My soul magnifies the Lord,
And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.
For He has regarded the low estate of His handmaiden,
For behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
For He who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is His name. And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with His arm:
He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
He has put down the mighty from their thrones,
and exalted those of low degree.
He has filled the hungry with good things;
and the rich He has sent empty away.
He has helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy;
As He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to His posterity forever.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen
Magníficat ánima mea Dóminum,
et exsultávit spíritus meus
in Deo salvatóre meo,
quia respéxit humilitátem
ancíllæ suæ.
Ecce enim ex hoc beátam
me dicent omnes generatiónes,
quia fecit mihi magna,
qui potens est,
et sanctum nomen eius,
et misericórdia eius in progénies
et progénies timéntibus eum.
Fecit poténtiam in bráchio suo,
dispérsit supérbos mente cordis sui;
depósuit poténtes de sede
et exaltávit húmiles.
Esuriéntes implévit bonis
et dívites dimísit inánes.
Suscépit Ísrael púerum suum,
recordátus misericórdiæ,
sicut locútus est ad patres nostros,
Ábraham et sémini eius in sæcula.
Glória Patri et Fílio
et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio,
et nunc et semper,
et in sæcula sæculórum.
Amen.
She became the Mother of God, in which work so many and such great good things are bestowed on her as pass man’s understanding. For on this there follows all honor, all blessedness, and her unique place in the whole of mankind, among which she has no equal, namely, that she had a child by the Father in heaven, and such a Child . . . Hence men have crowded all her glory into a single word, calling her the Mother of God . . . None can say of her nor announce to her greater things, even though he had as many tongues as the earth possesses flowers and blades of grass: the sky, stars; and the sea, grains of sand. It needs to be pondered in the heart what it means to be the Mother of God.
(Commentary on the Magnificat, 1521; in Luther’s Works, Pelikan et al, vol. 21, 326)
Calling her "the Mother of God" is false and strongly implies that she was before God. She is/was the mother of Jesus in His humanity. She is/was only human, coming into existence somewhere not too long before the first century. Christ was preexistent before He allowed Himself to born into human flesh so that He could die for our sins as a man, as our substitute. The wages of sin is death. There is not remission of sins without the shedding of blood. Only Christ was worthy as The Perfect Lamb of God to be sacrifices for our sins.
I honor Mary as the person that The LORD chose to bear His son but she is not the Mother of God which would mean that she preexisted God.
Her proper title is the mother of Jesus the Nazarene, the Son of Man, as He more often called Himself than anything else. This is because God became a man so that He could become the second Adam. So that He could become our substitute and die for us, in our place on the cross fulfilling the the judgment that was due to us.
Once again when Catholics call Mary "the Mother of God" they are implying that she was before God. Mary is a created being, whereas Christ eternally always existed before He humbled Himself, to born as a babe for our sakes, to become our Saviour.
I honor her as blessed for being the mother of Jesus but I do not worship her nor do I perpetually reduce our fully grown LORD and Savior to a baby on her adult lap making Him seem as though He is perpetually subject to her and she is greater than He.
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Hbr 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
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Mic 5:2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, [though] thou be little among the thousands of Judah, [yet] out of thee shall he come forth unto me [that is] to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth [have been] from of old, from everlasting.
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Jhn 8:58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.