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Now we can play the video and read pft's incredible transcript at the same time.  It will be like we were there.  For all the mistakes that I made in my feeble attempt at translation, I am, once again, sorry.  And this foremostly to +Williamson.  Mea culpa.  

 

You can add this one to the list:  

The Fathers and Doctors tell us that Our Lady is the New Eve, and Our Lord is
the New Adam.  What our protoparent Adam did in the Garden of Eden when he
ate of the forbidden fruit was a sin against God of unimaginable consequence;  
it was original sin, the origin of all our corruption in this world, for death came
into the world because of original sin.  

When Eve (Latin: Eva) looked upon the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and
Evil and saw the forbidden fruit there, she paused, and she marveled.  Perhaps
she had walked nearby there previously, and had been thinking about it.  But
this time she came close and she listened to the serpent, and she engaged in
a conversation with him.  

At the foot of the Cross, which the Fathers and Doctors tell us is the Tree of
Life, the New Eve, to whom we say, "Ave," in imitation of the Angel Gabriel at
the Annunciation, thought and did everything opposite to what Eva had done
so many thousands of years before.  The New Eva, because of her assent
and complicity with God's will, and the Passion and death of Our Lord endured for
our salvation, turned it around and undid the original sin in her being and in her
thoughts and in her words and in her actions.  Even the angelic salutation hails
her with AVE, the reversed letters of the name, EVA.  

Eva had been formed from the rib of Adam, taken from his side as he slept.
~ Our Lady had been formed in her Immaculate Conception without stain of
original sin, in the natural womb of her mother, St. Ann, preserved in a singular
privilege by the anticipated redemption of Her Son on the Cross, when His side
would be opened one day as He would hang on the cross and sleep in death, by
the spear of St. Longinus.

Eva looked at the forbidden fruit and coveted that which was not hers:  the
Knowledge of good and evil, in defiance of God's will.  
~ Our Lady looked at the fruit of her womb, nailed to the Tree of Life and
desired the salvation of souls in unity with the will of God.

Eva was the mother of the human race, the majority of whom are not saved.
~  Our Lady is the mother of all those who would be saved and come to the
knowledge of the truth in time and in eternity, the Gate of Heaven.

Eva heard the words of the serpent and gave him attention and answered him.
~ Our Lady, even if she had ever heard his words, would have told him, "Go
back to hell where you came from," and would END THE DIALOGUE.

Eva took the forbidden fruit into her hands and hearing the serpent say, "take
a bite!" - she took a bite, and found it to be sweet beyond compare.
~  Our Lady took the fruit of her womb into her arms, the 13th Station of the
Cross, the Pieta, and accepted the will of God in all its incomparable bitterness.

Eva ran and brought the forbidden fruit to her husband, Adam, who did eat also.
~  Our Lady took the Word of God, the fruit of her womb -- Who had refused to
eat of the vinegar and gall as He hung on the cross -- to the upper room in
the Cenacle, where she persevered in fasting and prayer with them on that first
Holy Saturday, awaiting the Resurrection after three days.

Eva was the means by which mankind would inherit the curse of corruption.
~  Our Lady is the means by whom all men are given the hope of salvation and
eternal life.

Eva knew her husband and her firstborn son, Cain, was a murderer.
~  Our Lady knew not her husband and her firstborn Son is the giver of eternal
life.  


All the saints whose image is depicted in artwork or on holy cards, have some
object that is their symbol.  The martyrs usually have the image of the weapon
that was used to kill them, such as St. Paul holds a sword, St. Andrew stands by
a large X made of wood, St. Bartholomew shows up as a skin removed because
he was flayed alive, St. Lawrence by a grate because he was roasted alive on a
grid iron, St. Catherine by a wheel with sharp spikes, St. Philomena by two
opposing arrows, an anchor, a spear and a palm frond.  The palm is for
martyrdom.  

Our Lady suffered the agony of martyrdom without dying from it, as also did
the Beloved Apostle who took care of her, St. John.  He was boiled alive in a
cauldron of boiling oil, with all of its pains, but was pulled out alive and even in
better health than when he had been submerged. He has two Feast Days, May
6th, the Latin Gate, which commemorates his suffering in hot oil, and December
27th, his festival day.  Our Lady also has two Feast days for her Seven Dolors:
one on September 15th, the Octave Day of her nativity on Sept. 8th, and Friday
in Passion Week, which is generally soon after her Feast of the Annunciation on
March 28th.

The symbol of Our Lady's dry martyrdom is 7 swords piercing her heart, which
recall the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady of Sorrows:


SEVEN SORROWS

1. The prophecy of Simeon. (St. Luke 2: 34, 35)
2. The flight into Egypt. (St. Matthew 2:13,14)
3. The loss of the Child Jesus in the temple. (St. Luke 2: 43-45)
4. The meeting of Jesus and Mary on the Way of the Cross.
5. The Crucifixion.
6. The taking down of the Body of Jesus from the Cross.
7. The burial of Jesus.



Here is a website that has nice pictures and prayers for the 7 Sorrows devotion:

http://www.catholictradition.org/Mary/sorrow1.htm

http://www.catholictradition.org/Mary/sorrow2.htm

http://www.catholictradition.org/Mary/sorrow3.htm

http://www.catholictradition.org/Mary/sorrow4.htm

http://www.catholictradition.org/Mary/sorrow5.htm

http://www.catholictradition.org/Mary/sorrow6.htm

http://www.catholictradition.org/Mary/sorrow7.htm



One more thing...

When H.E. said the following, I suspect his missing words were something like this:

She was in complete empathy - (it's a poor word, for what? -- bound together,
Mary and Jesus) - when Our Lord was dying on the cross.  And every suffering of
Jesus went through her like a sword, as Simeon prophesied.  She wishes our
salvation..

.. and that's why she endured all those sorrows.  But it takes more than her
wishing it;  we must cooperate with God's grace in order to be saved.  Our Lady
is the one whom God has chosen to dispense His grace to mankind, and we
cannot cooperate any better with His graces than to remain close to her at the
foot of the Cross.  And staying close to Our Lady at the Cross..

--is the surest way of staying close to Our Lord.  Stay close to Our Lady all
through the new year.

That's very humble of you, PFT; however, everyone on CathInfo owes you an enormous debt of gratitude.