The Venerable Sister Mary of Jesus of Ágreda describes how the Virgin Mary was informed of the will of God that she go and visit St. Elizabeth. How Holy Mary asked her husband Joseph for permission to go, yet our of prudence told him nothing about any of the other things that had been happening including the Annunciation. The Virgin Mary explained the importance of obedience in life, "Happy is the soul, to which the Most High manifests his holy and perfect will; but more happy and blessed is he, who puts into execution, what he has learned. In many ways, God shows to mortals the high ways and pathways of eternal life: by the Gospels and the Holy Scriptures, by the Sacraments and the laws of the holy Church, by the writings and examples of the saints, and especially, by the obedience due to the guidance of its ministers, of whom his Majesty said: “Whoever hears you, hears Me;” for obeying them is the same as obeying the Lord himself."
