{"id":31427,"date":"2025-07-22T10:06:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=31427"},"modified":"2025-07-22T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T20:00:07","slug":"learning-from-mary-magdalene-as-forgiven-supportive-thirsting-and-joyful-apostles-feast-of-st-mary-magdalene-july-22-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/learning-from-mary-magdalene-as-forgiven-supportive-thirsting-and-joyful-apostles-feast-of-st-mary-magdalene-july-22-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning from Mary Magdalene as Forgiven, Supportive, Thirsting and Joyful Apostles, Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, July 22, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Msgr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nChapel of the Pontifical Mission Societies, St. Petersburg, Florida<br \/>\nFeast\u00a0of St. Mary Magdalene<br \/>\nJuly 22, 2025<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-31427-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/7.22.25_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/7.22.25_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/7.22.25_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 as we inaugurate this new chapel at the offices of The Pontifical Mission Societies in St. Petersburg and place Jesus in the tabernacle for the first time, we celebrate the feast of a saint who helps us to appreciate from several angles what we\u2019re doing today. She\u2019s 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 in 2016, at the express will of Pope Francis. In the Decree, 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. Each of the three help us to grasp the gift we will have here in this chapel: being able to approach Jesus for his mercy, not just for our sins but for all the help we need to do our mission well and in supplication for all those in the Church\u2019s mission work across the globe, especially those in harm\u2019s way; we will be strengthened by Jesus here to support all those on the front lines of the Church\u2019s evangelization efforts, just like she did for Jesus and the Church he founded at its beginning; and we can be transformed by Jesus here like she was to be able to go out to others with the news that he is alive, risen from the dead and seeks to accompany us. We can look at each of these in turn.<\/li>\n<li>First, Mary Magdalene experienced Christ\u2019s compassion and mercy. St. Luke and St. Mark tell us that she had had seven demons cast out from her. She had in some way been under the hold of the devil. Some saints throughout the centuries said that these seven demons may have been the seven deadly sins. 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, Pope Francis in the Book length interview <em>El Jesuita\u00a0<\/em>said that it\u2019s only great sinners forgiven by the Lord who have the experience of who they really are and how much they\u2019re love.\u00a0Mary 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>Second, 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. 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>Third, St. Mary Magdalene shows us the joy of the resurrection and how to share the Good News of the Resurrection with others. 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 Song of Songs and in the Psalm for this Mass. \u201cI sought him\u00a0whom my heart loves\u2013\u00a0I sought him but I did not find him,\u201d we hear in the first reading. \u201cThe 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. And when we do our joy is overwhelming.\u00a0At 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 \u2014 or better to \u2014 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, having longed for the Lord, having longed for triumph over sin and death, 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 St. Mary Magdalene teaches us is how to spread this good news, the greatest gift we could give to others.<\/li>\n<li>All three of these lessons that we learn from St. Mary Magdalene find their culmination in the Mass, celebrated today here in our office for the first time. 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 as 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 we long for him and have a chance to meet him risen from the dead under the appearances of sacramental signs. It\u2019s from here that he sends us to announce to the whole world his resurrection. When the Vatican decreed this feast, they prepared a proper preface, which summarizes St. Mary Magdalene\u2019s life and turns it the prayer the whole Church makes as we prepare to meet the same Jesus whom she so loved. It\u2019s entitled \u201cAbout the Apostle of the Apostles\u201d and the Church prays 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. He appeared in the garden and revealed himself to Mary Magdalene, who had loved him in life, witnessed him dying on the Cross, sought him as he lay in the tomb, and was the first to adore him, newly risen from the dead. He honored her with the office of being an apostle to the Apostles, so that the good news of new life might reach the ends of the earth.\u201d \u00a0Indeed, as we celebrate St. Mary Magdalene, we celebrate that Mercy that is at the root of the \u201cgood news of new life,\u201d the proclamation of which, she 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>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/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 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