Faith & Life Grade 8 · Chapter 9 · Mary, Mother of the Church
Eve and the New Eve
Saint Irenaeus wrote around the year 180 that the knot tied by Eve’s disobedience was untied by Mary’s obedience. The early Church saw Mary as the New Eve beside Christ, the New Adam (CCC 494).
Explore the idea
Select a moment from Eve’s story in Genesis, then choose how Mary reverses it.
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Discuss the connection
Jesus calls His mother “Woman” at Cana and at the Cross. Why might that title remind readers of Genesis? What does Mary’s obedience teach us about our own choices?
An original interactive exercise for Faith & Life Grade 8, Chapter 9 (“Mary, Mother of the Church”). Grounded in Scripture and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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