This painting, “Windsock Visitation” by Oblate Brother Mickey McGrath, depicts the joyful encounter in St. Luke’s Gospel between Mary and Elizabeth. In the beginning of the Gospel of Luke, God reveals His great plan of salvation, not with a loud declaration, but in the quiet, patient waiting of Mary and Elizabeth. (CNS photo/courtesy Oblate Brother Mickey McGrath)HOUSTON (OSV News) — Anyone who says evening prayer from the Liturgy of the Hours regularly recites the Magnificat from the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke.