Gospel (Lk 1,46-56) - At that time, Mary said: «My soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God, my savior, because he looked at the humility of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed. The Almighty has done great things for me and Holy is his name; his mercy to those who fear him from generation to generation. He has shown the power of his arm, he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts; he has overthrown the mighty from their thrones, he has exalted the humble; he has filled the hungry with good things, he has sent the rich away empty-handed. He helped Israel, he was his servant, remembering his mercy, as he had said to our fathers, for Abraham and his descendants forever."

The commentary on the Gospel by Monsignor Vincenzo Paglia

In her meeting with her cousin Elizabeth, Mary was greeted with the first beatitude that appears in her Gospel: "Blessed is she who believed in the fulfillment of what the Lord told her." You must make us reflect on the fact that this first beatitude is linked to listening to the Word of God. It immediately appears that listening to the Gospel is not without problems, without disturbances, precisely, as happens in this meeting. For Mary it immediately transformed into the joy of feeling loved by God and of being in her hands. Mary, who became the first blessed of the Gospel, sings in fact the joy of being chosen and loved by God. A hymn of praise flows from her heart because the Lord of heaven and earth has bowed his gaze towards her, despite the fact that she was a poor and weak creature. In the song of the Magnificat, Mary brings together in an extraordinary synthesis the happiness of the 'anawîm, of those who, aware of their littleness, placed their whole life in the hands of the Lord and expected every fullness from him. Mary does not hide her smallness and her poverty, she knows that true wealth is that of God who chooses the poor and the little ones to demonstrate his love for her. The same God who freed Israel from the slavery of Egypt, who protected the poor, who humiliated the proud and who filled the hungry with good things, bent over her and loved her so much as to make her the Mother of Son. She, with trembling and great joy, welcomed this immense gift into her heart and made it the purpose of her very existence. From that day, through her, God made her home among men. In her the Word became flesh. And in her the Lord showed us the path that believers of all times, including us, are called to follow.