The Diocese of Phoenix on Tuesday celebrated the Visitation, which commemorates Mary visiting her cousin while pregnant with Jesus, by posting an excerpt from the Gospel of Luke describing the event.

“Today we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary,” the diocese’s Facebook post said. Quoting Luke 1:41-45: “When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, ‘Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.’”

Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary on May 31, a report from Britannica said. 

The day is a celebration of Mary's humility and willingness to be used in accordance with God's will, a report from The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception said.

“Let us bring the same sentiments of praise and thanksgiving of Mary to the Lord, her faith and her hope, her docile abandonment in the hands of Divine Providence,” Pope Benedict XVI once said, quoted by The Basilica. “May we imitate her example of readiness and generosity in the service of our brethren. Indeed, only by accepting God’s love and making of our existence a selfless and generous service to our neighbor, can we joyfully lift a song of praise to the Lord.” 

“Mary’s faith is prophetic,” Pope Francis said in a tweet on Tuesday, marking this year’s celebration. “By her very life, Mary is a prophetic sign pointing to God’s presence in human history, his merciful intervention that confounds the logic of the world, lifts up the lowly and casts down the mighty (Lk 1:52). #Visitation”