THE MAGNIFICAT
2. It is a canticle of Love.
It is Mary's canticle of love and of thanksgiving. How must Her heart have beaten with deep emotion when she with Her most pure lips gave vent to the feelings pent up in Her heart.
Just as you contemplate a rich jewel kept in a casket of great value; just as you admire the miraculous relics of the saints guarded in sumptuous and venerated sepulchres, so should you contemplate and admire that jewel which Mary was guarding in Her heart and which today in Her canticle She discloses to humanity.
We shall never be able to understand all the meaning and vigour of expression that She brought to it. The more you scrutinize it, the more you will find in it; but never will you exhaust it. We would have to love as Mary did, we would have to fathom God's mysteries as She did in order to understand fully the Magnificat. See then with how much devotion and fervor you should often repeat this canticle, since you know that in it the loving heart of Mary gives vent to Her feelings. It is the summary of Her gratitude to God. Whenever you have to thank God for some particular grace you will find no better words to express your gratitude than those of the Magnificat. Can any other canticle please God as much as the Magnificat since it reminds Him of the intense love of the one Who composed and uttered it for us?
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