22nd July, 2015: Remembering St. Mary Magdalene
Exo 16: 1-5, 9-15; John 20:1-2,11-18
Weeping blinds you...Listen and Look!
They had seen the waters standing high, they had seen those plagues and the way the Egyptians were buried alive in the waters... but here they are once again weeping and complaining.
Mary of Magdala loved Jesus intensely. She had encountered and experienced Jesus in such close quarters but now standing right beside him she is unable to identify him; because she is too occupied with her weeping and complaining.
At times in our lives when troubles come by and trials abound, we fumble and falter as if we are all alone. We fail to recognise the Lord who sticks so close to us, because we are too busy weeping and complaining.
If only we opened our eyes and saw; if only we opened our hearts and listened; if only we believed in the words of the Lord, "I have conquered the world"... we would leap for joy and love to cling to the Lord. Mary Magdalene gives us a clear message: stop weeping; weeping blinds you; look, listen and you will leap for joy, for the Lord is with you now and always!