Meditation 32
THE MAGNIFICAT
This canticle was Our Lady's answer to the praise given Her by St. Elizabeth. It well deserves, therefore, that all who love Our lady should know it and meditate upon it.
1. How sublime is the Magnificat!
It would suffice to know that it sprang from the lips of Our Mother: that alone would make it very dear to us. But it will be much dearer if we are acquainted with its circumstances. It is the canticle which Our Lady raised in praise of God after having been filled with the Holy Spirit and with the divine joy of knowing that She was the Mother of God. It has been said that it is a canticle of praise to the Redemption. Who, except God, could sing the Redemption better than Mary? There is no one so fit to extoll this most sublime work of God; not even the angels of Heaven. It was Our Blessed lady, then, Who in a public and official manner heralded to all generations the power and love which God packed into this work of the Redemption of mankind.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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