Two nights ago my wife and I were praying the evening prayer in the Glenstal prayerbook which incorporates the Magnificat into the litany.  Then this morning, as I read from the Scriptures, I had made it to the Beatitudes as I read through Luke and the perverbial light bulb went off.

The Magnificat Mary sings before Christ's birth and the Beatitudes Christ later preaches are awfully similar. ... more