Mary did the exact opposite. At the wedding of Cana, the Holy Mother encouraged her son to perform his first miracle, and show the world that he was the Christ, beginning his ministry.
If, then, piety is the virtue which binds us to the sources of all life, to God, to our parents, to the church, to Christ, certainly Christian piety binds us, in grateful love, to Mary—or our acceptance of Christ and of the mystery of our kinship with Him is imperfect, partial, and unfulfilled. Jesus Christ is Lord. We are to look to him for grace, for mercy, and as the living Word of God.
He lived in obedience, whereas Adam lived in obstinacy. Yet for all of this, we often forsake the one who loves us more than we can comprehend. The Blessed Virgin Mary did not. Spend this May in prayer, offering your heart up to Mary, and ask yourself how you, too, can be a New Eve or Adam. Justin Martyr. His major work, Against Heresies, which appeared around the year AD, exposed the absurdities of the Gnostic cults of the day and included a strong presentation and defense of Catholic Christianity.
It is the earliest compendium of Christian theology surviving from ancient times and is the first work that cites virtually every book of the Christian writings that we now call the New Testament. Saint Irenaeus is said to have won the crown of martyrdom around the year AD.
He is honored in the Roman liturgy on June Biography by Dr. Irenaeus of Lyons. Tags: Writings. When we look to the New Testament itself, we see considerable basis for this parallelism. Both example, Genesis opens with the following words:. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In the opening verses to both books we find similar motifs. Both speak of creation, lightness, darkness, water and the spirit. It is clear that John is doing this intentionally. Whereas Genesis tells us about the original creation, John is preparing us for a New Creation, a re-creation, a recapitulation of Old Testament events with a New Adam. When reading the first chapter of Genesis, the author narrates the days of creation. The climax of this is found on the Seventh Day.
The day before, Adam had been naming all of the animals, but when no suitable partner can be found, he is put into a deep sleep and Eve is drawn from his side. When Adam opens his eyes, presumably on the Seventh Day, he sees a beauty which blows out of the water the creatures he had seen the previous day! The Seventh Day culminates in a wedding. So what takes place on the seventh day?
Should we really be surprised that John tells us that there was a wedding? On the third day there was a marriage at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there; Jesus also was invited to the marriage, with his disciples. I am sure that many of us are familiar with this Gospel story where Jesus turns water into wine at the prompting of His Mother.
The two people primarily mentioned in the account are Jesus and Mary. This is what John really cares about. However, John has more to tell us about this wedding. He explains that there is a shortage of wine and Mary intercedes with her Son.
The first sign was the miracle at the wedding in Cana. As Jesus is hanging on the cross we read the following:. After the Fall, Eve became the mother of all the living Genesis , but at the tree of the cross we see that Mary becomes the mother of all those who have been supernaturally brought to life through her Son, a New Eve to the New Adam. The biggest problem with this is that Mary is mother of the Last Adam, not His wife. There is a typological relationship between Moses and Jesus which finds its fulfillment in Jesus, so Jesus is the New Moses.
Moses is the type, Jesus is the antitype. Likewise, there is a typological relationship between Eve and Mary which finds its fulfillment in Mary, so Mary the New Eve.
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