本日 2025年7月5日(土) 06:59 Etc/GMT-9

2025/07/22 16:00~2025/07/22 16:00

Divine Liturgy: Mary Magdalene

This Divine Liturgy is for the major feast day for St. Mary Magdalene, the heavenly patroness of this mission parish. Part of her life is of course recorded in the Holy Scriptures, where she is noted as a devoted follower of our Lord Jesus Christ who was delivered by Him from a seven-fold demonic possession. Her loyalty was unswerving thereafter, and, even when all others fled, Mary of Magdala was "last at the Cross and first at the (empty) tomb." [Contrary to Western legend adn misinterpretation of the Gospels, Mary was not a prostitute.] We do know of her life after Pentecost, and that Mary was a wonderful evangelist, and used a bird egg to illustrate to the Emperor Tiberius that, even in the sealed tomb, resurrection-life was at work in Jesus Christ. It is from Mary Magdalene that we receive the tradition of the "Easter" egg and the Paschal greeting, "Christ is risen!"

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