--- title: "The Visitation: Spending Time with Mary after Confession" description: Colleen Spiro shares her joyful celebration of God's grace in the sacrament of reconciliation. --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2014/06/25/the-visitation-spending-time-with-mary-after-confession#) # The Visitation: Spending Time with Mary after Confession Jun 25, 2014 4:30:10 PM  |  by [Colleen Spiro](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/colleen-spiro) I recently went to reconciliation. It was the Feast of the Visitation. ![The Visitation and Confession](https://www.catholicmom.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/The-Visitation-and-Confession-538x400.jpg?width=538&height=400&name=The-Visitation-and-Confession-538x400.jpg) For penance, the priest told me to spend some time with Mary that day. Later, when I had some alone time, I started thinking of ways I could do that. I'm not a rosary person. Rote prayer is too dry for me. So what to do? Read scripture? Then it hit me. I had been in the middle of a book on Mary before lent started (*[Walking with Mary](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385348037/catholicmom)* by Edward Sri), and had not picked it up since. So I grabbed the book and sat down on the couch and opened up to the bookmarked page. It was the chapter on the Visitation. Okay. Surely a God-incidence. No longer questioning how I should spend time with Mary, I eagerly read the chapter. Soaking it all in. Each word tugging at my heart strings. And when I was finished, I found my new favorite Magnificat song called, you guessed it, [*Magnificat*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-nV1WGWHy8&feature=youtu.be), by Todd Agnew. And, my hands raised in the air, (charismatic or not, I doubt anyone can sing this song without raising their hands to God), I sang the words Mary said to Elizabeth that day. If anyone had walked in the room, they would have thought I had lost my mind. But I wouldn't have cared. Best. Penance. 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