Advent: Week 3: Saturday: Year C

1^st Reading: 1 Samuel 1:24-28

Gospel: Luke 1:46-56: Mary’s role in the economy of salvation: Union with God in Jesus Christ

Mary’s Magnificent Song About God: God’s Glorious Mercy and Deliverance, Lk 1:46-56

Mary’s song is known as the Magnificat. It has come similarity to the Song of Hannah (1Sam 2:1-10).  However, there is a striking difference between the two songs. Hannah proclaimed  a triumph over her enemies; Mary proclaimed God and His glorious mercy to man. Mary was proclaiming the salvation of God, a salvation wrought through the promised Messiah, her Saviour. She predicted that the Saviour would be welcomed by those who reverenced Him (v.50); but He would be rejected by the proud, the powerful and the rich (v.51-53).

1. God was the subject of her song (v.46)

2. God was her Saviour (v.47-48)

a. had considered her low estate

b. causes her to be remembered

3. God was to be proclaimed (v.49-50)

a. His power

b. His holiness

c. His mercy

4. God had reversed the order of things on earth (v.51-53)

a. had scattered the proud

b. had dethroned the mighty and exacted the humble

c. he filled the hungry and emptied the rich

5. God had helped His people (v.54-55)

a. Remembered His mercy

b. remembered promise to send the Messiah

6. conclusion: Mary visited Elizabeth for about three months (v.56)

Thought: Mary was an ordinary woman, the least was chosen and greatly blessed by God, yet she did not slip into the sin of pride, nor did she think that she was a favourite of God. We must learn to live praising God more and more when God blesses us always.

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