The Magnificat is a template for us in our own prayer. It spiritually extends and manifests the petitions of the Lord’s Prayer, the Our Father, the very prayer given to us by the Lord Jesus himself.

Throughout history, poor and oppressed people have often identified with this song — the longest set of words spoken by a woman in the New Testament.

“Mary remained with Elizabeth about three months and then returned to her home” (Lk 1:56). Most women in the Gospels are silent. They are so silent that the fact that we get any prayer at all ...

and the rich he has sent away empty. Today’s Gospel, the Magnificat, is prayed daily by Catholics around the world as part of Vespers, the evening prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours.

He writes: “I turned with all my heart to the Lord my God, and he looked down on my lowliness,” quoting both Joel 2:12 and the beautiful Magnificat of Mary in Luke 1:48.

Father Richard McAlear will speak at Magnificat of Lincoln’s Fall Prayer Meal at 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20 at Hillcrest Country Club, 9401 E. O St.

Generational Sin and the Promise of the Magnificat Mary’s prayer teaches about the operation of Jesus’ grace through generations.

It’s the Magnificat, or The Canticle of Mary. After greeting Elizabeth, and humbly accepting her words of veneration, Mary speaks this prayer of praise, greatness, and power.

Every year, millions of people visit the Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The exposed surface where people tuck prayers between the stones is only a fraction of the original wall ...

But Mary’s story recalls that joy can’t be gotten cheaply. The pain of the world cannot be papered over in a sentimental display of tamed little angels and a cute, chubby baby Jesus.