“Death came through Eve; life has come through Mary.”

                                              -St. Jerome

For Reflection:

One of Mary’s titles is the “New Eve”. Why do you think this title is appropriate? How has “life” come through Mary?

The Eternal Woman: The Timeless Meaning of the Feminine
Gertrud von le Fort
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With female intuition, she seemed to anticipate the gravity of our contemporary situation, foreseeing the coming war on maternity as a crime whose horror threatened the future of humanity and is in fact a satanic attack on Mary, the blessed one who gave birth to the Savior who is the way, the truth, and the Life.