She whom all generations call Blessed

Risk all for love, Jesus tells us, even your own life. Give that to me and let me save it. The healthy religious person is the one who allows God to save.

If this is the ideal Christian attitude toward God, then Mary is the ideal Christian of the Gospels. She sums up in herself the attitude of the poor one whom God is able to save. She is deeply aware of her own emptiness without God (Luke 1:52), for the fulfillment of God's promise (1:54); for God's work (1:45,49), and a full personal surrender: "Let it be!" (1:38).

Richard Rohr, from The Great Themes of Scripture

I often wonder why, in the face of facts like this about Mary's character, some of my fellow Anglicans, not to mention others from (especially) evangelical backgrounds, get all panicky when they hear people referring to "our Lady", or "the Blessed Virgin". How have they read Luke 1 for these things not to be blindingly obvious?

And Mary said,
"My soul magnifies the Lord,
and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour,
for he has looked with favour on the lowliness of his servant.
Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed;
for the Mighty One has done great things for me,
and holy is his name.
His mercy is for those who fear him
from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with his arm;
he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts.
He has brought down the powerful from their thrones,
and lifted up the lowly;
he has filled the hungry with good things,
and sent the rich away empty.
He has helped his servant Israel,
in remembrance of his mercy,
according to the promise he made to our ancestors,
to Abraham and to his descendants for ever."

(Luke 1.46-55)