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                                                           Saint Paul John II 

"Not all are called to be artist in the specific sense of the term. Yet as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life; in a sense they are to make of it a Work of Art "    

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Rabbouni

John 20 

The Appearance to Mary of Magdala

But Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb and saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at 

the feet where the body of Jesus had been. And they said to her, "Woman why are you weeping?" She said to them,"They have taken my Lord, and I don't know where they laid him." When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there, but did not know it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?  Whom are you looking for?”She thought it was the gardener and said to him, “Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you laid him, and I will take him. ”Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew,"Rabbouni" , which means Teacher. Jesus said to her, “Stop holding on  to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am going to my  Father and your Father, to my God and your God”

Mary of Magdala went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and what he told her.

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This has always been one of my favorite passages from the Bible. As the first early Christians, I  also look  to Saint Mary Magdalene as an example of penitence. Jesus shows Mary love and mercy as he does today with us.

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The Apostle  to the Apostles

 She is the first to the Tomb in the morning and the first person Christ reveals himself to after the resurrection.Mary Magdalene was given the title "The Apostle to The Apostles" in The Gospel of John, Jesus chose Mary to deliver the Easter message.Mary was a prominent disciple of Jesus who followed him along with other women in Galilee and to Jerusalem. She is mentioned in all four Gospel accounts.

                                             John 20

     Now it happened that after this he made his way through towns and villages preaching and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. With him went the Twelve, as well as certain women who had been cured of evil spirits and ailments: Mary surnamed the Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, Joanna the wife of Herod's steward Chuza, Susanna, and many others who provided for them out of their own resources. 

        These Galilean women will later accompany Jesus on his journey to Jerusalem and become witnesses to his death and resurrection, where Mary Magdalene and Joanna are specifically mentioned. The association of women with the ministry of Jesus is most unusual in the light of the attitude of first-century Palestinian Judaism toward women, early rabbinic documents caution against speaking with women in  in public.   

quoted by The Catholic Bible Study 

            In a day when women were generally treated as inferior, Jesus treated women with respect and compassion.  Jesus showed respect for all women , regardless of their nationality or status.

At Pope Francis's request, the annual observance on the Catholic calendar of St. Mary Magdalene, referred by some as the "repentant sinner" and proclaimed the Easter Message to the apostles and to the world has been made a major feast day marking women the first evangelizers. 

   

A decree issued by the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, headed by Cardinal Robert Sarah. It says that this woman,"recognized by the faithful as "a paradigm of the ministry of women  the Church."

      

Archbishop Arthur Roche, secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, explains the meaning of the decree that will enable Mary Magdalene to be "celebrated" liturgically like the rest of the apostles. "The decision is situated in the current ecclesial context, which calls upon us to reflect more deeply on the dignity of women, the new evangelisation and the greatness of the mystery of divine mercy. It was St. John Paul II who dedicated great attention not only to the importance of women in the very mission of Christ and the Church, but also, and with special emphasis, to the peculiar function of St. Mary Magdalene as the first witness of the Risen Christ and the first messenger who announced to the apostles the resurrection of the Lord. This importance remains in today's Church – as shown by the current commitment to a new evangelisation – which seeks to welcome, without distinction, men and women of any race, people, language and nation, to proclaim to them the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to accompany them on their earthly pilgrimage and to offer them the wonders of God's salvation. St. Mary Magdalene is an example of true and authentic evangelisation, that is, an evangeliser who proclaims the joyful central message of Easter."  Therefore it is right that the liturgical celebration of this woman should have the same level of festivity given to the apostles in the General Roman Calendar, and that the special mission of this woman be highlighted, as an example and model to every woman in the Church", concluded Archbishop Roche.

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       In Jesus's darkest hours to his crucifixion, the women did not abandon him.
   

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