Inspiration for the Song

The tragic event in the garden of Eden of the original sin committed by the parents of the human race caused severe wounding to human nature. Because of this offence, Adam and Eve were cast out from the earthly paradise God had made for them. All human beings are profoundly connected to this event since the human family that proceeded from Adam and Eve have inherited a sin-damaged nature. Like a disease that is genetically passed on from parent to child, so also is the malady of the first sin passed on to the human family from the first parents. Human nature fallen in Adam is the source of all crime, war, and death.

What led Adam and Eve to give ear to the Serpent, the father of lies, and turn their minds and hearts away from God, the Father of Love? John Paul II suggests that they let doubt creep into their hearts. They doubted whether God’s love was the specific motive of creation and the motive of the original covenant between themselves and God.

Doubt allowed the man and the woman to turn their backs on God. It led them to cast God from their hearts. In doing this, Adam and Eve not only rejected their participation in the free gift of God’s love, but they implicitly rejected the goodness of creation which was part of God’s gift to man. It was their choice that drove them away from one another, and out of the garden.

Due to this sin, death became the lot of human beings.

Yet, whenever the living God enters into a covenant with human beings, He continually renews in this covenant the very reality of Life. The Incarnation is God’s final answer to the human problem of death. The new covenant established between God and humans through Jesus Christ, God made human, opens an infinite prospect of Life (TOB 65:5-6).

The prospect of life with God through Christ is why the Easter Exsultet proclaims:

O happy fault,

O necessary sin of Adam,

which gained for us so great a Redeemer!

It is with anguish that one considers what was lost to the human race through Adam and Eve. It is with hope that one contemplates what was gained for all through the life, death, and resurrection of Christ. God has proved that He does not abandon His favourite creatures, His own, to death, darkness, and despair, but that He continues to extend His hand to bring them into relationship with Himself.

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