How much do you really love the Lord? I suspect not nearly enough! For if you truly love Him, then you will seek Him daily with all your heart, mind and soul. From your waking moment to the time, you lay your head to rest.
We see this extraordinary love for the Lord in Mary Magdalen. She was forgiven much and hence loved much and more! She sought Him just as we should seek Him in today’s first reading from Song of Songs.
Alone in the dark, her love for our Lord gave her the strength to overcome any and all fears as she searched Him out at the tomb. In our own darkness do we have that same hunger and thirst for our Lord? Do we have the confidence in knowing that as we arrive in His presence all darkness will cower!
Are our hearts broken? Do we weep when all seems lost, and we cannot find Him? Do we give up and return to whence we came? Or do we wait upon Him in confidence, for we know surely, He will come; And we await to cry out to Him “My Lord and my God!” “You whom my heart loves!”
Saint Mary Magdalen pray for us…
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First reading
Song of Songs 3:1-4 ·
I found him whom my heart loves
The bride says this:
On my bed, at night, I sought him
whom my heart loves.
I sought but did not find him.
So I will rise and go through the City;
in the streets and in the squares
I will seek him whom my heart loves.
I sought but did not find him.
The watchmen came upon me
on their rounds in the City:
‘Have you seen him whom my heart loves?’
Scarcely had I passed them
when I found him whom my heart loves.
Gospel
John 20:1-2,11-18
‘Mary, go and find the brothers and tell them’
It was very early on the first day of the week and still dark, when Mary of Magdala came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been moved away from the tomb and came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved. ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb’ she said ‘and we don’t know where they have put him.’
Meanwhile Mary stayed outside near the tomb, weeping. Then, still weeping, she stooped to look inside, and saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had been, one at the head, the other at the feet. They said, ‘Woman, why are you weeping?’ ‘They have taken my Lord away’ she replied ‘and I don’t know where they have put him.’ As she said this she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, though she did not recognise him. Jesus said, ‘Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?’ Supposing him to be the gardener, she said, ‘Sir, if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and remove him.’ Jesus said, ‘Mary!’ She knew him then and said to him in Hebrew, ‘Rabbuni!’ – which means Master. Jesus said to her, ‘Do not cling to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and find the brothers, and tell them: I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ So Mary of Magdala went and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that he had said these things to her.
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