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Mary Consoling Eve
Posted on December 31, 2008, 2:57 AM | Elizabeth Scalia

Crayon & pencil drawing by Sr. Grace Remington, OCSO.  
Copyright 2005, Sisters of the Mississippi Abbey


I told the longer version of this story here, but here it is abridged:

Designing their Christmas card for 2005, one sister at Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey drew the marvelous image above, .  Another wrote a lovely text:
    
O Eve!
    My mother, my daughter, life-giving Eve,

    Do not be ashamed, do not grieve.

    The former things have passed away,

    Our God has brought us to a New Day.

    See, I am with Child,

    Through whom all will be reconciled.

    O Eve! My sister, my friend,

    We will rejoice together

    Forever

    Life without end.
   — Sr. Columba Guare copyright© 2005 Sisters of the Mississippi Abbey


Neuhaus reprinted it here, and in 2007 First Things reader Frank LaRocca used it to compose a glorious choral piece.  And isn't all of that just wonderful to contemplate here, in this Octave of Christmas, where all sorts of glorious happenings catch our notice?


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