“In the beautiful Divine economy of Redemption, the same three things which cooperated in the Fall shared in Redemption.  For the disobedient man Adam, there was the obedient new Adam, Christ; for the proud woman Eve, there was the humble new Eve, the Virgin Mary; for the tree of the Garden, there was the tree of the Cross.  Our Divine Lord in the state of his greatest humiliation, seeing all prophecies fulfilled, all foreshadowings realized, and all things done which were needful for the Redemption, uttered a cry of joy: ‘It is achieved.’”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Life of Christ)