[Mrs. Don-o]

Jesus challenged the biological reduction expressed by the woman who said, "Blessed is the womb that bore u nad the breasts that nursed you."

Jesus replies "Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it."

He is trenchantly shifting the focus from the biological level to the spiritual level. He was not saying "Don't praise Mary," since His mother was obviously among those who "hear the word of God and keep it."

Mary heard and kept that Word very well indeed. She was not just a non-consenting reproductive concubine (womb and breasts), as some here at FR (not you) have insinuated.

[avenir]

Good points, Mrs. Don-o. As Jude said of the fallen angels, they “did not keep their proper domain”. That’s my concern in all this about Mary. Principalities whose God-given identity and place has been abandoned, will foment deception in kind.

We talk a lot on this forum about distorting Mary’s God-given role. The flip side, as you alluded to, is a disrespect of God’s “humble servant”. We believers know that Satan is behind the scenes trying to force us into error either way.