The feast of St. Mary Magdalene is considered one of the most mystical of feasts, and it is said that of all the songs of the saints, that of Mary Magdalene is the sweetest and strongest because her love was so great. That love was praised by Jesus Himself who said that because much was forgiven her, she loved much. Where she is buried, no one knows. Legend has her dying in Provence, France, in a cavern where she spent her last days, and her body resting in the chapel of St. Maximin in the Maritime Alps. Another has her buried in Ephesus where she went with St. John after the Resurrection. This latter view is more likely, and St. Willibald, the English pilgrim to the Holy Land in the eighth century, was shown her tomb there.
She was the first recorded witness to the resurrection of Jesus, His most ardent and loving follower. She had stood with Mary at the foot of the Cross on that brutal Good Friday afternoon and had been by the side of Mary during these difficult hours. On Easter morning, she went with the other women to the tomb and it was there, in the garden near the tomb, that Jesus appeared to her. It was she who brought the news of the Resurrection to the Apostles, and Peter and John raced to the tomb to see what had happened.
She was from Magadala, a small fishing town on the Sea of Galilee, between Capernaum and Tiberias. She was known to be a "great sinner," a woman of the streets who heard Jesus speak of the mercy and forgiveness of God and changed her life completely. Her matter-of-fact witness to the Resurrection moved Peter and John to go and see for themselves: "I have seen the Lord and these things he said to me." Jesus had chosen her to bring the news to them and she simply told them what had happened.
She has always been the example of great love and great forgiveness, one of those close to Jesus who grasped the truth of God's love for human beings and spent her life bearing witness to that love. (Excerpted from The One Year Book of Saints by Rev. Clifford Stevens)
Christ have mercy on us!
“The Blood of Christ, poured out on the Cross, is the eternal covenant that binds us to God’s mercy and love.”
-St. Peter Damian
❤️ The Month of July is dedicated to the Most Precious Blood of Jesus.
Notice how Nithya Raman just completely disappeared after they blocked us out of the general election?
She's not campaigning at all. Like a pickpocket disappearing into the crowd. Just a ghost. I told you her campaign was a scam. Colluding with Bass from the start.
- First comedy and satire was targeted. The elements that keep a society largely in check.
- Next was masculinity. Men were shamed as “toxic” for being manly.
- Then it was women who complain, and they were labeled “Karens.”
So if appropriate mockery is out, the most ridiculous concepts actually see the light of day.
If men aren’t permitted to defend what they know they should, the most harmful and dangerous concepts see the light of day.
And when older women are shamed for speak against what they see as wrong, the most outrageous behavior sees the light of day.
Comedy, satire, mockery, masculinity, and female wisdom. Restore it all now.
Fr. Ripperger: “Everyone in heaven has forgiven EVERYONE that has hurt them. Everyone in hell has forgiven no one. And so literally, by our lack of forgiveness, we create our own hell, even in this life. So if you want heaven, you HAVE to start forgiving.”
No matter where you stood on Lindsey Graham, his defense of Brett Kavanaugh will be remembered as one of the defining moments of his career.
Rest in peace, Senator.
Fr. Ripperger: “If you’re truly Catholic, then what you believe today is the same thing St. Peter believed, what St. Irenaeus believed, what St. Augustine believed, what St. Thomas Aquinas believed, what everyone through the entire history of the Church has always believed.”
Lawrence O’Donnell dismantles the myth of Graham Platner.
The warning signs were there all along. Much of the information was publicly available, but ignored.
Maybe the U.S. Senate shouldn’t be someone’s first political job. No public office. No real vetting. Hype is not a substitute for scrutiny.