DAILY PRAYER

Whom are you looking for?’ She thought it was the gardener and said to him, ‘Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you laid him, and I will take him.’  Jesus said to her, ‘Mary!’ She turned and said to him in Hebrew, ‘Rabbouni,’ (meaning ‘Teacher’)”  (Jn 20:15-16).

Mary Magdalene was one of the women in Jesus’ company, serving Him and His apostles.

“Accompanying him were the Twelve and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza, Susanna, and many others who provided for them out of their resources” (Lk 8:1-3).

Like the apostles, these pious women collaborated with the mission of spreading the Good News. They were profoundly grateful and equally obligated and followed Jesus to the foot of the cross with Mary, the mother of Jesus, and afterward, to His tomb.

Magdalene was temperamental and emotional; before knowing what had happened, she ran to tell the others that Jesus’ body had been stolen. Later, crying alone at the tomb, she received the consolation of a singular love — that of Jesus risen from the dead.

Jesus divinely responds to us in the measure of love, faithfulness, and sacrifice that we can muster for Him and His people. 

To him who loves greatly, great too will be his reward.

Reflection and commentary

Psalm 25:14 “The friendship of the LORD is with those who fear him, and his covenant, for their instruction.” 

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