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In the Magnificat, the great hymn of Our Lady that we have just heard in the gospel, we find some surprising words.
Mary says: “Henceforth all generations will call me blessed.” The Mother of the Lord prophesies the Marian praises of the Church for all of the future, the Marian devotion of the people of God until the end of time. In praising Mary, the Church did not invent something “adjacent” to Scripture; she responded to this prophecy which Mary made at that moment of grace.
And Mary’s words were not only personal, perhaps arbitrary words. Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit as St. Luke said, exclaimed with a loud cry: “Blessed is she who believed… .” And Mary, also filled with the Holy Spirit, continues and completes what Elizabeth said, affirming: “All generations will call me blessed.” It is a real prophesy, inspired by the Holy Spirit, and in venerating Mary, the Church responds to a command…
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