She showed a picture of Eve stepping forth from Adam's rib. That has always bothered me (my 1970s feminist roots were showing.) However...she explained that Eve was born out of Adam's side just as Holy Mother Church was born of the wound in Christ's side.
21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken." 24 Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed. Genesis 2
That is SO beautiful!
I had never thought of it that way before. And then I thought "of course - it's so obvious!" And then I chided myself for forgetting that the Bible is not written as a literal history of mankind.
How providential that I turned to EWTN at that moment. It made me fall in love with being a Catholic Christian all over again!
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