Mary's Magnificat - Luke 1:46-56
"Mary may be poor and oppressed but she isn't a fool: she will be one of those who introduce child-Jesus to the scriptures he will fulfill. Even though it's more comfortable to forget that Mary was the one who preached liberation theology while she was carrying Jesus in her womb, she was a woman who got things done, who actively mothered and taught Jesus, who stayed at his side throughout his life and death, who walked with and lead within the Early Church until her own death.
"Walter Brueggeman writes, 'As a little child Jesus must often have heard his mother, Mary, singing. And as we know, she sang a revolutionary song, the Magnificat--the anthem of Luke's Gospel. She sang about neighbourliness: about how God brings down the mighty from their thrones and lifts up the lowly; about how God fills the hungry with good things and sends the rich away empty. Mary did not make up this dangerous song. She took it from another mother, Hannah, who sang it much earlier to little Samuel, who became one of ancient Israel's greatest revolutionaries. Hannah, Mary, and their little boys imagined a great social transformation. Jesus enacted his mother's song well. Everywhere he went he broke the vicious cycles of poverty, bondage, fear and death; he healed, transformed, empowered and brought new life. Jesus' example gives us the mandate to transform our public life.'"
(from Sarah Bessey's Advent Devotional)
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