That yearning for the golden “way things used to be” before the “corruption” of the present is the yearning for paradise. God in his mercy, however, did not leave paradise lost, pined and thirsted for, forever (cf. Ps 63). God’s plan of salvation rested in paradise. Thus in the fullness of time God came once more to dwell with men in earthly paradise, the paradise of the Blessed, the walled garden (Song 4:12): the Blessed Virgin Mary.