Day 3: A Garden, and What Grew In It
🌿 A Garden, and What Grew in It
The Syriac Fathers saw the Blessed Virgin not simply as an enclosed garden, but as the New Eden.
Not because of the walls around the garden…
But because of the Tree growing within it.
“The Tree of Life, hidden in Paradise, has sprung forth in Mary.”
The first Eden witnessed humanity reaching for the tree that brought death.
The new Eden offered the Tree that gives eternal life.
As we journey through this fast, perhaps the question is not simply what we have given up.
Perhaps the deeper question is:
🌱 What is growing within me?
May Christ, the Tree of Life, take root in our hearts.
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