The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. We’ve heard the phrase about how, whether we like it or not, we’re like our parents. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
This goes back to Adam and Eve. From the first time, the time of the fall, when Adam had eaten of the tree, the Lord called him and said, “Where are you?” Adam was naked and ashamed. God said, “Who told you that you were naked?” Adam explains that the woman whom you put here with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree, and I ate it. From that moment forward, original sin had been handed down from generation to generation. And the apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree since then.
However, everything changed when Mary was conceived in her mother’s womb to be The Immaculate Conception. She would become the new Eve. She would become the first person in the world who would be without sin, and she would bring forth her son Jesus into the world, and he would become the new Adam.
We now have two new parents, Mary and Jesus. Because the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, now the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree of life. That means we can live a life of grace along with them. We no longer have to live a life of repetition of sin that has been handed down from generation to generation. We can now live because of Mary and Jesus. This life of grace is a whole new life now. And the apple doesn’t fall far from their tree.
We must know that as we hear in the Second Reading, St. Paul says to the Ephesians, In love, he destined us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ, in accord with the favor of his will, for the praise of the glory of his grace that he granted us in the beloved.
Because of Jesus, we are God’s adopted children, which means He is our Father and Mary is our mother. Because of that dynamic, that reality, and its adoption, we can now follow them. We do not have to repeat the sins of the Father. We no longer have to pass down original sin because we have a new father and a new mother. The apple doesn’t fall far from that tree.
