My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
my spirit rejoices in God my Savior
for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant. [The obedient, humble and suffering Mother of God.]
From this day all generations will call me blessed:
the Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
He has mercy on those who fear him
in every generation.
He has shown the strength of his arm,
he has scattered the proud in their conceit. [Scattered about in a place nobody wishes to go.]
He has cast down the mighty from their thrones, [Mighty in their power, pride and self-righteousness.]
and has lifted up the lowly. [Lowly in their acceptance of their respective places on earth with humility, contentment, forgiveness and love but without envy, complaint, vindictiveness and bitterness.]
He has filled the hungry with good things, [Hungry not for food that satiates bodily hunger but for the Bread of Life that is the Body (and the Path) of Christ; good things are blessings and blessings in disguise, those that people do not even know that blessings have taken place.]
and the rich he has sent away empty. [The rich are not those who are economically well-to-do but anyone who is self-sufficient who do not see a need for God and for perseverance in prayer; therefore, during their lives they will find emptiness and seek desperately to fill it with a plethora of worldly addictions that Satan offers as temptations that will only create an even larger void.]
He has come to the help of his servant Israel [He has, indeed, as Jesus, the Son of God, but was rejected, and Israel would not become His servant.]
for he remembered his promise of mercy,
the promise he made to our fathers,
to Abraham and his children forever.
(Lk 1:46-55)
[1] https://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/prayers/magnificat.htm
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