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Mary continues her role as mother of life with you and me and all of her spiritual children. As mother of Life himself, Mary mediates the life of Christ to us as the new Eve, as the Mother of the Church, and finally, as our mother.
The New Eve
As the “woman” central to God’s plan of salvation, Mary is the “new Eve.” This is the very first title given to Mary in the writings of the Church fathers. St. Paul himself referred to Jesus as the “new Adam” (see Romans 5:14; 1 Corinthians 15:45). There is logic, then, in seeing Mary as the “new Eve” because of her role in giving life to all her spiritual children. We should also mention that the Church in a spiritual way is also called the “new Eve,” because the Church is the mystical bride of Jesus, the Bridegroom, just as the first Eve was the spouse of the first Adam.
The name Eve means “the mother of the living” (see Genesis 3:20). But because the first Eve was joined to the sin of the first Adam, her sin…
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