Mary’s Song, The Magnificat

39 Dur­ing those days Mary set out and trav­eled to the hill coun­try in haste to a town of  Judah,  40 where she entered the house of Zechari­ah and greet­ed Elis­a­beth. 41 When Eliz­a­beth heard Mary’s greet­ing, the infant leaped in her womb, and Eliz­a­beth,  filled with the Holy Spir­it,  42 cried out in a loud voice and said, “Most Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.

43 And how does this hap­pen to me, that the moth­er of my Lord should come to me?
44 For at the moment the sound of your greet­ing reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. 45 Blessed are you who believed that what was spo­ken to you by the Lord would be ful­filled.”

Mary’s Song  [The Mag­ni­fi­cat]

 And Mary said:

My soul pro­claims the great­ness of the Lord;
my spir­it rejoic­es in God my Sav­ior.
For he has looked upon his handmaid’s low­li­ness;
behold, from now on all gen­er­a­tions shall call me blessed.

The Mighty One has done great things for me,
and holy is his name. His mer­cy is from gen­er­a­tion to gen­er­a­tion
to those who fear him. He has shown might with his arm,
He has scat­tered the proud in the con­ceit of their heart.

He has put down the mighty from their thrones,
and has exalt­ed the low­ly.
He has filled the hun­gry with good things,
and the rich he has sent away emp­ty.

He has helped Israel his ser­vant,
remem­ber­ing his mer­cy,
accord­ing to his promise to our fathers,
to Abra­ham and to his descen­dants for­ev­er.

56 Mary stayed with Eliz­a­beth for about three months and then returned home.
Luke 1:39–56

Mary total­ly believed what the angel told her. She did not doubt GOD promis­es to her. In Luke 1:38, Mary said to the angel (Gabriel, GOD’s mes­sen­ger): ³⁸ “I am the hand­maid [ser­vant] of the Lord. May it be done to me accord­ing to your word.”

We are to have faith in GOD like Mary did. We are to trust in GOD’s good­ness no mat­ter the cir­cum­stances in our lives. So, we must pray and ask GOD to give us faith like that of the Blessed Vir­gin Mary, who total­ly believed with­out ques­tion­ing GOD.

In Praise and Ado­ra­tion:
 Holy is Your Name (Mag­ni­fi­cat) by David Haas