Quix, Wow. Your making theological arguments based on the dreams of an eight-year-old girl, reflecting her parents strident beliefs.
Now, would you care to explain to Just My Thoughts your “obsession?” (I wouldn’t use the word, “obsession,” but Just My Thoughts thinks that paying attention to Mary is an obsession.
By the way, I really pity you if you actually believe that Mary could be weeping in Heaven not for our own sorrows, but because she is saddened by people obeying her own command, “all people shall call me blessed.” Heaven is a place of eternal joy, and if there’s any sorrow to be had, it’s for compassion on us. Poor Janet, being raised by such monsters.
It seems perfectly natural to consider Mary blessed. Most especially given the record kept all those thousands of years to her being where she was appointed to be when she was appointed. BUT it is a wild and out there leap to hand to Mary the power to command as with an authority with consequences....
It would be impossible NOT to worship a being that had power to command, even BambaKennedy presents these common principles of requiring we laborers to bend our knee to him or his image... But Mary NEVER EVER put on the airs of the BambaKennedy types.
“all people shall call me blessed.”
How is this a command?
To me it just shows the pride and joy that Mary experienced over the fact that she was to bear the Saviour of all mankind! Yes she was truly blessed! But what does blessed mean in this context? We tend to look at people who have good luck in life, such as one being born with talent, good nature, beauty and/or fortune, as being “blessed.” To me, this is what Mary was saying...in this case the blessing was directly by God’s working. No doubt she is to be highly esteemed, and even though I cannot think off the top of my head that God even mentions why she was chosen, I know He does not tell us it was because she was pure, Holy and had never sinned! And I don’t think God would leave that out imo.
Still busy constructing those skyscrapers of farcical ‘theology’ on slivers of toothpicks of Scripture having nothing to do with the skyscraper.
Fascinating in dreary, sad sort of way.
This girl’s Heavenly visitation/vision is AT LEAST as valid as a long list of RC such.