The Song of the Church: A Meditation on the Magnificat (Luke 1:39-56) by Come Let Us Reason published on 2020-01-20T23:39:58Z Many take the Virgin Mary as an object of veneration and a repository of divine grace, but God never meant her to be so. Rather, she is a picture of the Mother and the Bride of Christ: the Church. For this reason, the Magnificat is best understood as the Song of the Church, and it will profit us greatly to listen to it well. Genre Religion & Spirituality