passion, his cross, and his resurrection, Mary, through her silence and faith, incarnates the continuity realized in the poor of Israel, in those to whom is addressed the beatitude: Blessed are the poor “in pneuma”. In essence the beatitudes only offer variations of the Magnificat’s spiritual center: He ejects the mighty from their throne, he elevates the humble. The center of the Magnificat contains simultaneously the center of the biblical theology of the people of God. This insight illuminates