{"id":12031,"date":"2016-07-22T08:53:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T12:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=12031"},"modified":"2016-07-22T09:38:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T13:38:48","slug":"admiring-and-emulating-the-apostolorum-apostola-feast-of-st-mary-magdalene-july-22-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/admiring-and-emulating-the-apostolorum-apostola-feast-of-st-mary-magdalene-july-22-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Admiring and Emulating the Apostolorum Apostola, Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, July 22, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nFeast\u00a0of St. Mary Magdalene<br \/>\nJuly 22, 2016<br \/>\nSongs 3:1-4, Ps 63, Jn 20:1-2.11-18<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today\u2019s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12031-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7.22.16-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7.22.16-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7.22.16-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today we celebrate one of the greatest saints who has ever lived, the woman who, after the Blessed Virgin, is mentioned most in the Gospels: St. Mary Magdalene. And we celebrate her in a special way, as a liturgical feast, decreed so by the Vatican\u2019s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments\u00a0on June 3, at the express will of Pope Francis. In the Decree of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, it gave three reasons for this liturgical upgrade: St. Mary Magdalene is a witness of the transforming power of Divine Mercy, a model of the indispensable service and dignity of women in the Church, and an epitome of evangelization. We\u2019ll have a chance to ponder all three today as well as other points a couple of other key points in her life.<\/li>\n<li>Her reputation has\u00a0suffered from a lot\u00a0of confusion over the course of time. The first is by being conflated with two other women\u00a0in the Gospels: first, with the anonymous sinful woman who washes Jesus\u2019 feet in Simon the Pharisees\u2019 house as a sign of repentance and plea for mercy; and second, with Mary of Bethany who sits at his feet and later anoints them with precious nard in the home she shared with her siblings Martha and Lazarus. I\u2019ve save the historical reasons why all three were conflated into one over the centuries, but suffice it to say, the arguments in favor of keeping all three distinct are much stronger than those in favor of combining them. Her reputation has also suffered from the crazy writings of the\u00a0gnostic pseudo-gospels in the centuries after Christ, silliness historically debunked but recently resuscitated\u00a0by Dan Brown and neo-gnostics, all positing Mary Magdalene as Jesus\u2019 girlfriend or wife.<\/li>\n<li>St. Mary Magdalene\u2019s life, however, is so rich on its own without conflation or fantasy. Today we can ponder five things about her, three from the Decree and two others, that we know for certain and what that means for our living our\u00a0Christian life well.<\/li>\n<li><em>The first is that she experienced Christ\u2019s compassion and mercy.<\/em>\u00a0St. Luke and St. Mark tell\u00a0us that she had had seven demons cast out from her. She\u00a0had in some way been\u00a0under the hold of the devil. Some saints throughout the centuries said that these seven demons may have been the seven deadly\u00a0sins. Regardless of what their manifestation was, she had experienced the healing power of the Lord. In order to relate appropriately to the Lord, we, too, need to relate to him in his saving mercy. Prior to the papacy, in a book length interview, now Pope Francis said that an authentically Christian discipleship begins our recognition that we\u2019re sinners in need of salvation and the concomitant experience that that Savior looks on us with merciful love. \u201cFor me, feeling oneself a sinner is one of the most beautiful things that can happen, if it leads to its ultimate consequences\u201d the future Pope said in\u00a0<em>El Jesuita<\/em>. \u201cWhen a person becomes conscious that he is a sinner and is saved by Jesus,\u201d Cardinal Bergoglio declared, \u201che proclaims this truth to himself and discovers the pearl of great price, the treasure buried in the field. He discovers the greatest thing in life: that there is someone who loves him profoundly, who gave his life for him.\u201d Many Catholics, he added, have sadly not had this fundamental Christian experience. \u201cThere are people who believe the right things, who have received catechesis and accepted the Christian faith in some way, but who do not have the experience of having been saved,\u201d he lamented. He then gave a powerful metaphor of what the true experience of God\u2019s mercy is like. \u201cIt\u2019s one thing when people tell us a story about someone\u2019s risking his life to save a boy drowning in the river. It\u2019s something else when I\u2019m the one drowning and someone gives his life to save me.\u201d That\u2019s what Christ did for us to save us from the eternal watery grave of the deluge of sin. That\u2019s what we should celebrate every day of our life, just like someone whose life has been saved by a hero would never be able to forget it, not to mention thank him enough. Unfortunately, he said, \u201cThere are people to whom you tell the story who don\u2019t see it, who don\u2019t want to see, who don\u2019t want to know what happened to that boy, or who always have escape hatches from the situation of drowning and who therefore lack the experience of who they are. I believe that only we great sinners have this grace.\u201d Mary Magdalene had that grace. She knew she had been saved and healed. And that\u2019s an experience all of us should begin with if we\u2019re going to imitate the saint we f\u00eate today.<\/li>\n<li><em>Secondly, St. Mary Magdalene shows us the dignity of women in God\u2019s plan of salvation, caring for the Lord and the Church, sharing in his mission, hearing\u00a0his teaching, seeing\u00a0his deeds<\/em>. St. Luke tells us that, after having received Christ\u2019s mercy, she was one of several women \u201cwho had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities\u201d who faithfully accompanied\u00a0Jesus and the apostles during his journeys and \u201cprovided for them out of their resources\u201d (Lk 8:2-3). This was not a group of bored do-gooders who figured that these wandering 13 men would be lost without their spiritual and practical maternity. No, each of them had received from Jesus a physical healing, a spiritual healing, or both, and in gratitude wanted to give Jesus and his mission all the love, time and material support they could.\u00a0And St. Mary Magdalene particularly excelled in this care, even when others failed. The evangelists all tell us that when almost all of Jesus\u2019 disciples abandoned him, St. Mary Magdalene was faithful with him to the end, standing at the foot of the Cross together with the Blessed Mother, with Mary the wife of Clopas, with Salome and with St. John. She remained indomitably faithful with feminine courage at the most difficult moments of discipleship. She helped Mary and Joseph of Arimathea take Jesus\u2019 body down and prepare it for burial. She returned after the Sabbath to anoint his body. Her care for Christ and his mission is a model for every disciple: she loved Jesus, whose mercy transformed her life, and consecrated her life to him and his redeeming work.<\/li>\n<li><em>Third, St. Mary Magdalene\u00a0was present with the Lord at his death and burial<\/em>. The evangelists all tell us that when almost all of Jesus\u2019 disciples abandoned him, St. Mary Magdalene was faithful with him to the end, standing at the foot of the Cross together with the Blessed Mother, with Mary the wife of Clopas, with Salome and with St. John. She remained faithful at the most difficult moments of discipleship. She helped Mary and Joseph of Arimathea take Jesus\u2019 body down and prepare it for burial. Her example\u00a0leads us to ask whether we accompany Jesus or abandon him during his passion. On Tuesdays like today, do we really enter into the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary we pray? Do we pray the Stations of the Cross, at least during Lent? Do we come to spend Good Friday with Jesus? I\u2019ve always been shocked at how many Catholics tell me at the end of Palm Sunday Mass, \u201cSee you next Sunday!,\u201d because they\u2019re not intending at all to come to be with Jesus on Holy Thursday or Good Friday. Any of us, if a loved one were dying, would suffer the consequences of taking a day off of work to be with our mother or father, with our brother or sister, with our husband or wife, with our child or best friend, as that loved one was nearing death. It\u2019s shocking how many Christians fail to accompany Jesus on Good Friday and enter into his sufferings for our salvation. The question for us is not \u201cWere you there when they crucified my Lord?,\u201d as the popular Negro spiritual intones, but \u201cAre you there?\u201d The second application is to how we accompany Jesus in his Mystical Body as it suffers. Do we stand at the foot of the cross or side of the bed as someone is in pain and preparing for death, like St. Mary Magdalene accompanied Jesus. Her fidelity to the end was a means for her great holiness and we all have much to learn from her.<\/li>\n<li><em>Fourth, St. Mary Magdalene sought the Lord\u00a0and loved him to such a degree that she was tortured by his absence.\u00a0<\/em>We see in the Gospel of today\u2019s Mass that early on Easter morning, the first moment she could after the end of the Sabbath, she came to the tomb in order to anoint Jesus\u2019 dead body. She was seeking him. She was lost without his guidance. When she didn\u2019t find his body, she ran to SS. Peter and John and said, \u201cThey have taken the Lord from the tomb,\u00a0and we don\u2019t know where they put him.\u201d When she returned a short time later, she wept at his absence. When the angels in the tomb asked why she was crying, she replied, \u201cThey have taken my Lord,\u00a0and I don\u2019t know where they laid him.\u201d When blinded by grief and the change in the Lord\u2019s risen appearance, she mistook Jesus for a gardener when he, too, asked her the reason for her tears, she said, \u201cSir, if you carried him away,\u00a0tell me where you laid him,\u00a0and I will take him.\u201d She sought the Lord so much that she wanted to be with him even if it would just be his corpse. That\u2019s when Jesus revealed himself to her, calling her by name. Her love for the Lord Jesus is shown in the proper first reading and Psalms\u00a0for this Mass whose desire she enfleshed throughout the time Jesus was in the tomb: \u201cI sought him\u00a0whom my heart loves\u2013\u00a0I sought him but I did not find him. \u2026\u00a0The watchmen came upon me,\u00a0as they made their rounds of the city:\u00a0Have you seen him whom my heart loves?\u00a0I had hardly left them\u00a0when I found him whom my heart loves.\u201d Her whole life was characterized by the words of the Psalm: \u201cO God, you are my God whom I seek;\u00a0for you my flesh pines and my soul thirsts\u00a0like the earth, parched, lifeless and without water.\u201d Her example is one that inspires us to seek the Lord with the same Passion.<\/li>\n<li><em>Lastly, St. Mary Magdalene shows us how to share the good news of Jesus\u2019 resurrection with others.\u00a0<\/em>At the end of today\u2019s Gospel, Jesus commissions our saint, \u201cGo to my brothers and tell them,\u00a0\u2018I am going to my Father and your Father,\u00a0to my God and your God.\u2019\u201d She was the first person to whom the Risen Lord Jesus appeared and she was sent as the first witness of the Resurrection to the apostles who were hovering in the Upper Room. Jesus commissioned Mary to be the\u00a0<em>apostolorum<\/em>\u00a0<em>apostola, <\/em>as St. Thomas Aquinas called her,\u00a0the apostle of or better to the apostles, the one sent to those who would be sent to bring the good news of great joy of Jesus\u2019 resurrection to the entire world. Mary went to them and announced simply, \u201cI have seen the Lord!\u201d and then reported to them what Jesus had told her. Likewise, all of us are called by Christ to share with others joyfully the good news of Jesus\u2019 resurrection. At the beginning of Mass today, we turned to God the Father, praised him because his \u201conly begotten Son entrusted Mary Magdalene before all others with announcing the great joy of the Resurrection,\u201d and then asked, \u201cgrant that through her intercession and example we may proclaim the living Christ and come to see him reigning in your glory.\u201d God wants all of us to proclaim the \u201cliving Christ,\u201d to announce that Christ is alive, that, like Mary Magdalene, \u201cI have seen him,\u201d but also, \u201cI have heard him speaking to me in prayer and the Word of God,\u201d and \u201cI have even received him risen from the dead inside me in Holy Communion!\u201d The fifth lesson St. Mary Magdalene teaches us is how to spread this good news, the greatest gift we could give to others.<\/li>\n<li>All five of these lessons that we learn from St. Mary Magdalene find their culmination in the Mass. It\u2019s here at the beginning that we cry out, \u201cLord have mercy!\u201d and \u201cI have greatly sinned,\u201d opening ourselves up to God\u2019s forgiveness. It\u2019s here that we listen to him speaking to us live in the Gospel. It\u2019s here that we associate ourselves in his work, giving ourselves and our resources at the offertory as we unite our sacrifices to those of Christ to be presented to the Father. It\u2019s here that Jesus gives us the body and blood that he sacrificed for our salvation on Calvary. It\u2019s here that we take\u00a0with longing his risen body and blood. It\u2019s from here that he sends us to announce to the whole world his resurrection.<\/li>\n<li>For today\u2019s new feast, the Vatican published a proper preface in Latin, which summarizes St. Mary Magdalene\u2019s life and turns it into a prayer. It\u2019s entitled \u201cAbout the Apostle of the Apostles,\u201d and as the Church prays it liturgically for the first time, it\u2019s good for all of us to offer it to God in unison: \u201cIt is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation, that in all things we proclaim you, Almighty Father, whose mercy is no less than his power, through Christ our Lord, who revealing himself in the garden appeared to Mary Magdalene who loved Him while he was living, beheld him on the Cross as he was dying, sought him in the tomb as he was lying, and was the first who adored him as he rose from the dead. He honored her with the task of the apostolate before the apostles, so that the good news of new life would reach until the ends of the earth\u2026.\u201d Indeed, as we celebrate St. Mary Magdalene, we celebrate that\u00a0Mercy which is at the root of the \u201cgood news of new life,\u201d the proclamation of which,\u00a0she commenced in her mission to the Apostles, they advanced in life and death, and now we seek to continue to the ends of the earth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"cs_control_3683\" class=\"cs_control CS_Element_Textblock\">\n<div class=\"CS_Textblock_Text\">\n<h3>Reading 1\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/songofsongs\/3:1\">SGS 3:1-4B<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cs_control_3684\" class=\"cs_control CS_Element_Textblock\">\n<div class=\"CS_Textblock_Text\">\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<div class=\"poetry\">The Bride says:<br \/>\nOn my bed at night I sought him<br \/>\nwhom my heart loves\u2013<br \/>\nI sought him but I did not find him.<br \/>\nI will rise then and go about the city;<br \/>\nin the streets and crossings I will seek<br \/>\nHim whom my heart loves.<br \/>\nI sought him but I did not find him.<br \/>\nThe watchmen came upon me,<br \/>\nas they made their rounds of the city:<br \/>\nHave you seen him whom my heart loves?<br \/>\nI had hardly left them<br \/>\nwhen I found him whom my heart loves.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/63:2\">PS 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (2)\u00a0My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.<br \/>\nO God, you are my God whom I seek;<br \/>\nfor you my flesh pines and my soul thirsts<br \/>\nlike the earth, parched, lifeless and without water.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.<br \/>\nThus have I gazed toward you in the sanctuary<br \/>\nto see your power and your glory,<br \/>\nFor your kindness is a greater good than life;<br \/>\nmy lips shall glorify you.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.<br \/>\nThus will I bless you while I live;<br \/>\nlifting up my hands, I will call upon your name.<br \/>\nAs with the riches of a banquet shall my soul be satisfied,<br \/>\nand with exultant lips my mouth shall praise you.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.<br \/>\nYou are my help,<br \/>\nand in the shadow of your wings I shout for joy.<br \/>\nMy soul clings fast to you;<br \/>\nyour right hand upholds me.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Alleluia<\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nTell us, Mary, what did you see on the way?<br \/>\nI saw the glory of the risen Christ, I saw his empty tomb.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/20:1\">JN 20:1-2, 11-18<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>On the first day of the week,<br \/>\nMary Magdalene came to the tomb early in the morning,<br \/>\nwhile it was still dark,<br \/>\nand saw the stone removed from the tomb.<br \/>\nSo she ran and went to Simon Peter<br \/>\nand to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them,<br \/>\n\u201cThey have taken the Lord from the tomb,<br \/>\nand we don\u2019t know where they put him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping.<br \/>\nAnd as she wept, she bent over into the tomb<br \/>\nand saw two angels in white sitting there,<br \/>\none at the head and one at the feet<br \/>\nwhere the Body of Jesus had been.<br \/>\nAnd they said to her, \u201cWoman, why are you weeping?\u201d<br \/>\nShe said to them, \u201cThey have taken my Lord,<br \/>\nand I don\u2019t know where they laid him.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there,<br \/>\nbut did not know it was Jesus.<br \/>\nJesus said to her, \u201cWoman, why are you weeping?<br \/>\nWhom are you looking for?\u201d<br \/>\nShe thought it was the gardener and said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cSir, if you carried him away,<br \/>\ntell me where you laid him,<br \/>\nand I will take him.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus said to her, \u201cMary!\u201d<br \/>\nShe turned and said to him in Hebrew,<br \/>\n\u201cRabbouni,\u201d which means Teacher.<br \/>\nJesus said to her,<br \/>\n\u201cStop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father.<br \/>\nBut go to my brothers and tell them,<br \/>\n\u2018I am going to my Father and your Father,<br \/>\nto my God and your God.\u2019\u201d<br \/>\nMary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples,<br \/>\n\u201cI have seen the Lord,\u201d<br \/>\nand then reported what he told her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MaryMagdaleneTomb.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12034\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MaryMagdaleneTomb.jpg?resize=222%2C300&ssl=1\" alt=\"MaryMagdaleneTomb\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MaryMagdaleneTomb.jpg?resize=222%2C300&ssl=1 222w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MaryMagdaleneTomb.jpg?resize=300%2C405&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MaryMagdaleneTomb.jpg?w=370&ssl=1 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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Landry Sacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan Feast\u00a0of St. Mary Magdalene July 22, 2016 Songs 3:1-4, Ps 63, Jn 20:1-2.11-18 \u00a0 To listen to an audio recording of today\u2019s homily, please click below:\u00a0 \u00a0 The following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0 Today we celebrate one of the greatest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9148,1063,3,4],"tags":[6237,9798,6233,1748,284,1374,5364,6235,2113,5130,6236,9800,6234,1373,3168],"class_list":["post-12031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-2016-year-ii","category-audio-homily","category-homily","category-year-ii","tag-apostola-apostolorum","tag-apostolorum-apostola","tag-dan-brown","tag-el-jesuita","tag-good-friday","tag-jn-201-2-11-18","tag-joseph-of-arimathea","tag-longing-for-the-lord","tag-mary-of-bethany","tag-ps-63","tag-seeking-the-lord","tag-songs-31-4","tag-sorrowful-mysteries","tag-st-mary-magdalene","tag-way-of-the-cross"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Admiring and Emulating the Apostolorum Apostola, Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, July 22, 2016 - Catholic Preaching<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/admiring-and-emulating-the-apostolorum-apostola-feast-of-st-mary-magdalene-july-22-2016\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Admiring and Emulating the Apostolorum Apostola, Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, July 22, 2016 - Catholic Preaching\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fr. 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