'At the Annunciation, God was asking Mary to cooperate with His Son in the accomplishment of His saving mission of the Redemption. Just as Eve had played a defining part in the downfall of the human race, God willed that another Eve place a defining part in our Resurrection from Sin. Saint Paul calls Jesus Christ the Second Adam, Who brought for us that divine grace which the first Adam lost of us. And the Fathers echo Saint Paul by calling Mary the Second Eve.' — Sermon by Fr. John Brucciani.