MAGNIFICAT
Name given to the song that Mary, the mother of the Lord Jesus, composed in joyful praise. She receives this name from the word with which she begins in the Latin Vulgate version (Lk. 1: 46-55).
In this song, Mary recognizes that God is her Savior (Lk. 1:47) and is grateful for the blessedness of which she has been the object (Lk. 1: 48-50); she proclaims the greatness of God in His protection of the humble and afflicted, and in His judgment against the proud of heart (Luke 1:51-53); she relates the birth of the Messiah to the eschatological blessing of Israel (Lk. 1:54, 55).
This beautiful poem is steeped in the knowledge of God in the OT Scriptures, and shows that Mary was a careful student of God’s Word.