"Mary is God's Eden"

poems and a prayer for the Feast of the Annunciation

“Mary is God’s Eden.”
—St Ephrem the Syrian

“No one on earth was brought low like Mary,
and no one was exalted like her.”
—St Jacob of Serugh

“Mary cooperates with the economy.”
—St Irenaeus of Lyons

“The Incarnation was not only the work of the Father and of his Power and his Spirit , but it was also the work of the will and faith of the Virgin.”
—St Nicholas Cabasilas