Blessed be the hill country,
Where Elizabeth and Mary’s feet fell
As they carried the sacred in their wombs,
As they hosted the first collaboration
Between a prophet and a King.

Blessed be the hill country,
Where the words of the Magnificat
Sanctified everyone who heard them,
Everyone who hears them still.

Blessed be the hill country,
Where the Kingdom was announced:
The proud scattered, the mighty dethroned,
The lowly exalted, the hungry filled.

Mary, Elizabeth, teach us, too,
To be vessels for the holy,
To speak all our days
Of the majestic mercy of God.
Amen.

— Cameron Bellm