When Mary heard Elizabeth extol so highly her faith and her happiness in being chosen Mother of God, she was filled with a deep feeling of humility and gratitude, and began straightway to refer to God all her glory and to attribute to Him alone her exaltation. She did not pretend not to know, as false humility is sometimes wont to do, nor did she try to conceal the dignity which had been bestowed on her. On the contrary, she showed herself to be fully conscious of possessing it, and openly acknowledged it, but only as the work of the Lord.
"My soul," she said, "doth magnify the Lord."
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The Magnificat Explained
