Yes all generations do call Mary Blessed
Does this inlude yourself? Of so, nice to see you agree with Catholics and Scripture.
Being Blessed does not mean one is without sin.
In The Blessed Virgin Mary's case it does!
Luke 11:27-28
[SUP]27 [/SUP] And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, "Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!"
[SUP]28 [/SUP] But He said, "More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!"
When an admirer wished to compliment Jesus by praising his mother, Jesus did not deny the truth of the blessing she pronounced. Her beatitude (which means "blessedness" or "happiness") recalls Mary's canticle:
All generations will call me blessed (Luke 1:48). Jesus adds to her words by pointing to the source of all true blessedness or happiness -- union with God. Mary humbly submitted herself to the miraculous plan of God for the incarnation of his only begotten Son --
The Word of God made flesh in her womb, by declaring:
I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word (Luke 1:38). Mary heard the word spoken to her by the angel and she believed it.
Yes Mary was Blessed, but those who hear the Word of God, the Scriptures, and keeps the Truth in the Scriptures are MORE Blessed than Mary!!!!!
Mary "was" Blessed???? I don't recall in Luke 1:48 Mary being Blessed as past tense. Hmmmm..... Don't know about you, but we Catholics beleive Scripture to be as true today as it was when St.Luke wrote the 1:48 passage. By your own words, it looks like you are out of the running of being "MORE" Blessed than Mary!!
God saved Mary. Mary is saved by Grace. This gets lost by many who do not understand the Church’s teaching. St Gabriel infallibly hailed her as “Full of Grace” then she is. “Full of grace” implies “empty of sin.”
If I have a glass full of pure water, then I can be sure that there is no poison in it.
Pax Christi
From henceforth, all generations shall call me Blessed." --Luke 1:48