Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
Prayer Prompt before reading JN 20:1-2, 11-18: Come, Holy Spirit, teach me how to pray, interpret the Scriptures for me so that I may know the Truth about who God the Father and Son are so that I may know the Truth about who I am.
Mary Magdalene was a repentant sinner who was given a very high honor by Jesus, to be the first (in written Scripture; Church tradition believes He visited His mother first) to see and speak to the resurrected Jesus. There is a lot riding on this Scripture today. We have a witness who sees Jesus risen from the dead.
This is the beginning of faith, do you believe He resurrected or do you believe He never did. Is Mary lying or telling the truth? We can’t make this stuff up. Mary receives the honor of being the first to see and hear the risen Christ. Amazing! She is weeping, this shows that she was very good friends with Jesus and that Jesus had very close friends. It shows that men AND women were close followers and friends of Jesus.
Today, if a priest, deacon, pope, bishop or anyone in the hierarchy of the Church has friends that are girls they are criticized. Jesus shows that it is important to have friends of both genders. Last, Mary did not recognize Jesus until He called her name. Jesus calls each one of us by name and we are all equally important to Jesus. We are each chosen for a mission.
We join that mission at our baptism and Christ brands Himself onto us. He loves us more than we love ourselves and His mission has always been to get our souls back to the Father in heaven. It is time to allow Christ to call you by name and start a friendship with Him that will last from now into eternity. It is the greatest friendship anyone could have.
Time is a gift, use it wisely to work on relationships with those God has put around you, most importantly a relationship with His Son, our Savior.
Today’s challenge: Develop a friendship with Jesus. Read “Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?” by Carl E. Olson, watch Fr. Robert Spitzer’s video on the Shroud of Turin, or “The Case For Christ” by Lee Strobel
Be a servant, be a saint today!
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