this night after the celebration of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth.

Visualising the Bible

This extraordinarily beautiful image comes from Visualising the Bible, a site which visualises the textual cross references found in the Bible. The site's owner, Chris Harrison, explains that he and his collaborator "wanted something that honored and revealed the complexity of the data at every level", and in this I think they've succeeded.

The site has other diagrams and different ways of expressing the relationships between Biblical texts, as well as frequency visualisations. Not quite the stuff of the Lay Training class - but fascinating. I'm indebted to Ewan for remembering my more esoteric interests ...