>>LUKE 1:48 “Because He hath regarded the humility of His Handmaid; for behold from henceforth ALL GENERATIONS SHALL CALL ME BLESSED.”<<
What do you think that scripture means? What is the significance of it? I know that if I were a woman and I was chosen by God to bear His son, I would certainly consider myself blessed, similar to how a humanist would consider themself blessed if they won the lotto.
It is a true, and the ultimate, blessing, to be chosen by God to be the source of the human side of the Savior. It’s really almost unimaginable, actually.
. What you say seems more appropriate to what happened to Elizabeth and Zachary than to what happened to Mary. What happened to her does bring to my mind what happened to the people of Israel when the Lord “covered” the tabernacle. The glory of the Lord. The idea that Mary could be part of this and not herself becomed “deified,” or transformed, such as we ourselves hope to be transformed at the Resurrection.does not seem likely. IAC,in the end, the central subject here is not Mary but Jesus. If he is as described by the Council of Calcedon, then even the most exaulted role we can assign Mary is nothing compared to the reality. The Incarnation is what is happening here, not merely some biological event called the Virgin Birth, something that is just one step beyond what happened to Elizabeth.