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Gospel: Facts about St. #MaryMagdalene on her Feast Day:
1) She never abandoned Jesus, as many disciples did.
2) In John's Gospel, it is to her that the Risen Christ appears first.
3) In the time between the Risen One appearing to her and her proclaiming the Resurrection...
1) She never abandoned Jesus, as many disciples did.
2) In John's Gospel, it is to her that the Risen Christ appears first.
3) In the time between the Risen One appearing to her and her proclaiming the Resurrection...
...to the other disciples, Mary Magdalene was the church on earth, for only to her had been revealed the full Paschal Mystery. All discussions of women's roles in the church need to proceed from this event....
4) She is known as the "Apostle to the Apostles."
5) She was NOT a prostitute.
5) She was NOT a prostitute.
Today is the feast day of the misunderstood #MaryMagdalene. While Jesus offered forgiveness and new life to all sorts of sinners (like me and whether you realize it or not, you), including prostitutes, Mary was not a one-time prostitute. Jesus freed her of demonic possession...
...She became a devoted disciple of Jesus and a preacher of the good news: the gospel of new and everlasting life with God for all who repent and believe in Jesus. Belief in Jesus—faith—is God’s gift, not our doing, to those in whom the Gospel Word takes root...
...”The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent,” Jesus, the One sent by God the Father, says. We are saved from sin, death, and the prisons of self by a faith in Jesus that God gives to us...
Theses on prayer from #MaryMagdalene, the #ApostolorumApostola. A thread.
Getting up early helps
Stay still, stay where you are inside. Don't get up and do something else either physically or interiorly at the first thought of doing so, even when others have run away
