Then she exclaimed with a loud cry:

“You are the most blessed of women,
and your child will be blessed!

She who has believed is blessed because what was spoken to her by the Lord will be fulfilled!”

because He has looked with favor
on the humble condition of His slave.
Surely, from now on all generations
will call me blessed,

Then Simeon blessed them and told His mother Mary: “Indeed, this child is destined to cause the fall and rise of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be opposed—

Then looking up at His disciples, He said:

You who are poor are blessed,
because the kingdom of God is yours.

You who are now hungry are blessed,
because you will be filled.
You who now weep are blessed,
because you will laugh.

You are blessed when people hate you,
when they exclude you, insult you,
and slander your name as evil
because of the Son of Man.

And anyone who is not offended because of Me is blessed.”

Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke them. He kept giving them to the disciples to set before the crowd.

Then turning to His disciples He said privately, “The eyes that see the things you see are blessed!

As He was saying these things, a woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “The womb that bore You and the one who nursed You are blessed!”

He said, “Even more, those who hear the word of God and keep it are blessed!”

Those slaves the master will find alert when he comes will be blessed. I assure you: He will get ready, have them recline at the table, then come and serve them.

If he comes in the middle of the night, or even near dawn, and finds them alert, those slaves are blessed.

See, your house is abandoned to you. And I tell you, you will not see Me until the time comes when you say, ‘He who comes in the name of the Lord is the blessed One’!”

And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

When one of those who reclined at the table with Him heard these things, he said to Him, “The one who will eat bread in the kingdom of God is blessed!”

The King who comes
in the name of the Lord
is the blessed One.
Peace in heaven
and glory in the highest heaven!

Look, the days are coming when they will say, ‘The women without children, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed, are fortunate!’

It was as He reclined at the table with them that He took the bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.

Then He led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up His hands He blessed them.