Prayers & Reflections for March 13

The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

CHAPTER IX
The Blessed Mother

There were three forces contributing to the fall of the human race:

a disobedient man: Adam;
a proud woman: Eve,
and a tree.

These three conspired for our Redemption.

For the disobedient Adam, there was the obedient new Adam, Christ; for the proud woman Eve, there was the humble Virgin, Mary, and for the tree, the Cross.

Eve was given to Adam as a helpmate and failed him beneath the tree.

Mary, giving birth to God Incarnate, ministered to Him in infancy, followed Him to Calvary, and stood by the tree of the Cross as the helpmate who failed not.

[Continued tomorrow]
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From:
The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime
by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen
(C) 1943, P.J. Kenedy & Sons