Mary is the New World (I)

Before creating the first man, God prepared a splendid palace for him. Placed in paradise, man was driven out by his own disobedience, and he became, with all of his descendants, the prey of corruption. But he who is rich in mercy had pity on the work of his hands, and decided to create a new sky, a new earth and a new sea to be used as a home for the Incomprehensible, so eager was he to reform mankind. What is this new world, this new creation? The Blessed Virgin is the sky that displays the sun of justice, the earth that produces grains of life, the sea that carries the spiritual pearl... How wonderful is this world! How admirable is this creation, with its beautiful vegetation of virtues and the odorous flowers of virginity! What could be purer, what could be more irreprehensible than the Virgin? God, sovereign and immaculate Light, found her so charming that he united himself to her substantially, by the descent of the Holy Spirit. Mary is the earth in which the thorn of sin cannot grow. On the contrary, she produced the Child by whom sin was uprooted.