Today is the feast of St Mary Magdalene....my special lady!
Actually the special lady of the Church..She is the APOSTLE TO THE APOSTLES.The one Jesus SENT to announce the Good News of the resurrection. Jesus told her to "go to my brothers and tell them..." The first to see the risen Jesus! A woman! The one he entrusted to take the Good News! A woman! Who said she was not an IMPORTANT lady....
It's unfortunate that in 591 Pope Gregory I identified Mary Magdalene as the repentant prostitute, the sinful woman who washed the feet of Jesus with her tears and dried then with her hair and anointed them with oil. This Pope did her a disservice as she is MORE than this...as we see in the Gospel. The one Jesus chose to a appear to FIRST...and then to asked to be the bearer of resurrection news! THe first proclaimer of the Good NEws! All this specialness: a woman!How happy and grateful we women ought to be! And I love how Jesus called her by name...and calls each of us as well.
How do we repond?
Let's be bearers of Good News....
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