7/22/10 c-blog, MARY MAGDALENE's FRIENDSHIP w/ JESUS CHRIST SERVES AS AN EXAMPLE , st. Columban 830a, m: " when a person is troubled..his or her heart is often broken....this is the picture we are offered by todays gospel..mary..tomb..where Jesus laid..she went to the tomb..surprised the body is not there..she runs..tells disciples he bdy is missing.....as mary was weeping at tomb..special friendship of mary magdalene..she looks into tomb...sees.2 angels..Jesus appears,calls her by name..doesn't rcgnize at first..the gospel we hear today, story told & retold..she is the first to see the risen lord..thru ages..men & women witnessed what it is to be a followe of Jesus Christ..mary mag's friendshp w/ JC SERVES as example..celebrate her feast day today...estab closer friendshp w/ Jesus, come to know Him more..recv Him often esp in euch"
Jer 2: This word of the LORD came to me Go, cry out this message for Jerusalem to hear I remember the devotion of your youth, how you loved me as a bride, Following me in the desert, in a land unsown. Sacred to the LORD was Israel the first fruits of his harvest; Should any presume to partake of them, evil would befall them, says the LORD. When I brought you into the garden land to eat its goodly fruits, You entered and defiled my land, you made my heritage loathsome. The priests asked not"Where is the LORD?" Those who dealt with the law knew me not:
: the shepherds rebelled against me The prophets prophesied by Baal and went after useless idols. Be amazed at this, O heavens, and shudder with sheer horror, says the LORD. Two evils have my people done: they have forsaken me, the source of living waters; They have dug themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that hold no water
Ps 36:6-7ab, 8-9, 10-11 Responsorial Psalm R. (10a) With you is the fountain of life, O Lord. O LORD, your mercy reaches to heaven; your faithfulness, to the clouds Your justice is like the mountains of God; your judgments, like the mighty deep R. With you is the fountain of life, O Lord. How precious is your mercy, O God! The children of men take refuge in the shadow o
With you is the fountain of life, O Lord.e
John 20.1-2,11-18 : "On the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early in the morning while it was still dark and saw the stone removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them,"They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don't know where they put him." Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb and saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet where the Body of Jesus had been And they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have taken my Lord, and I don't know where they laid him." When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there, but did not know it was Jesus 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." She turned and said to him in Hebrew"Rabbouni," which means Teacher."Stop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, I am going to my Father and your Father to my God and your God.'" Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples,"I have seen the Lord," and then reported what he told her."
