Lord, you always said that those who seek you will find you. Mary watched and waited and you revealed your Risen Self to her. Grant me her perseverance in seeking you. |
Mary
stood crying outside the tomb. While she was still crying, she bent over
and looked in the tomb and saw two angels there dressed in white,
sitting where the body of Jesus had been, one at the head and the other
at the feet. "Woman, why are you crying?" they asked her. She
answered, "They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where
they have put him!" Then she
turned round and saw Jesus standing there; but she did not know that it
was Jesus. "Woman, why are you crying?" Jesus asked her.
"Who is it that you are looking for?" She thought he was the
gardener, so she said to him, "if you took him away, sir, tell me
where you have put him, and I will go and get him." Jesus
said to her, "Mary!" She turned towards him and said in
Hebrew, "Rabboni!" (This means "Teacher.") "Do
not hold on to me," Jesus told her, "because I have not yet
gone back up to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them that I
am returning to him who is my Father and their Father, my God and their
God." So Mary Magdalene went and told the disciples that she had
seen the Lord and related to them what he had told her.
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